Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roger Avary

Bret Easton Ellis is a social satirist; I consider myself aligned with how he does things. Bret doesn't write about that which he loves about the world, he writes about what disgusts him. You'd be a disturbed individual if you came out and said, 'I love these characters'.

Walter Landor

Browning! Since Chaucer was alive and hale, / No man hath walked along our roads with step / So active, so inquiring eye, or tongue/ So varied in discourse.

This cost restructuring initiative is part of the comprehensive transformation of Novell's business that the management team has been designing and implementing over the past year. While it is a difficult decision to eliminate positions in our talented and dedicated workforce, this move is necessary to ensure that our costs are more closely aligned with our business strategy.

Scott Simon

This closest visit to our planet was a lifetime event, ... I was glad to have been alive and there to watch this great event.

Cassie Campbell

They were crazy about it. It's like we were soccer stars in Italy. They would ask for autographs, and we'd go into a restaurant and they would spoil us, try to give us wine. So the spirit here is alive and kicking.

This is an anti-America alliance. My guess is that the US will end up in a weaker position than it started. The war on terror has alienated the Muslim countries who now believe that America is the big bad ogre and specter of imperialism.

This is a fight over dignity and respect on the job, a concept that is very alien to the MTA. Transit workers are tired of being underappreciated and disrespected.

When you join the army, you are asked to lay down your life for your country. That is a tremendous oath to take. In return, a good country should offer that soldier every possible means it can to allow that soldier to stay alive and, upon return, healthy - both mentally and physically.

Deron Williams

We've just got to get some wins. We're still alive in this thing, the season's not over. We've still got a chance, whether it's a slim chance or not. If we keep winning and some teams lose, we're right there.

The only reason the company's alive is that Kmart has the best stable of licensed brands.

With surging productivity keeping alive chances of further disinflation, even another Fed rate cut cannot be ruled out,

Ronald Reagan

Putting people first has always been America's secret weapon. It's the way we've kept the spirit of our revolutions alive -- a spirit that drives us to dream and dare, and take great risks for a greater good.

Chris Kilham

Promoting the use of sustainable and renewable rainforest products can help to stop rainforest devastation. The rainforests are much more valuable alive than cut or burned, providing a steady supply of medicinal plants, fruits, nuts and oils.

Aishwarya Rai

Professionally, I'm on a roll. I have no doubts about the way my career has been going. I've never felt the need to name-drop or align myself with a particular project just to stay in the news. Regrettably, I've had to dissociate myself from quite a few projects.

Projects that were not aligned with compliance and corporate governance were delayed or cancelled, and SOX efforts inhibited the purchase of large amounts of software related to building new technologies and deploying new projects. However, by the second half of 2005, increased interest in IT solutions to ease the burden of compliance has begun to drive new spending.

Projects such as ALF enable vendors and users alike to provide the vision, innovation and resources to enhance the Eclipse platform.

The tactic did not expand Gap's customer base. It only served to alienate its more traditional, khaki-wearing crowd. As sales tanked, the company slashed prices to liquidate excess inventory. In the process, Gap gained a reputation as a rampant discounter, and the brand lost some of its cachet.

Jason Schwartzman

The thing I definitely related to most in Jeremy was a sincere desire to be alive and meet people. He's a pretty open-minded person.

It seems they made every decision they could to alienate us.

It's a tragedy to happen at any time. But to have it happen just before the holidays just makes you focus more on how lucky you are to be alive and be with the family you have.

It's a terrific move. It creates two businesses, each focused on their own area, and two investment vehicles that are more closely aligned with the kind of performance that investors are looking for.

Tom DeLay

It was obtained from a magistrate at seven o'clock at night, ... It didn't even go to the federal judge that understands the case, and it was obtained to arrest Elian as an illegal alien ... that's just a lie.

It wasn't until I started to read short stories - by people like Alice Munro, Mavis Gallant, John Updike... Eudora Welty - that I became excited about the possibilities of writing.

Dan Eldon

It wasn't that we wanted to bring them the things because they were pathetic and couldn't do anything for themselves. It was because when we were there they were dancing for us, and the children just seemed so alive and happy ... the whole thing isn't a sympathy thing.

Leisel Jones

They're cheering so loud. It's responsible for a lot of the great performances out there. It's alight out there, it's a real buzz.

They're going to do everything they can to stay alive as long as they can. But they do that all the time anyway. We're just trying to stay in character. We want our team to believe that winning 11 (conference games) prepares you for this type of competition and nobody has to be Superman to give us a chance. We just all have to play our roles well.

Bruce Kent

They're alive and they're not having nervous breakdowns, they're obviously speaking quite sensibly, even though we don't know what they're saying.

They're alike in a lot of ways. They're very dedicated to basketball, they are very competitive, and they compare in both ways. We don't have as many multi-sport athletes as that class did.

They're not bitter. Even seven months later, there's so much destruction and they're all just so resilient (I think) they are just so happy to be alive They had so much faith and so much hope and so much perseverance, it's all very humbling.

Jon Katz

There's a streak of alienation running through this culture, ... There's a streak of braininess, obsessiveness. I mean, anybody can use a computer, but not anybody's a geek.

Eli Wallach

There's a scene in Baby Doll where we're sitting around the dining table that was played in toto. It was wonderful because it had an alive quality.

There seems to be no cure for it. Our pitchers are doing their best to pitch around them, but they just keep innings alive and eat up pitches.

Charlie Sheen

There's always a chance for that (reconciliation) as long as two people are still in the game ... I mean alive -- that's in the game in my world.