Famous Quotes & Sayings

Amy Bloom

Plays are wonderfully different than short stories, first because it's a story that's on a stage, but there's a different sort of tension that appears on stage - you get to see your characters in a different way - like with lights.

Steven Millhauser

One thing I learned is that the park by the river in a recent story, 'Getting Closer,' is the same park by the river that appears for a moment near the end of 'The Eighth Voyage of Sinbad,' a story first published 23 years earlier. This echo at first irritated me, then pleased me deeply.

When we look at investment, it appears to be structurally too low. The political tension will hold down the Taiwan dollar too.

We will monitor Navistar's progress in reaching a prompt resolution, as well as its current and prospective sources of liquidity. If it appears that the company will be unable to resolve these potential defaults quickly, or if the company's liquidity were to become a concern, a multiple-notch downgrade is possible.

Paula Zahn

The president's global warming proposal appears to be another faith-based initiative. We should have faith that major corporations will line up to volunteer cuts in their carbon pollution. That approach has failed for a decade since the president's father set up the first voluntary program.

Undivided, yet appears as if divided in beings; He, the object of knowledge, is the creator, sustainer, and destroyer of (all) beings.

Fanaticism appears where a genius surrounds himself with a whole bunch of idiots.

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.

Michael Freeman

This settlement represents a big step forward in the efforts to protect Pikes Peak. We're very happy the city appears committed to do this work, and to do it on a binding schedule.

There is probably no other member of the House that appears at as many events as Roy.

Tim Storey

The parties are in a perpetual game of political tug of war. For the past three years, one side has moved the flag an inch, only to lose that ground the next election. It is hard to imagine this parity could get any tighter, but it appears that it has.

There appears to have been no operational police response,

John Curry

There appears to have been a number of discussions held between Telstra and the Government which really should have been made public,

There appears to have been a concerted effort to open the property up to development in order to create a crisis and cause the expenditure of millions of dollars in public money. You can't get away from the basic fact that this property had five years left of preservation.

There appears to be some grave concern that in all of this debate in the Senate that perhaps we're losing site of the fact that border security should be one of the priority issues.

There appears to be full compliance (by the Serbs),

Bill Richardson

There appears to be, at this time, no contamination of the air, ... We were able to control any potential damage. On the whole, it appears the Hanford facility has survived a major (disaster).

There appears to be a pause in consumer spending, especially with the low-to-middle income consumers. The slowing sales also counterbalance positive economic data that show rising income and confidence levels and oil prices coming down. As far as sales go, this is a period where the consumer is taking a break.

There appears to be a little bit of fuzzy math going on.

There appears to be a historical precedent to the Peace and Freedom Party being back on the ballot.

David Brown

There appears to be a gender-based difference in the beneficial effect of aspirin.

There is no reason for us to keep those records confidential, ... It appears to me ... that we've lost sight of common sense and what's needed to protect the public.

There is still a great deal of untouched equity in homes. Employment, as well as real income, are expected to continue to increase. While 2005 may ultimately be the peak in the cycle, it appears 2006 is likely to be a good year as well.

The recovery in the leading index could indicate that the economy is poised for growth by late summer. There appears to be enough economic demand to end the slide in industrial production, though no strong rebound appears in sight.

What really happened today is the retail sales report set the right tone, ... It appears that consumer spending is down.

Jean-Paul Sartre

What is meant here by saying that existence precedes essence? It means that first of all, man exists, turns up, appears on the scene, and, only afterwards, defines himself. ... Not only is man what he conceives himself to be, but he is also only what he wills himself to be after this thrust toward existence.Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.

Susan Collins

What is evident already is that the company appears to have deliberately misled investors and its employees and customers about its financial strength. That in and of itself is very troubling.

The rebounding dollar-yen is helping give a lift to the bond market. People are taking some comfort from the fact that it appears officials will act to keep the yen from rising too much, and the fact that there's less anticipation of an Oct. 5 rate hike.

The rebounding dollar-yen is helping give a lift to the bond market, ... People are taking some comfort from the fact that it appears officials will act to keep the yen from rising too much, and the fact that there's less anticipation of an Oct. 5 rate hike.

Max Heindel

When blood is placed under a microscope, it appears as a number of minute globules or discs, but when seen by the trained clairvoyant as it courses through the living body, blood is found to be a gas, a spiritual essence.

We thought the bomb was detonated by remote control, but now it appears to be a suicide attack.

(This), to me, appears to be simply trying to expand their little fiefdom.

Iain McGilchrist

The world appears rectilinear, but is in fact curvilinear - a literal truth in physics, and a metaphorical one in metaphysics.