Famous Quotes & Sayings

Our local redevelopment authority is going to get together very shortly, and they're going to have to set some goals and objectives about what they want done.

I am in charge and all our civilian authorities are in charge, and my relation with General Mladic has improved and of course General Mladic sometimes looks defiant, but he is not defiant -- only he has to be concerned about our safety. Everything goes really well, all of my orders are carried out, and even (my) personal relationship with General Mladic has improved, so there is no threat that there will be disarray in the Serbian republic.

Rebecca Stead

I am hoping to work with writers publishing books for first time, since I of course remember what that experience is like. It's all a bit of a mystery for new authors who don't know what to expect.

Nigel Barker

I am always on the go; being a photographer, filmmaker, author and a father, things become stressful, and it is important to find time to escape for a few minutes.

Ronald Reagan

I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer, just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals . . . The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom, and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is.

John Edwards

I believe the president should have been given the authority he was given. I believe it's a very good thing that Saddam is gone. ... I think at the time it was the right thing to do to give the president that authority. I think if we'd have given John Kerry that authority we'd be in a very different place because he would have built a coalition to be successful.

James Howe

I became an author because I love words. I enjoyed playing with them when I was a kid, writing stories and plays, and doing whatever I could think to do with words. I kept my love of them growing up and still love to see what they can do.

Lorde

I am really into how words sound out loud, so I was always the kid who would, like, read the page of the book to herself in her room over and over and over. And Raymond Carver is great for that. Tobias Wolff is an author who is really good for that as well.

Jane Green

I am Superwoman. I am the author of 15 novels, including one about cancer. I am not, however, someone who 'gets' cancer. I am a sun worshipper who never thought it could happen to me.

Hopefully the smell will get her moving, and Port Authority police on their regular patrols will spot her.

The Palestinian Authority ... worked day and night so Bethlehem could be ready for this fabulous occasion. We worked under a very difficult situation -- a lack of infrastructure and continued (Jewish) settlement activity, and the suffocation of this city.

The Palestinian Authority rejects Israeli accusations that it is responsible for the explosion.

Unless we can do that, we're both buying trouble. The Ports Authority is not going to give us any clear title to the property because the Ports Authority doesn't have any clear title to the property.

We have to be able to prove the employer knowingly hired someone who is not authorized to work.

Charlie McCreevy

We made it quite clear to the French authorities that it can only be in very specific, limited circumstances,

Jesmyn Ward

It infuriates me that the work of white American writers can be universal and lay claim to classic texts, while black and female authors are ghetto-ized as 'other.'

It is also an affirmation of state's authority to monitor regulate and determine legitimate medical practice.

I think the local authority needs to be comfortable. It is something that can be abused if we don't do it properly.

I think the City Council authorized the manager to do this and that this is the right way to go, ... We need someone to represent the interests of the city with expertise on such issues.

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the communion with superior minds. In the best books, authors talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books.

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the communion with superior minds... In the best books, authors talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books.

Jim Hall

Kyle was swinging the bat with authority all day. He had a good cut early in the game, but struck out. Actually, he looked good up there during all three of his trips to the plate. He got a fastball he could handle, low and in, and he didn't miss it.

Susanna Moore

As a girl, I sat awestruck at the feet of Harriet Ne, author of 'Tales of Molokai'. It was she who used to say, 'I myself have seen it,' after telling a particularly hair-raising ghost story - a phrase that I borrowed for one of my titles.

Sid Fleischman

I am astonished, when I pause to think about it, to discover myself to be an author of humorous novels for children. Or an author at all. I had a childhood much like everyone else's. What went wrong?

The prime goal of an author is the same as a musician, which is to emotionally connect with the reader in some way or another.

Know that we are fully cooperating with the authorities. You can be sure of that.

The (contractor) provider is increasingly having more authority on services they are going to provide.

The fact that the government authorized the release of this imagery I think indicates that the Defense Department decided that the release of this imagery was not going to jeopardize the troops.

George W. Bush

The executive branch shall construe the provisions that call for furnishing information to entities outside the executive branch in a manner consistent with the president's constitutional authority to supervise the unitary executive branch and to withhold information (from Congress and, of course, the public).

Andy Stanley

As your organizational authority increases, your organizational IQ decreases.

Donald Trump

We will end the sanctuary cities that have resulted in so many needless deaths. Cities that refuse to cooperate with federal authorities will not receive taxpayer dollars, and we will work with Congress to pass legislation to protect those jurisdictions that do assist federal authorities.

Anthony de Mello

If you make me your authority, you harm yourself because you will not see things for yourself, and you harm me too because you refuse to see me as I am.

Scott Wilson

That's the other job of our elected officials. You've got to get them authorized and you've got to get them appropriated.