Famous Quotes & Sayings

Geoff Smith

People are reluctant to change because they see it as a challenge to their authority.

Michael Apted

Peer-to-peer technology has benefits, but it also carries many dangers, the most egregious of which is the potential for widespread and unauthorized piracy. Without the permission of the author of the work, who will be able to tell when personal use ends and piracy begins? It is the fundamental question of what is fair and right for the creators and those who made that creation possible.

Our job is to serve each tribe. We don't supplant their authority; we do not override their authority. We can only exercise the authority they grant us.

Stephen Hadley

Palestinian President Abbas earned the trust of his people when he was elected on a platform of peace this past January. Now the Palestinian Authority must make good on that promise by fighting terrorism.

William Shakespeare

O, what authority and show of truth can cunning sin cover itself withal!

Each author has his or her own voice. I read each book slowly so I can see the patterns they use to spread out the garden of earthly delights.

Beverly Cleary

I wrote books to entertain. I'm not trying to teach anything! If I suspected the author was trying to show me how to be a better behaved girl, I shut the book.

Readers always seem to think that the author has some control over the design of their books.

Walter Kirn

You have plausible deniability, as they say in politics, as an author with movies. Because if the movie is terrible, you simply say they failed to catch the genius of the book.

Rick Perlstein

Prediction is structurally inseparable from the business of punditry: It creates the essential image of indefatigable authority that is punditry's very architecture; it flows from that calcified image, and it provides the substance for the story that keeps getting told about the inevitability of American progress.

John Boyne

Children's authors don't talk down or patronise their younger readers.

Ellen Key

In order to overcome the spirit that creates war, mothers must begin in the tender years of childhood to teach children that right must be the foundation of all might, that authority can be exercised without the help of fists.

I used to say, read as much as you can. Now I say, read the best that you can, the stories that resonate with you, the books that are important to you. Try to read, not only as a reader, but also as a writer, to deconstruct how the author is telling his or her story.

Emma McLaughlin

Before novels written by women were relegated to their own 'genre,' I was introduced to Jane Smiley by a dear professor who raised my awareness of what female authors were bringing to the table of contemporary fiction.

Frederik Pohl

Stories where the author has known very little, but run a computer program that tells him how to construct a planet, and looked up specific things about rocketry and so on, really suck.

Cesar Millan

Oprah is a wealthy person, pack leader of the human world. So many see her as the dominant one, as the authority figure. The way I view her energy, seeing her on TV, is a very calm, quiet energy. You need, in order to gain control, higher energy than your dog.

Geraldine McCaughrean

I simply don't understand authors that know everything before they write it; it seems so cold blooded. I think it's lovely when the story takes over and goes somewhere else.

I've often said that there's no one thing that I do or have done that is particularly unique. There have been a lot of other authors who were in the military. There have been a few others who were pilots. There have certainly been a lot of other people who were in politics or served congressional staffs.

Laurence Housman

Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt

Andrew O'Hagan

When I was growing up, my idea of a writer was someone like Sven Hassel, that mysterious Danish author who wrote thrillers about men clambering over walls and getting tangled in barbed wire.

You didn't call about her wrists. You didn't call about your wife running off. You never called authorities.

The data is brought before the commission. Only the commission has the authority to change the listing of a species,

The defendant's style in this case is to be passive-aggressive. She flouts this court's authority at every opportunity so that it makes this trial somewhat of a farce.

The defendant, as a teacher at the school, was in a position of trust and authority over the children.

Unlike other legislative proposals, this legislation finally would give the cabinet meaningful enforcement authority.

Without that authority, it becomes very difficult to solve this problem. If we need consensus, it may take too long.

Bill Stern

The Ports Authority opposes this bill. It interferes with, and is inconsistent with, the Supreme Court's ruling.

The Ports Authority has never hesitated about throwing out a price of $3 million. Sounds like a lot of money to me.

The Port Authority predicted exactly what happened. Why didn't they do something about it?

Jane Jacobs

The port authority is the single greatest impediment to a revitalized waterfront.

The Port Authority is confident it will prevail.

Unfortunately, he went beyond his authority and he should have contacted someone higher up.