Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dav Pilkey

Being an author is fun. It's a great job, because I can stay up as late as I want, and if I feel like taking the day off, I do it. Plus, I get to make up silly stories and draw pictures all day.

Bryan Burrough

There's always a slight tension when you sell a book to Hollywood, especially a nonfiction book. The author wants his story told intact; the nonfiction author wants it told accurately.

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

We have shared our view on transparency with the European Commission and the U.K. 's Financial Services Authority.

Michael Howard

We have seen the slow seepage of his authority turn into a hemorrhage.

We have seen indications that someone is trying this technique out. Basically, we have seen code that is stuffing a key in the registry with a huge length. Yet, the author still doesn't have it working.

This sends a strong signal that the FTC is on the beat. They have the authority to help establish some (legal) precedents that will help steer the market toward better practices.

This was a legal grow for people who are authorized to receive medical cannabis, and it was not an excessive grow,

This region has several benefits. You can get extensive funding from the European Union, the German government and state authorities.

David Vitter

The person would have no authority the government doesn't already have. It would be someone who could cut through the red tape.

The person with the institutional authority is always the 800-pound gorilla. People who go to work thinking they'll out-wrestle the big monkey will lose every time.

Michael O'Brien

There are indeed 'values' in the Harry Potter series, but they're confused with anti-values. Potterworld is a scrambled moral universe. There are Christian symbols in the series, but the author misappropriates them, mutates them, and integrates them into a supposedly larger and broader system where evil symbols are dominant.

Boris Berezovsky

The opposition knows that if there is any popular revolt it will sweep them all away -- both the authorities and the opposition.

There is nothing in Ohio law that authorizes school personnel to remove the clothing of children. Strip searches far exceeded the authority or even need in this case.

Ariel Sharon

There cannot be any peace with a dictatorial, corrupt and tyrannical regime. This has to be a different authority,

Jared Bernstein

There is no reason to believe...that Congress has authorized the Department of Labor to dramatically reduce coverage...taking overtime protection away from millions of workers. Yet that is exactly what the Department of Labor has proposed.

We've never heard of anything like this. It really undermines the author's credibility and authority even if it's mostly inconsequential details. It's like putting a negative book review on the cover.

This was the first tangible presence of the federal government or any civil authority in the Rogue Valley. Unlike, say, the stereotypical Western vision of Fort Apache, the primary mission of this fort was to protect the Indians from the whites in that period of time.

This was really part of his core vision for the park. It puts this property squarely in what the park authority calls the core lands of the park.

Richard Flanagan

What is missed when people talk about books is the moment of grace when the reader creates the book, lends it the authority of their life and soul. The books I love are me, have become me.

What I want from authorities -- from Mr. Nicolas Sarkozy, the prime minister and senior officials -- are words of peace.

Sean Williams

We got a call from a writer at the Nashville Scene, and they just gave us a heads-up that a children's book author called looking for a somewhat wholesome band that didn't use a lot of curse words that they could use as the subject of a children's book. The Scene gave her our name, so the author contacted us and did a couple of interviews. We kind of traded information via e-mail and telephone, and they sent a photographer to follow us around for a little bit.

Sepp Blatter

We go now to the Congress in 45-50 days and then it will be by decision of the Congress ... To give FIFA the authority to intervene in case of non-application.

This ruling upholds California's authority to enforce tough restrictions on handing out free cigarettes, particularly in places where children are present.

This resolution is a joke, ... because the evidence shows that Pinochet is the author of the 57 homicides and 18 kidnappings and today they are looking for some way to protect him, to reduce the charges.

We said we would give 48 hours for the ceasefire to be implemented on the ground. What we have seen is more violent incidents than before ... and the Palestinian Authority has done very little, if at all, to stop the fighting.

Jeff Bezos

We think this is a win, win, win for publishers, authors and customers.

Matthew Miller

We think there needs to be an up-or-down vote, and we think it ought to come sooner rather than later. There is a very real question if the administration has the authority to block this deal after it closes on Thursday. Even with this 45-day review, there is a legal question as to whether they could reverse their position, even if they wanted to.

Saddam Hussein

Why have you brought us here with force? Your authority gives you the right to try a defendant in absentia. Are you trying to overcome your own smallness?

John Jeremiah Sullivan

This to me is the secret comedy of all author interviews, down through the ages, even the good ones in the 'Paris Review' and places. They're all acting. It's like watching a person in a play.

Patrick Fitzgerald

We also note that it is our understanding that Mr. Libby testified that he was authorized to disclose information about the NIE to the press by his superiors.

Even the contemporary horror authors who have seriously influenced me are a disparate bunch.