Famous Quotes & Sayings

What that means is he was in a position of authority, similar to a teacher. Basically, he was in control of the situation because he was hired as her instructor.

Carlos Gonzalez

We are sending the help wherever the U.S. authorities request us to.

Carlos Gonzalez

We are sending messages that we consider very important so that they can receive the help of authorities without any fear.

(We) await the response from U.S. authorities over the request to question all of those under investigation.

Trust in established institutions and figures of authority - CEOs, heads of state - is being supplanted by a personal web of trust that includes colleagues, friends and family.

Terry Pratchett

That's the most terrible thing about being an author - standing there at your mother's funeral, but you don't switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill. Who was it said - one of the famous lady novelists - 'unhappy is the family that contains an author'?

Isaac Newton

Why there is one body in our System qualified to give light and heat to all the rest, I know no reason but because the Author of the System thought it convenient; and why there is but one body of this kind, I know no reason, but because one was sufficient to warm and enlighten all the rest.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

The gift of the Holy Ghost, which is the right to receive the Holy Ghost as a constant companion, is obtained only upon condition of faith in Christ, repentance, baptism by immersion, and the laying on of hands by authorized servants endowed with the Melchizedek Priesthood.

Isabel Gillies

Anita Shreve is an author I adore. I rip through her meaty books and get off on the robust romance immensely - especially if I am feeling less than robust in my real life.

Without those disclosures or your authority to make inquiry of grand jury members, we cannot go forward on that matter.

With book publishing, when I say Fulcrum, you might know that we publish books, but you would be hard-pressed to pick titles or authors from our list. It's tricky from the marketing side to think about building a brand, and we do so by picking authors and titles that we believe will be successful.

Joel Sternfeld

With a photograph, you are left with the same modes of interpretation as you are with a book. You ask: 'What do we know about the author and their background? What do I know about the subject?'

David Crane

We wanted to create an environment where if a game player enjoyed the 'writing style' of a particular game designer, he or she could look for the next game by that same author and not be disappointed.

Sophie Kinsella

To some extent, all authors are a little schizophrenic. We lead most of our lives in solitary confinement, living and breathing the books that we're writing.

Tom DeLay should not be in a position of authority. He should not be calling the shots or driving the agenda, and if he is, that would be unfortunate.

We don't want a strike, and we'll do everything possible to avoid one. But the drivers authorized a strike by a 96 percent margin, indicating how serious they are about their key issues, and we're ready to strike if we are forced to.

We certainly don't want to give them carte blanche authority to determine either what is safe or unsafe without some type of basis for that decision or explaining why.

David Hoffman

We certainly believe we meet the test (for having authority to sell at market rates), and we'll see where it goes from here.

Andrew Gray

We continue to work with leadership to draft a bill that will provide the necessary borrowing authority as expeditiously as possible.

Javier Solana

We are trying to provide the necessary resources we hope that we will have enough money to support the Palestinian Authority until a new government is formed.

We are trying to get the Department of Defense to create a line item in their budget and give somebody the authority to go out and strategically buy satellite capacity.

Robert Gottlieb

We see a new generation of Russian authors who are not divided from their Western contemporaries either culturally or philosophically.

Janet Fitch

Use description of landscape to help you establish the emotional tone of the scene. Keep notes of how other authors establish mood and foreshadow events by describing the world around the character.

We feel strongly they do have the authority and responsibility to review textbooks.

Mark Twain

Conformity-the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority

Arlen Specter

Contrary to press accounts, I did not warn the president about anything and was very respectful of his Constitutional authority on the appointment of federal judges,

Michael Chertoff

Completing the Border Infrastructure System will strengthen our efforts to reduce illegal entry to the United States. Congress provided us the authority to ensure this project is completed, and I intend to use it,

Edward Kennedy

Do you believe that we have the authority and the power to pass legislation to free ourselves from the stains of racial discrimination?

Don't spend more than 10% of your marketing/PR budget on a trailer. Trailers have to be marketed, too. So, far too many authors wind up marketing their trailers instead of their books.

Harry Reid

There's a dark cloud hanging over the White House. It's really a storm cloud. The vice president, who gets his authority from the president, sadly is in the middle of that storm,

David Levithan

There's no such thing as a perfect person, so it makes no sense to write a perfect person. I don't know any author who'd try. And we write characters, not representations of groups.

There's lots of speculators betting that we're going to break the 8 yuan per dollar level soon. The authorities are very averse to speculators trying to make money, so they're making it hard for them.

Randy Pausch

Respect authority while questioning it.