Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Schaeffer

I have to write from my experience. If I wasn't a member of the club, I don't think it would be as funny, or that I would feel as authorized to look at it with humor.

I, pro. In grammar it is a pronoun of the first person and singular number. Its plural is said to be ""We"", but how there can be more than one myself is doubtless clearer the grammarians than it is to the author of this incomparable dictionary. Conception

Stacy Schiff

How does a woman in authority convey that authority? Is it possible for a woman to rule without sounding shrill? Is it possible for a woman to manage without manipulating? All of these things seem to me to be very much at the fore today, and were no less the case 2,000 years ago.

Housing authorities have never been more broke. Funds for public housing were not keeping pace with demand, even before Katrina.

Janet Reno

I don't think I had the authority to go the other way.

I don't think Indians were on her agenda. She delegated too much authority away to people who were detrimental to Indians.

Jerry Brown

Before we turn a housing authority back over, we like to make sure it's financially sound, it has a plan and we have done everything we can do to make sure that the tenants are getting what they should be getting.

He's showing that you don't need formal authority. You can have moral authority and be a player - not positional authority, but moral authority? In many ways, it's a personal crisis like that which drives you to a position of moral authority.

The Lackawanna Heritage Valley Authority is an important partnership to preserve the Valley's historic, cultural and natural resources.

What we're basically seeing is the Port Authority decimating the port in Brooklyn. This is part of the pattern of them shutting down the port.

David Blunkett

There are some really good experiments with the youth offending service, joining up youth offending teams with the youth justice board, and good local authority and primary care trusts working together.

Pulp paperbacks have always provided a training ground for men, Some of them went on to become respected authors - Dean Koontz, Nelson DeMille and Martin Cruz Smith, for example. Why couldn't a woman?

In 1996, when my first novel, 'Masquerade,' was published, I knew international thrillers - or spy novels, if you prefer - had been the domain of male authors for decades.

Fiction is often most powerful when the author is exploring an issue - and not writing like a know-it-all who has the perfect answer.

The most insignificant authors have at least this similarity to the Author of the Heavens and the Earth: that after a days work is done, they have a habit of saying to themselves, "And behold, what he made was good.

Something the Fair Authority is trying to do is (to have) things that are ongoing.

We had received complaints that the inspector was intimidating Northwest replacement workers, was unprofessional in his conduct and exceeded his authority so we are also investigating those charges.

Marc Rotenberg

We had raised some of the antitrust issues in our complaint, but the FTC's position was that they really did not have antitrust authority in this matter, so they were focusing solely on the privacy and security questions.

We have every expectation that they will seek the permission of the property owner, but by this action, we've authorized them to be able to do that.

David Rakoff

Unless one is planning to go shopping - basically begging to be smothered by the ravening throngs of returners and bargain hunters; an embrace as constricting as that hugging machine designed by autistic author Temple Grandin - then Boxing Day feels like a bar after last call when the lights have been turned up.

Ben Goldacre

Science isn't about authority or white coats; it's about following a method. That method is built on core principles: precision and transparency; being clear about your methods; being honest about your results; and drawing a clear line between the results, on the one hand, and your judgment calls about how those results support a hypothesis.

We count on a combination of user reviews and the author-provided summary and bio to give the browsing customer information to make a decision. But in the future, we want to provide a way for users to preview the books and implement a forum where consumers can query the authors and debate.

Malorie Blackman

Book sales and teens reading is always a fantastic thing, but we should also be celebrating and consuming the huge wealth of U.K. and U.K.-based writing and illustrating talent. Authors such as Charlie Higson, Darren Shan, Holly Smale, Tanya Byrne, Catherine Johnson, Sophie Mckenzie, to name but a few.

Books that are out of print frequently come back in print. A university press or a smaller house may bring it back, or it may come back when the author publishes a new book with a major publisher.

Broad claims of authority and broad claims of illegality are equally suspect.

This document suggests that Task Force 6-26 was part of a larger, clandestine program that we think may have links with high-ranking officials, because obviously someone high up had the authority to put this program in place.

This is an authorized troop movement. There is no reason to fear.

James Hansen

This is an authorized biography, and a lot of readers may suspect that that means that it will treat Neil with kid gloves, ... That's not the case. Neil gave me complete freedom of interpretation and analysis. All he wanted to do was have input to make sure my facts were straight.

When you have an author of the caliber of Bernard Cornwell, one of the world's top historical novelist, it's very gratifying to publish him on a global basis giving him the prominence he deserves. We expect this important deal, in conjunction with the new TV mini-series, will bring him even greater success around the world.

The only change would be transferring the legal authority of the Immigration and Naturalization Services from the Justice Department to the Homeland Security Department,

It seems appropriate that the author of '1984' was a British citizen. George Orwell must have seen how easily the great British public's lamb-like disposition toward its leaders could be exploited to create a police state.

Deb Caletti

Becoming a YA author was actually a very lucky accident. When I wrote the 'Queen of Everything,' I thought it was a book for adults.

Dean Wareham

It's weird being an author because it's different than writing songs. You put so much more of yourself out there to be judged because it's a memoir. So when the reviews come in, they all feel really personal. Some people are just going to hate you no matter what. Personally, I never believe good reviews.