Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joan Chen

The author wrote the novella based on her friend. So it was a true story, ... When I was reading the novella -- she wrote it in such a visual, well-textured way, that I saw in it a poignantly beautiful film. And that is how my generation in China came of age.

Patrick Manning

The author presents a different way of looking at movies through the lens of color. She explains through examples from many different movies the power of reds, the corruption of some greens, and the melancholy of blues. Movies cited include The Wizard of Oz, The English Patient, Chinatown and many more.

The authority received protests from various police and community officials.

Viktor Yushchenko

The authorities ... used the talks to cheat,

The authorities in Belgrade ... want to avoid this event.

The authorities in Belgrade used every trick in the book to prevent a fair campaign, rig the election and distort the results, ... In so doing, they have fooled no one. Milosevic has been repudiated and claims by his regime to the contrary are laughable.

The authorities have got the ballot boxes ready with the votes inside and they are deciding whether it would look better internationally if Mubarak wins with 75 per cent or 80 per cent of the vote.

These people are comfortable with authority from above,

Nothing sooner overthrows a weak head than opinion of authority; like too strong liquor for a frail glass

It's not clear that the governor has the authority to invoke a line-item veto on a policy area, ... There's going to be some interesting conversations on that.

It shows that the author of the study says it doesn't have anything to do with reliability.

It should release detainees it has no legal authority to hold. It should provide trials to detainees believed to have committed crimes and it should investigate and prosecute US officials responsible for the torture of detainees.

Chris Collins

It's tragic. My client is very sad that Mr. Bronson left the earth. But I'm disappointed that Colorado authorities didn't look into it further before they decided to drag my client out here.

It's tough to say where Spitzer's authority begins and ends.

David has always been one of those quietly influential staffers that has an impact all of out proportion to their public profile. He knows how to get things done, and when he talks, people listen because they know he has the authority of the vice president behind him.

Daniels is taking a 75-year stream of road payments that should be managed by nine governors all for himself. He will be gone in eight years. Why are we in such a rush to give this vast authority to this governor?

Condemnation is very nice, but it won't bring back to life the people who were killed. The Palestinian Authority has to take concrete steps to make arrests, to put people behind bars, to put obstacles in the way of the terrorists.

Maria Cantwell

Congress has authority to protect, I believe, our most important species,

The next step is really for that port authority board to conduct their first meeting. I would expect that to be a sort of organizational meeting, where they might create things like bylaws.

You think you can circumvent our authority and our powers. You can't.

Then we'll be bringing our draft recommendations to council and the Port Authority by early fall.

that's one of the reasons the Development Authority was off track so far. You didn't know what they were doing.

It's sort of like an unlimited buffet but you have to limit yourself. What the trade show allows you to do is compress meeting with sales reps and authors into a couple of days.

Patricia Schroeder

That is really turning it on its head, ... How is an author even supposed to know that his or her work is being copied?

Viktor Yushchenko

That is why the ... (opposition) has decided to pull out of the talks. We are stopping talks with the authorities. We will talk with them only from the position of people power.

take her social cues from those in authority around her.

It's convenient, ... If there is no statute, even if we see something, we don't have authority to do anything about it.

It is therefore high time that we learned from past mistakes and used our considerable moral authority on the question of nuclear disarmament for the greater good of international peace and stability, rather than simply protecting at any cost an increasingly dangerous actor on the international stage.

It is the position of the university that any such offers cannot be valid without the express authority and consent of the university as the current legal owner of the Circleville Farm property.

Eddie O'Sullivan

It's great that we're authors of our own destiny in this championship.

It's great news. She reaches writers in a way that few others have been able to. Her recommendations were incredibly powerful, and she elevated authors whom the greater public had largely not known of.

Fred Turner

It's worth remembering that every time that a new communication technology becomes popular there's usually a moral panic. When the telephone was introduced in the 19th century, there was widespread fear that it would decrease the authority of parents over their daughters, that men would be entering the house through the telephone line. That's something we are going through now with the Internet, the fear that strange men will enter the house through the DSL line.

It's very sad that the city and Port Authority care more about real estate than finding ways to work with the companies who are being damaged by this mishandling of maritime commerce.