Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ryan Smith

It's like bouncing my head off the wall. Something has to be done where (authority members) work closer with the people.

It is very seldom that the NTC has used its power and authority to close down radio stations and TV stations, only when the situation calls for it.

Karin Slaughter

It's hard because people often don't recognise shyness; they think it's just someone being rude. I have had to work to overcome that, especially if I'm meeting my readers at author events, because I don't want them to think I'm snooty or rude.

Lauren Myracle

What I find cool about being a banned author is this: I'm writing books that evoke a reaction, books that, if dropped in a lake, go down not with a whimper but a splash.

Lauren Weisberger

I admit to subscribing to all the celebrity rags. The best part of being an author is if the celebs aren't being ridiculous enough, you can just make it up.

Katharine Cornell

The audience may not have felt it was right, and the author may have felt a little upset, but every part I've played I've twisted around in my mind until I've made it into something of my own. Looking back over it, I didn't deliberately sit down and plan like that, but it does read like it.

Ariel Sharon

We are concerned that this welcome quiet will be shattered any minute as a result of the continued existence of terror organizations which the Palestinian Authority is doing nothing to eliminate or dismantle.

Gilles Duceppe

When they don't have the moral authority to govern, we have to express what Quebeckers think, and I think Quebeckers don't want the Liberals any more. So we're expressing the voices of all those that elected us.

Rupert Holmes

When you write songs for the theatre-particularly if you are also the author of the libretto-you can create any world you want. And then you get to write the songs that people who live in that world would sing.

Nancy Kress

All writers, in all viewpoints, must choose which information and scenes will be presented, and in which order. In that sense, the author is always represented as a point of view in a work of fiction. His hand can always be detected by the discerning.

Lysander Spooner

It is perfectly clear, in the first place, that the constitution of the United States did not, of itself, create or establish slavery as a new institution; or even give any authority to the state governments to establish it as a new institution. The greatest sticklers for slavery do not claim this.

Louis A. Johnson

Eighty percent of the problems that beset unification immediately disappeared when the President signed the bill increasing the authority and the responsibility of the Secretary of Defense.

Nelson Mandela

The authorities liked to say that we received a balanced diet; it was indeed balanced - between the unpalatable and the inedible.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I cannot stand authority.

R. C. Sproul

The Bible alone is the only authority that can bind the conscience of a person absolutely because it is the only authority that carries with it the intrinsic authority of God Himself.

Smart authors, faced with storms, chose to create umbrellas. That's why a diverse group of authors banded together to create The Fiction Writer's Co-op, which will work to find innovative ways to promote each other's work and cheer each other on in a very competitive field.

Dick Cheney

evidence of the collapse of any central regime authority.

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

Pindar

Convention is the ruler of all.

Terry Pratchett

Commander, I always used to consider that you had a definite anti-authoritarian streak in you.” “Sir?” “It seems that you have managed to retain this even though you are authority.” “Sir?” “That’s practically zen.

Randall Munroe

The scholarly authorities on freezing to death seem to be, unsurprisingly, Canadians.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

Peter Kropotkin

Where there is authority, there is no freedom.

Jonathan Lethem

I'm a serial deconstructor of my own authority in certain areas.

Garrison Keillor

Being an English major prepares you for impersonating authority.

Jim Edmonds

The legislative consultants for the port authority bring diverse background experience and expertise to their roles, ... Our consultants provide information and tools needed for sound decision-making by our very capable Harris County delegations of elected officials. Their support is crucial to the port authority's progress, prosperity, and accountability to taxpayers and other stakeholders.

The legislation doesn't grant us any of the authority we need, or power and control to deal with our cost structure.

The leader of the Taiwan authorities has brazenly decided to seize the function of the council in a dangerous step towards openly violating his pledges. It is our strong will to check secessionist forces.

Cesare Beccaria

The laws only can determine the punishment of crimes, and the authority of making penal laws can only reside with the legislator, who represents the whole society united by the social compact.

The laws of nature are written deep in the folds and faults of the earth. By encouraging men to learn those laws one can lead them further to a knowledge of the author of all laws.

The lines of authority were sometimes blurred for me, but I always felt like Rod Sr. had the last word.

The little problem is that the authorities plan to give out three licenses for four operators. Since each operator does not know what its future is, they are probably also holding back on 2G demand,

The constitution gives me explicit and definite authority to remove a government from power, but I don't want to use this authority. But everyone should know that by law I have this power in my hands.