Famous Quotes & Sayings

Will Self

As a writer, I'm not convinced that we are the best equipped to understand how we go about the business of literary production.

Investors are not convinced (the deal) will necessarily go through, or at least as two firms as we know them today with the full (product) line-up.

If you look at the correction that's already occurred in the leadership group, tech, over the past few weeks, it's been pretty severe. I don't expect that there will be a dramatic sell-off on Tuesday -- stocks will go sideways for a while until people become convinced that, while multiples won't expand, the earnings outlook looks pretty good.

In the end, the evidence that was presented really convinced the jury to the standard that we were set to.

In technology, it's just a lack of serious buying. The market needs to be convinced that the Fed will not raise (interest) rates for the remainder of the year. This is all part of the summer doldrums, but we see cyclical stocks doing a little better here.

Viktor Chernomyrdin

It has taken two or three weeks to convince our counterparts -- the United States and (other) NATO countries -- that while withdrawing the (Yugoslav) troops, it's necessary to leave some of them behind.

His idea of good living was to finally have a wonderful big garage. I had to convince him to give it a chance.

He wrestles well in practice. In the break, I was trying to convince him that he could go out and take this guy down and he could do it, and he did.

In each study, we've come away convinced that the use of depleted uranium munitions does not present significant or residual environmental or health risks,

Jack Brickhouse

I'm convinced you can combine this with reporting integrity and accuracy.

I'm convinced the question of development is mainly an issue of governance and leadership.

I'm convinced that what we're doing here today ? if there is another Katrina that hits New Orleans that we would not see the catastrophic results that we saw during Katrina. There will be some flooding, but it will be manageable type flooding.

Dick Murphy

I'm convinced that unless you have some public financing of elections, you are never going to remove the power of wealthy interests over elected officials.

Howard Baker

I'm convinced that they'll come out with a unified position -- perhaps not an identical position, but a unified position,

I'm convinced that given this debtor's history, if this court were to deny the (sale),

John Cornyn

I'm convinced that even if there's not anything, there are groups out there who are going to try to make this nomination controversial even when it shouldn't be.

I'm convinced it can work because I've made it work at another venue.

Tony Stewart

I'm convinced I'm still going to fall off one and crack my head wide open.

I'm convinced if we weaken or destroy (the ordinance) it will have a direct impact on property values.

I'm convinced he would have made it. He hit it perfect.

Alice McDermott

I'm a novelist. I'm not a crusader, and I'm not an editorial writer. And I'm not writing fiction to convince anybody of anything.

Mark Thompson

if the public is convinced that the corporation is spending money wisely.

If people perceive that all-time high as 'normal,' that's going to make it very difficult to convince them that jobs are plentiful.

Andray Blatche

I had a lot of teams and other people tell me that I was going to be a first rounder and that convinced me to enter the draft, ... When I fell into the second round, I was surprised. It was frustrating but there's nothing I can do about it now. I'm here and I'm going to make the most of it.

If you can convince the state to fund us what we need, then we'll be happy to meet the 50 percent.

Nicolas Sarkozy

I remain convinced that the problems we have in the suburbs have been going on for 30 to 40 years.

Padraig Harrington

I know I've been inconsistent this year. Obviously, there's many reasons for that. But if I finish strong the next couple of months, it will be easy for me in my own mind to convince myself that it was a good year.

Jim Boeheim

I just don't think you can have four teams not go to your tournament. It's not healthy. I tried to convince the people in the league and our coaches. We had a halfhearted fight about it. This year, it'll be an all-out fight.

Helen Brown

I hope I have convinced you / the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Helen Brown

I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Kofi Annan

I hope he will be able to convince the Iranian partners to come back to the table.

Sven Goran

I'm quite convinced that we are going out there tomorrow to do the job and win the three points.

I'm more convinced now we need a moratorium,