Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kindle Worlds is a clever way to monetize a formerly underground trend, and to enable its participants to be remunerated. But it will be of no interest to writers with any literary ambition, as its constraints are designed to stymie even the most rudimentary impulses - even the first flickering of a dangerous originality.

Jeff White

Knowing what we know now, we would have designed it differently.

I think it's a known fact these stages are designed to get up this high and this is the way the flood system operates.

He didn't follow someone's design. He designed what he wanted. That's an extreme reversal of where trends and styles come from.

Townes Van Zandt

I don't envision a very long life for myself. I think my life will run out before my work does. I've designed it that way.

Larry Ellison

Oracle's latest database, version 12c, was specifically designed for the cloud. Oracle 12c makes all your Oracle applications multitenant applications without you having to make any changes whatsoever to your applications.

We try to make things user-friendly. We try to use information designed to facilitate quick understanding.

We make a practice of being on- site for the initial install of every site. OSP engineers have joked with me that I must have worked in the field because the platform is designed to accommodate the 'fat fingers' of the field technician, rather than the manicured hands of a laboratory engineer.

He never really seemed to take off as decisively as he has this year. We can put in a lot more designed plays.

Our research has shown that people are looking for a device designed exclusively for immersive reading.

Our medical staff has designed stretches for each of the jobs our people do.

Oracle 8i is designed to be an Internet operating system.

Internet2 was designed to make large file transfers happen quickly.

In a meeting designed for public comment, to have one person - who's not even a student - that's crap.

Tom Hamilton

If there are rules designed to limit drinking, people will just drink somewhere else before they come, ... One way or another, people are going to get drunk for that event. Whether it's in their rooms or on the fields doesn't really matter in the end.

I love the male body, it's better designed than the male mind.

Impact fees are not designed to recoup 100 percent.

In general there is an increasing use of psychometric tests, and some are designed to test things like employee honesty.

Mark Richt

I know that quarterback can run like a deer, that's for sure. Shockley's not quite the runner that he is. Shockley's athletic, but we won't have as many designed quarterback runs for him. A lot of that is because it's really not his nature and the other part is that we wanted to try to keep him healthy this year.

The federal certification process for voting machines is broken, sadly, when it comes to security. It was designed for the era of mechanical machines, and it hasn't kept up.

The high schools that we have, and it's not just locally but nationally, are designed for a different purpose, a different time and a different place -- and it doesn't meet the educational needs of kids today.

The incomes of working families simply have not kept pace with rising housing prices. And this is despite low interest rates and new mortgage products designed to make homes more affordable.

Patrick Swayze

You couldn't have designed a more perfect training ground for young actors, with a sort of sensei (mentor) like with Francis. He just knew how to play each of us like a violin.

The key for success in retailing today is to understand what makes shopping fun and then make sure the entire shopping experience is designed to maximize the shoppers' pleasure.

Michael Ramos

The initiative is designed to try to sow fear into our communities.

The truck loads were probably 50-percent larger than they were designed for. So, that's been a lot of the deterioration of the bridge.

And it's designed to help moms understand that mothering matters.

Danny Thompson

All we want is for this thing to be truthful. It is not truthful now. It is deceptive. It is designed to destroy governments.

The game is designed for skill players, ... and Pavel is as skilled as they come.

The crux of this issue is that the Marine force really isn't very well designed for the type of fight it's facing in Iraq.

These products are designed to be complimentary. We developed them together.

Gary Marshall

This is our fourth major redesign. But this is the first designed for the customer.

Albert Barnes

The Bible, as a revelation from God, was not designed to give us all the information we might desire, nor to solve all the questions about which the human soul is perplexed, but to impart enough to be a safe guide to the haven of eternal rest.