Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Murch

Take any writer you want in the 19th century: they wrote with quill pens, dipping a piece of goose feather in ink and writing. And yet we read those novels today, and if we're sensitive to them, we respond to them with an immediacy that is stronger than anything written today on a word processor.

A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.

Ehud Barak

tough diplomatic battle. It is impossible to predict how long it will last or the results.

Richard Sherman

My school almost lost its accreditation. If that had happened, my diploma wouldn't have been worth anything.

Emma McLaughlin

If I could give a shout-out to anything in the childhood world, I have to say 'Daniel Tiger.' I want to write a love letter to everyone on that staff. It is so perfectly, thoughtfully, lovingly done. And as a parent, it is the one thing out of everything that we dip in to that really helps.

Jamie-Lynn Sigler

I have been very fortunate, working a lot in TV, and have been able to dip into the film world a little bit here and there.

Over the long run, they go up as far as growth stocks or growth funds, but they tend to do it with a little smoother ride, you don't have quite the same dips and valleys with the value.

Our focus remains on diplomatic efforts to get six-party talks under way as a means of reaching the goal of a dismantlement of the North Korean program and a denuclearized Korean Peninsula.

Dusty Baker

Stealing isn't just speed. Most of it is knowing the pitcher and knowing what a guy does. He might dip his head before he goes to the plate or he might drop his hands slightly before he goes to the plate or his feet are narrow when he goes to first or he might slide-step.

Anthony Bourdain

that diplomacy is served, and order is restored to the universe.

It gives us a lot of product flexibility. It allows us to dip our toes collectively in the water.

I think this plan is really exciting. It really makes the high school diploma more than just getting out of school.

Richard Gephardt

Part of doing this the right way and the successful way is to put together a coalition, ... Sometimes that takes diplomatic efforts as well as military efforts to get that done.

Our message to students is very clear: Your high school diploma is essential to opening doors for future economic opportunity and wage-earning.

People like continuity, and the good old cliffhanger every week is something they enjoy. I enjoy it - I don't want to dip into just one episode when I turn on the TV.

I would not say this is a sign of great openness. It's more like establishing diplomatic relations between two countries, rather than opening borders.

Andrew Young

Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.

Anne Rice

Amazing what the British do with language; the nuances of politeness. The world's great diplomats, surely.

one final ugly dip in the market to wring out remaining excesses.

On a DIP loan that size, I'm sure that everyone on the planet would be involved,

Harold Nicolson

She proceeds to dip here little fountain-pen filler into pots of oily venom and to squirt this mixture at all her friends.

Richard Holbrooke is known for many things, but I will remember him as an impressive, sometimes even intimidating diplomat who understood the value of culture in diplomacy.

Joschka Fischer

When I heard that yesterday, I was very diplomatic and didn't pull a face. But in my head you could imagine what I was seeing: I saw people sitting around in dreadlocks with joints in their hands, and reggae music playing in the background.

John Masefield

One road leads to London, / One road runs to Wales, / My road leads me seawards / To the white dipping sails.

Mitch Hedberg

I got so much tarter i dont gotta dip my fishsticks in shit!

People are looking for a dip to buy.

People are starting to dip their toes in the water and figure out the models for this,

Larry Wachtel

There are many facets to the market. One facet has been that money managers have been willing to dip their toe in the water.

At best, November retail sales will eke out a small gain, and we would not be at all surprised if the numbers were to dip a bit.

The big dip in inventories is a good sign if we are looking for a glimmer of hope here. Maybe we are at a stage where production can pick up again.

Everybody has got an interest in solving this problem through diplomatic means. ... There will be a point at which we look at the deadline, but we are not at that point yet,

I told the 'D' I had the shot. I just misplayed it. I started to dip a little, and then it went in. He did make a good shot.

Steve Squyres

It's very similar in composition, with very similar textures when you look at it with a microscope, but it's dipping in all different directions. What it says is that the geology around here is pretty complicated.