Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Lee

When we consider that it is small business that drives the economy to have that engine resting on the backs of millions of uninsured workers is a bad proposition for the U.S. economy,

Boris Zhukov

We got up in the air, and Terry Gordy looks over and sees oil coming down the wing. The oil pressure drops. It turned out the mechanic left the oil cap off. Jimmy turns the thing around and got it on the ground before the engine locked up. We were lucky we didn't catch on fire.

Hector Ruiz

We believe we're making significant strides to building a sustainable growth engine for the foreseeable future,

John Wagner

What's new here is not the use of umbilical cord blood in the treatment of a life-threatening disease, but it's the way the transplant was engineered and the way the baby was conceived.

Bob Benzon

We removed the right engine from the crater and it's virtually intact. It's heavily damaged, of course, but not broken apart.

David Thompson

world-class scientists and engineers and surround them with the creative environment and speed of action that will make it happen.

Craig Mathias

Working with multiple data inputs presents significant engineering challenges, and the engineers who developed MIMO did a remarkable job addressing them.

Peter Gioia

We're hoping this will allow for a greater awareness of the county and what it needs to continue to be the engine of Connecticut during the legislative session.

S. Hughes

We want the kids to learn about working on yachts, crewing them, marine electronics, boat building and design, interior design and engine repair. Since we have many brokers in the area, we will even have people teach them how to sell yachts. There are so many areas they can pursue.

Ian Forrester

When it comes down to racing like this, ... you have to ignore all friendship and just get down to business.

Peter Gabriel

We wrote a little manifesto with just some ideas on how this digital revolution could transform music-making itself, and that is the part that people have generally ignored so far. They've been totally preoccupied with the business side of it, but not so much with how the new formats - or the freedom of formats - could change the nature of what exactly is created.

Michael Specter

It doesn't seem to matter how often vaccines are proved safe or supplements are shown to offer nothing of value. When people don't like facts, they ignore them.

Wade Henderson

We applaud the five judiciary members who voted their conscience and took a principled position in opposition to the nomination of John Roberts to be Chief Justice of the United States. However, we are profoundly disappointed that the committee, as a whole, ignored compelling evidence against his nomination.

Bertrand Russell

Every sane and sensible and quiet thing we do is absolutely ignored by the press.

Benjamin Graham

Always remember that market quotations are there for convenience, either to be taken advantage of or to be ignored.

Mutula Kilonzo

We are going to ignore it totally. It has no value. That is nonsense.

Mutula Kilonzo

We are going to ignore it because it has no value. It is pure nonsense and the former president will go on with ordinary life.

Kathryn Prescott

Just because we don't recognise someone from an area of our own lives, somehow it has become easy to simply ignore them and walk away.

Cooper Farris

We're going to need to show more intensity than we have in the past. Co-Lin is a better team than Jones and the split with Pearl River shows that.

John Peterson

We're going to need to get some shots to fall if we want to win against Big Timber. The girls showed the intensity we need in the fourth quarter today, but we need that all the time.

Jake Long

When we came back from the bowl game, we didn't reach our potential like we should have last year. Weight could have been a part of it, so all the coaches wanted us to drop weight, get stronger, get quicker. We definitely had the intensity to do that this year during winter.

Al Frost

We wrestled hard with a similar intensity level as Saturday at sectionals. This has been a focus of ours all season, to win and make it to the state duals. We were hoping for a better draw. Louisiana-Muscatine was a team we faced in 2004 and, of any team we wrestled, they scored the most points against us.

Gene Constantino

We boxed out very well, holding St. Mary's to usually just one shot when they had the ball. The girls continue to amaze me with the intensity that they show on defense. And that 11-0 run to begin the game was the turning point. We also really weren't in any foul trouble.

Lee Baca

We're going to look at every aspect of this shooting, we're going to examine the intensity of what occurred, we're going to examine our policy, and we're going to again learn from this there is no such thing as a safe shooting anywhere in urban America,

Mike Nelson

We?re going to have to go down there and really focus. We have to match their toughness and their intensity level. And do it the right way. It will be physical and we have to keep our emotions in check.

Mark Waters

Usually, like, on 'Mean Girls,' the task that Tina Fey and I set for ourselves was we wanted to maintain a comic intensity throughout the movie, where people just don't really get a break from laughing. And if they do, it's for a brief emotional scene, and then we're going to once again try to knock them on their heels again with comedy.

Dave Schutter

Workouts went good. The intensity was good. Of course, it's the end result. We have to wait and see how we perform out in competition, see how we perform at the end of the season when it matters the most.

Jimmy Buffett

Yes, Barometer was written in Key West and I did spend many hours at the library there. Every song on that album has a literary connection.

Charles Simic

The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination.

John Schuerholz

The point of the book was to give fans an inside look at what a general manager does, in terms of personal interaction, in terms of trade-making, in terms of issues that general managers deal with. In this case, I thought I had an opportunity, with literary license, to show a very human side of him. If his point is, 'OK, John, that was a private conversation and I would prefer that you keep it that way,' I understand that.

Gunter Grass

Over the years, I had something in principle against autobiographical writing altogether because memory plays tricks on us, and we also tend to reinvent ourselves. But there comes an age when one begins to observe life, and there are things that need time to mature, also in terms of literary form.

Gunter Grass

A writer must face up to the test of reality, including political reality, and that can't be done if he keeps his distance. A literary style cultivated like a hothouse plant may show a certain artificial purity, but it won't really be pure.

Gabrielle Zevin

I'm like a unicorn; I'm a midlist writer who hasn't done anything else but write. But because I wasn't amazingly famous, I didn't become Stephanie Meyer, or even a huge literary name like a Jonathan Franzen or a Joshua Ferris.

Ellen Potter

I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But I had so much more fun writing kids' books.

Elliot Perlman

I know that at literary festivals I'm speaking mostly to middle-class women, who frequently vote in a way that is contrary to how I'd like them to vote.

Elliot Perlman

I'll be happy if I can gain even the smallest place inside the literary imagination of U.S. readers.

James Lane Allen

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

Keith Allain

My ultimate goal is to make this the destination of choice for elite athletes that are able to get into Ivy League schools. That's a pretty lofty goal and it's going to take a lot of time and work.

Arthur Conan

Nigel looked at her with sparkling eyes. The soul which shone through her dark face had transformed it for the moment into a beauty, more lofty and more rare than that of her shallow sister. He bowed before the majesty of the woman, and pressed his lips to her hand.

Roy Barnes

What I am proposing this year are not lofty concepts far removed form the daily struggle so of ordinary Georgians. They are proposals that directly effect the lives of the people we serve.

Casey Schweitzer

He works hard day in and day out to improve his skills. He has a lot of heart. He's driven from within. We have the kids fill out goal sheets at the beginning of the year. He had some lofty goals.

Steve Taylor

He came into preseason healthy and fit. He just missed the NCAA Championships as an individual last year and he has made some lofty goals for this season, including getting to the NCAA Championships.

Atsushi Mizuno

We can expect volatility in the short and intermediate sectors to remain at lofty levels.

Wu Bangguo

China has all along respected the diversity of world civilizations, championed the democratization of international relations and been committed to the lofty undertaking of maintaining world peace and advancing common development.

Charlie Trotter

I have a goal so lofty it's almost embarrassing to talk about. And that's to be the best restaurant in the world.

Joe Balogh

We've always said that you can't win the league in the first round of the season but you can lose it. I think that is the great part of playing in the NCC.

Chris Duhon

When we were up 2-0, we were pretty excited. We thought we just had to win two games. Those two games never came. You kind of lose focus when you're up 2-0.

Sven Eriksson

When it came to the last 10 minutes, I think we controlled it and they seemed to be out of ideas. Then, when we thought we won the game, it's a bit of a delusion to draw it. And, of course, the delusion is even bigger to lose it.

Dan Rohrs

You don't lose those kinds of individuals and have your team go unaffected. But you build a program that allows younger runners to develop and take the place of those who graduate when they're called upon to contribute, and we have that here.

Geno Auriemma

You don?t lose the championship and forget about it. That?s always going to be there.

Jonathan Potter

You don't lose money by appealing to fans.

Jodi Howell

You don't lose a shooting touch; it just likes to go on vacation for a little bit. I've been working in the gym on my own. I think I'm back to where I was and hopefully I can improve that a little bit more.

Oscar Michelen

You don't lose all your rights in prison.

Barry Russell

We're starting to find a way to win by finding a way to get on base however possible. Sometimes it seems like we find a way to try to lose and we need to overcome that.

Charlaine Harris

I certainly think we're going to see more and more graphic novels and more illustrated novels.

Chang-Rae Lee

Historical novels are about costumery. I think that's the magic and mystery of fiction. I don't want to write historical fiction but I do want the story to have the feel of history. There's a difference.

Alexander McCall Smith

Serial novels have an unexpected effect; they hook the writer as well as the reader.

Caroline B. Cooney

Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published

Laurie Graham

As well as writing novels and doing short-order journalism, I am also the full-time carer of my husband, who has Alzheimer's. Each day feels like a race that must be run.

Kim Newman

I've often described my book 'Anno Dracula' as 'literally, a vampire novel' - in that it battens on to other novels and sucks their lifeblood, transforming as well as feeding off them.

Kerry Greenwood

A publisher saw one of my historical novels and thought I would write an admirable detective story, so she offered me a two-book contract, and I grabbed it.

Terri Blackstock

One of the themes in my novels is that our crises can turn into blessings. We can feel like our world has crumbled, but ten years down the road when we look back on that time, we can see God's hand at work. I love writing that theme into my books.

Ellen Potter

I don't plot my novels - I move along with my characters.

Fran Townsend

When we were preparing the president's speech we had originally picked a different plot to try and declassify to talk about.

Chinua Achebe

Once a novel gets going and I know it is viable, I don't then worry about plot or themes. These things will come in almost automatically because the characters are now pulling the story.

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Storylines are how characters create the plots involved in their stories.

Charles Francis Richter

[In plotting earthquake measurements] the range between the largest and smallest magnitudes seemed unmanageably large. Dr. Beno Gutenberg then made the natural suggestion to plot the amplitudes logarithmically.

Charles Francis Richter

I was lucky because logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.

Billy West

To me, it all comes down to things being character-driven. It's hard for me to look beyond that. CG and all this cool stuff - so be it. But to me, it pretty much begins and ends with character-driven plots rather than technologically-driven plots.

Billy Wilder

The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.

Viktor Yushchenko

The plot . . . involved discussion of the ownership of one of the major Ukrainian TV channels and in order to bring about this, the prime minister acted in such a manner,

Mikhail Kamynin

The plot behind this terror attack is obvious - to agitate the situation in a country that holds a leading position in the Arab world and to undermine the situation in the Middle East as a whole.

C. C. H. Pounder

When I was a kid, a pickleball hit me in the back of the head, and I had memory problems. I was in a boarding school and the nuns gave me poems to remember to try and get the memory going again.

William Shakespeare

But thy eternal summer shall not fade.

Muriel Rukeyser

Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems.

Robert Littell

The poetry of Walt Whitman. I can return again and again to these magnificent poems and still get pleasure from reading them.

Harry Brown

The poems in the fifth section are from a book I'm trying to get published.

Niki de St. Phalle

Since the age of 11, I have loved writing poems and fragments from my life.

Kate Thompson

My first book was an adult novel, 'Down Among the Gods,' published by Virago, and I've written poems as well, a slim volume of poetry.

William Shakespeare

Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.

Teju Cole

Throughout his career, W.G. Sebald wrote poems that were strikingly similar to his prose. His tone, in both genres, was always understated but possessed of a mournful grandeur.

Al Sharpton

I’ve never seen a prosecutor hold a press conference to discredit the victim,

Chinua Achebe

What I can say is that it was clear to many of us that an indigenous African literary renaissance was overdue. A major objective was to challenge stereotypes, myths, and the image of ourselves and our continent, and to recast them through stories- prose, poetry, essays, and books for our children. That was my overall goal.

Rod Sterling

The poet, whether in prose or verse, the creator, can only stamp his images forcibly on the page, in proportion, as he has forcibly felt, ardently nursed, and long brooded over them

Hector Tobar

The influence of cinema on all contemporary writers is undeniable. Because film is such a powerful and popular art form, we prose writers think cinematically.

Claire Tomalin

'Words and Music' on Radio 3 is always a treat. Actors read passages of poetry and prose interspersed with music, and nobody tells you what it is. Later you can look it up online, but at the time you can't cheat.

David Schertler

We're seeing cases of accounting improprieties that are being prosecuted criminally today that would not have been prosecuted that way 10 years ago.

David Shields

My medium is prose, not the novel.

Mary Karr

Poetry privileges music and is aesthetically more challenging. Prose privileges information and is emotionally more challenging.

Christopher Fry

Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement... says heaven and earth in one word... speaks of himself and his predicament as though for the first time. It has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.