Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sam Altman

All throughout my life I have been deeply immersed in startups, either because I was running one or investing in them or helping them.

Enya

When making music I sink myself into the process as deeply as I can and forget all of the success.

Erin McKean

Objections to verbification in English tend to be motivated by personal taste, not clarity. Verbed words are usually easily understood. When a word like 'friend' is declared not a verb, the problem isn't that it's confusing; it's that the protester finds it deeply annoying.

Azim Premji

You cannot mandate philanthropy. It has to come from within, and when it does, it is deeply satisfying.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Missionaries labor diligently to teach and baptize those who accept the gospel. In the process, their own testimonies become deeply rooted.

Walter Isaacson

Mrs. Graham was an important and remarkable person in our profession and all of us lucky enough to know her are deeply saddened by her untimely death.

John Bailey

My instinct is that it is deeply learned sitting at the table listening to one's parents. Police are there to be avoided.

Edgar Winter

My favorite songs are those that are most deeply personal and emotional for me, and they include the love songs that I've written for Monique.

Edward Kennedy

Sen. Ashcroft has a deeply disturbing record on issue after issue of vital importance to millions of Americans.

David Hume

What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind?

Arne Glimcher

I've been told I'm a good midcareer manager.

George Bernard Shaw

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Douglas Fairbanks

The man that's out to do something has to keep in high gear all the time.

Thomas Couture

There is only one absinthe drinker, and that's the man who painted this idiotic picture.

Uday Kotak

As we were all growing up, there used to be a very big mantra in India which was called 'export or perish.' There was a long period when we used to focus on import substitution.

Lee Majors

The Six Million Dollar Man was one thing, but I wanted to keep my own parts.

Kevin McCloud

My father, an engineer, was the gentlest man I knew.

Ronnie Milsap

I'm a Christian man that lives it every day, believing somebody will look and live by example.

David Briggs

We had a very nice rally yesterday and now you have some people wanting to take profits and others who missed out wanting to swoop in now.

Bruce Scott

When I missed that I re-adjusted my sights for 2006.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Oh how I've missed you, Holmes.

Lou Schmidt

Obviously we saw things totally different that the officials did. They even missed numbers. We had one player ejected who was on the bench. He wasn't even part of it. But the outcome of it all was that Berkley got right back into the game.

Walt Woodruff

She hadn't run track since she was a freshman. She's doing well in the 100. She missed the school record by six-tenths of a second. She's going to get that before the season's over.

Mike Hofland

She's able to get (to) missed shots every time. When she wants to be, she's very aggressive.

Luke Vaccaro

She runs the team. We missed her a lot more than I thought we would.

Don Flanagan

She missed a three-point shot, went right back and shot another three-point shot. I think she shot three in one series and made one of them. She's got to shoot, and when she's open, she's got to shoot.

Brian Daubach

Missed it by one day again. Hopefully, the next time is for real.

Billy Bob Thornton

I'm more influenced by novelists than I am by filmmakers.

David Mitchell

I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.

Dean Koontz

Not all popular novelists are good, but all good novelists are, sooner or later, popular.

Beth Henley

But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright

Jane Smiley

A novelist is on the cusp between someone who knows everything and someone who knows nothing.

Jane Smiley

Novelists never have to footnote.

Ruth Rendell

There are some novelists who can get away with writing about sex - Philip Roth, Ian McEwan - but they are rare.

Kurt Vonnegut

I think I belong to America's last generation of novelists. Novelists will come one by one from now on, not in seeming families, and will perhaps write only one or two novels, and let it go at that.

Don DeLillo

One connection I see between novelists and terrorists is that we both attempt to alter consciousness.

Lee Siegel

The Web critic relies on his or her readers for attentiveness and approval.

Binyavanga Wainaina

I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether it's with Africa or childhood.

Sarah MacLean

There is a whole generation of romance readers and writers who suffer from what I like to think of as 'Thorn Birds' Fever.

Noah Cowan

Just tell your readers they can come down and see anything and it should be good,

James O'Shea

We can communicate to our readers what this is about without running it.

J. A. Konrath

Together, Amazon and I are giving readers what they want - inexpensive, professional ebooks.

Rick Riordan

My problem is never ideas. I've got more than I'll ever have time to write. It's all about how many I can get to, and which ones readers want to see the most.

Christina Baker Kline

I think a lot of readers are looking for a book they can talk about.

Khaled Hosseini

Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it.

Darrell Bryan

If it requires a passport, we think they'll look for other options.

Adrianne Palicki

I like a grizzly look as long as it's maintained. Facial hair requires maintenance; you can't just grow it out and be done with it.

Susumu Tonegawa

The brain is hugely complicated, and because it is so complicated, it requires multidisciplinary research.

Martin O'Malley

To create jobs, a modern economy requires modern investments.

Jorge Paulo Lemann

I always say, 'To have a big dream requires the same effort as having a small dream. Dream big!'

Ricky Ponting

It's nice to put your hand up and do the big things the team requires of you.