Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Kloza

Refinery margins just absolutely catapulted off the charts in 2005.

Bryant Hilton

Recovering used product is absolutely the right thing to do, but it's also a real service we can sell.

Ramsey Clark

Reconciliation is essential. This trial can either divide or heal. And unless it is seen as absolutely fair, and as absolutely fair in fact, it will irreconcilably divide the people of Iraq.

Hebbel

Reason is the substance of the universe. The design of the world is absolutely rational.

Kim Hunter

Paul and Marie absolutely adored each other. I wanted something positive to come out of such a horrible date.

Joyce Jackson

Patrick's brother Tom and his wife, Diane, came to visit, and they absolutely loved the place. They told their daughter Karen, who's a hairdresser in Denver. The production company that does 'If Walls Could Talk' is located there, and one of the production assistants on the show came in to have her hair cut. Karen told her about the house, and eventually she found our contact info and asked us to be on the show.

Mary Tillman

Pat had high ideals about the country; that's why he did what he did. The military let him down. The administration let him down. It was a sign of disrespect. The fact that he was the ultimate team player and he watched his own men kill him is absolutely heartbreaking and tragic. The fact that they lied about it afterward is disgusting.

Ujjal Dosanjh

pay a certain amount of money privately and go to his clinic, he'd be able to deal with it. And I think that's absolutely unacceptable.

Doc Rivers

Paul was absolutely sensational tonight. I didn't realize they had 50 and 43. I knew they had a lot. I could sense that. I just didn't know it was that high. Pretty cool.

Toshihiko Fukui

Recent empirical studies, however, show such short run effects become small because the exchange rate pass-through to import prices declines.

Robert Hill

Our position is that, in terms of all of us wanting to get an effectual international outcome, to settle rules without the U.S being party is, in effect, to shut the door,

John Devenanzio

Paula was so effective at what she did. I just thought she was being mean, but she was doing everything in her power she could do to make sure she didn't see me with other girls.

Jim Cain

People need to realize it can't and won't last forever. It's been effective for us and it sets us up well to introduce some new models. At this point, our plan only goes through Labor Day.

John Engler

Susan Schwab is an excellent choice. She will be a strong and effective voice for leveling the international playing field.

Jerry Strahm

Some of these girls have been there in front of the big crowds. I think it's had a settling effect for us in basketball.

Lynn Miller

That could be one reason. We have always been in the top 15 percent of counties. We are very effective getting families into work activities, ... There are others variables that also come into play.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Our goal is to be effective, and the only way to be effective is to work with the Israeli government.

Jia Youling

Our vaccines are the most effective in the world.

Stu Melby

Stephanie did a fantastic job. She has grown by leaps and bounds. She is a great person to have around the team.

Chris Johnson

Jessie took away three breakaway attempts, which kept us in the game. She did a fantastic job for us in goal.

Curt Schilling

That was a fantastic catch. And to someone that's as terrifically slow as I am, it looks even faster.

Jeff Kent

That was a fantastic at-bat. That's what you try to do - I've seen him do that before.

Bill Walton

I was proud of the way our team responded today. Jennifer (Hohl) did a fantastic job of distributing the volleyball, and keeping everyone involved.

Jef Field

It has been a fantastic year. It is always fun to win, but to win with a group like these kids makes it special. They play the game the right way. They proved you can win and win with class. To me, that is what it is all about.

Calvin Johnson

It is just fantastic that it is still here. If they hadn't started fixing it up, the partnership hadn't started fixing it up, it would have been gone.

Bill Brist

Lauren had a fantastic day. Her improvement this season has been very motivating to watch.

Shane Whitener

Like the other night's game, we played fantastic for the first few minutes and the last few minutes.

Andrew Clements

Part of being a fiction writer is being able to imagine how someone else is thinking and feeling. I think I've always been good at that.

Ridley Scott

Stanley Kubrick's '2001' was the door that opened up the possibility of science fiction for me. Everything else up to then was fine, but didn't quite work for me.

Alice McDermott

Our task as fiction writers isn't just to report something that didn't really happen. We have to give what we write a sense of reality. The tool of our tradition is language.

Bharati Mukherjee

Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just The Other.

Karin Slaughter

I think crime fiction is a great way to talk about social issues, whether 'To Kill A Mockingbird' or 'The Lovely Bones;' violence is a way to open up that information you want to get out to the reader.

Martin Villeneuve

'Mars et Avril' is a science fiction film. It's set in Montreal some 50 years in the future. No one had done that kind of movie in Quebec before because it's expensive, it's set in the future, and it's got tons of visual effects, and it's shot on green screen.

Julia Glass

I wonder if it's in the nature of fiction writers to never quite see their own lives as 'real,' since we are always making stuff up!

David Guterson

I was totally absorbed in the real world, the politics, the history, the news, and I just couldn't find my way into the fictional world... When I finally could return to writing the novel, it was in fits and starts.

Shaun Cassidy

I think it has science-fiction elements, but I would say that overall it's a mystery.

Leslie Moonves

I think talking to ghosts may skew younger than talking to God,

John Roe

I think we managed to exorcise some ghosts left over from last year.

Bernie Bickerstaff

When you play here in the Garden, it always has that special quality to it. The ghosts are still here. We try to remind the young guys that this is a great stage to perform on.

Logan P. Smith

When people talk of Ghosts I don't mention the Apparition by which I am haunted, the Phantom that shadows me about the streets, the image or spectre, so familiar, so like myself, which lurks in the plate glass of shop-windows, or leaps out of mirrors

Earl Steele

They're like ghosts - there one second and gone the next.

Achim Brueckner

It made the staff confident, so they're sure there are no ghosts anymore.

Du Fu

After the battle, many new ghosts cry, The solitary old man murmurs in his grief.

Joshua Sylvester

They say that shadows of deceased ghosts Do haunt the houses and the graves about, Of such whose life's lamp went untimely out, Delighting still in their forsaken hosts.

Bob Dylan

It rubs me the wrong way, a camera... It's a frightening thing...Cameras make ghosts out of people.

Lorraine Bracco

I think it's so original. I think there are so many layers to it that people are really enjoying.

Tamara Feldman

I really like structured coats and layered scarves, and I especially love cashmere sweaters.

Alain de Botton

Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value.

Wu Han

Mozart isn't just pretty and isn't just emotional. There's another layer of inspiration which we all need.

Kevin Cook

Many layers and things take time to trickle down,

Walter Kirn

You're able to do things in novels: introduce subplots, other characters, thematic layers and so on, in a way that you simply can't in a movie. A movie really has to choose its battles.

Kevin Kelly

Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly, layered one over the other.

Ian Mcewan

Reading reviews makes you thin-skinned. It's like waves washing layers off your skin.

Dan Kennedy

There are layers upon layers upon layers here.

Jonathan Swift

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after

Jason Ward

Our numbers are down this year. We used to get around 350 players but this year we only had 96 players that signed up. That's partly because some had to work and also a lot of our youth leave each year. We also lost a lot of our women to Monday night women's hockey.

Ron Redmond

People leave or try to leave regularly in a situation like Iraq's where the security situation is deteriorating and increasingly violent.

Danny Daniels

Some of us come from the streets, some of us ain't had no jobs, ... So, that means some of us hustled. And some of us feel that, 'What are we going to do right now? What should we do from here?' They don't want to turn back to the streets, but when they leave a man without nothing to do, that's his next option.

Richard Branson

Our plans for Virgin are pretty much to leave it as it is.

Michael Jackson

Please, no! You have to give us some privacy. Please, you have to understand his position, he is with his kids... you need to leave us alone.

Sami Hassoun

Please leave him, for the sake of God, for the sake of his mom and dad.

Deron Williams

We needed a win. We're trying to leave this road trip 2-2. We didn't do too well in the state of Florida.

Pat Binns

Well ah, hah, I'll have to leave that to see what really happens,

Phil Savage

Reggie has a lot of talent. In my opinion, with Reggie Bush, more could be less and less could be more.

Sathya Baba

Peace is shore less ocean - it is the light that illuminates the world.

Katsuhiko Machida

Survival today means innovating and doing things that no one else does. This is a lesson not only for Sharp but for all of Japan.

Drew Frank

That'd be nice. Maybe I should. As I teach, I don't keep lesson plans from one year to the next and I don't keep anything from one season to the next.

Stephen M. Walt

Our Cuba policy didn't make much sense during the Cold War and makes even less sense now.

Andy Newman

Remember every storm is different. The better prepared you are, the less of an inconvenience it's going to be.

Louis Benevides

Plano West is just an up-and-coming team. They've come a long way in less than a season.

Darrell Nichols

I think there's less tolerance for repeat problems. I think they are now going to be a little more strict with what's going on.

Larry Colagiovanni

That was his normal route. He said he didn't like (Interstate) 95. Less traffic. Less lights.

Keith Burns

Starting at middle linebacker is not going to be that much different for me.

Brian Green

Ours (areas of surveillance and traps) are pretty much out in the middle of the sticks.

Amy Vanderbilt

Our crews have reported that someone did make it up to Logan Pass and they described water running down the middle of the road with standing water in many places.

Mark Vogt

Our zone took away her touches in the middle for a while, but that kid's a player.

Susan Hansen

We (NRCS) went to Wiley, Alta Vista and Lamar Middle School to speak to sixth graders about conservation practices.

David Howell

It is a pretty stern test, ... You have to keep it down the middle because of the rough.

Davey Lopes

That was right on the middle of the plate. That's what he told me to say.

Victor Martinez

That's what everybody's saying. It's hard, because it's the middle of spring training and you're trying to get ready for the season. I don't know how they're going to do the next one.

Henry Winkler

I think this is the most important depository in the Middle West.

Jojo Moyes

Rejection is part of the process, so you can't let it crush you. My first three novels never made it into publication, but my fourth, 'Sheltering Rain,' was translated into 11 languages.

Brian Moore

Research is usually a policeman stopping a novel from progressing.

Matthew Stover

It'd be impossible to capture the feel of 'All Quiet on the Western Front' in a novel starring Mace Windu; 'All Quiet' is a tragic coming-of-age story.

Edmund White

I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.

Sarah Pinborough

I wrote my first five horror novels while I was teaching.

Robin Hobb

I actually think that short stories transfer to film much better than novels do.

Billy Bob Thornton

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

Deborah Moggach

My first novel, 'You Must be Sisters,' was started in Pakistan. I've wrote several novels and a TV drama set or partly-set there.

Edward Norton

A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience.

Norman Schwarzkopf

Carpet bombing tends to portray something that's totally indiscriminate, you know, en masse without regard to the target.

Don Cornelius

Blacks on prime-time TV are only portrayed as comedians - and often in no better a light than 'Amos & Andy.'

E. Hicks

We don't like the media. They're portraying him as a selfish person.

Shekhar Kapur

Film is drama. You've only two hours, so you lie by exclusion, and try to make up for it by portraying the environment.

Lili Taylor

My thing is that anybody's interesting if you go into the complexities. That's my problem with the whore. We've seen the whore, obviously, two-dimensionally, one-dimensionally. But if we're truly going to portray a whore in a complicated light, then I'm interested.

Richard Carroll

Chimps are portrayed as the super-ape and gorillas are the big brutes in the forest.

Pierce Brosnan

I'd my own insecurities while portraying the role of James Bond.

David Henkin

I don't think it's at all realistic for them to get the EIS done before they deploy in August.

Hiroshi Kamide

No one is seriously thinking a spring release is realistic any more.

Erik Solheim

Let us keep expectations at a realistic level.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a pretty skeptical person, and I'm a realistic person.

Abdolkarim Soroush

A realistic view of humanity will stop the proliferation of impossible injunctions.

Aaron Finch

We set a realistic vision on the playoffs.

Phil Marineau

We're trying to be realistic and not trying to over-promise.

Irrfan Khan

We don't have a culture of realistic acting in India.

Issa Rae

My first web series, 'Dorm Diaries,' was a realistic mockumentary about what it was like to be black at Stanford University. I'm black and I went to Stanford. Boom. Easy.