Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jan Karon

Publishing is, by its nature, about deadlines, and deadlines are toxic.

Douglas Brinkley

I witnessed him rescuing up to 40 people. He was up to his waist in toxic muck.

Chuck Palahniuk

I'm a toxic waste byproduct of God's creation.

Chuck Palahniuk

I am the all-singing, all-dancing crap of this world.... I am the toxic waste by-product of God's creation.

Angela King

We want to get the things that are toxic or flammable out of the house.

Nicholas Sparks

You know how gossip is. It's the toxic waste of small town

Rosemary Shahan

They can kill you with the bacteria, with the toxic mold.

Janet Evanovich

The way I see it, living in New Jersey is a challenge, what with the toxic waste and the eighteen wheelers and the armed schizophrenics." Connie Rosolli

Jimmy Carter

The Superfund legislation set up a system of insurance premiums collected from the chemical industry to clean up toxic wastes. This new program may prove to be as far-reaching and important as any accomplishment of my administration. The reduction of the threat to America's health and safety from thousands of toxic-waste sites will continue to be an urgent but bitterly fought issue-another example for the conflict between the public welfare and the profits of a few private despoilers of our nation's environment.

Laura Hunter

We want to see a clear, specific deadline that gets us from here to a (final) decision.

Roger Toussaint

We have no progress to report. That's not good because we have precious little time before the deadline approaches.

Jose Maria

The point is not extending deadlines but the honest will to disarm, which he (Saddam) so far has not showed.

Marcello Lippi

When he has resolved his problems, Cassano will return, ... Something may change. I'm not saying that because I know what it is but because the deadline is tomorrow.

Julie Morgenstern

Leaving work a half-hour early makes you work as if you're on a deadline all the time.

Brian Hill

If anything was learned this year it's the importance of all 82 games. It would have been a great learning experience and a nice reward for what they accomplished from the trade deadline on, but we're going to have to wait 'til next year.

Carol Hansen

I can't devote or focus on one issue for very long because there's always something else. That's the most stressful thing. The other big fear is that I'm going to overlook some deadline or responsibility.

Rusty Davis

We learned about the deadline on Thursday and had to have it in by Monday. It went down to the last minute.

Tim McGillivray

The reason we have a deadline is that the organizations that request student directory information usually do it early in the year. If families wait past that time to opt out, the horse may be out of the barn.

Nick Earls

I wrote my first novel-length story when I was 14 but had no idea what to do with it. Brisbane was a long way from the publishing industry then. Nowhere's a long way from the publishing industry now.

Daniel Berrigan

I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped.

Anna Chlumsky

First, I was a fact checker for Zagat and then I was an editorial assistant for HarperCollins publishing house.

Chuck Palahniuk

All major publishing houses have these big fat biographies sitting there, waiting for people to die. All you have to do is slap on the end and put in on the market. It's that kind of commoditization and completion of your life before you die - and this kind of imposition of a public idea of self that replaces the actual living self - that I find so frightening.

John Mutter

They're worried about publishing and retailing like everyone else in the business, and this may be a way for them to stay on top of this.

Army Archerd

It's not the kind of publishing we want to do. Further, we are supporters of the president.

Andrew Wright

This is not about publishing to the world.

Theodore Pappas

These are the sorts of fundamental publishing vices of the most serious kind.

J. Tillman

I've never taken the steps to be 'successful': I've never had a manager or signed to a publishing house.