Famous Quotes & Sayings

Guido van Rossum

I think the real key to Python's platform independence is that it was conceived right from the start as only very loosely tied to Unix.

Julia London

It generally takes me about nine months from the point the book is conceived to the point my editor sends it off to be typeset.

Jeffrey Thomas

I first conceived of my far-future setting 'Punktown' in 1980, and though it contains 'punk' in its name, the term 'cyberpunk' hadn't been coined yet. I took my inspiration strictly from punk music.

Laurent Fabius

I have always conceived of the construction of Europe as a movement which permits slowly and surely an upwards social and economic harmonisation.

Bertrand Russel

God is a reality of spirit... He cannot... be conceived as an object, not even as the very highest object. God is not to be found in the world of objects.

John Adams

My country has, in its wisdom, contrived for me the most insignificant office (the Vice-Presidency) that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived

Doug Liman

Simon had originally conceived 'Mr. & Mrs. Smith' as a TV show not as a movie.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

The difference is that for a soundly conceived and solidly endowed republic it takes a great deal longer for those seeds to germinate and the plants to grow.

Venerable Bede

Purgatory fire will be more intolerable than all the torments that can be felt or conceived in this life.

Patrick Stump

(Wentz) just gives me lyrics and phrases and sentences and ideas that are just kind of disembodies from any song, ... I'm his word editor and he's my music editor.

Michael Wolf

I think there is a real value in an editorial point-of-view and in editorial curation, and in putting together an entire narrative around a set of topics is important.

T. S. Eliot

I suppose some editors are failed writers; but so are most writers.

Dan Jacobs

Johnny Quads is at the top of his field as a writer, editor and a player. His hiring means we are raising the stakes in the world of poker publishing.

Bill Schneider

He is the owner and editor of (a prominent) investment magazine, ... Staying in the race would not be a good investment.

Hanya Yanagihara

From 1999 through 2001, I was an editor at a now-defunct magazine about the media industry called 'Brill's Content' that eventually merged with a now-defunct website about the media industry called Inside.com.

Andrew Marr

I think it requires leadership from editors and senior broadcasters to try and turn that around and back off the position where we are opinionated first, and come round to the facts later,

Howard Rubenstein

He's always loved being a newspaper editor and writer and publisher.

Madonna Madonna

Glossy magazine editors would kill for that interview

Ken Knutson

Our pitching is generally a year older with some really good arms. We have the players.

Brian Foster

Our start to the season has been generally encouraging,

Tomoko Fujii

Japanese institutional investors seem to have sought returns by selling dollar-denominated assets. That kind of repatriation is generally yen positive.

Samah Haggag

Late payments generally have the highest negative impact on a score.

Ian Spector

It exploded. Since last summer, we've had 50 million hits. We generally get between 500,000 and 800,000 hits a day.

Elizabeth Thomas

I think poetry was meant to be heard out loud. I am not doing this for the money. What I do is done from a passionate place inside of me, because I feel very strongly that young people need a positive outlet and some kids have that through sports, and some have it through music or art. Kids who have it through poetry generally aren't heard. They all can't be good at football.

Steve Rhode

It doesn't surprise me. People generally underestimate what they're going to spend for the holidays.

Joe Sacco

I think I'm generally a good listener anyway.

David Liss

I don't generally listen to music while working, but sometimes music can help me get past minor writer's block.

Lori Glass

Out of 10 bouquets, we sell about nine red.

Rod Barnes

I won't have to pick up the paper and read that it's nine in a row.

Eddie Johnson

I was told if you make a run, nine times out of 10 you will get the ball. It's true.

Jack McKeon

I can teach, ... I have nine grandkids.

Chris Perry

I don't think I've had that much success. If I had nine catches for like 180 yards and two touchdowns, yeah. But you can always improve, and that's what I'm trying to do.

Larry Scott

I don't think nine is the right number for women's tennis.

Kim Ens

For us to see nine cases, that is unusual for us.

Michael Owen

He even offered to give up his number nine shirt but I have declined. Number 10 will do for me.

Jeff Bowden

He does that several times during the game. And nine times out of 10, he's right.

Marc Shaiman

I wouldn't have been able to live with myself if someone else did it. It's a very sweet valentine to musicals, but (it) sends them up at the same time.

Ricky Williams

We talk about life, we talk about our philosophies. He always sends me books. It's a different kind of relationship.

Rachel Leon

In my experience, I would say it's rare, if not unprecedented. I think it sends a strong message.

Andrew McDonald

I mean, when somebody like my grandmother sends me e-mail, I know that it's arrived,

John Updike

Young or old, a writer sends a book into the world, not himself.

David Baker

I will do what it takes to get through this year,

James Johnson

I think they've done as much as they've been able to do. It takes a break, some remark.

Mike Parker

That's the sixth-best in the United States. She's getting to be where she wants to be. Forty-seven takes her to her new goals.

P. Herbert

It drains you; it takes a toll on you.

Ben Crenshaw

I don't know where this week is going to lead, but I've had so much fun. I'm just going to kind of see where it takes me.

Reggie Williams

I feel free. It just takes time sometimes.

Patrick Foley

It can get complicated. It takes time, and there are a lot of legal-document translations.

Jenny Lewis

I think it's always an adjustment for me, but I do feel like, ultimately, I can kind of write anywhere. It just takes a second to get back in to the groove.

David Burroughs

If it takes one day, three days, 365 days, that it will have to be.