Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Morpurgo

It is really important that focusing on things such as spelling, punctuation, grammar and handwriting doesn't inhibit the creative flow. When I was at school there was a huge focus on copying and testing and it put me off words and stories for years.

Niall Ferguson

It's great to see countries like China and India lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty by essentially copying Western ways of doing things.

Tom Jackson

Like a perfect tennis serve, a perfect golf swing or a perfect omelet, a perfect resume takes more effort than simply copying what others do,

Random House

No downloading, printing or copying will be permitted.

Shai Agassi

We all talk about how great Linux is, ... But if you look at the most innovative desktop today, Microsoft's Vista is not copying Linux, it is copying Apple.

Billy Corgan

Hey, Christian rock, if you want to be good, stop copying U2. U2 already did it. You know what I mean? There's a lot of U2-esque Christian rock.

Greg Dierks

I think this year, she's going to have a hard time copying the offense she had last year. If she can match her numbers from last year, that would be great, but I think pitching-wise, she's going to improve some things and be more consistent.

Kimberly Stewart

I'm sick and tired of you copying me. I don't want a clone.

Gwen Stefani

I'm stupidly crazy for old movies. I (record) them so that when I'm doing my makeup in the morning, I have them on. I can be like: 'Look at Jane Russell in that shiny leopard dress - I'm copying that.'

Nathan Myhrvold

Ultimately, my Ph.D. is in mathematical physics, focusing on quantum field theory and curved space-time, and I worked with Stephen Hawking.

Steve Ludlow

We're still focusing on who's going to emerge.

Haley Barbour

We've turned a corner. We're well into the cleanup phase now. We're focusing on the future for the state of Mississippi.

Kevin Systrom

I think not focusing on money makes you sane because in the long run it can probably drive you crazy.

Jodi Hermanek

We'll be focusing on holding them to three runs or less, and our pitching has been strong enough to do that.

Rob Honzo

She was trying some new things, like staying low in her shots and not going for power, but focusing more on control.

Sen Hooser

Working with my colleagues, we're focusing on making that a reality.

Matt Smith

We're focusing on what our program is going to be rather than what it was.

Scott Sandelin

We're focusing on Thursday and to hopefully play three games there. We're not satisfied just to get there.

Horace

Grammatici certant et adhuc sub iudice lis est. - Grammarians dispute, and the case it still before the courts.

Joan Didion

I never actually learned the rules of grammar, relying instead only on what sounded right.

Stephen King

American grammar doesn't have the sturdiness of British grammar, but it has its own scruffy charm.

Sarah Koenig

I love serialized stories of any kind. I'm a huge sucker for any kind of series.

Uzo Aduba

I used to be a huge fan of 'Lockup' on MSNBC, and that certainly has helped with my understanding of the world.

Kim Yuna

The popularity of figure skating has increased tremendously, and Koreans have a huge interest in figure skaters - not only me, other international skaters as well.

Bram Stoker

There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one word, DRACULA.

Ellen Stofan

There's a huge question of whether you really need water for life.

Joan Cusack

Mum has always been a huge anti-war activist. She would go off to protest and get arrested. I have her passion, but it is not for politics. I am much more interested in psychology. It's more my job and my natural inclination.

Scott Borg

We started seeing huge vulnerabilities. And portions of those systems were extraordinarily secure. But they were Maginot Lines.

Luis Rivera

We still need to win three games. I feel like if we win those three games, there's going to be a huge celebration.

Bill Halbrehder

When you take a player off the ice, even if it is your own team, that opens space and can be a huge advantage, especially when you have a player like Allie. She is just so dynamic... one of those worth-the-price-of-admission kind of players.

Lara Giddings

At times I wonder whether or not your role as a member of Parliament... may in fact inhibit a relationship developing.

Amy Louviere

It would inhibit the miner from being able to speak freely.

Carlos Mencia

If your gonna drop out of school - tough grades are not your goal - then change your name to Candy and learn to work a pole.

Carl Crawford

I like to be like the old-school guys. They played hard, man, and they played from the heart. They didn't play to just get checks.

C. S. Lewis

But do you really mean, Sir," said Peter, "that there could be other worlds-all over the place, just round the corner-like that?" "Nothing is more probable," said the Profesor, taking off his spectacles and beginning to polish them, while he muttered to himself, "I wonder what they do teach them at these schools.

Agnes Varda

I see all these students, and I admire them - they're trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help. I'm sure they learn a lot, and some of them, it makes them aware of what they wish to do. I was - that's the way I was - autodidact.

Agnes Varda

I didn't go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.

Aaron Tveit

I was very unsure about what I wanted to do in high school.

Aaron Tveit

I was a very awkward high schooler, especially in early high school. I had the middle part with a swoop, all that. It was the late ’90s!

Aasif Mandvi

There's no school that you can go to and learn how to be a "Daily Show" correspondent and how to interview people and, you know, essentially leave your soul outside the door and go in there and kind of, you know, destroy people's lives sometimes.

Aasif Mandvi

Bradford specifically there were a lot of Pakistanis there. Even today it has a very large Pakistani population.It was something that I experienced - getting chased home from the bus stop after school by English kids, boarding school, being targeted for praying to what they call Allah wallah ding dong.

Carl Barks

I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them.

C. S. Lewis

But he always licked to get visitors alone in the billiard room and tell them stories about a mysterious lady, a foreign royalty, with whom he had driven about London. 'A devilish temper she had,' he would say. 'But she was a dem fine woman, sir, a dem fine woman.

Charles Dickens

Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.

Sandra Cisneros

One of my favorite writers is Hans Christian Anderson. His stories speak to the times.

Brent Spiner

Hollywood has more than its share of harsh and crewel stories. In fact, it's probably more the norm than the exception.

Bret Easton Ellis

Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.

Diane Setterfield

Everybody has a story. It's like families. You might not know who they are, might have lost them, but they exist all the same. You might drift apart or you might turn your back on them, but you can't say you haven't got them. Same goes for stories.

Diane Setterfield

A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of someone else's story.

Diane Setterfield

A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.

Patti Smith

We are testing things all the time on the site.

Eartha Kitt

I have to keep testing myself.

Carl Crawford

We would do start-up testing in 2014 or 2015.

Jim Alexander

We'll do the beta testing in June. That will be your ticket.

Brian Hall

Third-party testing is a validation of the process,

Emile-Auguste Chartier

Every idea I get I have to deny, that's my way of testing it.

Mark Williams

There will be a long and testing time for him, but we'll wait and see how he comes through,

Larry Schnall

It's a state-of-the-art vehicle that we're testing right now.

David Wright

It's not as though they can say we've done a lot of testing without the beacon.