Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shaun Pollock

If they (the umpires) can't be 100 percent conclusive on what they've seen, I don't see why they can't judge it with the third umpire.

Louis Graham

My issue with the fiber evidence is that it is not conclusive -- never has been, never will be,

Tom Jackson

Looks like he may have been down just before fumbling the football. However, it was not conclusive enough to overturn the call.

Richard Kite

We're not 100 percent conclusive on that. They're still looking into that. . . . I don't want to get into it yet, into how they actually entered.

Ivan Pavlov

Only by observing this condition would the results of our work be regarded as fully conclusive and as having elucidated the normal course of the phenomena.

Adam Ereli

We do not have enough to make a conclusive judgment, I think, one way or the other.

Charlie Pile

The investigation did not find any conclusive evidence of wrongdoing by the athlete. We acknowledged the elevated levels of testosterone, but there was also enough evidence to suggest that natural physiological reasons may have been responsible for the fluctuation.

Michelle Gagnon

I used to be a freelance journalist, so I had to write fast, but I always found writing nonfiction constraining. I like the freedom of fiction, where I get to invent everything, and tidy, conclusive endings are within my control.

Elaine Chao

These are strong numbers, but they are not conclusive numbers,

Martha Grimes

There are people who read Tolstoy or Dostoevski who do not insist that their endings be happy or pleasant or, at least, not be depressing. But if you're writing mysteries - oh, no, you can't have an ending like that. It must be tidy.

Bonnie Tyler

I love watching movies with happy endings or anything with Steve Martin or stuff like that.

Jeff Katz

Nothing less than qualifying for the postseason will satisfy us. We have had disappointing endings the past two years when we just missed moving on.

Jon Favreau

I like happy endings in movies. I think life has a happy ending. When it's all said and done, it's all something worthwhile, and I want my movies to reflect that. There are enough things to be sad about. When you pop in a movie, let the message be one that's one of hope.

Matt Roush

Every episode will be an event this season. We're hoping they find a way to give happy endings to everybody.

Matt Reeves

It's crazy when you think about the 'Apes' franchise and how dark all of the endings are and how dark the movies are, and yet there's something very pleasurable about these movies. It really comes down to the potency of this idea, of seeing intelligent apes.

Zygi Wilf

Regardless of what is found in the investigations, we will take the appropriate measures for those who were involved.

Jim Cabucio

Regardless of the outcome of a Friday night game, each Saturday morning, Kyle could be found teaching our youngsters the fundamentals of the game.

John Byrd

re-emphasized all the reasons the jury found him guilty in the first place.

Zachary Abuza

suffered terribly in terms of arrests - more than 300 around the region - including its founding leadership.

John Lasseter

Steve Jobs is like a brother to me and he's one of the founders of Pixar, and when the first iPad came out, I got one right away.

David Pollock

Starting yesterday, we activated our volunteers and found how many and which ones would be available.

Debbie Cox

Someone must have found them and put them there.

Pat Summerall

somehow found out I'd got the liver. But they said they didn't care, didn't want to meet me.

Dennis Hastert

Our problem was an embarrassment of riches. In many cases, we found three or four people qualified to play the role of chairman,

Master Kwon

Relationships flourish, when individuality,freedom and growth are respected.

Conan Stevens

Success is the freedom to do what you want, with whom you want, when you want, wherever you want.

Chen Hong

Our forefathers gave their lives for peace and freedom. Our generation has the responsibility to treasure what we have today.

Scott Walker

Maybe in the old days, Sully gets clutched and grabbed there and held down. Now he can spin around three times around three different guys. It gives a guy like that more freedom to move.

Dave Anderson

Many Americans don't have an understanding of the freedoms they regularly enjoy.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Bhagat Singh

Revolution is an inalienable right of mankind. Freedom is an imperishable birth right of all. Labor is the real sustainer of society, the sovereignty of the ultimate destiny of the workers.

Benjamin Rush

Without Virtue there can be no liberty

Mel Martinez

I will always vote on the side of freedom and our right to keep and bear arms.

Jim Woodring

Like a lot of freelance cartoonists, when any opportunity like that comes along, I have a hard time saying no, whether it makes sense or not.

Susan Isaacs

It's not that I'm apolitical... In my youth, I was a freelance political speechwriter, which taught me a lot about writing fiction, I must add.

Amanda Lindhout

Accompanied by an Australian photographer named Nigel Brennan, I'd gone to Somalia to work as a freelance journalist, on a trip that was meant to last only ten days.

Harvey Pekar

I have to be a freelance writer for the rest of my life, unless I get some kind of real lucky break. But other than that, I'll always have to work. I always worry about whether my stuff is going to get over. Will they like this, will they like that?

Ogden Nash

Someone invented the telephone, And interrupted a nation's slumber, Ringing wrong but similar numbers

Mark Burnett

I feel like I invented these catchphrases: 'The tribe has spoken.'

Anthony Pettis

I have a taekwondo background, but I also try to invent new moves and make sure that when I step into the Octagon, I'm a different fighter.

David Carson

He was sort of an inventor of a tough-guy look, whether he knew it or not.

Robert Morton

we can keep an inventory of what we got, what we need.

Jules Verne

In consequence of inventing machines, men will be devoured by them.

Tetsu Emori

Most of the traders are looking at the Iranian issue over the bearish inventory report.

Kim Stanley Robinson

Many of the technologies we've invented are necessary to keep 6.5 billion people alive. We can't go back from that, so we need to decarbonize really rapidly.

Rhys Ifans

My personal life is invented for me, so why bother?

Tim LaHaye

I've written many nonfiction books, but that's a special gift.

Anne Lamott

I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction.

Andy Richter

But I don't read a lot of fiction. I prefer the nonfiction stuff.

Cory Monteith

I don't read that many novels, I'm more of a nonfiction fan.

Akhil Sharma

For me, a memoir is nonfiction and nonfiction has to be absolutely true.

Chris Abani

In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting in itself.

Jim Murphy

I've written fiction... but the nonfiction has always received the most attention.

Candice Millard

If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.

Anthony Marra

I read all of the nonfiction that I could find on Chechnya, and all the while, I was searching for a novel that was set there. I couldn't find a single novel written in English that was set in the period of the two most recent Chechen wars.