Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Jackson

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

Louis Graham

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

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.

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.

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.

Adam Ereli

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

Howard Archer

The MPC still has to see conclusive sustained evidence that 2006 pay settlements are remaining contained.

Elaine Chao

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

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.

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.

Matt Roush

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

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 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.

Carl Andre

What I made depended on what I found on the street. At least in the beginning, my materials came from the street.

Charlotte Bronte

After a youth and manhood passed half in unutterable misery and half in dreary solitude, I have for the first time found what I can truly love--I have found you.

Charlotte Bronte

I could not unlove him now, merely because I found that he had ceased to notice me.

Myles Brand

We have resolved all differences. We found a way to go forward. This is a significant agreement.

Bill Taylor

The process has been reviewed, and it's been found to be safe.

Kyle Waters

We used to send out material before school started but we've found that just being visible gets the word out.

Tony Goldwyn

I view the whole thing as a collaboration. As an actor, I always found that to be the most freeing thing, when the director would collaborate with you, so that together you'd come up with something exponentially better.

Tim Tebow

When your identity is found in Christ, your identity never changes. You are always a child of God.

David Selby

I never found it frustrating not speaking.

Carol Moseley Braun

Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.

Carlos Castaneda

The third point of reference is freedom of perception; it is intent; it is spirit; the somersault of thought into the miraculous; the act of reaching beyond our boundaries and touching the inconceivable.

Thomas Paine

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

Alan K. Simpson

There is no 'slippery slope' toward loss of liberty, only a long staircase where each step down must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.

Alan Kay

The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.

Charlotte Bronte

I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.

Charles Sumner

Without security, civilization is cramped and dwarfed. Without security, there can be no freedom. Nor shall I say too much, when I declare that security, guarded of course by its offspring, freedom, is the true end and aim of government.

Charles de Gaulle

History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.

Charles de Gaulle

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

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.

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.

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.

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?

Thomas Heatherwick

I'm wary of the word 'inventing,' because in the British psyche the word 'inventor' is immediately linked with 'mad'. For me, inventing is problem-solving.

Tony Hawk

When you've got videos up on Web sites that are literally shot the same day, the whole skate community knows right away when new tricks are invented or new techniques are available.

Dave Barry

The fact that Gene Weingarten and I and Bathroom Inventory are now part of some kind of Matrix of Poop strongly suggests that the Pulitzer is not what it once was.

E. P. Thompson

Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument that it is the alchemists in the laboratories who invent the sweet new kits.

Cameron Russell

You can be anything. You could be the President of the United States or the inventor of the next Internet or a ninja cardio-thoracic surgeon poet, which would be awesome because you would be the first one.

Julia Glass

As a writer of fiction, I spend my days inventing real lives for make-believe people; what I create can only seem real.

Gretchen Rubin

I love finding - or inventing - ways to categorize people.

Eli Whitney

An invention can be so valuable as to be worthless to the inventor,

Bob Moulton

We're making a transition from a seller's market to a buyer's market. Inventory is starting to swell.

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.

Tim LaHaye

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

Cory Monteith

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

Andy Richter

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

Anne Lamott

I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction.

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.

Erica Jong

It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.

Michael Moore

We like nonfiction, and we live in fictitious times,