Famous Quotes & Sayings

O. Henry

Such an outcome could cause a misstatement of the net worth of the acquiring credit union and we very much support a targeted fix of this problem.

David Anders

Steve did a great job at Mirage, but MGM is the acquiring entity here.

Tim Horan

Sprint is very inexpensive versus the WorldCom takeover. It's over a 25 percent discount. First, (there is) the $76 that WorldCom will be acquiring it for. And we think it's a very strong likelihood that merger will go through by the end of the year.

Sheldon Goldman

Just because you run IBM, for example, doesn't mean you are exceptional at acquiring companies.

Rig Veda

Just as the Sun is respected for providing heat and energy to the world, in the same manner you too can attain respect in this world by acquiring knowledge.

Jonathan Klein

The acquisition is in line with our strategy of acquiring and producing increased amounts of relevant wholly owned imagery.

Jesse Bennett

The acquiring of culture is the development of an avid hunger for knowledge and beauty.

Bertrand Russell

It is not by prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws

Paul Stanley

I think that ultimately - as I say to most of the people who are acquiring art - I can tell you my reality of a piece, but ultimately what's more important will be yours. I can tell you what a piece means to me, but just as valid if not more is what it means to you.

Cesar Millan

Oprah was doing everything backward with Sophie. I just wanted to give back what she had given to me.

David Waller

some people at the State Department and they bent over backwards to make sure that doesn't happen again.

Stan Perkins

I was a chunky little kid, and when they sat me in that wagon, it tipped backward and I banged my head on the (concrete) floor. I was howling pretty good, but Dad went outside and cried his eyes out.

Gary Waters

That was one we let get away, definitely. We took a step backward because this is one we were supposed to have so now we're going to have to go on the road and take one away.

Rena Inoue

It is more complicated because he takes off backward and I have to take off forward.

Pete Adrian

I think we're improving every time out. A lot of teams take a step forward and then go backward a little, but this team hasn't done that. I'm pleased with our progress.

Nicole Gibbons

My mother, she would bend over backwards for anyone. She is loved at her job, by her kids. My mother doesn't deserve this whatsoever.

Richard Jefferson

It felt really good after (Wednesday's) practice. Then I tried to do more stuff Thursday when we were still in San Antonio and it went backwards a little bit. . . . It was my fault, I tried to do too much.

Aaron Johnston

It feels good and bad. It's nice to get three wins in a row, but I also felt like in some of the areas, we took a little bit of a step backward tonight.

William Jenkins

Regionalism presented some obstacles in the past, ... But the boundaries are beginning to disappear and we have this wonderful, intellectual synergism.

Bill Daly

Our partnership with NASN represents a significant step by the league to re-establish its relationship with its existing European-based fans, as well as begin the process of developing new ones.

Brendan Gilfillan

Our park system is a vital system that needs to be preserved but to be sure in the long run that we have the resources to preserve it ... we have to exert fiscal restraint and begin fixing our chronic budget shortfalls.

Walter Pater

Or if we begin with the inward world of thought and feeling, the whirlpool is still more rapid, the flame more eager and devouring.

Jerry York

Patrick had a very productive career here at BC and we wish him all the best as he begins his professional career.

Nicholas Burns

Part of the purpose of my visit to Delhi this week is to work with the Indian government on a plan that would separate the civil and military nuclear states of India over the coming years, ... Once that plan has been clearly enunciated and once it has been committed to by the Indian government and we begin to see its implementation, it will be a short time before the U.S. Congress enacts the necessary legislative changes to bring this into being, and that will be a welcome moment, indeed.

Fran Foley

Part of the plan from the beginning was to take pressure off the draft. The plan is coming together.

Jay Grymes

Parts of the state have been suffering for quite some time. In the southern third of Louisiana, the dry spell goes back to the beginnings of 2005, and even sections of northern Louisiana have been dealing with dry weather over the past 12 to 15 months.

Pauline Flynn

Peace is possible. It begins with a vision or dream and comes through persistence, hard work and belief in ourselves.

Joe Stork

Reform means not only changing laws but also holding abusers accountable.

Judith Jones

Recalling the pleasures of growing and gathering foods and preparing them with care, of relishing the changing seasons ... was her way of preserving an important part of American life and sharing its rewards with others.

Debbie Mills

Parkinson's is not something you want to handle alone. You need to go to support groups, talk about what works for you and find out what other people are doing. Get information. Things are changing every day.

Ailsa Birch

Partners or husbands can also play a role in changing our eating habits. Dating someone from another culture is often the start of a whole new relationship...with food. Partners may also influence women to make healthier food choices.

Jane Taylor

Our new facility enables us to meet the increasing demand for flexible scheduling of large, innovative early phase studies while improving our operational efficiencies. We expect our design to support Northwest Kinetics' leadership role in meeting clients' changing needs as well as increasing the comfort of our volunteer study participants.

Sen. Lynn

People more and more are very concerned about changing back to what we had in class size.

Russell Robinson

Stephen's been playing great. He's been shooting it well. He's been confident, coming in, changing the games offensively. I think he was our offensive spark today.

Brad Smith

Some of this, I think, we just have to recognize is evolving technology and changing law.

Michel Lu

Some foreign countries fear Taiwan is changing the status quo because they have insufficient information.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

PITIFUL, adj. The state of an enemy of opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself.

Barry Zito

I think it was good to get one of these in. Generally you encounter in spring every situation you'd face in the regular season. This was another one of those.

Muhsin Muhammad

I expect to encounter a fired up team.

Ayn Rand

You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated

Jim Parsons

My favorite sci-fi movie of all time is 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.'

Judith Ivey

She encounters all these different men, ... in the Adirondacks to help her out (or) not to help her, and so on -- and they're all suspicious.

John Kessel

Since my first encounter with Kafka's writing, I've been interested in a quality that, while he was alive, stood in the way of his achieving a large reputation: his allegory.

Kent Conrad

She starts off in a positive position with me because of these conversations we have had, ... She is a lovely person. Some people you encounter in life and you like them.

Zinedine Zidane

It will be a physical encounter but we must not respond in kind.

Chris Madden

(Playing opening night helps) a little bit. Exhibition is not bad, but the regular season is a quicker game. It's good to get out there and get a feel for the game a little bit.

Pat Quinn

I think they are pushing each other right now and it has helped them. I don't know if I'll play them together when the season starts, but right now in the exhibition games, they've been getting better and better.

Douglas McGrath

It has a very prison-like look, ... It also has those fields and cows. It sure is beautiful. It looks like an exhibition hall.

Staffan Kronwall

I think I've actually been pretty good in scrimmage but, as for the three exhibition games, I'm really not that happy with myself. I think I can play better. Hopefully I can get one more game in.

Bobby Bowden

I am Exhibition B. Joe is Exhibition A. That's all we are. There's a game in there somewhere -- Penn State and Florida State are playing.

Nick Saban

I think that he needs to play some, I really do. With only one exhibition game under his belt, he probably needs to play a little bit more in this game.

Brian Schneider

I don't think you are going to feel that from us right now because it has the E- word in front of it. It's only an exhibition game. But this rivalry is going to turn into an unbelievable rivalry. It has the potential to be good.

David Brown

The painting was only outside France once, in 1955, when it was in a Giorgione exhibition in Venice.

Jason Pominville

I was fortunate enough to play an exhibition game there, so I've seen the place before, I know how it is. It's sold out every night, and the fans are really into it. It's just a great place to play, and I'm looking forward to it.

James DePreist

I thought it would be better to starve slowly over there than instantly over here.

Bobby Johnson

I don't know who voted in instant replay, but it about stopped my heart.

Bobby Johnson

I don't know who in the world voted in instant replay, ... But it about stopped my heart.

Rich Brooks

I don't know why we have instant replay if we won't at least look at it,

Richard C. Armitage

I have a visual mind, so when I read a book, I get an instant picture in my head and it's very clear.

Rich McKay

I don't remember a proposal on instant replay that sought to open up all penalties for review.

William Ackman

I don't think we're going to get the instant value that we would have from the spin-off, but we'll get it over the long term and that's just fine.

Heidi Range

When we all met her, we instantly knew she was the only person to share the rest of the journey with us.

J. M. Roberts

She provides instant defense. And she can get a steal at any time.

S. I. Hayakawa

The meanings of words are not in the words, they are in us.

Jojo Moyes

Rejection is part of the process, so you can't let it crush you. My first three novels never made it into publication, but my fourth, 'Sheltering Rain,' was translated into 11 languages.

Edmund White

I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.

Sarah Pinborough

I wrote my first five horror novels while I was teaching.

Robin Hobb

I actually think that short stories transfer to film much better than novels do.

Deborah Moggach

My first novel, 'You Must be Sisters,' was started in Pakistan. I've wrote several novels and a TV drama set or partly-set there.

Ezra Taft Benson

Many novels and modern publications are corrupters of morals or distorters of truth.

Alice Oswald

People are so used to reading novels now, they just read a poem straight through to get the meaning. And that's something totally different from the slow way you read something if it's a tune; which to me a poem has to be.

Laurence Housman

On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world.

Graham Swift

The novel that's contemporary in the sense of being wholly 'of now' is an impossibility, if only because novels may take years to write, so the 'now' with which they begin will be defunct by the time they're finished.

Noah Cowan

Just tell your readers they can come down and see anything and it should be good,

Lee Siegel

The Web critic relies on his or her readers for attentiveness and approval.

Christina Baker Kline

I think a lot of readers are looking for a book they can talk about.

Sarah MacLean

There is a whole generation of romance readers and writers who suffer from what I like to think of as 'Thorn Birds' Fever.

Khaled Hosseini

Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it.

Binyavanga Wainaina

I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether it's with Africa or childhood.

Barbara Park

There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.

Amy Bloom

I find my readers to be very smart, and there is no reason to write dumb.

Dionne Bromfield

The papers are only going to show what they want the readers to see. It's all propaganda, to be honest.

Walter Kirn

We're on Twitter with one side of our personality, and Facebook with another, and LinkedIn with another side of our personality, and we're toggling between them. That's just a version of what an impostor does: shifting from one side of their personality to another with lightning speed.

Ken Wilber

The truth is an arbitrary, shifting, culturally relative, and historically molded phenomenon.

John Krasinski

I'm a sucker where I love shifting tides.

Matthew Rhys

I'm 33 now and I seem to have hit a fitness plane. Shifting the wobbly bits isn't as easy as it used to be.

Saul Berman

Value is shifting from those that produce the content, to those that deliver the experience of consuming it.

Veronica Roth

That is death - shifting from "is" to "was.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I don't go out with strangers," I said. "Good thing I do. I'll pick you up at five.

Bill Bryson

Isn´t it strange how wealth is always wasted on the rich?

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Grown ups are certainly very strange.

John Abraham

I don't even see the point. He's like a stranger to me.

Steve Walsh

I think it is so strange it has to be real.

Willie Morris

He must always be a stranger to the place he loves, and its people.

Alain de Botton

It wasn't only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.

Earl Nightingale

Every one of us is the sum total of his own thoughts

Edward Norton

You always end up getting involved in things because of, you know, the strange things your life brings you into contact with.

Sarine Crotteau

Not one person tastes the same tea the same way.

Ashley Madekwe

The water in L.A. tastes like bleach. I literally have to make my tea with Evian water.

Shaun Cody

I put it tastes better and it's healthier,

Robert Battle

Reflection is not something you have a lot of time for.

Amar'e Stoudemire

Swag is something that I've had for a long time.

E. O. Wilson

Springtime is the time for gazing at galaxies.

Adam Carolla

spontaneous, clever, specific, oblique and at the same time very human.

S. Walker

That could be a possibility. I'm thinking, hopefully, we can get something worked out. As of right now, we'll just take it one day at a time and see what happens.

Charlie King

Right place at the right time is all I can say about that one.

Gil Brandt

Really? I think for a long time they probably didn't have a quarterback because they were a wishbone team.

Boy George

Most psychiatrists or analysts are a waste of time

Bob Rose

We need solidarity. This is a union town, and it's time to show that.

Aminatta Forna

Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.

Claire Tomalin

Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.

Scott Adsit

'Monty Python' and 'The Simpsons' have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives.

Robert Klein

In some articles written about me, writers have said I'm a link between the old and the new, and I think, in a certain sense, that's legitimate.

Brian K. Vaughan

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

Sara Sheridan

Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre.

Charlaine Harris

Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.

Hanya Yanagihara

I think that fiction writers can write about anyone. If you are writing a character, and the only thing they are to you is their otherness, then you haven't written a character.

Marianne Williamson

I'm an author. And writers write books. And writing books is a full-time career.