All Quotes

In a much larger sense, the problem of Sabah is directly influenced by the duplicity of imperial Britain. For whatever devious reason, the dismantling of the British empire created divisions and violence due to ethnic and religious differences.
‐‐ F. Sionil Jose

In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order.
‐‐ Kamisese Mara

In a multicultural, diverse society there are countless ways in which people negotiate the everyday lived experience and reality of diversity.
‐‐ Randa Abdel-Fattah

In a multipolar world, there must be more powers capable of taking responsibility, the U.S. and Europe must be able to unite to achieve peace in the Middle East.
‐‐ Dominique de Villepin

In a mystery, the sleuth must be believably involved and emotionally invested in solving the crime.
‐‐ Diane Mott Davidson

In a nation growing increasingly more diverse, it is imperative that the organizations tasked with keeping us informed reflect the same diversity.
‐‐ Marcia Fudge

In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.
‐‐ Ed Koch

In a network situation, a vice president, while he's shaving, can decide your history.
‐‐ Phil Donahue

In a newspaper, you only have so much room. It teaches you the value of getting to the point, of not pampering yourself with your glorious writing. I've always been much more interested in one powerful sentence that stays with you. That's my style.
‐‐ Mitch Albom

In a normal movie, the director controls what you look at. The shots don't last very long because you're getting the audience to look at specific things. An IMAX shot, on the other hand, can be twenty or thirty seconds long.
‐‐ Greg MacGillivray

In a normal movie, you'd never see one guy talk for an entire page, whether good or bad.
‐‐ Patrick Wilson

In a normal time, I don't think economic policy makes a large difference one way or another. But in times of crisis it makes all the difference in the world.
‐‐ Mark Zandi

In a novel, even if you put a country in the wrong hemisphere, which I've done, I can always claim it was part of the additional weirdness of the story.
‐‐ Nick Harkaway

In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a character's and let his perceptions take over.
‐‐ Elizabeth Moon

In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in history, a social class... for instance, I wanted to make the boy in 'A Boy's Own Story' more like other gay men of my generation in their youth and not like me.
‐‐ Edmund White

In a novel, if you're any good, you don't just have good people or bad people. You have complicated people. You have real people.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody.
‐‐ Irwin Shaw

In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be more symbolic and applicable to many European countries.
‐‐ Antonio Tabucchi

In a novel, on the other hand, you not only have to describe the rooms, but the clothes, the characters and what they are thinking. It's a much more in-depth process.
‐‐ Sidney Sheldon

In a novel, you have space to develop a character or a scene. You don't have that luxury in a 700-800-word picture book.
‐‐ Kirby Larson

In a novel you have to resist the urge to tell everything.
‐‐ J. K. Rowling

In a number of cases dissenting opinions have in time become the law.
‐‐ Charles Evans Hughes

In a nursery, if you don't take care of those plants, your profits get lost real quickly. You have to weed. You have to water. You have to nurture. Also, you have to take care of your employees in such a way that they do the same.
‐‐ Jack Dangermond

In a nutshell though, it's just all about opening up to the people that really care about my career and really listening to everybody who is listening to me. It's just made me stronger, to really be able to open up that door and listen to everybody else's opinions.
‐‐ Raekwon

In a packed programme tonight, I shall be having a word with a man who goes in for meditation, because he thinks it's better than sitting around doing nothing.
‐‐ Ronnie Barker

In a packed programme tonight, we will be talking to an out-of-work contortionist who says he can no longer make ends meet.
‐‐ Ronnie Barker

In a painting, you can't make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the progression of the artist's stroke.
‐‐ Vikram Seth

In a paper called 'The Economics of Matching: Stability and Incentives,' I showed that there were not any mechanisms that would always both produce a stable matching and make it completely safe for all firms and workers to reveal their true preferences.
‐‐ Alvin E. Roth

In a peer network, no one is officially in charge. It doesn't have a command hierarchy. It doesn't have a boss. So, all the decisions are somehow made collectively. The control of the system is in the hands of everyone who is a part of it.
‐‐ Steven Johnson

In a perfect world, I could be doing some bigger films and balance that with some independent films because they seem to be the most challenging and unique.
‐‐ Sherilyn Fenn

In a perfect world, I only act when I really want to. I don't do most of the stuff that is out there, but it's a joy and a pleasure to do anything that promotes this higher power - this light, if you will. I just think there aren't enough projects in the world that do that.
‐‐ Olivia Hussey

In a perfect world, I would be 6-foot-3 and have a perfect head of hair and look like Orlando Bloom.
‐‐ Moby

In a perfect world, I would be a painter. I love working with my hands. I don't get to do it as much as I like, but I am finding a way to make more time as life goes on because it's a really great outlet for me to express myself.
‐‐ Halle Berry

In a perfect world, I would never do any interviews, and probably there would be one photo out there of me, and that would be it.
‐‐ Lorde

In a perfect world, I would never give another speech, address, talk, lecture or whatever as long as I live.
‐‐ David Souter

In a perfect world, my tennis game gets better. I have kids and a beautiful wife and live on some hill somewhere that's not in Los Angeles. And the script that Tom Hanks just barely turned down gets in my hands.
‐‐ Matthew Perry

In a perfect world, probably we'd never yell, we'd just be firm and dispassionate. But of course, everyone yells at their children.
‐‐ Ayelet Waldman

In a perfect world, there would be freedom of religion and freedom for all religions to exercise their religion everywhere.
‐‐ Naftali Bennett

In a perfect world we would bring corporate tax rates down to 25% or less so we can get competitive in the world economy. Ultimately, I would love to see a flat tax.
‐‐ Eric Cantor

In a perfect world, you would be able to hold onto everyone. But It's not realistic. The changes with NYPD have been progressive and have taken the show to new levels.
‐‐ Dennis Franz

In a period of economic downturn, the overwhelming instinct is to pare back, cut costs, and lay off. If you do that, do so with your strategy in mind. The worst mistake is to cut across the board. Instead, reconnect and recommit to a clear strategy that will distinguish yourself from others.
‐‐ Michael Porter

In a person's career, well, if you're process-oriented and not totally outcome-oriented, then you're more likely to be success. I often say 'pursue excellence, ignore success.' Success is a by-product of excellence.
‐‐ Deepak Chopra

In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.
‐‐ Carl Rogers

In a personal context, I'm not in the ground, and I'm not in an institution. So I guess I'm doing pretty good.
‐‐ John Trudell

In a photo shoot, you have to be very comfortable in your own skin. It's all about confidence-boosting and putting on armor.
‐‐ Adelaide Clemens

In a photo, you just do a click, but in art you have to put in so much energy. This concentration of energy and attention says something that other media cannot say.
‐‐ Fernando Botero

In a Photoshopped world, only the skeptical eye prevails.
‐‐ Jamais Cascio

In a pinch, when my leather shoes need a quick shine, I take the inside of a banana peel and rub it on the leather like I would a shoe wax. Then I spit-shine it and buff it with a cloth, and my shoes look great.
‐‐ Chris Diamantopoulos

In a pine tree behind me, an eagle waits out the rain, hunched into himself, brooding. Crows squabble, a murder chasing a raven. Seals cruise the lines of fishing nets bobbing in the water, hoping for an easy meal, the tender bellies of salmon.
‐‐ Eden Robinson

In a place like Afghanistan where the society is completely segregated, women have access to women. Men cannot always photograph women and cannot get the access that I get.
‐‐ Lynsey Addario