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This is a good moment to comment on the cottage industry that has sprung up around "How To" ... Screenwriting manuals. I think of this because Towne`s script (Chinatown) is often cited as a great template (which it is) but, invariably, with no understanding or acknowledgment of the role film editing has in shaping a finished work. So any discussion that omits this issue shows a palpable lack of experience in the actual making of films on the part of the scriptwriting teacher/author.

- Steven Soderbergh

We had, after all, no other recourse to protect ourselves, no other document, let`s say, than the Monroe Doctrine. So that could be cited as a cause for intervention if and when it might become necessary.

- E. Howard Hunt

(Nelson, in remarks cited by the newspapers, took responsibility for the episode.) If you`re at the helm, you`re at the helm, ... We hired a lot of expertise and I put confidence in him.

- John Nelson

Even President Bush has cited the need to outlaw the practice of corporations making loans to their officers. Strangely enough, when the President was a corporate officer, he took out several loans from the company.

- Al Nigrin

It would have been called provincial and barbarous; it would have been cited as an incident of low civilization to confuse such art.

- Alfredo Parrish

I think the bottom line for me and for Newsweek is that there were a lot of - we did retract this specific matter about the Koran and the toilet for the reasons that you just cited.

- Amanda Vail

The factors cited by card issuers are very broad. It appears that anyone - not just people in financial difficulties - could be subjected to a much higher rate for very insignificant reasons.

- Ashley Hahn

I was cited for having lights on a vehicle. I paid the fines and they released the lights back to me, and I put them back in the car, ... They weren`t in use then, it was observed in my vehicle.

- Barry Blauvelt