Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Kinney

Kids and adults have a difference of opinion when it comes to what constitutes legitimate reading. Adults often push books that they loved as children, which, ironically, were often books that their parents weren't particularly keen on.

Stephen Jones

Kid books can get cute and a-d-o-r-a-b-l-e. Garfield says cute rots the intellect. Don't forget the name of the cat! You pick up cats the wrong way and they stop being adorable...they become Scratch.

James Patterson

Kids say the No. 1 reason they don't read more is that they can't find books they like. Freedom of choice is a key to getting them motivated and excited.

Japanese Proverb

Knowledge without wisdom is a load of books on the back an ass

Spike Jonze

Kids are so fiercely opinionated, that if they love the Harry Potter books and they go see the movie, they'll be the first to say, 'That was wrong! They didn't get that right!' They're storytellers themselves. They're critics. They're going to have the critical opinion.

Jan Nash

Just look at the shelves of any bookstore in any airport, and you see how much people love crime and mysteries, how much they love solving puzzles.

Sophie Hannah

Agatha Christie's writing is incredibly skillful because her books are incredibly intellectually puzzling and challenging.

Mark Patton

It is a great thing for him to have read so many books. You just don't usually hear that about a first-grader.

Robertson Davies

The people who are always monkeying with these great books to make them fully (comprehensible) have no friend in me, for in their realm the fully comprehensible is not worth comprehending

Craig Nelson

Kids that I saw when I first started doing this were reported missing on a constant basis,

David Nelson

Kellogg recognizes the importance of constantly streamlining costs ... That is how it has avoided, and we think will continue to avoid, the margin deterioration that has plagued the industry.

John Ellinger

He wants to go forward, and especially at Spartan Stadium, you were constantly on your heals with those guys running at you.

Fernando Ravelo

He let us know with deep regrets that he wouldn't be able to join the team due to the constant commitments he has at this time.

Michael R. Bloomberg

He is on site and has been in constant contact with the NYPD, telling us what's going on, ... to learn how they did it and what they did and make sure that our procedures are appropriate.

Kareem Rodriguez

I think the key is going to be how we handle their constant pressure. If we can keep our composure, we could be in pretty good shape. You don't want to get into an up-and-down game with them. That plays right into their hands.

Terry Labonte

It is pretty obvious when you drive through any race track and there are No. 3 flags around everywhere and still fans with (Earnhardt) hats, shirts and jackets. We are constantly reminded of him.

Jim Ratcliffe

It is not necessary, nor appropriate, to sow dissent and misrepresent employees or constantly to threaten industrial action.

Joseph Muscat

Lawrence Gonzi is constantly taking the wrong decisions to the detriment of the Maltese and is not interested in tackling problems seriously

Evan Wilson

I was intrigued by the opportunity to live and experience a country less well off than ours. And see firsthand the problems that plague a developing nation.

Troy Sunderland

Kish is a kid that pushes the tempo, even though he might not be as highly ranked as other guys, but he will be a guy ranked high in the country by the end of the year.

Brian France

I would vote no. Other people in our organization would like to see it. But I like distinguishing the elite division in the country with a unique way of settling the championship.

Ifzal Ali

Just look at the organized sector of the economy in a country such as India, which employs less than 10 percent of workforce, you are worrying about this when there is a multitude of people completely being bypassed.

Brian Martin

I think it's a great idea, there are a lot of different cultures in the fire departments throughout the country. It's a neat idea.

Otton Solis

I think it is a very delicate moment for the country and we are going to wait until the end, until the electoral tribunal has processed all the votes because with such a small difference, anything can happen.

Silvio Berlusconi

Italy will always be grateful to the United States for what this country has been doing to free us from totalitarianism in the past century,

Tony Greig

Well the war lasted for three months, from April of 1994 until the Tutsi army, the exiles as it were, gained control of the country and then it stopped.

Kathy Acker

And internalization is used in this country as a very effective political tool.

Allen Sinai

I suspect that on Fed decisions, the president has been very much influenced by Mr. Greenspan. Greenspan and Cheney go back.

Lee Humphrey

I think it kind of lifted our team up and we fed off his energy.

Kim Maher

I think it got to the point where we just got fed up. It was a gut check.

Barack Obama

I also think the media's presence simply raised the question: If the media could get to these places, why couldn't the federal government?

Karon Bradley

He didn't look too stressed about it, so we just kind of fed off him. I talked with him a little bit. I knew.

John Lonski

He didn't give the impression that the Fed is panicking.

Gary Sheffield

The rage was in me, and if it wasn't for the rage, then I wouldn't know how to be calm. They feed off of each other. Just like when Malcolm X fed off Martin Luther King. They needed each other.

Richard Cripps

This was a good, constructive quarter. The market overcame two problem areas: the Fed raising interest rates and high oil prices.

Vicki Arroyo

It is going to be a piecemeal approach, people are not going to know what their regulatory commitments are from one state to another. And you are then going to have different product standards in different states. It just doesn't make sense. We need a federal policy and that is what we are trying to promote.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

B. B. King

Kevin did a great job tonight. He gutted it out there at the end for us. It was a great team win.

James Patterson

Kids don't read as much as you'd like them to, just in terms of seeing the world from different perspectives. I mean, that's the great thing about books, still. Here's television, here are the movies, and it's pretty limited in terms of the perspectives.

Mary Carskadon

Kids are too sleepy to learn well. They're too sleepy to be happy. And they're at great risk for such things as traffic accidents.

Alan Trammel

I wouldn't say it was one of his greatest performances, but he pitched well enough to win.

Jim Schmitz

Jake Wade did just such a great job throwing strikes, going right at them. He pitched six quality innings. It was just nice to see him come out like that.

Alden Ehrenreich

I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always know whether I want to do something or not. The character is important to me, as is getting to work with people that I feel like I can learn from and make a great movie with.

Mark Heiderscheid

John Day does a great job in the first half to keep us in it. There's got to be six or seven opportunities they get and he comes up big on saves.

Duncan Hunter

I think it shows they were trying to save American lives when they did that. Unfortunately, those pictures were released.

Jack Miller

He will be able to get them if he lives long enough to do it. He was always a diplomat.

Adriano Moraes

Rob is a legend. He's been saving lives for 30 years and never missed a season.

Bob Denver

Our lives will never be the same without him,

Tracie Beasley

Our lives are so full. For people to get outdoors and recreate is so important.

Courtney Anderson

I like to know what's going on in everyone's lives and how I can relate to them.

Jeff Ward

This is aimed at those small and medium-sized livestock producers, ... This could be a valuable tool for them.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

Every one lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it

Collin C. Peterson

It's time for us to keep better track of our livestock as they cross borders.

Kim Bauer

The paintings were all over the place, on the walls, hanging.

Susan Kuretsky

The paintings tend to be reproduced more often.

Robert Delaunay

Painting is by nature a luminous language.

Wayne Thiebaud

If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things from it.

Vinny Guadagnino

I enjoy painting and can copy almost anything.

Joni Mitchell

With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again.

Jamie Wyeth

I view anything on this farm as model. I actually painted Union Rags as a yearling.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional.

George Crabbe

I paint the cot, As truth will paint it, and as bards will not.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

MC Hammer

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

H. Hunt

He used to laugh. He'd get people to do it and not tell them what was going to happen.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Anna Jones

The only thing I think about this is that it's big. I saw a picture (in the newspaper) and I wanted to see it.

Fred Dooley

He did the right thing. So, I thought it was the right thing to do to take the pictures down.

Hanna Salonen

I really want to go out there and take pictures of what I find interesting and not like, these set-ups of life.

David Barna

In a park, you can come in, take pictures and leave. But a preserve has a multiplicity of purposes.

Jessie Boylan

I know you from somewhere. I've got pictures of you.

Donald Rumsfeld

I indicated in my remarks that there are a lot more pictures and many investigations under way,

Elliott Sadler

I'm going to take a picture for a class.

Alan Ball

You can't take a picture of this. It's already gone.

Dale Brown

You can't pinpoint it down to one specific thing, ... We look at the whole big picture of things.

Buck Showalter

I would say there were some unknowns about him. I've been pleased with the progress he's made.

John Ferguson

He's here and we're pleased to have him.

Richard Carpenter

We're pretty pleased with the services that were rendered.

Paul Armstrong

It is one of the things that I am most pleased about,

Gayle King

It is just really exciting. I have always been pleased (with the care), but now it will be even easier.

Tyrone Willingham

I have been very, very pleased with the play that we have received from Isaiah,

Jean Prahm

I never thought I would be so pleased with a sixth-place finish.

Derek Wright

I'm very pleased with our effort--with our attitude. I think we've turned the corner.

Dave Barry

I'm very pleased that we made the top four. But I feel that we could have had a stronger showing.

Richard Carroll

Chimps are portrayed as the super-ape and gorillas are the big brutes in the forest.

Don Cornelius

Blacks on prime-time TV are only portrayed as comedians - and often in no better a light than 'Amos & Andy.'

Lili Taylor

My thing is that anybody's interesting if you go into the complexities. That's my problem with the whore. We've seen the whore, obviously, two-dimensionally, one-dimensionally. But if we're truly going to portray a whore in a complicated light, then I'm interested.

Pierce Brosnan

I'd my own insecurities while portraying the role of James Bond.

Shekhar Kapur

Film is drama. You've only two hours, so you lie by exclusion, and try to make up for it by portraying the environment.

E. Hicks

We don't like the media. They're portraying him as a selfish person.

Daniel Woodrell

I think there are some folks who don't particularly like what I have to say, but on the whole, the reaction has been very positive.

Paul Nicholls

I think it's a really positive idea and I'm sure I shall be having runners in the first stage at Haydock.

Bob Poole

I think it's going to be positive for that end of town. I think it's going to be the right fit.

John Davidson

I think we will have a positive year.

Aly Michalka

I think that, as an actor, you have to break out eventually, and if you do it properly, it can be something that's positive.

P. Herbert

I think to come out of here, you have to have a positive attitude. I've had remained discipline-free for two years to get this job.

Leigh Steinberg

I don't know what happened, but I know Ricky didn't test positive for anything. Someone made a mistake.

Robert Collier

See things as you would have them be, instead of as they are.

William McDonough

We prefer to talk about 100% renewable instead of zero carbon. When you say zero carbon, you are not positively defined.

Juvenal

The traveler without money will sing before the robber. [Lat., Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.]

Richard P. Feynman

[B]eyond poverty, beyond the point that the material needs are reasonably satisfied, only from within is peace.

Samuel Johnson

He who is extravagant will quickly become poor; and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption.

W. S. Merwin

I offer you what I have my Poverty

Saint Augustine

All plenty which is not my God is poverty to me.

Walter Savage Landor

Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty.

Walter Scott

Oh, poverty parts good company.

Samuel Johnson

The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.

George Gissing

That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.

Judy Orihuela

He's been very cooperative. We've had no problems with him whatsoever so far.

Timothy Fisher

The range of a vehicle on one tank should be about the same as what we have today, 300 to 400 miles. And the fueling process should be about the same as what we're used to, it shouldn't take much more time than it takes today. And there are some serious problems with that.

Bob Bowlsby

I never would have taken the first step if I thought I was going to risk problems at Iowa. That was an important part of this process.

Christopher Hill

Clearly, they have some problems with the draft, but we have some problems as well.

Russell Crowe

If there are any problems and you do get up here and go on too long, ... Then 'hello' to my little friend.

Roberto Heras

I had no problems at all, the team had everything under control.

Roy Halladay

I had some time off to rest and haven't had any problems ever since then. It's kind of disappeared this winter so that's nice.

Jon Heacock

I know they are special team problems, but they are important ones.

John Carr

You could have problems you didn't think you would have.

Mack Strong

He comes out to compete. He comes out and puts up MVP numbers.

Nathan Vasher

If you're ready, you should run. It puts you a step ahead.

David Young

If one of us puts our back out, we?re really in trouble.

Mike Jacobs

It was a big boost. When you start off with three runs, it puts them on the defensive.

Eugene White

Every day we wait puts our students at a disadvantage.

Chad Clanton

We're going to be ready for Katherine Harris. Or whoever the other side puts up.

Phil Rizzuto

Well, that kind of puts the damper on even a Yankee win!

Jeff Long

Certainly, I don't think it puts us at a (recruiting) disadvantage.

Vinny Castilla

He's the manager. He puts down the rules. We just work here.

Stacy Flores

He did nothing wrong. He was just a victim of retaliation for reporting a crime.

Anna Olson

There is no fabrication of snow reporting here. We have a reputation, if anything, for underreporting.

Mack Brown

It's unprofessional for someone to be reporting something that's not factual.

Jonathan Miller

Speaking for me, it's just another one of those reporting requirements. It's not that big of a deal.

Randi Miller

Our independent, critically-minded spirit of reporting and editorializing aren't going anywhere. Their spirit symbolizes Boulder, and Boulder's where we're staying.

Dusty Baker

He can wait 'til Monday. The Padres are the team he's had his most success against.

Sarah Brown

The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.

Kim Brown

It could be synergistic, to buoy the success of that program,

Fred Wilpon

I think it's progress. I'm not sure success is unless you are in the playoffs.

Jim Beattie

He's getting away from what made him a successful pitcher.

Justin Timberlake

I think people sometimes don't pay enough attention to what they do. I've done well, but the reason is pretty simple: I've worked my ass off. The toughest thing a performer can do is make it look as if it comes easy.

Kevin Criswell

We have to be. If we want to have any success in this tournament we have to do it. We're probably a little under-talented, but we'll play better as a team.

John Gibbons

He does all the things successful lefties do,

Robert Collier

You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires.

Charlie Ward

He said, 'You're welcome to come on full-time now,'

Samuel Rutherford

Welcome, welcome, cross of Christ, if Christ be with it.

Walter Wriston

Capital goes where it is welcome and stays where it is well treated.

Vladimir Putin

We always welcome when somebody says he or she is ready to work with Russia.

Kelley Armstrong

Are you the welcoming committee? Or has Jeremy finally chained you up to the front gate where you belong?" "I missed you too.

Yang Yang

You come. You will be very surprised. I will be there to welcome you.

Orlando Jones

All you mamas are welcome (in my car).

Paul Singer

You have got to welcome and embrace complexity.

Laura Prepon

When I have to do a scene where I feel vulnerable as an actress, I always grow from those experiences, so I welcome them. Even though it may not feel amazing at first. You have to embrace it and use it to improve yourself.