Famous Quotes & Sayings

Katherine Paterson

Some say it is the elements of hope and wonder in children's books that make them special. But there are many dark young adult novels these days. Adults loved Harry Potter, though it was written for the young. In the end, it is probably up to the reader of any age to decide if this book is for him or her.

Jack Shafer

I also think that anyone in late years of college is anxious about their future, asking themselves, 'What do I want to do? Also, I think that we all live vicariously through children and these kind of trend stories are an expression of adult anxiety.

George Herman

You're an actor, are you? Well, all that means is: you are irresponsible, irrational, romantic, and incapable of handling an adult emotion or a universal concept without first reducing it to something personal, material, sensational - and probably sexual!

Katie Bayne

It is not for everyone. It is an adult cola taste.

Andrzej Wajda

I think that adult Polish audiences, while observing what was happening in Poland, started to give in to a particular kind of anxiety.

Kevin Williamson

I think the age of disappointment is coming much earlier, where an adult figure -- a parent, a teacher or something -- truly disappoints you for the first time, at a much earlier age. I think when I was young, it happened in my late teens. I think today it's happening when you're 8 or 9 or 10 years old. And I think it's everlasting.

Pete Domenici

It is, in short, a great victory for the American people who are entitled to expect that their adult leaders work together.

Deval Patrick

I went to big, broken, under-resourced public schools, but we had a real sense of community, because those were days in the '50s and the '60s when every child was under the jurisdiction of every single adult on the block.

Bobby Vinton

I was able to stay on because in those days I was selling songs like 'Blue Velvet' and 'There I Said It Again'. But they were kind of adult hits.

Helen Clark

I think we should see what's happening in the currency, which is still strong, as positive for exporting.

William Gibson

I think what's actually happening is I'm just being more overt in terms of what I've always been doing,

Craig Bellamy

I don't know what is happening (next season) - I just want to get this out of the way.

David Wood

I do not see it happening before we get into the political pressure cooker in Hong Kong.

H. Hart

He has a story to tell that is universal, and he wants the viewer to understand this is mankind's problem, that we're all in this together. It's more about what's happening in the painting rather than who it is happening to.

Ray Lovell

Part of what's happening is to double-check these places because we need to find what needs to be done for remediation.

David Goyer

In science fiction, historically, you're telling allegorical tales. You're shining a light back on society -- what's happening now. It's a way to talk about what's going on, but from a sideways angle.

Bill Nye

If you have this idea that the earth is only 6,000 years old, you are denying, if you will, everything that you can touch and see. You're not paying attention to what's happening in the universe around you.

Marion Ross

I like to see what's happening in town,

Timothy Ferriss

If you start out with a little telescope observing the stars and you keep at it over the years, as I have, it's kind of a dream to one day have an observatory where you can always go and use the telescope conveniently.

Otto Rehhagel

I have been observing Samaras for quite a while and now was the appropriate time to select him.

Michael Korda

My books are based on observing others, not myself.

Christina Baker Kline

I often work and write in coffee shops, observing the baristas and eavesdropping on interesting conversations.

Richard Jefferies

It would seem that the ant works its way tentatively, and, observing where it fails, tries another place and succeeds.

Don Stewart

I think that the staff are all very well versed in the process and in this particular nominee, but so are the senators. I think you will see, and already have seen, quite a lot of support out of the senators.

William Golding

I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.

Guy Ritchie

I like to think it's not violence for the sake of violence and in this particular film, it's actually violence for the annihilation of violence.

David Lee

All these things were on her mind, stewing and stewing. And all these things boiled to the surface in one particular moment.

Richard Cook

It is very much premature to say it is any particular cause.

Kyle Williams

At a meet, if you need him in a particular event, he's there to step up and get points for you when you need them.

Tim Johnson

They seem to be targeting this particular group.

Jim Hackett

This particular trail is very heavily used, and the resurfacing is warranted.

Timothy Wu

This particular subpoena does not raise serious privacy issues.

Van Coleman

He has a lot of the same skills, just isn't as polished and refined at this point.

Alice Cooper

I promise every time I walk down this street I will polish that little star,

Jonathan Todd

We will look at the Polish response carefully.

George Black

We think we've got a system that will work and we'll try to get it as polished as we can.