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!

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.

Andrea Seigel

I was 11 years old when I saw the first season of 'The Real World.' Initially, I was drawn to the show because it was what I imagined the adult version of my life should be.

Wayne Gustaveson

We look at the adult population and see how it changes from year to year. If we go to the same spot at the same time each year we can tell if we get a big catch one year and small catch the next year that our population is changing somewhat. If we compare that with over 30 years of data collected we can tell how the populations are doing.

Brad Soderberg

He was like an adult playing with kids. He was getting shots for different kids.

Andrea Mitchell

He spent his entire adult life trying to understand how the economy is organized, and he's not going to stop now.

Christopher Poole

I didn't want my parents to know about 4chan at first because of the adult content. By the time I was 18 and could talk about it, the site had become notorious for its exploits and the adult content on there.

Trevor Rabin

I hate how things must be classified. How this is applied to musicians implies that they somehow contrive their products and have studied the demographics of the audience.

Aaron Hungerford

He showed me he wants to expand his game. I would bring him aside and tell him to take his time and wait for his shot and he applied it. He's easy to coach.

Samuel E. Morison

Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.

Marcia Miquelon

It involves physical contact with a partner using the sharing of weight and the momentum of bodies moving through space. The rules and principles of improvisation were applied generally to come up with a new form called contact improvisation.

Juan Diaz

it is a criteria that eventually could be applied and extended to any other case.

John Bailey

I think the products are safe and I think that the best science is being applied to making that determination that they're safe.

Jim Bates

I was disappointed when I didn't get job but that happens in this business. He applied for the job just like I did and I came in second, I hope I came in second. I'm going to be fine with whatever I choose.

Rodong Sinmun

It is impossible to resume the six-party talks under such provocative sanctions applied by the U.S. upon the DPRK. This is the stand of the DPRK.

Jonathan Swift

Laws are best explained, interpreted and applied by those whose interest and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding them

George Herbert Mead

Take the situation of a scientist solving a problem, where he has certain data, which call for certain responses. Some of this set of data call for his applying such and such a law, while others call for another law.

Craig Thompson

I think you can still look to Jesus' word for guidance in your life. It's just not the guidance that it seems like most Christians are applying to their own lives.

Todd Akin

I will continue to work in Congress to reign-in the federal judiciary and return it to its constitutional function of applying the law, not legislating from the bench.

Heather Taylor

If you want a summer job, you need to start applying now. If you wait too long and don't apply until you're two weeks out of school, you don't have as much to offer.

Howard Shapiro

If you're applying for a loan, and there are mistakes on your credit report you didn't know about, it's going to take time to get that information removed.

Richard Dicker

In the face of provocative outbursts, the judge has to be firm but not trigger-happy in applying sanctions if fairness is going to be respected.

Fred McNair

It has taken years and years and years of applying his talent and his mental desire to just get to the major leagues. And it just shows how fragile it is. You can blow it fairly easily.

Michael Mills

Highly credentialed kids are applying with greater frequency to the same set of schools.

Matt Drudge

I'm not sure I'll ever hit that level and to the level of official stature that Bob Woodward had for his Nixon coverage, simply because I'm an outsider, ... But to the degree that the story now threatens a president, I do think it's on the same level as what Woodward and Bernstein did with their coverage and applying the pressure.

Mark Martin

Kind of made it easy on me here at the end without me having to fight for it.

Gail Goestenkors

I wouldn't say it's an easy fix. I think it's a mentality. Once again, I feel like we have to become mentally tougher.

Rick Soracco

I think in that first quarter we could have been out by a lot more. We missed some easy shots.

Jim Kramer

It can be easy to be not ready to go. We liken it to a game. You have to be up for every game.

Marcus Banks

He just told me just run the team, make stuff easy and let's get this victory. I kind of patted him on the butt and told him don't worry about it, we'll go get it for him.

Curtis Stinson

He left the point guard spot and started roaming around. He got easy shots that way.

Gary Dilts

Half a point of market share is tough to get and easy to lose.

Chris Givens

Going undefeated in this league is something. It's not easy to do. There were a number of tough games in there.

Mel Blasi

Golf is about playing confidently. It sounds easy to do, but it's not. It took us about three years until we could play confidently at tournaments and get the most out of our games.

Mike Piazza

kind of fun, especially in New York. I've seen it on smaller levels in other cities, but it's fun to get into the rivalry thing and experience it.

James Kirkman

just very humbled, and appreciative, and amazed; it was a very happy experience.

J. C. Chandor

Just making a movie the way 'All is Lost' had to be made was a great experience, because it was structured differently than any other film I will make for the rest of my life.

Karen McCaffrey

Just this experience of getting to this point for next year will help us. The more situations we're in, the less we'll panic. With youth you'll get that. As soon as our skills improve, I think our panic will improve and we have a whole year to work on that now.

Lucas Glover

Just the experience is going to be great, just being there and walking around.

Chris Traulsen

I think it's a good long-term investment. They've got a ton of experience between Mason Hawkins and Stanley Cates, and the managers have significant portions of their own net worth in the Longleaf funds. They have every incentive to do right by their shareholders.

Rachel Dretzin

I think it fuels her. The fact that she can see the work she's done make an impactmost journalists don't experience that.

Mike McGlynn

I think it is good that we got some experience because all of it helps. I don't know if I'll ever take a snap in a game, but it is good to be ready and the more positions on the line you play, the better it helps you.

Candace Parker

I take away from this experience a lot of different things. I learned from a lot of great veterans about the game of basketball.

John Demming

Jack himself has been working the phone lines and speaking with shareholders this morning. People's money is safe here, there's no question about that.

Jeff Holland

Joe has matured. He is playing for the team instead of himself and he has been terrific.

Tony Benshoof

He did a video of himself wishing me luck. It was pretty cool.

Roger Williams

He can't survive day after day after day without some improvement occurring. He's keeping himself alive.

Terry Wilson

He just tried to wedge himself in where there wasn't room.

Dusty Baker

He knows himself and how much he needs.

Jim Tracy

He is on a mission to pitch himself into this rotation, and right now he is succeeding.

Hank Sheinkopf

He showed himself to be a wartime leader. He rallied the people and he didn't buckle.

Tony Perkins

He's going to present himself to the American public a sandy-haired kid whose merely out pursuing the American dream.

Anthony Anderson

Kangaroo Jack is the first movie I've been in where I was the star, or co-star, so this is my baby. This is the one that holds special meaning to me.

Colin Falls

He's just making one move and not thinking about it. I think sometimes he holds onto it and over-analyzes. He catches and makes his move (and) that opens us up on the outside.

Mark Fox

Idaho has been playing better. San Jose State holds the lead at Utah State with a minute to go last Saturday.

Roland Nash

In these negotiations, Russia holds all the cards. They have the energy, and the U.S. needs it.

Amy Louviere

They want to see how the seal holds up to the pressure of an explosion.

Proverb

Every tub smells of the wine it holds

Tony Sammons

It's too late for a referendum. If he holds to that, then he will personally have killed the legislation and the joint water-sewer commission.

Anthony Cordesman

It's 50-50 this thing holds together through the spring of 2006. But that is purely a guess.

Dhani Jones

The one thing that holds people back from working out together is that they don't want to smell around other people. Your olfactory sense is the primary sense in your memory, and you don't want to be part of anyone's memory thinking that you smell bad.

Doc Rivers

He just wasn't responding. He couldn't move out on the floor. He was hurting the team and he was hurting himself. I was worried about the confidence. At the end of the year the one thing I try to protect, especially with our young guys, is going into the (summer) with a positive feeling.

Tom O'Neil

His shyness is hurting him. He is pulling out of public appearances lately and it's been widely noticed. He's been pulling back when he should be campaigning.

Andy Reid

I thought about it, yes. There was a point where he was hurting after he took a hit. He tried to run and he took a hit. So I thought about it.

Donald Copeland

It has been a problem for me the whole year. Right now is an important stretch for us. If I feel I'm hurting the team I have no problem sitting out.

Travis Parker

Last year my legs were hurting a lot, because we had to practice every play, every day. This year, we've got people that can come in and sub for us.

Jared Zabransky

I was just hurting my team being in there. I wasn't mobile. I needed to be out.

Ville Valo

Hurting linde is like hurting bambi, you just can't do it.

Mark Richt

I know Ray was hurting bad, ... The trainers were working on him before every (series), basically. But he refused to stay out of the game.

Larry Eustachy

The have really come to my level when we lose. They're really, really hurting in that locker room.

Harvey Pekar

I write about my life, choosing incidents that I think will be, for one reason or another, significant to people. Often because they may have experienced the same things.

Gerard Kennedy

It is not inevitable that our schools have incidents like this. We can make our schools even safer,

Joschka Fischer

It is not only because of the incidents with the Swiss, Swedish, and Spanish embassies. There is an urgent need for discussions,

Diane Feinstein

In view of the 5,000 'air rage' incidents each year,

F. Stone

The jury's still out on the new system, because we haven't run that many incidents on it yet, ... But day-to-day, the hand-helds are working out quite well.

Gary Davidson

These incidents were not reported to us. When something isn't reported, there's nothing we can do.

Mark Feldstein

These incidents become viewed through the lens of metaphor,

O. J. Simpson

I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.

Rick Dunlap

These two incidents in the jail could have been prevented.

Tony McCoy

When I'm injured, I eat everything - proper junk. That's the one thing about being injured so much, I get to treat myself.

Margie Achman

We try to meet every injured soldier as they come in.

Nancy Williams

He was the only one who wasn't injured that time - he's been lucky, twice.

Steve Barker

I mean, no one was injured in this.

Corey Koskie

I'm disappointed that I got injured and I'm disappointed in the year I had. I'm not upset over the trade.

Jose Diaz

We still have hope. There are so many places for the injured to be.

Kim Clijsters

Even when I was injured last year, when I started playing again, you get motivated,

Greg Skidmore

It's very interesting why that is. I think it's mainly because nothing high-profile has happened. Most of the people who have been injured and killed are not at major universities.

Dave Nutting

It was just one of those things, we were short-handed and had injured players and it showed. We are still in the playoffs and still the league champion.

Paul Hewitt

I thought we were ready. Wake took it to us physically and we didn't respond.

Jacques Santini

It is important for the players to relax physically and also psychologically,

David Reeves

He's a very physical kid, but I think he played physical in basketball, too, when I watched him. He was always up on you bumping guys.

Rick Newman

He was physically unable to get to the closing.

Willie Randolph

He has to feel real strong physically and throw a little bit. You don't want to play around with a hamstring.

Rich Manning

He is a very reliable defenseman who is physically gifted. He can recover and play a lot of minutes.

Lawrence Goldstein

Physically it's very feasible, and politically it's very feasible.

Willie Anderson

Physically I'm doing good. It's going to be a while before I get that game-type conditioning and get my second wind in the game.

Joe Haldeman

I like the physical action of writing down by hand, and I don't just use it for writing my fiction.

Mahmud Abbas

If the preparations can be finalised, there is nothing to prevent this meeting.

Nina Simmons

You can put some procedures in place to try to prevent it - but if you're one of those schools that has that tradition, it's going to happen.

Dikembe Mutombo

The goal, by 2015, is to prevent this catastrophe,

Joel Fuhrman

We're not going to find a magic cure for cancer. We've got to prevent it.

Ashley Judd

You have so much power to bring awareness, prevention and change.

Tertullian

Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.

Jesus Christ

My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.

Scott Tucker

It was something unexpected. I didn't know this was going to happen. I just wish more could have been done to prevent it.

Alexei Navalny

The questioning is a stupid formality aimed exclusively at preventing us from speaking at the demonstration.

Thomas Pickering

We've urged the Pakistanis to take the statesman-like course, the wise course, and the restraint course.

Barbara Kingsolver

restraint equals indulgence

John Stuart Mill

Everything must be free to be written and published without restraint

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

The hardest thing for me is restraint.

Heather Stewart

I think we've shown that we're a team that can compete.

Jim Riccitelli

He has shown us little glimpses here and there, and I told him tonight he had to be better than the other goaltender, and he was.

Larry Coker

He has shown me a lot. He's going to be an outstanding player.

Rick Taylor

We want them and I think we have shown you that.

Ken Hitchcock

We're not a one-trick pony. We've shown it all year that we're not a one-trick pony.

Alexander Johnson

We're better than that, and we've shown it.

Brian Barnes

Some time ago, we had shown schematically where we could put a wall,

Charles Baudelaire

Thank you. You have shown me the way back to myself.

Alan Trammel

I've said many times this year that at times, we can play with anybody, ... And we've shown that. We just haven't been consistent.

William Wordsworth

We Poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.

Sargent Shriver

The natural idealism of youth is an idealism, alas, for which we do not always provide as many outlets as we should.

Willa Cather

It is cremated youth. It is all yours--no one gave it to you.

Salvador Dali

The problem with the youth of today' is that one is no longer part of it.

Samuel Johnson

It is not easy to surround life with any circumstances in which youth will not be delightful.

Marcel Proust

For every sin there is forgiveness, and especially for the sins of youth.

Narendra Modi

Coming out of indecisiveness and being determined is the pre condition for being called young.

Napoleon Bonaparte

In my youth I, too, entertained some illusions; but I soon recovered from them.

Ellen Glasgow

Cynicism is a sure sign of youth.