Famous Quotes & Sayings

X. J. Kennedy

The attitude that poetry should not be analyzed is prevalent among many who consider themselves experts on children's literature. But I suspected that kids like to look closely at things and figure out what makes them go.

Isabella Bird

I lived among the Japanese, and saw their mode of living, in regions unaffected by European contact.

Ismail Kadare

I consider I've had a good day when, among the lines I've written, I've produced from my innermost core what I call 'the appearance of the pearl.' That could refer to a discovery, a sense of harmonious cohesiveness, or something like that.

Giraldus Cambrensis

No one of this nation ever begs, for the houses of all are common to all; and they consider liberality and hospitality amongst the first virtues.

Yuri Milner

You know among people who kind of travel a lot and have exposure to the United States and some other countries, they do have accounts, but you know, Russia is not exactly the place with multiple language skills so local networks kind of have an edge.

Virginia Postrel

Many different relationships among patients, doctors, and drugs are possible and desirable. As in so many other areas of life, the Internet encourages experimentation. Questionnaire-based pharmacies operate between the traditional prescription and over-the-counter models.

Virginia Postrel

Bill Clinton has done some incredibly reckless, irresponsible things as president. But his campaign to expand Medicare entitlements has to rank among the worst.

Abraham Lincoln

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

Ezra Taft Benson

The undermining of the home and family is on the increase with the devil anxiously working to displace the father as the head of the home and create rebellion among the children.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

We are victims of the post-Enlightenment view that the world functions like a sophisticated machine, to be understood like a textbook engineering problem and run by wonks. In other words, like a home appliance, not like the human body.

Robin S. Sharma

Success is not a function of the size of your title but the richness of your contribution.

Thomas Harrison

To liberate words means first to shatter their function as vehicles of idea, memory, hope, or regret.

Steve Case

We've learned the market functions a little differently in Europe.

Neil Shubin

Most of the major joints of the fin are functional in this fish.

Michael Leunig

I think melancholy is part of the natural condition, you know. Anyway, I think it's the artist's function to have their melancholy and not hide it, you see.

Phil Singer

Those numbers are a total function of his name, not him. He has a short record that has been described as thin.

Hank Johnson

As more government functions are privatized, we find political leaders defunding the public school system, shifting government funds to the private, for-profit school industry.

Georgia Fischer

I don't think we would limit her. If the swelling goes down and the function is there, she would be good to go for however much she would last and however much they would need her. ... There wouldn't be any limitations.

Tu Mingde

The preparations have been going smoothly and well on schedule.

Ashley Wagner

You always imagine everything will go so smoothly in the Olympic season.

Giselle Davies

The tests went very smoothly and there were no complaints.