Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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

Mark Foley

We track library books better than we do sexual predators.

Ray Manchuk

We're optimistic that the new Harry Potter will bring more foot traffic to stores and perhaps become a catalyst to drive sales of other books as well.

Hilaire Belloc

When I am dead, I hope it is said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.

Dick Booth

He didn't surprise me. He's quite a guy. He was fresh because he didn't jump in the long jump (Saturday). I think he will end up being special.

Xavier Hernandez

He was real low on his pitch count, but we had a fresh bullpen. I didn't think that was much of an issue.

Francois Doumen

He is fresh and well and I am very happy.

Chris Ellis

He gives you that look, and you're out of it for a whole practice. He spooks a lot of freshmen out with that.

Tim Mahoney

I guess we really don't know how the freshmen will do because, well, it's complicated.

Joe Mays

Being in a fresh place, fresh faces, fresh organization, really helped that out. It helped me concentrate on pitching.

Brandt Jobe

I'm probably a little different than most of the guys out here, because I spent a lot of time overseas. I wasn't playing the PGA Tour year in and year out, so I didn't have the same kind of grind. ... I'm still a fresh 40, if that makes sense.

Lori Crunk

I'm out of quotes. I don't know what else to say about 'T.' I'm fresh out.

Peja Stojakovic

I'm excited. It's a fresh start for me and I probably need that.

Mark Slotsve

It actually helps to have played them, we know a little of what they're about.

Sufjan Stevens

I think it just helps us to feel kind of unified,

Marcus Spears

I think it helps us a lot to know we can be better than we were, ... and we still played effectively.

Bobby Smith

It ain't easy. When you can't do what you want to do on the field, it's tough. But I still want to be able to help out the team.

Bouna Ndiaye

He wants to play for the Lakers, and I think he can help the Lakers. We can wait for the Lakers for about a week to make a decision. He has high interest from teams in Europe. But Ronny wants to play for the Lakers.

A. Hodge

He wants to do whatever it takes to help the team win a championship, whether it's two rebounds or whatever. That's admirable. We know it's going to be a process.

Kiki Vandeweghe

He wants to be helping his team. Let's just leave it at that.

Doug Mitchell

He did everything he could to help this team succeed.

Stephen Jones

He can really help solidify our offensive line. We needed some flexibility there as well.

George H. W. Bush

tax relief and other incentives for job-creating investment.

Marion Nestle

The trans fat label has been an enormous incentive for food companies to take trans fat out of their products.

John F. Kennedy

We must start now to provide additional stimulus to the modernization of American industrial plants I shall propose to the Congress a new tax incentive for businesses to expand their normal investment in plant and equipment.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to seek higher plateaus in the things of the Spirit is all but gone.

Dan Ariely

The most difficult thing is to recognize that sometimes we too are blinded by our own incentives. Because we don’t see how our conflicts of interest work on us.

Rod Lache

I don't see this as resulting in anything dramatically negative. Over time, you'll see incentives rising everywhere. But it's not anything scary yet.

Jennifer Dunn

We are actually still working with Chico's, and there are incentives involved because it's very important for us to keep this kind of headquarters in this community, and we feel like Chico's has a lot to offer to the community.

David Limbaugh

Socialism destroys the incentive to produce, dampens the human spsirit and results, ultimately , in less for everyone.

Dave Van Ronk

When you're working in front of an audience, you have incentive to excel.

Mary Fetchet

Katrina should be enough to wake people up.

John Metz

Katrina produced a catastrophic storm surge, it was one of the worst we've seen in this country,

Hal Rogers

I think it's time we thought about having Katrina bonds,

Richard Cobb

On the supply side, we are about the same as after Katrina and before Rita.

Diane Swonk

Once they got the uncertainty of Katrina out of the way they just got back to their boilerplate statement,

John Franklin

It's not so much Katrina as a phenomenon as it's Katrina as a metaphor for what our society has become. It reflects; it's a mirror of what we've become - super-extraordinarily complacent.

Rick Perry

Between Katrina and our preparations for this, people understand this isn't something you're going to play around with,

Leigh Crawford

Like everyone, I wish Katrina would have never happened. But, you can learn a lot through experiences like this.

I. Stone

Many scenarios had been run prior to Katrina years ago, and with that type of storm, the scenarios should have been taken seriously.

Warren Buffett

I'll bring my tax returns; you bring yours. I'll meet you anytime anywhere.

Wesley Snipes

I was never charged with tax evasion. I've never been a tax protester.

Robert Orben

Did you ever get to wondering if taxation without representation might have been cheaper?

Lyndon B. Johnson

In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren't much happier about taxation with representation.

Jim Ramstad

As American taxpayers know too well, the tax code is incredibly complex and compliance is all to expensive.

David R. Ellis

No, in Lethal Weapon I was a taxi cab driver that Mel jumps in front of the taxi and pulls me out of the car and steals the taxi. Then I did some other indie driving for some of the car sequences.

Alan Sugar

I don't like paying 50 per cent of tax.

Calvin Trillin

The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work.

Robert James

The taxpayers have spoken. They want a change.

Jennifer Garraway

We have to do something for the victims and that's why we do this program.