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'.

Wimar Witoelar

He did not say he expects to be impeached... We have checked the recording... he recognizes the possibility of impeachment, he didn't say that he would be impeached.

Marcus Banks

We took an 'L' tonight. That doesn't mean we're not mentally checked in. We come to work every night the same way you guys come to work every night.

Gregg Popovich

I'll be checking minutes more than I've ever checked before, and making sure that people are getting enough playing time. Some nights, that'll be a real tough thing to do.

Rubens Barrichello

I pulled a slight nerve in my shoulder so I stopped running to get it checked out.

Jale Baba

I haven't checked with the committee on how much was collected but we didn't present the donation as we didn't want to interrupt their training schedule.

Sasha Cohen

I like the fact they give weight to spins, spirals, footwork, transitions. Something that was merely checked off before and jumping was given all the weight. For me, I'm very appreciative of the new system.

Jose Castillo

The doctors checked on my knee, and they said it's good. I feel pretty good right now. I'm ready to play.

Dave Binder

The doctors checked him out, and everything seems fine. At this point, I'm more concerned with his hip than his head. I do think he'll practice Tuesday, though, and he should be able to play Saturday.

Willie Parker

A lot of my family and friends called. I probably had 28 text messages and 30 voicemails. I (didn't) know half the people but I checked them and listened to them.

Donna Cassidy

I didn't really want to go but I didn't want to embarrass him in front of his friends. We had a really great time.

Adam Harben

I didn't want to embarrass myself. There's more people standing out there watching. Other than that, it was pretty much the same.

Helen Suzman

It is the answers, not the questions, that are embarrassing.

John Daly

It's not worth it. This is my last U.S. Open -- ever. I've had it with the USGA and the way they run their tournaments. The USGA loves to embarrass guys who play in their tournaments.

Kirk Talley

The one thing we don't want to do is embarrass anybody.

John Gibbons

You never want to embarrass the kid. But he needed to get his work in.

Carl T. Rowan

There are no embarrassing answers-just embarrassing questions.

Dennis Prager

The easily embarrassed doesn't learn

Elizabeth Bowen

nobody ever dies of an indignity.

Mark Greene

In cross-border deals, to me etiquette is not an 'edge' thing. It is a prerequisite to being effective.

Julie Buchanan

Kathy told me she honestly thought they'd be home in three days, so they didn't pack a lot.

Adam Braidwood

I take a lot of responsibility for it. I'm going to go home and look in the mirror. I don't think, my last two games, I've played up to my potential.

S. Walker

I actually had to do my homework to pass the time. It was horrible.

Vicki Bosley

He was a hometown hero, and Lorraine made sure everyone knew it.

John Milton

He unobserved / Home to his mother's house private returned.

Larry Brown

He'd be in a lot more trouble when he got at home if he didn't do what he did.

Mark Mersel

He knows those guys. It's more of a homecoming than you might know.

Simon Spurr

I'll always be a Brit abroad, and I love London so much, but New York is my home.

Najib Razak

The vast majority of Malaysians are sensible people; they're moderates, they want peace, they want harmonious race relations at home. They look for national unity.

Alan Curbishley

He is a local ref and perhaps it is something we have to look at.

Kevin McCarthy

It's regrettable that we're going to spend local property taxes on schools the state would otherwise fund. As I understand it, we don't get back that money.

E. B. White

Its important to do things locally as well, ... impeach.

Scott Henson

They have a structural accountability problem; they're federally funded, state managed and locally staffed, therefore accountable to no one.

Herb Landau

The state, county, and local governments here really don't support us that well.

Jerry Spinelli

I've been writing since I was sixteen. At first, I wrote mostly short stories and poetry. The first thing I ever had published was a poem about a football game. It was printed in my local newspaper.

Brian Sullivan

At the local level, to be able to say that you're doing better than you were, or you're not, is pretty important.

Larry Rogers

Ninety-five percent (of the workers) will be from the local area.

Nathan Moss

I got to thinking of the school system, especially our local school here.

Richard P. Feynman

I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong. If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives. We will not become enthusiastic for the fact, the knowledge, the absolute truth of the day, but remain always uncertain … In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar.

Richard P. Feynman

Unless a thing can be defined by measurement, it has no place in a theory. And since an accurate value of the momentum of a localized particle cannot be defined by measurement it therefore has no place in the theory.

Richard P. Feynman

It is odd, but on the infrequent occasions when I have been called upon in a formal place to play the bongo drums, the introducer never seems to find it necessary to mention that I also do theoretical physics.

Richard P. Feynman

Science is a way to teach how something gets to be known, what is not known, to what extent things are known (for nothing is known absolutely), how to handle doubt and uncertainty, what the rules of evidence are, how to think about things so that judgments can be made, how to distinguish truth from fraud, and from show.

Richard P. Feynman

Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists.

Richard P. Feynman

The difficulty really is psychological and exists in the perpetual torment that results from your saying to yourself, "But how can it be like that?" which is a reflection of uncontrolled but utterly vain desire to see it in terms of something familiar. ... If you will simply admit that maybe [Nature] does behave like this, you will find her a delightful, entrancing thing. Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possible avoid it, "But how can it be like that?" because you will get 'down the drain', into a blind alley from which nobody has escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.

Richard P. Feynman

If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.

Richard Dawkins

Cheetah genes cooperate with cheetah genes but not with camel genes, and vice versa. This is not because cheetah genes, even in the most poetic sense, see any virtue in the preservation of the cheetah species. They are not working to save the cheetah from extinction like some molecular World Wildlife Fund.

Richard Whately

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.

Wes Moore

Life's impermanence, I realized, is what makes every single day so precious. It's what shapes our time here. It's what makes it so important than not a single moment be wasted.

Jude Law

When I think about it like that, it feels like a burden. But that won't mean I'll be single for the rest of my life - I hope. I feel very settled with myself in my world. I don't feel as needy and desperate to prove things about myself. In my twenties I was very keen to achieve this and disprove this and that. Now I enjoy just being able to concentrate on my children and my work and myself.

Mark Twain

Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.

Nadine Gordimer

Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.

Martin Buber

Solitude is the place of purification.

Pete Wilson

The grateful heart is not developed in a single moment; it is the result of a thousand choices.

Pearl S. Buck

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

John Mellencamp

I've just been fortunate to havehad a lot of hit records, though Human Wheels doesn't qualify as a hit record-but it's really the best single I've ever had.

Malcolm Forbes

There is just no way any management with any intelligence and foresight cannot recognize the value of a corporate image. It is the best, single marketable investment that a company can make.

Tim McEachern

The idea started as sort of a joke,

Yotam Ottolenghi

A lemon, boiled whole and blitzed, makes a useful base for all sorts of dressings.

Robert Jobson

After this sort of start to the year things can only get better.

Larry Ceisler

It's tough, you're a state representative, you're sort of like the little fish.

MacGyver MacGyver

Desperation tends to make one sort of flexible.

Mike Tice

It's sort of unbelievable, if you think about it.

Vince Vaughn

it's sort of my vacation to get on the road.

Dwight Howard

It's sort of like I got it, but I've got to make sure I get a confirmation on it.

Sen Sears

It's sort of like a lifeguard. They may not do anything for years until something happens.

Warren Buffett

Take the high road; it's far less crowded.

Wellington Mara

I'm not taking that. Go ahead, it's here, just take it.

Nancy Grace

The reality is, when you're representing someone that's guilty, you're in the position of taking that position.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

Never stand and take a charge... charge them too.

Abraham Torres

I've been up there a long time. I just don't see the justification for what is taking place.

Bob Krabbe

This is devastating. It's unfortunate it's taking place.

Abdul Sattar

First of all there are the American offensives and then the threats from the militants that they will kill those taking part in the referendum.

Malachy McCourt

Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

Mike Gold

We are taking a robust, step-by-step development approach,

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

Mona Singh

It is about time that TV actors were paid as well as film stars.

John Shimkus

It is a bittersweet time for many of us to be here,

Jack Smith

It is a long season, we have a long time to get at them.

Lorrie Moore

I think women do write politically all the time. Margaret Atwood does; Doris Lessing does.

Scottish Proverb

What may be done at any time will be done at no time

Lorena Ochoa

There is going to be a time when they come my way.

Charles Fletcher

He could've won by 10 lengths if he wanted to.

Curtis White

I think we should have won by more (against Muncie Central), but we've been off (from competition) for a bit, and we're kind of rusty.

Catherine Jones

I was wondering that myself. I don't know.

Vincente Minnelli

I see wonderful films by Bertolucci, Visconti, and Fellini.

Robert Caro

As you get older, you sometimes feel that it's harder and harder to get something new and wonderful to come into your life.

Vasily Grossman

Ivan tells Anna: "I used to imagine that being embraced by a woman . . . as something so wonderful that it would make me forget everthing . . . [But] happiness, it turns out, will be to share with you the burden I can't share with anyone else.

Walt Disney

The wonders of nature are endless...

Sarah Hall

You’ve been wondering lately when the moment is that somebody is truly lost to you.

Sarah Dessen

When someone starts to change, and it’s obvious, it's sort of natural to wonder why. Right?