Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Kinney

Kids and adults have a difference of opinion when it comes to what constitutes legitimate reading. Adults often push books that they loved as children, which, ironically, were often books that their parents weren't particularly keen on.

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.

Japanese Proverb

Knowledge without wisdom is a load of books on the back an ass

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.

Sophie Hannah

Agatha Christie's writing is incredibly skillful because her books are incredibly intellectually puzzling and challenging.

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 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.

John Faso

I think someone gave it to him out of a briefing book, and he's just not as familiar with New York as I am.

Dan Bloom

All the wins are great, but I'd rather be on the right side of that book. Pete Tilman won a New England championship, and I don't consider myself the greatest wrestler in Sharon history because I don't have a New England title to back that up.

Mary Randolph

Sometimes it was September or October before we would get the books.

Al Hubbard

There are very good laws on the books. What's important is that those laws are enforced aggressively.

Thomas Carlyle

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.

Alan Milstein

Besides, there are privacy laws on the books, both state and federal, so there's no way they'd win. It makes you wonder what they're really worried about.

Tony Blair

At that point we close the chapter or we close the book.

James T. Mccay

What is important is not to be able to read rapidly, but to be able to decide what not to read.

Jonathan Joseph

We totally and one hundred percent sign off on 'the semiconductor sector is recovering' theory, ... There were a lot of analysts saying they were going to reduce the range. Midpoint is a victory.

Frederick W. Smith

If you keep working at it, in the last analysis, you win. They've got to kill us a hundred times. All we have to do is kill them once.

Jeffrey Sharon

I had 37 lions and tigers, two chimpanzees, 10 or 12 baboons, a hundred big-horn rams, probably a hundred deer. Zoos would sell me this stuff or they'd trade.

Dr. Seuss

I meant what I said and I said what I meant - An elephant's faithful, one hundred percent! Dr

Wilson Mizner

Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.

Marc Bulger

You've got to go with Torry, but once they get going, maybe the second hundred (yards), Kevin would win,

Neil Davidson

It's not a particularly profitable business. There are a hundred other things (where) American investors can put their money to better use and more profitable use.

Daren Kagasoff

It's a feeling you get. You could have a hundred actors reading for one part, and they could all be spectacular, but one sticks out for some reason.

Andrzej Gaska

The roof was made of corrugated iron, more than 10 meters (30 feet) high; several hundred square meters caved in.

Kitty Lagareta

I suspect they'll go forward. I know how they feel about David.

Joe Haldeman

I suspect that war will become obsolete only when something worse supercedes it.

Randy Hampton

We suspect it probably did but there's just no way to know.

Ted White

The suspects had no idea who they were trying to rob.

Tom Perkins

We'll have to find some way around it. There probably is a way...I suspect something will come up.

Tom Rosenstiel

Some Americans will be curious, but I suspect most will be wary. Some will be infuriated.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other.

Will Tudor

I very much enjoy things like '24,' although I suspect that's run its course.

Helen Fisher

I suspect privacy is a very new concept to humanity.