Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonathan Kozol

I think a lot of people don't have any idea of how deeply segregated our schools have become all over again. Most textbooks are not honest in what they teach our high school students.

Joyce Maynard

It is not the task of a reader to please her subjects.

Jean Stafford

He does what I have always needed to have done to me, and that is that he dominates me.

Raymond Chandler

He looked as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.

James Duff

I realized there was something I didn't quite like in myself that I didn't want to hear about.

Jean Stafford

I know this, and the knowledge eats me like an inward animal: there is nothing worse for a woman than to be deprived of her womanliness.

Washington Irving

The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.

Barbara de Angelis

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.

David Jones

And it should be the law: If you use the word "paradigm" without knowing what the dictionary says it means, you go to jail. No exceptions.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

The problem with people who live in a world of speeches and books and theories is they don't know how to fix things in the real world when they go wrong. They feign ignorance, blame others, and make another eloquent speech.

Katherine Paterson

I love writing for young adults because they are such a wonderful audience, they are good readers, and they care about the books they read.

Dave Hager

Kerr-McGee has booked less than (1 trillion cubic feet of oil equivalent) as proven, which means we have the potential for a fivefold increase to existing proved reserves in this field alone.

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.

Mark Latham

Kim Beazley said my book would only be a two-day wonder, so he was not too worried about it,

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.

Debbie Travis

It integrates everything that is important to them: games, friends, sports, e-mail, music, books, movies and, when they have time, homework,

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.

Michael Vaughan

I think the newspaper headline might have over-exaggerated the comments in the book,

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.

George Parnham

We may as well wipe it off the books.

Tom Powers

We made some crucial turnovers. In my book, a turnover is a four-point swing.

Larry Hackett

He has a small 13-inch TV, eight CDs, six books.

William Shakespeare

He hath not fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink.

Oprah Winfrey

passports to new and exciting worlds... and I know that I would not be the person I am today had it not been for my love of reading.