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.

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 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.

Suzy Merchant

Kent can be extremely explosive. I was certainly frustrated. They just gave it to us.

Lloyd Carr

I think it is certainly one of the better defensive teams in the country.

Stephen Hess

It certainly has some effect on his immediate domestic agenda. He has no money for anything but Katrina.

Aaron Boone

It certainly doesn't impact me much this year. You never know what's going to happen down the road, but I wouldn't expect it to have much effect on me this year. If it does, then I'm not doing my job, anyway.

Art Hogan

It certainly doesn't hurt, ... It always helps to hear her say that she's still confident but it's 12 months out.

Dennis Ruedinger

It certainly doesn't get old. As you progress through a season, you grow closer and closer to the guys on the team. Each season is its own entity. Watching your team grow and get better, that never gets old.

Stephen Black

It certainly doesn't get any harder, ... I think Townsville in Townsville is probably the big game.

Lee Mercer

It certainly dispels stereotypes about who needs food, like the conventional stereotype being homeless people. It is actually a lot of working families.

Ed Renwick

It certainly didn't look like there was any mass movement out of Houston to Lake Charles to vote.

Roger Cohen

Conspiracy theories are the refuge of the disempowered.

Stewart Udall

Society as we know it is almost a conspiracy against human health. One of the main forces working to counteract that is the trailsman.

Ted Turner

There's really five companies who control 90% of what we read, see, and hear.

John Hancock

Nothing could be more crazy than that. I had no idea that it was being changed. This guy is eat up with these conspiracy theories and this insanity.

Hillary Clinton

Donald Trump always is looking for some conspiracy.

Florence Ellinwood Allen

The nature of the Catilinarian conspiracy was bad and bloody.

George W. Bush

Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories.

George Bernard Shaw

Every profession is a conspiracy against the laity.

Peter Hill

My job is to sell the Daily Express. My job isn't anything else. My job is to produce newspapers that people want to read and I can tell you that people want to read about the Diana conspiracy because the figures tell me that they do, seriously tell me that they do. People are fascinated and people tell me that they are fascinated. When I talk to people, they are fascinated by these stories and the more we write them, the more they are turning out to be true.

Lupita Nyong'o

I thrive on structure. I find my freedom in structure.

Thomas Vinje

What Microsoft is talking about is freedom for them to innovate, not others.

Larry Mowry

There is a good possibility of a freeze or frost mainly to the north and west of Interstate 4.

Dan Rose

We're probably not as offensive on the back end right now. But we have potential. We'll concentrate on having six solid D on the ice and be as mistake free as possible.

Wade Bouslog

We took some terrible shots. Our kids didn't come out and play disciplined in the third quarter. Once they get a lead, they've got you because they don't miss their free throws.

Robert Price

We took our free shipping truck and ran over their obstacle.

Sal Sinatra

We took entries from nine shippers. Those horsemen will be required to produce a 72-hour health certificate at the stable gate, which indicates that they are free from the virus.

Chris Spencer

We talked before the game that we have to make our free throws, especially on the road.

Pop Williams

We're in the playoffs, and free throws are most important. You get to the line, you gotta make them.

Ted Cruz

I think issues and substance, policy and vision and record should be the meat of politics.

Judith Sayers

There are still treaty issues that First Nations will have to negotiate on the rail corridor, but those negotiations will be between First Nations and government.

Reuben Brewer

I think the most salient issue right now (in the industry) is how to make a buck.

Jon Karkow

I think we're at the point where it isn't an issue now.

David Neumark

I think what the living-wage movement has done in the past 11 years is incredible. How many other issues are there where progressives have been this successful? I can't think of one.

Laura Tyson

I think that's understood as a policy issue in China. I don't think it's understood as a policy issue in the United States.

Paul Robertson

I think some of the technical and infrastructure issues haven't been completely realized,

Duane Lewis

He's doing fine. I think it was just a routine procedure. It had been prescheduled. It was not the result of any issues the last two weeks or three weeks.

Jennifer Pralgo

The rainfall is going to be a major major issue and it could intensify because it is moving so slow.

Hankus Netsky

People were sort of stopping having the traditional Jewish music in weddings and ceremonies. And I kind of liked that stuff.

Jerry Seinfeld

The greatest Jewish tradition is to laugh. The cornerstone of Jewish survival has always been to find humor in life and in ourselves.

Peter Riegert

As a matter of fact, part of being Jewish is the whole question of what it is to be a Jew.

Adam Mansbach

I think that being Jewish is in some ways unique because there's this conflation of race, culture and religion.

Chris Higginbottom

Going to the state tournament means lot for our team, the school and the community. I think it's been six years since they've been, and to go in my first year here, there's just nothing sweeter.

Jonathan Turley

Law professors like Obama tend to view the law as one means to an end, and others, like myself, tend to view it as the end itself.

Steven Forester

He'll be singing in his upper register to give the idea of what it means to be roasted on a spit.

Brian Dake

He means more to me than I think he will ever know.

Phil Klay

'Redeployment' is a military term. It means to transfer a unit from one area to another.

Craig Colten

Rebuilding here means so much more than walls and roofs and levees.

Akinobu Okada

Our rally was a little late, but things are by no means over.

Cheri Cihak

Parents who understand the risks recognize that it is important to keep teens from riding with other teens, even if it means playing 'chauffer' for one more year.

Les Brown

In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact.

Greg Rucka

When they're saying 'it's too dark,' they're saying, 'I'm scared.'

Giulio Tremonti

I have been saying for three years that Fazio is not suitable for this job.

Judy Turner

If you go out of your way to say it's non-platonic, then you're saying it's sexual. . . . They're trying to spin this and it can't be spun.

Johnathon Schaech

I'm loving saying 'I'm not a big movie star, but I play one on television.'

David Williams

I have no recollection of saying that to Dr. Whitehurst.

Mark Emalfarb

I keep saying this, but nobody's doing anything.

Heather Hibner

I'm not saying this to be political, but it really was a team effort.

Allen Settle

This is like saying I could not vote on sewer or water projects,

Elizabeth May

It's unfortunate. I sort of feel like saying

Robert Orben

Humor is the most honest of emotions. Applause for a speech can be insincere, but with humor, if the audience doesn't like it there's no faking it.

Robin Quivers

We shouldn't have free speech.

Zhuangzi

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

Winston Churchill

Haven't you learned yet that I put something more than whisky into my speeches.

Wendell Berry

We walked always in beauty, it seemed to me. We walked and looked about, or stood and looked. Sometimes, less often, we would sit down. We did not often speak. The place spoke for us and was a kind of speech. We spoke to each other in the things we saw.

W. Somerset Maugham

It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated.

Joseph Addison

I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds.

Kenneth Grahame

Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings.

Mahatma Gandhi

Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association.