Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Rosecrans Baldwin

Bookstores don't exactly dot the American highway in the grand manner of Sbarros.

Mark Morris

It has been up to parents to hit the Web and hit the books and find information on both sides about K-8.

John Corey Whaley

I remember, for the first time, sitting down and consuming books in a matter of hours. This was such a new experience for me because reading, up until that point, had been such a struggle and source of stress. I think I just needed to find the right kind of stories with which I could identify.

Mini Grey

I love picture books - with picture books, you can use words and pictures as a double act, even tell two different versions of a story at the same time.

Chelsea Cain

I like signing books for a living; I do. But you have no idea the panic that sets in. I am not a very good speller. Put me in a stresser situation, and I lose all capacity to recall how to spell the most simple names.

Mark Haddon

I'm really interested in the extraordinary found in the normal. Hopefully, my books don't take you to an entirely different place but make you look at things around you.

Chris Murray

I'm reading six, seven, eight books at a time.

A.J. Chilson

If life is short, then how come most books reflect the opposite approach?

Andy Rooney

Those of us who don't have a party affiliation ought to be able to register under the heading "Confused.

Ethan Hawke

He made it cool to be a thinking person seeking a spiritual experience.

Kenneth Darby

He makes field goals like that all the time in practice. I knew he wasn't going to miss. He's cool as ice. I knew he would keep a cool head and kick it through.

Daron Malakian

In the Middle East in the summertime, to keep cool, a lot of people sleep on the rooftops.

Autre Ne Veut

In the '90s, it was cool to just like R&B. But I liked Nirvana and stuff, too.

James Upham

If you're a cross-country skier or an endurance athlete, it's very simple: Here's a gun, go shoot this, too. Everyone would say, 'Yeah, that sounds cool to me. You get to ski around and then you get to shoot stuff every day. That sounds pretty fun.

Dexter Holland

If you go back to 'Pretty Fly,' it was a very popish song, but there was a satirical side to it, and I think that's cool. I like the idea that it's making people think just a little bit.

Mark Frauenfelder

In this beginner-friendly book, called 'Learn to Program with Minecraft,' you will learn how to do cool things in Minecraft using the Python programming language. No prior programming experience is needed.

Mariah Carey

In the immortal words of LL Cool J, 'I've been here for years,'

Sloane Stephens

I like to stay cool and comfortable. If I'm going out, then I might wear a nice sundress or skirt to keep from getting too hot.

Tom Griffin

When you reach out for help and it's just not there, it's like signing a death sentence. The more they cut beds, they are killing people on the streets.

Clara Barton

A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing through his chest from shoulder to shoulder. There was no more to be done for him and I left him to his rest. I have never mended that hole in my sleeve.

Amanda Hocking

Can I cut off your head?" "Are you asking for my permission?

Andy Warhol

I used to cut out paper dolls.

Suze Orman

Cut back your spending now.

Susan Sontag

The creative phase of an idea coincides with the period during which it insists, cantankerously, on its boundaries, on what makes it different; but an idea becomes false and impotent when it seeks reconciliation, at cut-rate prices, with other ideas.

Tom Piazza

In New Orleans the funerals remind us that Life is bigger than any individual life, and it will roll on, and for the short time that your individual life joins the big stream of Life, cut some decent steps, for God’s sake.

Rick Riordan

Butch hesitated. "Annabeth's okay. You gotta cut her some slack. She had a vision telling her to come here, to find a guy with one shoe. That was supposed to be the answer to her problem." "What Problem?" Piper asked. "She's been looking for one of our campers, who's been missing three days," Butch said. "She's going out of her mind with worry. She hoped he'd be here." "Who?" Jason asked. "Her boyfriend," Butch said, "A guy named Percy Jackson.

Rem Koolhaas

The architecture per se isn't at fault. The more important factor, in my view, is the political neglect of these areas, which have essentially been cut off from other neighborhoods.

Reggie Evans

If you do your normal routine, you tend just to focus on that. You're not really thinking about (the test).

Pete Carroll

It has never been a focus of our program to look at the end of the rainbow kind of thing.

Rod Barnes

I think our kids are working hard. My focus is to make sure we move forward and get better.

Mike Commodore

I think our focus is very good on the road. We don't have any distractions. We stick to our systems, we keep it simple. I think that's why. Maybe it's something else, I don't know, but when it comes right down to it, it's our focus.

David Ortiz

I just try to shut everything down and just focus on what I want to do at the plate in those situations. Most of the time I try to not do too much because I get in trouble when I try to do too much. It happens to everybody.

Lindsay McCargar

I just don't think our focus was there (on the game).

Cindy Sheehan

I put myself out there, and I'm willing to take it. But I think the focus has been on the messenger and not the message.

Charlie Bell

By keeping our focus on our customers, McDonald's competitive position is strengthening, ... McDonald's U.S. performance for the month and quarter was particularly impressive considering the hurricanes and heavy rains.

Larry Silverstein

Clearly, there are some issues that need to be resolved. But for today, my focus, like that of all New Yorkers, is on getting the Freedom Tower underway.

Bobby Vinton

I had a big troupe, a big army and it was a lot of fun. And, after 10 years of that, I just decided that I wanted to travel and do special dates. I go to Las Vegas these days.

Drew Goddard

In a weird way, it's much easier, when I don't have to worry about being a writer, to just worry about the director job, which is really fun.

Drew Goddard

The most fun characters to work with are characters that are complicated.

Donald Trump

I fire people that win gold medals, great champions, everything else, and, you know, it's not - it's not easy. People say oh well it comes easy for me, it doesn't. And it's never fun. It's all to easier though when I don't like somebody or when they're really, really bad then it becomes much easier.

Donald Trump

Have fun. I don't kid myself. Life is very fragile, and success doesn't change that. If anything, success makes it more fragile. Anything can change, without warning, and that's why I try not to take any of what's happened too seriously.

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

What you desire, as an actor, is to have an impact. That's why you did it. You want to move people, and you want to resonate with your audience. It's always a great compliment to have people appreciate and speak of the characters. I can go anywhere in the world, to places where people don't actually speak English, and people can say, verbatim, what I said on the show as Mr. Eko, which is great. That's fun!

Adam Schlesinger

I don't know if there was really ever a golden age of the music business. Most of what was released has always been garbage and some has been able to get through and last. I don't know that it was much better thirty years ago. The music industry just wasn't as efficient. The music industry was more oddball guys who did it for fun and now they are huge corporations that have become more structured.

Adam Savage

The explosions, like the urban legends, are a great way of bringing people in to watch, because it's really fun, and you know we're always going to give you a satisfying ending.

Adam Sandler

The Canteen Boy, the reason you feel bad for him and you can laugh is because he, and I guess a lot of my characters, they don't notice they're getting made fun of. So they'll say something back that's not that great a quip, but in their mind they won the argument.

Tim Castille

It's not too bad. I talk to him two or three times a day. It's like I went on a little vacation and he's not here.

Rick Carlisle

There is no trade right now and there may not be a trade. There's nothing to talk about because there is no trade.

Pete Carroll

It's an introduction, and we'll talk about how important it is to play there.

Al Embry

I tried to talk to him and his wife and his two kids. I wanted them to get out of there.

Jeff Bower

I tried to talk him out of it, but he just wants to play.

Christi Wade

They're like every other mother-daughter relationship. They have their moments, but don't talk about the other one.

Ann Gard

They're so crispy. You're talking a long time ago here.

Rudi Koertzen

There was a lot of talk that went on ... it was repartee.

Howard Ward

There was a lot of talk about China.

J. G. Ballard

It was an excess of fantasy that killed the old United States, the whole Mickey Mouse and Marilyn thing, the most brilliant technologies devoted to trivia like instant cameras and space spectaculars that should have stayed in the pages of Science Fiction . . . some of the last Presidents of the U.S.A. seemed to have been recruited straight from Disneyland.