Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mary Saunders

We say that we are going to have fun classes for boys and girls ages two to 99, ... That is because we have adult classes as well even though it is the children's art center.

Alfie Kohn

I applaud Sudbury Valley's focus on freedom, but not what I take to be an inattention to community. Sudbury has a libertarian bent, and the worldview seems to see all adult involvement as an authoritarian restriction of personal autonomy. Total autonomy is not developmentally appropriate. Kids need guidance and many of them need structure at the same time that they need the opportunity to learn how to make good decisions.

Chris Wooding

I do screen work, adult books, kids books and comic stuff, which gives me a pretty full plate. The problem is usually choosing which one I want to work on next.

Kevin Williamson

I don't look at teens as teens. I think maybe that's the whole trick to what I do, is that they're just smart, sophisticated adult characters. And they happen to be 15.

Andrea Seigel

I do not believe that I will ever write an adult novel from an animal's point of view unless someday it becomes suddenly appealing to me to make a narrator a mentally ill pet. Never say never.

Bill Griffith

Cartooning has come a long way. It started out as an adult medium, for satirical purposes; then the appeal to children got emphasized.

Jennifer McMahon

I believed then - in a deep, easy way that is impossible for me as an adult - that there was more to this world than meets the eye. Trees had spirits; the wind spoke. If you followed a toad or a raven deep into the heart of the forest, they were sure to lead you to something magical.

Brian Tunick

The good news continue to be the fact that with growth in its Hollister division, a fast-growing Internet business, a new concept coming in the third quarter and flattish comps (sales compared to last year) in the core adult business, healthy top-line growth should be sustainable. Also, Abercrombie's men's business is finally beginning to show some life after three years of negative comparable sales.

David Hudson

The court ruled that the law was content-based because it restricted only sexually explicit adult programming,

Chris Mihm

I've never seen anyone score 62 points. That third quarter was something else. He was scoring at will.

Orrin Hatch

I've never seen anyone do a better job. You have made a very, very strong presentation here.

Forrest Bell

I've never known anyone with as much capacity to remember, care about and minister to other people.

Mike Richter

I've never met anyone who's a bigger fan of other people's success than him. I think that's a unique thing to his personality and that's an empowering thing, particularly to the young guys in the organization. He is interested in how people are doing and not just as a team, but personally and what contributions they are making and what he can do to make them better. It sounds unimportant, but it's a really subtle and special thing that comes from him.

Joan Smith

I've never met anyone who describes himself as a motorist, a noun that conjures up a chap with a moustache and leather driving gloves in an open-topped roadster.

Micky Mallette

I've never met anyone as special as Maggie Dixon, and I'm positive I'll never meet another person who can even come close to matching her love for life or her love for people. Even though we only knew her for a short period of time, we'll always carry her in our hearts.

Ben Street

I've probably been out there when it's been 15 below to 20 below. I don't think anyone will beat Mac on that one.

James Browning

I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

James Wolfensohn

It would surprise me if one could win by getting all the kids out of school or starving the Palestinians. And I don't think anyone in the Quartet believes that to be the policy.

Chad Brown

That's when the harshness of the business in this sport comes into play,

David Osgood

That usually takes nine months to a year from the time of the suspension, and by that time the business is gone.

Steve Kaplan

Your business could be in a radically different place 18 months from now. But first you have to be ready for that to happen.

Ken Sternad

This is business that is permanently lost. This is business that has gone to competitors, that has gone elsewhere and through the signing of contracts and other deals that our customers and former customers have established with competitors.

Charles M. Schwab

I was once asked if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man.

Karen Mills

As you probably know, half of the people who work in this country work for small businesses. And it's more than that, because two out of every three net new jobs come from small business. So we mean it when we talk about small business being the engine for the economy.

Greg Serbon

We want the business people to know there are a lot of people like us, who are very worried about the negative impact of illegal immigration and who spend money at their business.

Mark Ernst

We've seen an industry-wide slower start to the tax filing season than in previous years. Early season operating challenges experienced in our tax business further hurt our January comparative results.

Kevin Rollins

Component costs fell at an unprecedented rate last year, and we gained significant new business from passing those declines to customers more rapidly than anyone.

Dale Easley

Three hundred teams started the season, and we're in the final four. Our goal is to get to 8 o'clock (tonight).

Chris Redfield

We gave up seven offensive rebounds in the final period and we have to improve on that.

Robert Jackson

We are not unaware that we are not final because we are infallible; we know that we are infallible only because we are final.

Joanne Boyle

We fought at the end, but we didn't come out and play 40 minutes. We were trying to do it all in the final 3:45 and that wasn't going to work.

Chris Griffin

We have a lot of guys that can run and I think we just wore them down in the second half. That could have something to do with the final score. But I think that is another thing that makes us a very good team.

Monique Currie

We've lost the last two years in that game to get to the Final Four. To finally get over that, I think we'll be more relaxed once we start playing again.

Pete Domenici

We've done our work. It's getting prepared, the final wrap up.

Bobby Carpenter

We've done about 30 or so of these. Now, it's finally winding down.

Phil Mickelson

The final group, on Sunday at the Masters, is the greatest feeling in the world for a professional golfer.

Terri Mitchell

All-American players go from four points in the first half to 20.

Morgan Betscher

We thought we got gypped a little. We thought we'd get a four or a five.

Brent Walston

I think that we have two to four girls that can help her with the scoring.

Maurice Greene

I think the 3 medals are between four people ,

Steven Aftergood

It is ironic, ... We sued the C.I.A. four times for this kind of information and lost. You can't get it through legal channels.

Mike Rathgeber

Last year, it took us six meets to get that relay team under four minutes.

Dave Roberts

Last year I think the situation we were in was a lot tougher task than the situation we're in right now, because we were down to three outs, and had to win four straight games,

John McKay

I will be disappointed if we do not win three or four medals,

Sasha Roiz

I went to theatre school for four years and just wanted to do theatre. I had no ambition to be on TV or to be on camera. I just wanted to go to New York or London and be on stage... I did a lot of theatre in Montreal, got involved in TV in Toronto and then moved to L.A. I hope that film and TV will take me back to theatre.

Francis Bacon

A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

Chris Larsen

Some people would say we're being overly-conservative. But I say we're being realistic for our first year planning.

Source Unknown

Some people would rather be wrong than quiet for a minute.

Harry Wang

Some people will not be tolerant about this.

Jill Lepore

Some people will always think they know how to make other people's marriages better, and, after a while, they'll get to cudgeling you or selling you something; the really entrepreneurial types will sell you the cudgel.

John Cassidy

Some people were frightened, ran to their basement, or ran out of doors.

Michelle Lombardo

Some people watched the show just because of the wardrobe, ... That's exciting.

Tracey Emin

Some people use just one condom, right? But we use tons.

Lori Mottu

Some people told us not to put the restaurant in Ceresco because of the size and location. But that's really why we're doing this. There's nothing here.

Andy Johnson

Some people think that because it's a threatened species, that every one we save is good. But not if they never get to live in the wild.