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

Jerry Gray

I talked to Marv and he pretty much gave me permission to go and seek another job somewhere else, so I have no problem with that. Would I like to be interviewed for the head coaching job? Yes. I know the players on offense and defense and I think I have their respect.

Billy Donovan

I always felt I was going to have a lot of fun coaching these guys. They've had the right attitude, and winning has been the byproduct of it.

Darren Kalina

Going unbeaten (in the league) for a second straight year is a big deal to the coaching staff and the kids. I don't know if it's ever been done before, and we're trying to make it happen.

Mike Miello

He's a leader, not just in statistics, but a true leader on our football team. He leads by example. He's not a rah-rah guy. He's got a real sense of maturity about him. He leads and people follow. He's the kind of kid that makes coaching worthwhile. That's how we all feel about him, and he's having a great year on top of it, individually.

E. B. White

He's definitely auditioning for a head coaching job, maybe not here but he's going to get a head coaching job. He's a great coach, a players' coach and he's going to give it his all. He played the game and played it well.

Troy Smith

I think it's being more comfortable within the offense, the guys starting to be comfortable with me and also the coaching staff. With more film study you're able to see more guys, not just through tunnel vision like I had early in the season.

Wayne Simien

I was ecstatic come draft night just to hear my name called. And now, after playing in the summer league and getting to know some of the guys and being able to play under the coaching staff and seeing the great things that are going on here in this organization, I'm even more excited to put my name on the dotted line.

Sean Brady

I don't have a good coaching voice, that's for sure.

Shawn Springs

I didn't get coaching in Seattle like I did this year, ... except for my first two years.

Mark O'Meara

His powers of concentration or determination to get the job done are just so phenomenal. It's on the level of Jack Nicklaus.

Seth MacFarlane

I was a film major with a concentration in animation.

Jeff Larson

I was just so proud of our effort, concentration and execution. I thought we played a very intelligent game.

Juan Ferrero

He's playing with lots of confidence and no mistakes and holds his concentration all the time

Bob Hill

I didn't want to have to double (team) Ely. Maybe we just didn't think he would do that. The lack of concentration and defensive aggressiveness is hard to understand. I tried everything I could think of. It just wasn't there. We just dug too deep a hole.

Mehmet Okur

I don't know what happened. I think we lost our concentration out there, especially in the fourth quarter.

Jake Peavy

I couldn't make a pitch and we couldn't make a play. I let my focus and concentration get away from me. I was upset with the triple.

Mickey Mala

Other than a couple of concentration lapses at the end of each quarter, it was a really nice game for us defensively. This was a good win for us.

Glen Davis

I had a high level of concentration out there today. That's how I approached it. I made sure I was ready to play. I just wanted to win.

Bob Paduchik

Ken Blackwell is either a huge hypocrite or very incompetent.

Billy Gillispie

Joe shouldn't have shot it. He knows that. It was my fault. I probably should have either called another timeout right there and told them exactly what we wanted to do or just reminded Joe that we didn't really need to have a 3-point shot at that point.

Peter Greenaway

I think it is really important to be in some way provocative - either intellectually or viscerally - in the films one makes.

Jim Rice

I think it is one of the most picturesque views that we have encountered in either mission thus far.

Shimon Peres

It can't happen as long as there is still shooting. Either there is shooting or there are talks,

Karan Johar

It can be either of the two Fridays.

Steve Smith

He can play either position equally well, and I don't often say that about guards. I hear that and when I see most kids, I think they become one or the other. He can honestly play either. And that helps.

Richard Berner

Greenspan's remarks will be significant, either because of what he does say or what he doesn't say, ... They will move rates higher this year but the timing of that may have changed.

Sandy Alomar

He seems comfortable at either position. He needs a little work around the base. He has to get used to it.

Ron Hutchins

John is a very pleasing young man to have. He's very focused on what he does. You'll see him moving up.

S. Walker

It all seems to be focused on him (Rodriguez).

Larry Hoff

Her scoring numbers are actually a little down from last year. Part of it is because we have other players who can score, but the main reason is that Jessi has focused on getting her teammates more involved.

Scott Coffey

He's been so focused on proving his innocence, and now he'll try to put his life back together.

Santino Quaranta

His suspension, it's not good the day of the game. I respect Peter's decision, I respect the head office and it's their decision. It's between Freddy and the team. We have a job to do and we're focused on winning MLS Cup.

Mark Patton

I think it's going to be important to stay focused and use that adrenaline. It's the last game here but I'm going to treat it as any other game and play hard.

Tony Anderson

I think that he has focused on regaining his sobriety.

Vince Borg

We are focused on the integration of Placer Dome's assets, people and projects.

Jason Richardson

I think we're too focused on the stars. When you focus on the stars, role players get off. Guys that usually don't have big nights are getting 20, 25 points. Once they get their points, the starters come in and kick our butts.

Joe Torre

Just win as many games as we can and see where that leaves us when it's over.

Brian Thornton

Josh did a great job tonight, but it's not just tonight. He's done well the last several games and in practice. When Josh is playing well, it gives us a lot of versatility. When Josh is hitting shots and doing a great job on the boards, it gives us a lot more options.

Byron Scott

I think it's a good thing for our team right now. If we can win games without Chris, I think it gives these guys even more confidence. And it also shows when he comes back that we'll even be better.

Ian Thorpe

I think I should retire after the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.

Mark LeRose

He keeps us in games. He's really stepped up recently and made a statement.

Brian Dawkins

We've been through so much before as a team, all those big games that we have lost and the way that we have been able to rebound,

Ian Livingstone

I thought there was going to be a limit to paper and pencil games and I really wanted to get into the next medium,

Sam Huff

I thought they might win 10 games last year. If they win 10 games this year, I think it would be a hell of a successful season. Right now I think Joe Gibbs would settle for 10. Who wouldn't?

Ed Pultz

I thought that was one of her better games at managing the game. She played under control, rebounded and played pretty good defense.

Megan Smith

I was lucky that science fair was mandatory at my high school in inner-city Buffalo.

Courtney LaVere

I was looking for Mel (D'Amico) with the high passes so she could score.

Chris Mennis

I wouldn't be surprised if that $2.10 is the high for the week.

Chad Kroeger

I wrote this song when I was high on magic mushrooms,

Clark Yingst

I suspect 'Well we're in a directionless market' is likely to persist until we get a better read on how much higher rates will go.

Doug Elliott

It already seemed highly likely. It now seems a near certainty.

Katharine McPhee

I actually studied in college, for the three semesters that I stayed in school, I don't recommend that, but I studied theater, and in high school I was involved in the drama department.

Jackson Wheeler

He was a big-time recruit out of high school, so a lot of people liked what they saw in him.

Mark Richardson

He wants to play at a really high level.

Lamar Owens

I would've been satisfied with a one-point victory. But we wanted to prove that we're on a different level ... To come out and play the way we did was phenomenal.

Siobhan Finneran

'Downton' has really pushed me to a new level in my career, but it's not like I have a big career plan. They are about as useful as a birth plan; they should be burned.

Brad Goreski

There are so many levels in fashion that I'm happy to dip in and dip out of it all.

P. J. Harvey

going on at the acquisition level and the requirements level.

Marco Sullivan

I think it's great, personally. Now everyone's got to perform. It's another level of intensity. Everyone is kind of picking it up.

Scott Butler

I think it's here now, but it may not stay, ... I don't know that it will level out at this amount.

F. Schumacher

I think with 12 to 13 minutes left, we stepped up our level of play. We were in a lull in the first half.

Karl Hobbs

I think we still have a way to go. I want to get to the point where we're playing at the level we need to play at. Because very shortly it's going to come down to one game, one play and that's my focus. We need to be at the level where its one play and your season is over.

Michael Holland

I think we are down to levels were people have said enough is enough.

Chris Moller

In the meantime, we have important competitions to run so there is no point shooting ourselves in the foot.

Randy Carlyle

It wasn't pretty, but we'll take the outcome. We put ourselves in position to win it.

Bob Spencer

We pride ourselves in being a well-rounded, blue-collar group.

Andi Anderson

We usually redeem ourselves in the second half. We just had to play more steady and we had a lot of turnovers.

Gerry Adams

strenuous efforts, taken initiatives and stretched ourselves and our constituency to the limit.

Jim Gabella

Right now we're not playing very well. We're not putting anything together offensively. We can do one of two things ? we can feel sorry for ourselves or we can come back out (today) and work.

Carla Gugino

What I've realized is that we're our own harshest critics. We give ourselves limitations. But I want to push through that wall, on a creative and personal level.

Patrick Marleau

We find ourselves trying to play ourselves into a playoff spot. Right now we're playing ourselves out of it.

Tom Coburn

We find ourselves in significant difficulties as a nation,

Yorvit Torrealba

I was in one big rush, that's probably why I'm taking so long. I should have just taken my time in Spring Training and I'd probably be ready now. I want to be out there. I wanted to throw more today, but we're going step by step.

Mitch Gilfillan

It all starts Sunday. Trust me, we'll be ready to go.

Sasha Cohen

It can be frustrating, ... But I am where I am, and everyone has their own trajectory. I know my time will come. I just have to be ready for it.

Mike Greene

Hamburg?s not going to show us anything we haven?t seen. I think we?re well-seasoned and ready for anything that can be thrown at us.

Barry Alvarez

He runs through a lot of tackles. He's a very strong runner. You're not going to arm-tackle him. You'd better be ready to gang-tackle him.

Terry Hill

He said he was ready to come home.

Mark Headley

He's always going to be well-prepared mentally. He's not a big talker, but he's always ready to play.

Thor Hushovd

It is about getting ready for Madrid. But for sure I will try to get a stage here first.

Dean Laidley

He was just tight. If it was a home-and-away, he would've played, but we want him up and ready for round one.

Patrick Freitas

He just stayed up every time. He had the respect of the gym.

Sonny Rollins

What I can say is that for may years jazz musicians had to go to Europe, for instance, to be respected and to be sort of treated not in a discriminatory way. I don't think there is anything controversial about me saying that. This is just a fact.

Lenny Wilkens

I think that you have to communicate with people, and I think that respect is a two-way street.

Rebecca West

Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.

Tupac Shakur

America wants its respect.

William Blake

The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved.

Waylon Jennings

I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He's the biggest. He's like an Elvis in this business, but no, he's never been the rebel.

Winston Churchill

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

Samuel Johnson

Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.

Laurie Levenson

It is my understanding that they have walled her off from day one and that she has had no decision-making responsibility in the case.

Richard P. Feynman

It is our responsibility to leave the people of the future a free hand.

Richard P. Feynman

Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

Richelle Mead

You understand your responsibilities better than guardians twice your age. You'll do what you have to do to succeed.

Russell Crowe

If there's anything about someone's life that's important enough to make a movie about it, I have to take responsibility to get all of it right. It's a huge responsibility.

Ron Chernow

Mutual funds have historically offered safety and diversification. And they spare you the responsibility of picking individual stocks.

Umberto Eco

Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is the case especially in many English-language newspapers. Instead, they contain a political message, and the artist takes full responsibility.

Travis Barker

There's a lot more responsibility at home, so a tour is like the opposite for me. It's like a breath of fresh air.

William J. Clinton

Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility.

William Farmer

I think it'll be ok; I think by the end of this year, we won't be talking about PeopleSoft at all.

Billy Donovan

He just wanted to talk about the day each one of us had. What I did, what he did.

Nancy Lopez

He showed me all that, and now I can talk about it and know what I'm talking about.

Bob Lachky

I think you're talking about a two-year play at least.

Stephen Smith

It is frustrating because we're not getting 10 to 12 inches. You're talking about 2 to 4 inches. We live in Wisconsin. It is not like this is unusual.

Bill Callahan

What do you mean? What are you talking about?

Mark Grudzielanek

We talked a lot and we had to get comfortable,

Bill Golden

We talk about Myrtle Beach, we talk about the event.

David Lane

Today (Friday) he was told he could talk to the media.

Dudley Etheridge

He kind of turned it around for us.

Seth Tharp

I think we have the turn of the tide. I think we're all on the same page.

Elisa Massimino

I think things are really turning on this.

Ryan Reynolds

When I exhale, I just turn right into Louie Anderson.

Wayne Gretzky

A lot of times, I can turn and pass without even looking.

Peter Plagens

I like touch. I like to make twists and turns -- but I don't want (my paintings) to be too elegant.

Tom Shaheen

If we've got to stop, then we have no commercials. If we turn back, we've just wasted your money.

Rick Barnes

If we turn it over 24 times now, we won't have a chance.

Logan Sansoni

I really wanted to get my turn at bat.