Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louis Sachar

I actually started an adult book, worked on it for about two years, and then decided it just wasn't coming together for me, and thought I'll go back to children's books, and almost immediately I started 'Holes,' and it just seemed to take off on me.

Louis Sachar

I think what makes good children's books is putting the same care and effort into it as if I was writing for adults. I don't write anything - put anything in my books - that I'd be embarrassed to put in an adult book.

David Stevens

We applaud studies using animals to figure out ethical ways to obtain embryonic stem cells apart from the creation and destruction of human embryos. So far, however, no one appears to have accomplished this feat. Meanwhile, the good news is that adult stem cells are already providing real cures for real patients.

Cynthia Nixon

We've all seen the mom who devotes all her time and attention to her child and is so hungry for adult interaction that as soon as she's around another adult, she's not paying attention anymore.

Dan Collins

We believe that these types of cells are actually more primitive and more flexible than the adult stem cells that would be found in bone marrow, ... They're much younger. They're more robust.

Josephine Quintavalle

There are currently 58 diseases that are being treated using adult stem cells so the issue of stems cells has a positive side, providing the cells are obtained ethically,

Greg Olmsted

West Nile virus is not known to be here. Our concern is that after seven to 10 days after the rain stops, we could see a large number of adult mosquitoes.

Dennis McBride

When you've got a really good (teacher or) case manager, the kids learn to trust them, to really love them; they're starving for positive adult relationships.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Let me tell you something about full moons: kids don't care about full moons. They'll play in a full moon, no worries at all. They only get scared of magic or werewolves from stupid adults and their stupid adult stories.

Matt Rossell

We want them to put a label on the fur that tells exactly how the animals lived and died. If the furs were labeled and consumers could make a choice with all of the information, I think the protest would end.

Robert Full

We also study animals at the extremes of performance, creatures that are exceptionally good at one particular thing.

Michael Specter

The history of agriculture is the history of humans breeding seeds and animals to produce traits we want in our crops and livestock.

Patricia Schmidt

The people who took the kittens in said they were the nicest animals.

Pat Watkins

We are a true, 100 percent natural pork, which means our animals are never given antibiotics, from birth to box. We do not use any artificial growth stimulants or hormones.

William Karesh

We start at a market somewhere in Guangdong Province in China. And it's packed with cages, and you'll have chickens, and you'll have ducks. You might have some other animals -- cats, dogs, turtles, snakes -- and they're all stacked in cages, and they're all spreading their germs to each other.

Karl Mayer

We have seen 60 or more animals in Moss Landing Harbor near the boat launch. If fishermen are speeding out of the north harbor in the dark at 5 a.m., the likelihood of boat strikes is fairly high.

Nick Brown

We have to get the time between the identification of the individual disease outbreaks and the slaughter of infected animals down as far as we can get it and to try and get it within twenty four hours.

Susan Basford

We have no intention of sending these animals to a sanctuary. I don't know why we would. I think a sanctuary is appropriate for old, sick, needy elephants.

Robert Sweeney

We actually breached the wall due to the deteriorating conditions caused by the intense wind at this particular point. It created a blowtorch effect through the apartment doorway.

Michelangelo Antonioni

I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space.

Shona Thorburn

We've accomplished so much already. That one more win sets you apart from so many other teams, so many other programs and great players. We can't look too far ahead. We really need to take care of business (Monday) night.

Toni Ziegler

We're interested in what motivates dads to be good parents because there are so many men who just aren't good fathers. This work could help to tease apart what makes a good dad.

Richard Ashcroft

We're in a malaise. What do people really believe in any more apart from sport and music?

Nong Duc Manh

We cannot but feel uneasy about the losses caused by humanity themselves. Apart from the losses of life and property in destructive wars, the environment and natural resources are also being destroyed by human hands.

Montel Williams

I take apart restaurant menus everywhere I go. I kind of tick off a lot of chefs in restaurants because I'll say, 'You can keep all of the sauce, keep all of that garbage - just give me that piece of fish. Forget the salad dressing, I don't need all of that extra stuff. Just give it to me straight up, and I'll eat it.'

Norm MacDonald

With the computer and stuff, the difference between a rich guy and a poor guy, to me, is nothing. Because I don't like big houses, I don't drive a car, so you know, I just live in a small apartment and I have my computer, which is really cool.

Neville Marriner

One of the great virtues, apart from the pleasure of performing these works, is that it's opened up an entirely new, expansive repertoire of American Jewish music.

Ellen Tauscher

We appreciate the chairman responding to us but we also find his response deeply disturbing. The letter appears to have been written without any investigation of the specific facts in this case. It also appears there was no consultation with the Democratic members of the House Administration Committee.

Leigh Foreman

We are proud to play even a small part in helping our industries provide emergency shelter for the victims of this tragedy. It appears that most of the shelters ordered by FEMA have now been produced, but we do expect to see some carryover into 2006. In addition, industry sales in 2006 may increase due both to the need to replenish dealer lots that were depleted while manufacturers diverted their production capabilities to filling FEMA orders, and the permanent rebuilding of the hurricane-stricken areas.

John Ashcroft

We are alerting law enforcement and financial institutions and the American people to be vigilant and to be aware of anything that appears suspicious,

John Ziegelbauer

There are definitely more bankers sitting on the fence this year when it comes to the state of the national economy. There appears to be much indecision about how things will fall out in 2006 with such important things, such as gas prices and the housing bubble, still so uncertain.

Thomas Day

There are certain forms in which vice appears not only monstrous, but ridiculous; the cruelty of Nero is more disgusting than that of Tiberius.

Martin Selmayr

There are some black sheep countries in Europe, and one of them was Ireland and it now appears that a second one may be France.

George Harleigh

We're talking about a basic violation of the Constitutional guarantee of a free press as well as a violation of the rights of privacy of American citizens. I had hoped we would have learned our lessons from the Nixon era. Sadly, it appears we have not.

Gary Thayer

We were anticipating that we could see a little bit of an improvement in October because the rebuilding after the hurricanes appears to have started and energy prices have stabilized, but it appears that it will take a little longer for consumers to feel better about things.

Sean Howard

There is no need for any of the residents to fear. This appears to be something internal. That's the way we're looking at it. We've ruled out any outsiders. There isn't a criminal on the warpath out there. We are very certain who we're looking for.

Paul Gascoigne

Wayne Rooney is a fantastic player who wants to win every game. It is his determination which is coming to the fore. Unfortunately, things like that happened to me many years ago when I had a go at the referee. I did daft things and I once got booked for showing a ref the red card. But the rules have changed now, and if you applaud the ref that is what happens.

Ken Swanson

We applaud this as a first step. We believe every child deserves an optimal class size.

George Steinbrenner

We applaud the Red Sox for decisively dealing with this matter.

Wenonah Hauter

We applaud the farmer who did the right thing by turning over the sick cow in question to a veterinarian for testing.

Rosemary Palmer

We applaud the efforts of Cindy Sheehan in Texas. We consider her the Rosa Parks of the new movement opposing the Iraq war.

Mary Osako

We applaud the direction of the secretary of state in establishing the Global internet Freedom Task Force. This embraces the government-to-government approach that Yahoo has been urging.

John Reid

We applaud the bravery of someone willing to help put an end to abuse.

Patrick Wang

We applaud such efforts, but I don't think shutting one market down will solve all the problems we are facing.

Gregg Lehman

We applaud President Bush and his commitment to greater consumer health care empowerment. The evidence is mounting to show that informed consumers who control their own health care spending are also more likely to make better personal health care choices.

David Hornsby

I've always drawn, for example, and I did consider when I was younger, it was either do I become an actor or do I become an animator cartoonist at that point. Do I work at Disneyworld or something and do animated cells or something?

Dee Hock

If you go back to the first single-cell form of life, it clearly possessed the capacity to receive, to utilize, to store, to transform, and to transmit information.

Craig Venter

When you think of all the things that are made from oil or in the chemical industry, if in the future we could find cells to replace most of those processes, the ideal way would be to do it by direct design.

Bill Murray

You know the theory of cell irritability?. If you take an amoeba cell and poke it a thousand times, it will change and then re-form into its original shape. And then, the thousandth time you poke this amoeba, the cell will completely collapse and become nothing. That's kind of what it's like being famous. People say hi, how are you doing, and after the thousandth time, you just get angry; you really pop.

Charles Horton Cooley

The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.

Bill Maher

To all conservative women out there: If you are so sure the embryo needed for stem cell research are precious human life that can't be destroyed, then implant one in your uterus and bring it to term. That's right, put your cervix where your mouth is.

Roe Hye

Whether the two cells were tailor-made can be found out after the panel's DNA tests are completed.

Kenneth Fisher

Windmills and solar cells are carbon-free sources of electricity. But they are costly. If you've been investing in those, give it up. That game is effectively over.

Cathy Guisewite

Breaking up: It's so easy to return their possessions, but so hard to get our brain cells back.

Denis Waitley

You are a masterpiece of creation.

Emery Simon

There is no question that the exploitation of works will increasingly be through the creation of digital temporary copies, as opposed to the creation of permanent copies.

Kelly Klein

It's just awesome. Enjoying God's creation. It's just gorgeous.

Aleksander Wolszczan

This discovery demonstrates that the planet-creation process is a very robust and a very universal one.

Robert Burns

And there begins a lang digression about the lords o' the creation.

Dhani Jones

Without creation, what are we but stalled in life?

Gerard Hopkins

O then if in my lagging lines you miss / The roll, the rise, the carol, the creation.

Paul Ashworth

The slowdown in the pace of job creation

Ralph Goodale

The tax-reduction plan . . . is a job-creation initiative that I hope (NDP Leader Jack) Layton would be able to support,

Ruth Draper

You see -- he's got a perfectly new idea. He never sees his patients. He's not interested in individuals, he prefers to treat a crowd. And he's organized these mass cures . . . And he cures thirty thousand people every Thursday.

Brian Tracy

If there is no cure, you must endure.

Jane Austen

Where the wound had been given, there must the cure be found, if any where.

Barton Gellman

Some misunderstandings are hard to cure.

Craig Venter

There have been lots of stories written about all the hype over getting the genome done and the letdown of not discovering lots of cures right after.

Bill Self

We didn't play a lot better than Nebraska. We just made shots. Certainly, that cures a lot of ills.

Aldous Huxley

One cubic centimeter cures ten gloomy sentiments.

John Milton

Our cure, to be no more; sad cure!

Marge Piercy

Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.

David Prentice

It's encouraging that scientists are even thinking about the ethical problems of embryonic stem-cell research. But I don't think these two techniques solve the ethical problems.

Bob Bowlsby

We are in the very embryonic stages of investigating this.

Glenn McGee

Making a human embryonic stem cell, even from a nuclear transplant from an adult, in no way demonstrates that the embryo is going to be viable. I don't think there's a substantive ethical issue here - or a substantive scientific issue.

John Gurdon

I wondered whether the nuclear transfer techniques could be used to introduce purified macro-molecules into an egg, and hence into embryonic cells.

Robert Cabana

We just can't wait to see the outcome of what we started. I just see us in the embryonic stage of this. It's just a small beginning, and it's only going to grow.

Kevin Eggan

I can't stress enough that this technology is not ready for prime time right now. It is not a replacement for those techniques that we already have for derivation of embryonic stem cells.

Martin Cohn

Our work is really the first demonstration of the embryonic origin of these organs, and it gives us some insight into how they arose during evolution.

Sean Tipton

It's not as if this research says there is no need for embryonic stem cells.

David Magnus

This kind of research should not be done without proper ethical oversight. These are very, very tricky issues.

E. O. Wilson

The soldiers thing, I think the Italians picked it up first. I've done interviews with the Italians, the French, Amsterdam. ... They were very critical, saying the US wouldn't pick it up, because it's such a sore spot. ... It raises too many ethical questions. ... I started to laugh, because it's true.

Beth Wilkinson

This is an ethical dilemma, and we did find several instances in which individuals stepped over the line.

Ray LaHood

The only part of the formula they have going for them right now is some of our people are ethically challenged, ... The rest of it doesn't fit--they don't have ideas, they don't have people on our side retiring.

Christopher Shays

Ethics is everything, ... If you don't have a strong moral standing, if you don't have an ethical foundation, you just crumble.

Donald Kennedy

At the time of publication, we felt on ethically solid ground.

Robert Clarke

We tried very, very hard to make a product which was first morally and ethically correct. To do that, we only work with a person's own blood.

E. Helm

What the American people are witnessing is a successful cover-up of serious ethical wrongdoing, ... a sight to behold.

Albert Einstein

I have never obtained any ethical values from my scientific work.

Kevin Matthews

We struggled with their press in the second quarter and then we gave up way too many baskets in the third. I need to figure out how to teach the girls to handle the press better. But overall, I was encouraged.

Richy Brooks

We are a team that is still trying to find its identity. We are trying to find the right people to put in the right places with the right combination of people that will help us the most, but we are starting to figure that out I believe.

Martina McBride

At the beginning of every week, I like to sit down and figure out what I'm going to make. I probably try at least two new recipes a week. But I have my standbys - jambalaya, meatloaf and mashed potatoes.

Lesli Linka Glatter

I like to really know what every scene is about, what the text is, what the subtext is. Then I figure out how to express that when I'm shooting.

Lee Bermejo

I've wanted to write ever since I've gotten into comics. I wrote little things for myself when I was doing mini-comics and things, before becoming a professional. But I just figure at some point or another, I've got to make the leap. I just have to do it.

Gretchen Rubin

I'm always trying to figure out ways to keep hold of memories. My one-sentence journal, for instance.

John Baldwin

We want to put our mark on the sport and push pairs figure skating to next level.

Derek Hall

We have security in the building. No alarms were sounded. We're trying to figure out what happened there. There was no forced entry, no vandalism.

Ron Beard

When he figures out how incredibly good he is, he'll be unstoppable.

Chris Brown

There's never a right time to say goodbye.

Chris Brown

There's never a right time to say goodbye. But I gotta make the first move 'cause if I don't you're gonna start hating me.

Chinua Achebe

I don't want to be the one to tell somebody, You will not make it, even though I know that the majority of those who come to me with their manuscripts are not really good enough.

China Mieville

In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this. I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away. I can't say goodbye.

Edith Wharton

There is someone I must say goodbye to. Oh, not you - we are sure to see each other again - but the Lily Bart you knew. I have kept her with me all this time, but now we are going to part, and I have brought her back to you - I am going to leave her here. When I go out presently she will not go with me. I shall like to think that she has stayed with you.

Daymond John

Poor people put a low value on themselves and their efforts.

David Hyde Pierce

We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

David Icke

Terms like 'good' and 'bad' are extremely simplistic in what is a far more complex situation.

Ben Whishaw

I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.

Charles Dickens

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

Alan Watts

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

Chip Kidd

Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond, without hesitation, 'Solvable'.

Chinua Achebe

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: 'He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.'

David Icke

A group of reptilian humanoids, called the Babylonian Brotherhood, control humanity.

David Hume

Custom is the great guide to human life.

Astro Teller

Anything which is a huge problem for humanity we'll sign up for, if we can find a way to fix it.

Hit-Boy

I had to learn how to think as a positive human being, before anything.

Herbert A. Simon

I like to think that since I was about 19, I have studied human decision-making and problem-solving.

Edward Lear

Who, or why, or which, or what, Is the Akhond of Swat?

Betty Friedan

I love newspapers. I've worked on newspapers, all my life. I've always loved it.

Bill Gates

Convert bad news to good news.

Bob Schieffer

Nowadays I'm not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer.

Chandra Levy

abused by the typhoon of the news media.

Joey Skaggs

They don't want the public to question their credibility as an investigative news source.

Bryan Robson

It's very disappointing news because everything was agreed,

Stephen Kay

It's obvious Al-Jazeera is probably not the most objective news organization.

Bryan Colangelo

It's not the news we wanted to hear,

Michael Rains

What we're saying is, who are the real cheaters? They are the ones who are using these illegally obtained materials.

Guru Singh

They redeem their generations, and they themselves obtain the state of liberation.

Jerry Yang

People regard Yahoo as a platform for essential services, and it's had a profound impact on the way people obtain information, communicate, and their entertainment.

Granth Sahib

Tell me, without the worship, who has ever obtained the supreme status?

Thomas Bangalter

The only secret to being in control is to have it in the beginning. Retaining control is still hard, but obtaining control is virtually impossible.

Robin Roberts

In order to obtain original period clothing, you need to go everywhere.

Fred Funk

This is cool. I really do pinch myself to realize where I've come from. To obtain some of the things I have obtained out here is pretty cool.

Christine Lagarde

We still have to obtain clarification on its interpretation,

Granth Sahib

Those, within whom the Truth dwells, obtain the True Name; they speak only the Truth.

Tom Krause

They're trying to speed up their transit times in respect to providing better service for their customers.

Jeff Alexander

It's one thing to have these services down the road; it's quite another when you're already providing these products.

Dan Rosensweig

It's about providing a service that users really want.

James Perkins

We wanted to respect him and that is why we are providing the appropriate honors,

Andrew Patel

We will be providing him with a zealous defense.

Kevin Mitnick

A log-in simulator is a program to trick some unknowing user into providing their user name and password.

Mary Barra

My definition of 'innovative' is providing value to the customer.

Charles Wang

We have to see the follow-through in terms of implementations and providing support for foreigners.

Mike McGuire

He's going to put all his resources into providing for his family.

Greg Schiano

Sometimes you make a play like that interception in the end zone and you stem the tide and find a way to win. We interfered.

Plato

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

Kathleen Blanco

We're dumping things into the hole, just to stem the tide.

Gerardo Cardenas

They shouldn't have their studies interrupted because of the situation.

Matthew Daus

This is one of the most important studies we've seen.

Eric Jackson

If the studies are accurate, we can see Oaklawn take it to new levels.

Alan Chambers

One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality. Satan, the enemy is using people to further his agenda to destroy the Kingdom of God and as many souls as he can.

Bernard Meltzer

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.

Ban Ki-moon

We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.'

Sam Curry

This is Old World crime, but it's using new tools.

Edward Looney

We're using the word 'gambling' more often now.

Stephen Chbosky

So what's the point of using words nobody else knows or can say comfortably? I just don't understand that.

Shaun White

There are plenty of skills I've learned from playing video games. It's more interactive than watching TV, because there are problems to solve as you're using your brain.

Theodore Sturgeon

I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.

Maxwell Maltz

Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively.

Matt Hasselbeck

They make you prepare. Just some of the things they do and all of the ways they come after you.

Jesus Fierro

They've come up. They are on the rise, but they've got a ways to go yet.

David Blair

We know we have a long ways to go with the Missoula public.

Andy Reid

Offensively, we've got a ways to go now. We need to get back on track.

Russ Kinnel

You really should find other ways to distinguish yourself.

Colin Devine

There are ways to get around that, though.

Tommie Liddell

Different day, same old thing. Down the stretch, we couldn't find ways to convert.

Val Hiser

We give in the ways we can. This is something I can do.

Dick Hutton

You have to look at other ways of making money. That's not always easy.