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.

Molly Harper

I think my books are lighter and funnier than some of the big series out there. You may not walk away from my books having learned a life-altering lesson, but you will feel better for having laughed for a few hours. It's just a different style of writing.

Ashley Johnson

I will not plan on buying any kind of electronic textbook. If you pay for it, it should be yours. That's information open to you, especially if you're buying books for your major.

Gunter Thielen

Our major acquisitions and joint ventures ... will be shown on the books for the second half of the year,

Joseph Bruchac

I often find myself unsatisfied with books 'about' Indians because they are written from the viewpoint of non-Indians.

Mark Smith

If you want to sell T-shirts and mountain books and volcano burgers in the existing spots, that's great.

Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

I had a happy childhood, with many stimulations and support from my parents who, in postwar times, when it was difficult to buy things, made children's books and toys for us. We had much freedom and were encouraged by our parents to do interesting things.

Matthew Scully

In the summer or fall of 1974, I read some books about factory farming, and decided that I wanted no part of it.

Jim Gray

The team that won last year prides itself on being the last team to register. So they usually register around 4:30 p.m. on the Friday of the competition and they have won the last four or five years that they've been playing.

Steve Smyers

We've got a big golf course here, but what we've got are 16, 17 and 18, that if you come out and play a friendly match or if we have a competition here, there can be a huge spread of scores.

Terry Grant

They want me to play running back. Wherever you go, you've got to work to be the best. Competition is good.

Jana Lindsey

No, it wasn't too frustrating. You want the competition to be safe and fair, and there isn't much we can do about this.

Kevin Hadsell

It was a good way to start the season. It is always good to see competition we do not normally see on a regular basis.

Jodi Manore

It was a good tournament for us. We could have played better, but we need to be playing competition like this.

Rhonda Jefferson

It was a great match. Our players really rose to the occasion. They (Dear Valley) were really great competition.

Shawna Smith

It was a great indication of what state will look like. We'll give a few teams some competition.

Michael Eaton

It's the highest level of competition I've ever run against.

Tom Schatz

Large contractors give lots of money to these members of Congress. They always have. That's the way things are done.

Eric Fehrnstrom

If Congress and the President impose new requirements on the project, we'll follow the procedures and guidelines set out in the law.

Arlen Specter

If you have a sharp turn in the court you undercut reliance, expectation, and, as Roberts would say, stability,

Jonathan Penn

If you know where the person lives, and depending what you're looking for, you can search for any relevant court records, real estate ownership, etc..

Robert Andrews

in the court of public opinion that he, and not Neil Bush, is the father of his son.

Bob Honts

In the land of water law in Colorado, the water court is king.

Roger Magnuson

In short, we haven't been treated fairly, and I think it's time for a court to intervene.

Paul Barnett

In our judgment, a court is likely to defer to the city's reasons.

Jessica Foley

I like walking out on the court with Mo. I'm sure everyone else does. I think it makes me stand a little stronger, too.

Joe Chapman

It helped out my vision. It has helped out making reads that I have to make on the court and where other players are on the court.

Danny Ainge

I think 2 1/2 years of evaluating and watching practice every day and watching Ricky's performance on and off the court and in the locker room and everything else, we felt it was better to look in a different direction.

Jack Kerouac

Nothing ever happened - Not even this

George Roosevelt

These incidents don't happen very often here. We take is very seriously.

Harry Wu

This human rights violation is very unique. It does not happen in any other country, only in China,

Koyie Hill

This is all very weird, but I've got a smile on my face. There's a lot of worse things that can happen to a person, you know.

Gary Bartlett

This is a huge undertaking. There are a lot of things that have to happen, and they have to happen right and happen in a short period of time.

James Mathis

All I can tell you is this: That won't happen again.

Jamie Pollard

All I will say is that something could happen quickly.

Mel Angelstad

You can speculate what's going to happen, but upsets happen in sports all the time.

Michelann Ooten

We're kind of bracing for that to happen tomorrow.

Octavio Dotel

This is huge in my country. Just huge.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

We can afford all that we need; but we can not afford all [that] we want.

Max Baucus

This legislation has tremendous momentum. It's going to pass. It's going to be enacted and the president is going to sign it.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Henri Bergson

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

Charlie King

Right place at the right time is all I can say about that one.

Gil Brandt

Really? I think for a long time they probably didn't have a quarterback because they were a wishbone team.

Robert Battle

Reflection is not something you have a lot of time for.

Sarah MacLean

If you think back to your time as a teenager, everything was dramatic.