Famous Quotes & Sayings

Katherine Paterson

Some say it is the elements of hope and wonder in children's books that make them special. But there are many dark young adult novels these days. Adults loved Harry Potter, though it was written for the young. In the end, it is probably up to the reader of any age to decide if this book is for him or her.

Jack Shafer

I also think that anyone in late years of college is anxious about their future, asking themselves, 'What do I want to do? Also, I think that we all live vicariously through children and these kind of trend stories are an expression of adult anxiety.

George Herman

You're an actor, are you? Well, all that means is: you are irresponsible, irrational, romantic, and incapable of handling an adult emotion or a universal concept without first reducing it to something personal, material, sensational - and probably sexual!

Mark Sanford

Having literally dedicated the whole of his adult life to representing the people of Clarendon and Williamsburg, Alex was truly a servant of the people, ... That commitment to the ideals he lived by and the people he served will be sorely missed.

Jim Collins

He's a big-sized adult bird and he keeps coming back to this area.

C. Thomas Howell

Going from a child actor to an adult actor is not an easy thing, and I was sort of lost in a no man's land for a while, trying to figure out who I was as a person, and going from a young actor to an adult actor.

A. Johnson

There is a huge interest in adult skating. They see it on TV and want to give it a try.

Jeanette Siemens

The purpose of the rally is to bring youth and adult leaders together to discuss issues. The issue this year is alcohol and drug abuse. The Kids have identified this as a major issue.

Michael Imperioli

When he started, Christopher was really like a kid. He's had, over the years, more and more adult responsibilities and adult experiences. He's kind of closed some of the generation gap with Tony. But to play a character that actually progresses throughout time and matures is a luxury.

John Hahn

Ken and Steve never connected today. With the opening of free agency, Ken spent most of his time on the phone. He hopes to speak with Steve by Wednesday.

Josh Bidwell

He connected really well with the kids. He shared some real solid truth with them.

Greg Behrendt

I rarely sit down to write something. I usually have an experience and relate it to somebody and go, 'There I connected some dots,' you know? That's what makes people laugh. And then you go and take it on the stage, and sometimes it works, and sometimes people go, 'What's he talking about?' I don't know; I thought it was it funny in the kitchen.

Steve Earle

I am connected to the past in a way that keeps me going forward. Every leap forward that I make is by reaching back and firmly getting a footing in the past, and pushing forward as hard as I can.

Nadine Velazquez

I've always exuded some connection to my sexuality even as a kid. So to me, being sexy means staying connected to that part of me.

Raina Telgemeier

Going to so many book events keeps me connected with my readership while constantly reminding me that all the long hours at the drawing desk are worthwhile.

Mike Hamilton

He's been somewhat of an evangelist, a circuit-riding preacher. He's connected with the fan base.

Eve Ensler

I was drawn to vaginas because of my own personal history, because of sexuality, because women's empowerment is deeply connected to their sexuality. And, I'm obsessed with women being violated and raped, and with incest. All of these things are deeply connected to our vaginas.

Owen Wilson

The people that come up to me about 'Bottle Rocket' tend to be my favorite maybe because that was our first movie and that was maybe the most personal one to us, ... And so that means more than like an 'Anaconda' fan even though you're appreciative of that. But I'm more connected emotionally to 'Bottle Rocket' than 'Anaconda.'

Peter Schultz

Jaco signed a three-year deal with NEC and it's unlikely they'll release him.

Dave Musgrove

Jack the Ripper remains an iconic figure today, and perhaps is seen as the forerunner of the serial killers that society has had to deal with since.

Richard D. James

I would say the Borg presented us with a great deal of imagination.

Tom Renney

Just something we have to deal with internally as a team when it comes to penalties.

Lee Mazzilli

Joe is the master in terms of dealing with people. But that has come with experience. He has a way about him now he may not have had before.

Larry Dixon

I think it's a little different when you're in the middle of the points deal for the championship going into Pomona with everything going on,

Christopher Hill

I think it is a good deal for everybody, especially for the DPRK,

Kelly Smallridge

It can take two or three years or more to put a deal together.

Sargent College

It can get really frustrating. You want to just yell 'Just Eat!' and try to help them, but sometimes it is hard to deal with it.

Charlie Hunnam

I think we all kind of thought those would be the most fun, the fight scenes. And they were the most challenging. Physically exhausting and complicated and kind of very specific and intricate, so they just took a long time to film. I think that we all thought that we'd get to set, have a punch up and we'd get it on film and be wrapped, but it wasn't quite like that.

Andrew Wyatt

It's even exhausting for me to think about remixes because there were so many Miike Snow remixes.

Mara Wilson

Acting is something I did when I was a kid. I do act sometimes in friends' projects, but when I do, it's just for fun. It is actually a hobby for me now. I do still love stage acting, but the day-to-day process of being an actor is so exhausting and so taxing.

Kerry Condon

I'm not panicking any more or worrying about the next job. It was exhausting and making me very unhappy, and I was missing out on life.

Orison Swett Marden

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. Worry upsets our whole system; work keeps it in health and order.

John Fairchild

I find it an exhausting experience, personally, to go to a party every night.

Jaromir Jagr

It is awfully exhausting and devastating. This is sport and sometimes it simply does not work.

Mark O'Donnell

Theater is exciting because it is collaborative, but it is also exhausting for the same reason.

Kobe Bryant

That's unthinkable. It's pretty exhausting to think about.

Nic Pizzolatto

I grew up in Louisiana and spent my formative years there. There's a contradictory nature to the place and a sort of sinister quality underneath it all.

Jason Robert Brown

Leonard Bernstein was probably the most significant formative influence on me - he was such an encompassing musician. I spent my teenage years absorbing him, and my other interests stemmed off of that. Bernstein led me to Sondheim and to Gershwin, and Sondheim led me to listening to Joni Mitchell.

Andrew Stanton

I think you could go back to any filmmaker or musician or artist, and look at what their input was in their formative years, and you could trace all the lines.

Matthew Morrison

I actually grew up break-dancing. When you break-dance you listen to hip-hop and rap, so I've been listening to that music since I was a kid.

Bill Sharpe

Guys like Greg and Rusty grew up as watermen, because their dad's one, too. And being a hot surfer was secondary to being a true waterman.

Bob DiBiasio

Hal was a real journalist. He grew up in a time when newspapers were kings and always kept the sense that the printed word was magic.

Quinton Aaron

I like to be someone else. I like to be someone other than myself. I grew up watching movies and being a fan of what I'd seen portrayed in the movies, and I always wanted to do that one day.

Laura Vandervoort

I grew up doing martial arts, and I'm a second-degree black belt.

Stefan Edberg

I think that over the years people grew to understand what I stood for. They knew what type of player I was. I think they respected me for that.

Bob Wietharn

It is my heart, where I grew up, and where I'll always be.

Bill Sullivan

Last year, our revenue grew by 30% in India and we hope it continues.

Mary-Kate Olsen

We were never thrown into the situation in the middle of our lives, but grew up doing it. This is all we know, and some people who were thrown into it don't really know what to do or how to react and this is just kind of natural for us.

Jeremy Jacobs

Jacques had done street theater in Paris. He'd always been interested in large architectural structures and how humans interact with them.

Milo Hamilton

He rode managers. He rode players. It didn't matter. He treated everyone the same way. In short, he was a miserable human being.

Paul Taylor

I think that's a Jewish trait, ... It's also a human trait.

Jenna Marbles

There is no cure for ugly, but you can make yourself into a human optical illusion.

C. Hughes

We are experiencing a human catastrophe of immense proportions, ... We pray today for those who have lost their lives ... and for those who are risking their lives to rescue others.

Jon Ronson

I was always out to paint them with human characteristics we could relate to. They really are, by and large, personable in the flesh.

Nick Cave

I'm not someone who's particularly in touch with the way they feel. I've heard it said that you should be a 'human being' not a 'human doing', but I'm a human doing, very much so.

John Ashcroft

Human trafficking victims are too often people like Got. Too young, too frightened, and too trapped in their circumstances to speak for themselves, ... This is a 4-year-old child. He's a shy, tender little boy.

Paul Martin

Humans are really expensive, and they're really slow.

Charles Kingsley

He did not know that a keeper is only a poacher turned outside in, and a poacher a keeper turned inside out.

Scott Pruett

He just dived on the inside and used me to stop.

Bruiser Flint

He's a big kid who can score inside and outside and can rebound the ball. He can post you up. That's the tough thing about him.

Randy Moore

I thought we executed in every aspect, inside and out. We had a total package and made this happen.

Wolfgang Nowak

I think that Merkel has solved the principal unsolvable problems inside her own party. The problem for her now is the Social Democrats.

Cassie Schrock

I was just looking to penetrate every time. My teammates kept looking for me inside and my shot was just falling.

Leon Powe

I was just having fun. We were here at Staples, so I wanted to come out hard. If I can get something going inside for my team, that sets them up on offense.

Lewis Witcher

I was kind of shocked they did that, but that's OK though. Let them come in. They're not going to get too much inside when I'm in there.

Ken Hitchcock

We maybe had three inside shots in the third period. We had kind of wild turnaround shots. We didn't have any presence with shots at the net. We were one shot at the net and gone.

George William Norris

No nation ought to keep a navy larger than is necessary to do police duty.

Seth Shostak

In 1908, there was a persuasive demonstration of the power of high-speed, low-mass asteroids in rural Siberia. The Tunguska impactor iced millions of pine trees and about a zillion mosquitoes - and was no larger than an office building.

John Thompson

It is a little larger than we've ever done, but as we prepare for the jail, it's just something we need to do.

Reba McEntire

Patsy Cline? Larger than life! She taught me emotion: raw, sincere, unashamed.

Marvin Roffman

The larger companies, they're so broadly diversified, it's a hiccup, ... That's the whole purpose of having numerous properties. If you're a small operator, then it can become meaningful.

Susan Bennett

It's part of a larger plan for the Center.

Joe Klein

You know, larger than life is always better than smaller than life in politicians. And, you know, God save us from mediocrities.

Philip Diehl

All these products have a profit margin. The profit margin is larger when we sell it over the Web than through other market channels.

Gregory Miller

The market wasn't looking for a revision of the deflator, which was much larger than expected.

Dick Durbin

He said he spent more time worrying over and working on that decision,

King Krule

A lot of the time, I was unhappy as a kid, so I spent it, I guess, in a gray place.

Ernest Cline

I spent most of my childhood welded to my Atari 2600, until I got my first computer, a TRS-80.

Spike Jonze

After 'Where The Wild Things Are,' which was this big, long five-year project, I spent a year making small things.

Marc Warren

Apparently, if you live until 75, you'll have spent 25 years in bed, so it makes sense to have a decent mattress.

Ted Cruz

I've spent the past month in Washington, D.C., and it is terrific to be back in America.

Brian Dake

I spent a lot of time up there; I'd say all of it.

Jenna Morasca

I spent 39 days in the Amazon, and I could not even find a fish to catch.

Miriam Toews

I spent 18 years in a small Mennonite town in the middle of the Canadian prairies.

Georg Petersen

It confirms what we have thought for a while, that the H5N1 virus is widely spread in Indonesia.

Tommy Tuberville

It is full-speed tackling, and we want to see them compete. But we're not going to go out there and do a lot of things that's going to get spread around.

Tracy Morgan

I spread love wherever I'm at. I'm like Marvin Gaye.

Winston Churchill

Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.

John Vaji

If you let them get up on you, they?re going to spread you out.

Greg Smith

We spread things around pretty good, especially in the first quarter.

Joe Sims

We're begging. We're going after any organization that will give us money. We're spreading the word wide and far,

Dr. Nabarro

Avian influenza is a big threat. It is spreading throughout the world.

John Jones

Offensively, I thought we penetrated to the basket. We got them spread out and got some seams to the basket.

Warren Buffett

Take the high road; it's far less crowded.

Wellington Mara

I'm not taking that. Go ahead, it's here, just take it.

Maureen Caddigan

I know he is taking this very seriously.

Bam Margera

I just had the worst wake up ever, so I'm taking it out on Dunn.

Cedric Bozeman

I'm just taking it day to day. It's tough to handle.

Angelo Reyes

We are concerned. We are taking the appropriate measures, but we are not panicking.

Nancy Grace

The reality is, when you're representing someone that's guilty, you're in the position of taking that position.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

Never stand and take a charge... charge them too.

Phil McGraw

Take the high road, there's a lot less traffic up there.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

I was 11 years old and horse-obsessed. New York City was an unfortunate place for a girl like me to be growing up.

Aileen Quinn

I will always be a New York girl at heart, but I am really liking the L.A. lifestyle.

Gina Rodriguez

I can live in L.A. as a struggling artist. I cannot live in New York as a struggling artist.

John Catsimatidis

I think New York is destined to have a Democratic mayor, and I want Freddy Ferrer to be that mayor.

Mariska Hargitay

I'm an L.A. girl who became a tough New York cop.

Phil Esposito

I only see myself doing this in two places, New York and Boston.

Scott Westerfeld

I moved to New York when I was 21 or 22 as a graduate fellow.

Robert Parkes

You could take this place out and put it in New York City.

Fred Wilpon

You can't get much more New York than this.