Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maureen Johnson

'Harry Potter' achieved a very special act of actual magic: it made it completely acceptable for an adult to carry around, read and enjoy a children's book.

Shah Rukh Khan

In the world of creativity, laziness translates into an inability to be rigorous enough to create fearlessly. It makes us plagiarise or water our creativity down to make it more acceptable to the public.

Clarence Briggs

There are some who've asked us if this isn't simply part of the cost of doing business. That high a cost is neither acceptable nor tenable.

Greg Taylor

I was disappointed in the process, but all things considered, I believe we achieved an acceptable result,

Pam Carpenter

We expect to have a lot of first-time, in-person voters taking advantage of a more acceptable process.

Fred Anderson

We expect to have acceptable margins on the iMac, ... We're not down in that sub-$1,000 space where people are having difficulty making money.

Ruth Collins

We're producing the medically acceptable benchmarks. So we're doing everything we can. We're willing to work with governments at any level to produce access for patients. What are the governments doing?

Brooke Smith

I think that as a team we've come a tremendously long way since November and December. But I don't think that makes this loss more acceptable or makes it hurt any less.

Elizabeth Goreham

I think as long as each council member feels they're allowed to express their views -- (any candidate) who would fit that bill would be acceptable to me. That's my main need, to make sure all views are given a fair hearing.

Herb Sendek

He was like a hockey goal-tender. We had difficulty getting things over, around or through him.

Ravi Shankar

I have great difficulty sitting in the middle of the night and writing. Everything I do comes spontaneous. Sometimes it takes a long time; sometimes it comes just like that.

Kelli Wildman

He may have difficulty remembering something that happened two weeks ago, unless it was something that made a real impression with him. But the doctors tell us that's just a part of the recovery process when a person has been in a coma.

Richard P. Feynman

When things are going well, something will go wrong. / When things just can't get any worse, they will. / Anytime things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something.

Zane Grey

The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.

Ted Hellard

In the past, the CFL has had great difficulty of where to place these players in terms of how do you give them legitimate tryouts.

Ron Glass

In terms of the character itself, I can't really say that I find anything really difficult. I enjoy the character so much I don't perceive difficulty in trying to be him. It's just a matter of how do we get there.

Daniel Bonn

If you move into the quicksand, this loose packing will collapse. We then have densely packed sand at the bottom, and water floating on top of it. It's the difficulty of getting water into this very densely packed sand that makes it difficult for you to pull your foot out.

John Ortberg

In my love-challenged condition, seeing a difficulty for someone else can leave me feeling a little more smug or superior-by-comparison.

Terri Johnson

Kirby is playing really well for us. We expected him to play at this level, he just got a late start with football. That three at the end of the third quarter was huge.

James Sullivan

Kids will reach whatever expectation you set for them.

Jim McDonnell

Kids come and they have no expectation that there's anything like that when they're feeding the ducks, ... You can imagine what could occur.

Lynn Gray

I would think you would expect a lot more than (1,000). They may have 10,000 people out there.

Brian Fuentes

I would not say I was surprised with the success I had. I have worked hard and I expect to do well. I would never have expected to be in an all-star game. That was not a goal going into the season. That was something extra.

Paul Kim

I would say it was a shock. I think a lot of people expected him to remain in tenure for at least another two or three years.

Fernando Clavijo

Keel is one of those kids, we didn't expect much, and every day he keeps improving.

Stone Gossard

J was open to our style from the get-go. They weren't expecting us to do something that was unnatural for us.

Scott DeMonte

Jon's a good player. That's what we expect from him this season.

David Harris

I realize that the margins are being squeezed, ... We have a plan for that.

Howard Davidowitz

The margins are positive, but sales are eroding,

Yoshihisa Miyamoto

The size of the outlook revision, unseen in recent years, was a big surprise. Profit margins are dropping.

Billy Childish

I like being on the margins. You work better there.

Arun Sarin

The place where our margins are really being impacted is in Japan,

Steven Wood

Because pricing power has disappeared, profit margins will remain under significant pressure.

Frank Lee

The PC sector is weak in the first quarter but I am still optimistic for the whole year. That's because the trend for the TV sector is positive so profit margins should go up from the second and third quarters.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

MC Hammer

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

Gregg Popovich

It always has been that people didn't think we were for real,

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

H. Hunt

He used to laugh. He'd get people to do it and not tell them what was going to happen.

Ed Wade

I think we need some space at this point,

Geoffrey Canada

It is important to have permanent safe spaces in Harlem.

Jack Berry

Hopefully, we'll be able to backfill that space.

Josh Smith

I'd like to see how space is. I'd like to float.

Robert Crippen

The space shuttle has been a fantastic vehicle. It is unlike any other thing that we've ever built. Its capabilities have carried several hundred people into space.

Robert Crippen

If you want to go into space first time on a new vehicle that's never been flown, you want to go with a pro.

Rebecca West

Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.

Ronda Rousey

The bigger my chest is, the more it gets in the way. It just creates space. It makes me much more efficient if I don't have so much in the way between me and my opponent.

Rick James

I try to make the audience forget all their problems -- for an hour and a half or so get them out of themselves, and space, and time, and consciousness.