Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Lord Byron

I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in 20 minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it.

Jean Harlow

HARLOW: "I was reading a book the other day . . . the guy said machinery is going to take the place of every profession."/ DRESSLER: "Oh, my dear, that's something you'll never have to worry about.

Graeme Base

It's not even my job to educate, but what I do is try to facilitate by creating a book that works on different levels. I do want to entertain and bring some joy to the reading experience. If it holds a little kernel of knowledge that readers choose to explore, well, that's great.

Barbara Stephens

It includes 200 recipes all in one book and saves having to cut recipes from magazines and storing them somehow.

David Mumpower

There is no better way to do this. They're taking a page out of Mel Gibson's play book for 'The Passion of the Christ' to let the media coverage sell the movie. All the coverage is better than ads.

Jim Amormino

We treated this the same as we would any case. There was no clear evidence of a crime being committed, so there was nothing to book him on.

Hilaire Belloc

When I am dead, I hope it is said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.

H. Hunt

There are so many stray and abandoned cats,

Larry Silverstein

It is inexcusable that the Port Authority abruptly abandoned the talks (Tuesday) night without a plan to move forward. We are not sure where this leaves us now.

Jeffrey Brown

I was always most interested in drawing - most of my childhood drawings are black-and-white line work. And when I kind of abandoned comics, through college and art school, I was doing a lot of painting. But once I started doing comics again, everything else just fell by the wayside.

Paul Nurse

In fact I am very much an experimentalist and an empiricist, so it would have been a major mistake for me to have abandoned this type of work.

Paul O'Connor

High-end financial, IT, creative and strategic jobs are strong and growing in numbers here. Companies that abandoned the city 30 years ago are coming back and revitalizing and rebuilding the city and its neighborhoods, bringing top talent back into the city and, in turn, bringing more companies back.

John Tippett

I met a firefighter from New York City. A year later he died in a fire in an abandoned building.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Atharva Veda

The Guru has shown me that this is the way of the world; I have abandoned the dwelling of pride, and entered Your Sanctuary.

Carlos Gonzalez

The houses were all abandoned buildings used by smugglers and people traffickers for shelter, the rest of the village remains intact.

Willie Roaf

I thought about (retiring). I talked to Will and some of the guys. Then last year we finished so strong at the end of the year. It was great seeing Will come back. That helped, too.

Marty Reid

We made our free throws down the stretch and then finished them up. It was just an overall great team effort.

Libby Lenton

I am just so happy that it is all over, it is such a relief to be finished racing.

Bill Mott

He handled the ground well and finished nicely.

Bob Holthus

He hadn't run in about four weeks, so we wanted to get a good work in him, and he finished good.

Larry Rothschild

He looked OK, for where we are. He finished up pretty strong. We'll pick it up there the next time.

Robert Smithson

Nature is never finished.

Matt Cressman

Paul worked his butt off tonight. I thought he had waited too long to pass it, but he timed it just right and Mike finished it for us.

Kevin Millwood

I guess you could say we finished the way we started.