Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joyce Meskis

Reading a book is a very human experience, and Betty engaged in the humanity of putting children and books together.

Mark Kelley

Prior to BET, especially in its 24-hour version, I think standard commercial television did not do a good job of representing people of color. BET created a place where all those people could be seen in all the different vestiges they come in.

Hidenori Karaki

The Nasdaq ended mostly unchanged last Friday, and some investors bet it was a good chance to hunt for bargains.

Glenn Heyes

Oh you bet I will. I'll stand there until he rots. If he lasts, if he can take it, prison is a tough place, I hear.

Kateri Callahan

The momentum usually gets to a fever pitch when the prices get high. You can bet that the members of Congress are hearing from their constituents.

Evan Osnos

Deng Xiaoping made a calculation. He bet on demographics. What he knew was that China had this enormous population of young, underemployed people, people who he could move from the farms to the coast and put them to work in factories, and that would be the lifeblood of China's economy.

Celso Senise

The situation is not good and the worst thing is that there is a feeling that it could get worse. The market is ready to improve, but it depends on what happens abroad...You can't bet on anything.

Jeff Raikes

The software business was dominated by hardware companies, and everybody thought they would just come in and wipe us out. People forget that Microsoft took a huge bet to think that an independent operating system and programming language would be successful.

Anthony Curtis

The sports books come up with many ingenious ways to get you to put your money down, ... You have to pick who you think is going to win given the point spreads, but people still tend to bet with their hearts.

Alyson Stoner

I started dancing when I was 3 in Toledo, Ohio, and started hip-hop dancing at the age of 7.

Donald Ray Pollock

I spent thirty-two years in a paper mill in southern Ohio, and before that, I worked in a meatpacking plant and a shoe factory.

Tom Ridge

Ohioans know that he inherited a mess and created a surplus. So, on election day, John [Kasich] will prevail in Ohio.

Nina Blackwood

I grew up in Ohio, and I was a musicologist since I was little; it is all that I would ever read.

Michael Feinstein

I was 20 years old. I had moved to Los Angeles from Columbus, Ohio. I was working as a piano salesman - a terrible piano salesman. I couldn't sell them. I could demonstrate them, but people wouldn't buy them from me.

David Rose

But that many flights, ... oh yeah, we're going to feel it for sure.

Curt Young

Oh yeah, he's going to be in a lot of winning situations for us. He's going to be a big part of a lot of games.

Jeff Ulbrich

Oh yeah? He said that? Oh phew I don't see that taking more than a year or so.

Justin Brooks

Oh yeah, definitely. The way he's going right now, I don't see why not.

John Tucker

We stayed with the prison bus, and once we were in New Orleans, we never saw any cops.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Bless you, prison, for having been in my life!

Dalai Lama

I don't want to be a prisoner in a palace, living in such a constricted way - too tight!

Angela Davis

I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.

Robert Knepper

Prison Break really changed me to somebody that can put butts in seats.

Stephen King

In spite of the problems he was having he was going on with his life. There are thousands who don’t or won’t or can’t and plenty of them aren’t in prison either.

Stockwell Day

People like myself say, 'Fix the problem. Put him in the general [prison] population. The moral prisoners will deal with him in a way we don't have the nerve to do.'

Vernon Howard

You can not escape a prison if you do not know you're in one.

Plato

One cannot make a slave of a free person, for a free person is free even in a prison.

Joan Claybrook

These standards are written for Detroit, by Detroit.

James Johnson

This is exciting. By earthworm standards they're pretty cool.

Gord Ash

There are some things from a strategic standpoint that we don't want to share, at least not at this point.

and City

Don't you want to stand still with me?

Dr. Seuss

Whats the point of fitting in, when we were meant to stand out?

Joanne Wuensch

You know where you stand with him. Nothing is candy-coated.

Thomas S. Monson

I urge you to hold fast to your standards. I plead with you not to waver.

Stephen King

Friends come in and out of our lives, like busboys in a restaurant.

William Shakespeare

I grow, I prosper;Now, gods, stand up for bastards!

Loren Loverde

Dell has a lot of momentum, and they were tough competitors.

Terry Francona

Once you give up five, ... if they peck away and get one here and get one there, it makes it tougher to win.

Carole James

It was the toughest work I'd ever done.

Robinson Cano

It was tough to see. I didn't see it.

Willie Randolph

They are all tough, man, ... and this is tough as it gets.

Jimmy Johnson

The wind was really swirling. It was tough at times.

Li Na

The woman's tour is very tough for all of the players.

John Skalko

These are tough times and we're in a fight. It's a tough fight.

Ron Thomas

This is not done without any real thought. There are tough standards.

Al Golden

You never know it as well as you think until you have to be the teacher,

Ian Millward

And, until we get that right, we're not going to win games.

F. Stone

You have to give them you until you is what they want.

Brian Leonard

Right now it is only a scare. We won't know until after the fact.

Mark Ellis

I just feel good. I didn't think anything of it until (Mark) Kotsay said, 'If you get a chance, keep running.

Robert Harrison

I'll be here every year until I die.

Ozzie Guillen

If not then he'll have to wait until Monday.

Carol Davis

If I was the council, I wouldn't want to wait until July. It's been too long.

Rita Ora

I never knew how small L.A. was until I started to work here.