Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Bezos

We believe that over time this could turn into a significant business for Amazon, significant revenue stream for publishers and authors and a helpful customer service for readers,

Nigel Barker

Everyone gets a pencil as a kid, but it doesn't make them all authors or painters or drawers or anything else.

Gregory Benford

As we all saw in grade school, once you learn how to read a book, somebody is going to want to write one - that's how authors are made. Once we know how to read our own genetic code, someone is going to want to rewrite that 'text,' tinker with traits - play God, some would say.

Stephen Kinzer

As publishers focus on blockbusters, they steadily lose interest in little-known authors from other countries.

Jonathan Galassi

A lot of great authors are published before their time. That's not wrong; it's just the way it works.

Paul Aiken

A lot of authors get by on the bits of money they get from various users of their work, and the Internet doesn't change all of that.

Eric Scheirer

Also, musicians and authors will go outside of the major industries to speak directly to consumers. That's starting to be a small trend now, but we see that becoming a very major trend within about two years.

Steve Riggio

This investment is about giving authors with small voices the loudspeakers they need to get their works published and distributed throughout the world,

Susan Whitson

There's a lot of great authors out there, and we're highlighting them at this festival. There may be a difference of opinion on some of the president's policies, and that's their right to express those opinions.

Mark Hyman

Your social networks may matter more than your genetic networks. But if your friends have healthy habits you are more likely to as well. So get healthy friends.

Dorothy Moore

It is somewhat of a rare genetic disease,

Matthew Binns

He was the greatest in history and to get a look at his genetic material will be pretty amazing,

John Cacioppo

Our results indicate loneliness is not a personality weakness. Quite the contrary, it is just part of the genetic variation that we find in humans.

Rodney Brooks

I won some genetic lottery. I always happened to be strangely good at mathematics in my head. I just popped out weird.

Susanna Larsson

We don't know how much milk is too much for women with genetic predisposition.

Anne Wojcicki

Knowing your genetic health risks will help you make better decisions.

Richard Pound

We are working with leading genetic scientists day by day. People may try and use that method but we will be ready for them with a test.

Peter Medawar

In no sense other than an utterly trivial one is reproduction the inverse of chemical disintegration. It is a misunderstanding of genetics to suppose that reproduction is only 'intended' to make facsimiles, for parasexual processes of genetical exchange are to be found in the simplest living things.

Charles Stanley

When trouble comes, focus on God's ability to care for you.

Charles Stanley

Wherever you go, God is with you - watching over you, protecting you, and providing the truth you need for every situation. The question is, will you open your heart to His Word, apply it to your life, and allow God to change you so that He can use you in ways far greater than you can imagine?

Charles Spurgeon

I am certain that to preach the wrath of God with a hard heart, a cold lip, a tearless eye, and an unfeeling spirit is to harden men, not benefit them.

Charles Spurgeon

Where God takes such pains to teach, we ought to be at pains to learn.

Charles Spurgeon

Far better for a man that he had never been born than that he should degrade a pulpit into a show box to exhibit himself in.

Charles Spurgeon

He would have us like children who believe what their father tells them.

Charles Spurgeon

You will never be saved against your will; God drags nobody to heaven by the ears.

Charles Spurgeon

Our spiritual manhood in heaven will discard many things which we now count precious, as a full-grown man discards the treasures of his childhood.

Charles Spurgeon

Do you find it difficult to forgive one who has wronged you? Then you will find it difficult to get to heaven.

Michael Keaton

My first day in grade school, I was plain scared. I left the comfort of my run-down house, which I loved, and went to school where it was cold, it smelled, the lighting was bad.

Mike Davis

We're moving more than a grade level a year. That's way more impressive than anything we've done so far.

Margaret Spellings

At all grade levels, all subjects and all kids, we know where we need to work,

Kiaran McLaughlin

It's tough to be 7-5 in a Grade 1 race and get that kind of trip, to be six wide like he was.

Carlos Martinez

Of this total, 100% learned the numbers, to write their names, and to read. 88% learned to read with quality similar to that presented by first grade students.

David Tarantino

The specifications haven't lessened. The NRC grades us on inspections. If we missed one, it would be a serious violation.

Susan King

Nowadays, kindergarten is more like first grade used to be.

Tim Ritchey

Running in a Grade 1 in his second race is not ideally what you want to do, but Menacing showed me a lot off the first race,

Rex Meshelle

Right now we're struggling with getting practices in because of the weather, getting grades up, and getting commitments from families.

James Graf

This spacecraft is going to rewrite the science textbooks on Mars.

Patrick Ness

I write 1,000-1,500 words. The next day, I rewrite it and add 1,000-1,500 words to the end of it.

Jim Graf

It will rewrite the science textbooks on Mars.

Arnold Bennett

Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.

Roman Gutierrez

We still saw some of our inexperience today. That will be the case, but there were still some steps of improvement.

Bill Murray

If you walk up to some random person on the street, grab them by the shoulder, and say 'Did you just see what I saw?!', you'll find that no-one wants to talk to you.

Carol Leifer

There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage.

Aaron Boone

Yeah, I think I knew. I saw the sign and the announcers.

Dennis Hopper

I wanted to be an actor. I decided when I was very young, when I first saw movies, that I wanted to be an actor.

Benjamin Franklin

Avarice and Happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted?

Belle Boyd

Politically I did not like Mr. Lincoln for in him I saw the destroyer.

Barbra Streisand

It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.

Suzy Buchholtz

There's always somebody to help. I don't do math.

Frank Pasquarello

It was a strange turn of events. It could have been somebody else doing it for him.

Samantha Fox

When somebody wants me to sign an old picture, it's like looking at another person.

Priscilla Presley

I lived somebody else's life. It was never about me, it was really about him on every level.

Pete Rose

No matter how many times you say you're sorry, somebody is not going to hear you.

Sevyn Streeter

No matter what you go through, if it's the truth, 9 times out of 10, somebody else has been through the same thing or is currently going through the same thing.

Adam Mansbach

As a writer, I've always been somebody who's been productive and hustled hard.

Melissa Doi

Are they going to be able to get somebody up here?

Ozzie Guillen

The thing about this team is, every day, somebody different.

Eric Roberts

Yeah, some of my college friends and I have been tinkering around for years, you know, just for fun.

Paul R. Ehrlich

The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.

Eric Hoffer

Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can be a matter of chance, of idle tinkering, or even of the chronic dissatisfaction of the untalented.

Gever Tulley

Tinkering is a way of understanding difficult problems, of wrapping our heads around them and quantifying the unknowns.

Will Rogers

Congress is going to start tinkering with the Ten Commandments just as soon as they find someone in Washington who has read them.

Dennis Prager

Courage is the rarest of all good traits