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!

Bobby Vinton

I was able to stay on because in those days I was selling songs like 'Blue Velvet' and 'There I Said It Again'. But they were kind of adult hits.

Rick Derringer

I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults.

Yehuda Berg

The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.

Lloyd Kolbe

Part of the problem is if you've got an adult population where 64 percent of the adults are obese, that's the model that the upcoming generation sees every day. So the potential for it to become the norm, that's part of the self-perpetuating cycle.

James Howe

I like to read fiction, and I particularly enjoy reading young adult fiction. But I also read children's books, adult books, current authors, and classics, but I like fiction the most.

Michael McCoy

I tend to have them submit to psychological testing, and what I find is they're not predators, but they're immature and, males especially, flattered girls find them interesting. Treating them as if these people are grooming these young females for some illicit relationship ? my own judgment is most of the time, that never happens. They're ceasing to be the adult in the situation." ()

Michael Friedman

I was inspired by the brilliant minds of the doctors treating me. I had always considered becoming a doctor. Now I know what specialty I want to go into.

Henry Harteveldt

I would not rule out Boeing becoming partners with one of the winning bidders and getting in through the back door.

John Niven

I wound up becoming an A&R man at London Records in the 1990s, during the boom of Britpop, the last great gold rush of the music industry. I saw incredible greed and terrible behaviour. I was greedy and terribly behaved.

Brian Idalski

Katy has really stepped up as a leader. As a sophomore, to be that much of a leader is something. She is on her way to becoming something special.

Rosemary Haefner

Job growth is expected to continue for the healthcare sector in 2006, driving an extraordinary labor demand. As a result, the search for qualified workers is becoming increasingly competitive with the shortage of registered nurses, physical and respiratory therapists, radiology technicians and other positions.

Jane Kennedy

He just refuses to obey the laws. It is becoming ridiculous. It's an eyesore and it's also bringing our tax values down.

Malorie Blackman

History should belong to all of us, and it needs to include people from different cultural backgrounds. Otherwise, it risks becoming irrelevant to children, who could then become disenchanted with education.

Jim Power

I think the prospects for a hard landing for the market are still pretty remote but my concern would be that the economy is becoming increasingly reliant on the housing market.

Andy Roddick

I think you have to be self-motivated enough first and foremost. You know, I'm gearing my training toward becoming better with everyone. I'm not good enough to worry about one guy. I have to worry about a whole lot of guys.

Kim Kardashian

Why is it when you're dieting, you crave everything?

Khloe Kardashian

I was realizing, 'I work out all the time. Why can't I drop this weight?' It's really food. So I started dieting a little.

James Purefoy

Dieting isn't complicated: if you eat 2,000 calories, you have to burn it off; simple as that.

Elizabeth Pivonka

Dieting is not the answer. Eating more of the things that are good for us and less of those that are not has always been and will always be a better solution.

Ian K. Smith

People have to realize that dieting is not a sprint, it's a marathon. If you celebrate the small victories, you will eventually win the war.

Wade Buchanan

It's a weight-loss diet, not a weight-maintenance diet.

Dan Bennett

Probably nothing in the world arouses more false hopes than the first four hours of a diet.

Osama Hamdy

Protein helps satiety, so you're more likely to stay on your diet.

Breine Stevens

One should not have to diet, but rather take small steps to lose weight gradually and maintain a healthy lifestyle.

Ricky Williams

went through 20 pounds on a vegetarian diet?

Woody Allen

We like food, ... This is too much to eat at one time. You'd get sick.

Kevin Hanson

He's a freshman in a different country, eating different food and going to a new school. He has a lifelong girlfriend back in Austria. So it was a great reward for him to play big in a big game like this.

Kate Hudson

(Goldie) told her to put on some weight, ... eating practically nothing.

Greg Gilchrist

He's eating well and breezed well over the track,

Paul McGee

He?s eating good, training good and things have gone without a hitch.

Torii Hunter

I think about what his kids are going through more than anything. It's killing me right now. It's eating me up.

Mary Quant

Eating outdoors is a particular passion - that is, eating trestle-table a la nicoise.

Jeff Mallonee

I don't even think its sunk in yet how lucky or how big this is going to be. They are just taking it in stride, and they are eating it up. It's going to be an everlasting memory for each and every one of them.

Mike Wahle

I don't know what he's been eating for breakfast, but we need to keep feeding it to him because he's making some great cuts, hitting the holes hard and running through the extra man. We're going to need more of the same.

Ray Burrows

I'd be so happy to be sitting at my desk, eating a Pop-Tart and keying away, ... Nothing would please me more.

Patty Krueger

Knowing when you are done, knowing when you are through with the entire painting, is the hardest thing to learn.

Charles Clarke

I think it is a shocking state of affairs. The concern, possibly anger, that people will feel is entirely understandable.

Petro Poroshenko

He didn't look in my eyes the entire time he was reading his statement.

Patrick Swayze

He just dropped. And the entire responsibility of the family suddenly was on me.

Paul Doyle

He's devastated. The one main focus of the entire year was the world championships, so it's pretty tough.

Jerry Sullivan

His versatility and value to the offense can't be overstated. If he were healthy for the entire season, even as inconsistent as we were in the pass game, Arnaz would probably have been a 60- to 70-catch guy.

Tony Blair

I think it's entirely reasonable to talk about the possibility of withdrawal of troops next year but it's got to be always conditioned by the fact that we withdraw when the job is done,

Delia Ephron

It consists entirely of people who are not related by blood, many of whom can't stand each other.

Patrick Moore

It hurts not having Lips in there. But the entire field goal team has got to get better.

Duncan Hunter

I think it shows they were trying to save American lives when they did that. Unfortunately, those pictures were released.

Jack Miller

He will be able to get them if he lives long enough to do it. He was always a diplomat.

Adriano Moraes

Rob is a legend. He's been saving lives for 30 years and never missed a season.

Bob Denver

Our lives will never be the same without him,

Tracie Beasley

Our lives are so full. For people to get outdoors and recreate is so important.

Courtney Anderson

I like to know what's going on in everyone's lives and how I can relate to them.

Jeff Ward

This is aimed at those small and medium-sized livestock producers, ... This could be a valuable tool for them.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

Every one lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it

Collin C. Peterson

It's time for us to keep better track of our livestock as they cross borders.

Chris Murray

He didn't really get a shot. They didn't give him much opportunity in the pre-season.

Conroy Hines

He is probably our go-to receiver right now. He's making plays. He doesn't do it right all the time, but when he has an opportunity to make a catch, he'll do it.

Greg Brenneman

I pass on any opportunity I see that I can't add value on.

Dusty Baker

He's going to play now because we're out of outfielders. This is an opportunity to salvage the season.

Dusty Baker

He's going to play now because we're out of outfielders, ... This is an opportunity to salvage the season.

John Campbell

I think it's an opportunity to have some new blood,

Scott White

I think they were pleased to have the opportunity to tell their story to a jury. That's really all you can do.

Tony Espinoza

I'd like to give the seniors another opportunity to prove that we're better than we performed tonight.

Ruben Aguilar

Even if not one migrant turns out to vote, this was a historic debt that Mexico owed its compatriots abroad. This represents a new political space for our migrants, an opportunity to bridge the gap between two societies, those living in Mexico and those living abroad.

Kim Kardashian

Of my own, I like my upper stomach. I just seem to always have abs.When I'm not really pregnant, I have a great two-pack.

Ray Brown

That's nothing. He also thinks he's a pregnant woman.

Robert Jordan

Time to toss the dice

Norman Vincent Peale

Never use the word “impossible” seriously again. Toss it into the verbal wastebucket.

Scott McCloud

There's a very big part of me that just wants to take all of comics history and toss it on the bonfire. I'd sort of like to get on to the future.

Edgar Guest

You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside.

Juvenal

Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance.

Ally Carter

She looked at him, watched hum toss the remote on the table and say," So maybe I'm going to handcuff myself to you the next time you decide to take a stroll.

Mae West

Ya know it was a toss-up whether I go in for diamonds or sing in the choir. The choir lost.

Eugene Mirman

I don't emphasize the whatevs. I say it as if it's truly a toss-away word.

Ken Park

I think I'll be here until they toss me out.

Kathleen Hanna

There's just as many different kinds of feminism as there are women in the world.

Michael Keaton

Guys who go on and on about loving women usually don't.

Oprah Winfrey

What do you want women to know about intuition?

Jaime Pressly

I think it's sexy when women have shapely bodies.

Richard Whately

Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.

Rebecca West

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

Rebecca West

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

Woody Allen

See, I will always have this penchant for what I call kamikaze women. I call them kamikazes because they, you know they crash their plane, they're self-destructive. But they crash into you, and you die along with them.

Vera Wang

It's for all the women who embrace my aesthetic, but can't afford a Vera Wang dress. If women can get anything out of it - a little bit of me or a lot of me, that's what's important.