Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Kinney

Kids and adults have a difference of opinion when it comes to what constitutes legitimate reading. Adults often push books that they loved as children, which, ironically, were often books that their parents weren't particularly keen on.

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.

James Patterson

Kids say the No. 1 reason they don't read more is that they can't find books they like. Freedom of choice is a key to getting them motivated and excited.

Japanese Proverb

Knowledge without wisdom is a load of books on the back an ass

Spike Jonze

Kids are so fiercely opinionated, that if they love the Harry Potter books and they go see the movie, they'll be the first to say, 'That was wrong! They didn't get that right!' They're storytellers themselves. They're critics. They're going to have the critical opinion.

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.

Sophie Hannah

Agatha Christie's writing is incredibly skillful because her books are incredibly intellectually puzzling and challenging.

Mark Patton

It is a great thing for him to have read so many books. You just don't usually hear that about a first-grader.

Robertson Davies

The people who are always monkeying with these great books to make them fully (comprehensible) have no friend in me, for in their realm the fully comprehensible is not worth comprehending

Drew Gilpin Faust

When I was growing up in Virginia, the Civil War was presented to me as glorious with dramatic courage and military honor. Later, I realized how death was central to the reality. It was at the core of women's lives. It's what they talked about most.

Kirk Walters

He's a real vocal guy for us. He's a central part of our defense and our offense.

Alan Greenspan

History has demonstrated that implicit in any removal of power from central planners and broadening of market mechanisms -- as would occur under WTO -- is a more general spread of rights to individuals,

David Resler

It could be a drag on earnings...something that delays the revival of profits so central to the revival of the economy itself.

Yi Xianrong

It is a clear signal to the property market that the central government has the determination and the means to curb investments and housing prices.

Jon Katz

I think the new reality that's converging all this is, you have on the one end this culture of extraordinarily gifted outsiders who have patched together the Internet. And then there's the rest of the world -- business, education and politics -- that suddenly has woken up to the fact that they desperately need the Internet. It's very important. And so they become sort of central while still not being in the mainstream.

Kemp Ewing

I think that they've just got some talent going to Lenoir-Rhyne from this area. And to be coming from South Central really means a lot to us. I think that with the young coaches teaching these guys and what they're going to teach, you're going to see some more guys walk through these doors and sign and do some things in the future.

Stephen Colbert

I want to thank Comedy Central for picking up the show, but more importantly I want to congratulate Comedy Central for picking up the show,

Freda Craft

Hopefully we can make it to Jackson this year, but we know we have to go through teams like Choctaw Central and Southeast Lauderdale.

David Stern

I would say that the city is making it pretty clear of what they want us to do, and we'll accommodate them.

Leslie Brunell

I would say we're talking several to many years before the city can be rebuilt.

Jason Wiemer

I talked to (assistant coach) Rich Preston and expressed some interest. I knew I wanted to come back here and wanted to make sure they knew that. It worked out well. I enjoyed playing here, I love the city and liked the guys here. I looked at the team, watched them play in the playoffs. It was something I wanted to be a part of.

Mike Shanahan

I think it's a better system. There are more opportunities, and because teams have to come to your city to do the interviews, it can be done without conflicting with what you're trying to get done.

Bill Hopkins

It always concerns me when a homegrown company like Roanoke Electric Steel gets tied up with management control outside the city and state.

Jay Clark

I actually got into Mason City on Dec. 17. I really won't know about Mason City until I get back from Christmas.

John Burke

He controlled the night in the city of Albany. Everything had to go through him, whether you were working with another agency, you had to go through him. If you wanted to make an arrest, you had to go through him, unless, of course, a cop witnessed a crime.

Sunny Mindel

He is recognized as the mayor who led the city from being described as ungovernable to being an international symbol of urban renaissance. Why? Because of the unprecedented record reductions in taxes, homicides and welfare numbers, and the improvement in the quality of life for all New Yorkers.

Mike Campbell

Having this kind of concentration of musical talent in the city over one weekend is completely unheard of.

Graeme Souness

Kieron says he feels better now than at any time and that's encouraging. He has been extremely determined and shown strength of character, considering all the stories about him. It must have been, and is, a worrying time for him until he gets games under his belt. He deserves credit.

Byron Scott

Kirk (Snyder) deserves a shot. Kirk works his butt off every day. He's still out here. Matter of fact, do you see J.R.? (Smith had left.) That pretty much tells it. It's work ethic -- he has to work harder.

Bobby Engram

(Jackson) is always going to be the primary guy, and he deserves that because he makes a lot of plays. I'm just trying to do my part and help us win some games.

Ryan Freel

I think it's a great signing. He has all the respect of the players and I think he's done a heck of a job since he's been here and I think he deserves this position.

Franco Carraro

Italy has been seeded because it deserves to be.

Phil Garner

He deserves that. Not only does he deserve it, that's the right thing for us to do in that situation. And that's what we've done.

Robert Baker

He deserves it. It's Christmas, he should be with his kids.

Bill Self

He deserves it. If you're going to tie for the championship, you at least would have to get one guy up there, you would think.

Jim Johnson

Hollis had a great preseason and he deserves it. He earned it. This is a great game for him.

Roger Powell

He's a star player, but he's down to earth and he's very receptive to the young guys, ... He talks to us. He encourages us, gives us compliments, gives us positive criticism. He's been great.

Chief Seattle

Whatever befalls the earth befalls the son of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

Al Aqsa

We swear there will be an earthquake of retaliation,

Rube Goldberg

And, uh, I did that, and there was nothing more ridiculous to me than finding the weight of the earth because I didn't care how much the earth weighed.

Woody Harrelson

Salma is just one of the great goddesses ever put on this Earth.

Robin Ince

Wherever you are on Earth, there is more life present than in the rest of the known universe.

Zosia Mamet

I grew up backstage and on movie sets, and I thought they were the most magical places on Earth.

Yuri Gagarin

Looking at the earth from afar you realize it is too small for conflict and just big enough for co-operation.

Yunus Emre

Come let us be friends for once. Let us make life easy on us. Let us be loved ones and lovers. The earth shall be left to no one.

Vinny Testaverde

Knowing his past history ... I was very concerned.

Jaclyn Smith

Kmart's as much a part of my history as 'Charlie's Angels.' Twenty-five years! It's not just a celebrity brand.

Tony Judt

You don't have to be Jewish to understand the history of Europe in the 20th century, but it helps.

Harry S Truman

The only thing new in this world is the history that you don't know

Dani Shapiro

I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.

Lindsey Graham

What would you like history to say about you when it is all said and done,

Alec Reid

history will prove that this is the end of the IRA.

Alison Weir

History was a hobby for about, oh, 20 years before I got into print.

Leonard Teitelbaum

History indicates that less than 10 percent of the meat recalled over a time period such as this is actually returned,

Chris Coste

Kirby was the first name on everyone's list. That smile and that magnetic personality. He was a huge role model for so many people in that area. He was a huge influence in the way that I hit.

Bud Keene

Kelly really pushed the limits of women's riding by going huge and super technical.

Doc Scheppler

Just returning to the team was a huge lift for us.

Ben Howland

Josh Shipp was huge tonight. I mean, having not played 13 weeks, for him to do what he did tonight was just miraculous.

Brian Fanelli

I think it's a huge accomplishment for her.

Mike Szabo

He just stepped up and made a play. That was a huge play.

Sven Eriksson

He seems like a different player and very mature in his way of playing. He's a huge talent and has been doing very well for us

Zell Miller

His passing leaves a huge vacuum of leadership that no one individual can ever fill, ... There will never be another like him.

Mustafa Alani

His organization is going to be under pressure. He's anticipating a huge challenge, not from the Americans but inside Iraq.

Jeremy Jacobs

Jacques had done street theater in Paris. He'd always been interested in large architectural structures and how humans interact with them.

Paul Martin

Humans are really expensive, and they're really slow.

Wayne Rooney

I'm only a human being.

Os Guinness

We human beings are never happier than when we are expressing the deepest gifts that are truly us.

Kate Bernheimer

I think pink is one of the saddest colors in the world, and many American humans are taught not to take anything pink seriously, which is weird.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

We humans lack imagination, to the point of not even knowing what tomorrow's important things will look like.

Nick Hornby

I'm human. That's how humans spend their time, doing shitty things.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

For you will never be what you ought to be until they [your fellow humans] are what they ought to be.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Humans have always unknowingly affected all Universe by every act and thought they articulate or even consider.

Anthony Curtis

I think it makes sense. The only thing left that's new might just be old. If you've already got an old place, you wouldn't want to tear it down and start from scratch if you didn't have to.

D. H. Lawrence

He liked to watch his fellow-clerks at work. The man was the work and the work was the man, one thing, for the time being. It was different with the girls. The real woman never seemed to be there at the task, but as if left out, waiting.

Mike Dunne

He left voluntarily. He said it was time to move on.

David Broder

He left his editor, our editor, blindsided for two years and he went out and talked disparagingly about the significance of the investigation without disclosing his role in it.

Mark Lamoreaux

There is more left in the car. That's the encouraging part. I've had a perfect car. This one isn't there yet, but it's pretty good.

Ani Difranco

we thought we left possession behindbut truth is i was yours and you were mine

John Sacchi

There aren't any soft spots left in our schedule. We need to realize that every upcoming match is going to be a brawl and we better be ready fight.

Wayne Brady

I like to be left alone when I'm not working.

Orlando Bloom

Right where i left you... Not where i left you?

Mitchell Baker

What we have is 95 percent there and what we are doing at the moment is actually polishing.

Andy Schulz

I thought you saw the momentum swing once we got the lead. That was a big factor.

Alan Pardew

We're playing with a real exuberance. We were very strong individually at the back and at the moment I am very pleased.

Takenori Kanzaki

I think we have the momentum to get a majority, and I want to keep up this momentum right to the end.

Nick Saban

I think that was really probably the turning point of the game, that we could recapture the momentum and come right back and make a big play and score and keep them three scores behind,

Janet Ray

He was sweet from that moment on. I don't understand what happened.

Rose Kennedy

Life isn't about milestones, it's about moment

Robert M. Pirsig

Now the stream of our common consciousness seems to be obliterating its own banks, losing its central direction and purpose, flooding the lowlands, disconnecting and isolating the highlands and to no particular purpose other than the wasteful fulfillment of its own internal momentum

Yuri Milner

There is a significant momentum behind the social Internet. A wide range of public investors were very enthusiastic about that.

Nick Saban

Guys, let's get off this starting quarterback thing.

Lauren Bacall

There were times, sure, I wanted my career to go better. But once it starts to go downhill, you can never get back, or only to some degree.

Daniel Larson

He's about as big a star as you can get. I can't think of anything that will top this.

Sven Eriksson

He showed he is important even if he starts on the bench.

Brian Finnerty

I think when we start to get strong numbers, that's when we take off again.

Mike Bradley

We're off to a strong start in 2006.

Assemblywoman Leslie

We've got to start somewhere. I want to see something in place.

Dale Jr

I think we're all right. I think we're going to start third and fifth. I don't know; the 38's on the pole, right?

Tim Ryan

I think we were a little timid to start the game. We had some trouble getting into our stuff.

Jake Shulaw

He's doing a lot more wrestling now. But sometimes it comes back because he's drilled in thousands and thousands of times.

Miyamoto Musashi

from one thing, know ten thousand things

Quintilian

Conscience is a thousand witnesses.

Jonathan Ive

There are a thousand no's for every yes.

Allen Moore

It was something I had done a thousand times,

William Shakespeare

Conscience is a thousand swords.

Kaley Cuoco

As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.

Thomas Wolfe

I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.

Sun Tzu

Kill one, terrify a thousand.

Richard Paul Evans

I don't want to go to Peru. "How do you know? You've never been there." I've never been to hell either and I'm pretty sure I don't want to go there.

Rex Reed

Just living in Los Angeles guarantees the loss of a few I.Q. points each year.

Robert Duvall

One thing I like about Argentina, they only cook with salt; that's it.

Richard Burton

One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of many cares and the slavery of home, man feels once more happy.

Vanessa Carlton

Making my way downtown, walking fast, faces pass, and I'm home bound. Staring blankly ahead, just making my way, making a way, through the crowd. And I need you, and I miss you, and now I wonder... If I could fall, into the sky. do you think time, would pass me by? 'Cause you know I'd walk a thousand miles, if I could, just see you tonight.

Robyn Davidson

The most difficult part of any endeavour is taking the first step, making the first decision.

Sargent Shriver

Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting.

Samuel Johnson

He that would travel for the entertainment of others should remember that the great object of remark is human life.

Samuel Johnson

Let observation with extensive view, Survey mankind from China to Peru; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded life.

Sarah Pinborough

I think in some ways, you end up with more interesting storytelling with series, because if you've written yourself into a corner with something in book 1, you have to be cleverer to get out of it.

David Dein

He has written his own part in Arsenal's history,

Debbie Harry

Something's that written out is okay, but it's not always a clear indication of what a person means.

Mark Johnson

It's been unbelievable. We couldn't have written a better script.

John Drinkwater

The written word is everything.

John Lydon

Every single lyric I've ever written I meant.

Sevyn Streeter

You should find the dopest producer in your area, and that producer is always going to want songs written to his beat.

Bram Cohen

Up to now, we'd get a written notification ... Now it will be expedited.

Felipe Alou

What a script. Wow. It was like it was written to be that way.