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.

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.

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.

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

Mark Foley

We track library books better than we do sexual predators.

Ray Manchuk

We're optimistic that the new Harry Potter will bring more foot traffic to stores and perhaps become a catalyst to drive sales of other books as well.

Hilaire Belloc

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

Mike Piazza

kind of fun, especially in New York. I've seen it on smaller levels in other cities, but it's fun to get into the rivalry thing and experience it.

James Kirkman

just very humbled, and appreciative, and amazed; it was a very happy experience.

Karen McCaffrey

Just this experience of getting to this point for next year will help us. The more situations we're in, the less we'll panic. With youth you'll get that. As soon as our skills improve, I think our panic will improve and we have a whole year to work on that now.

Rachel Dretzin

I think it fuels her. The fact that she can see the work she's done make an impactmost journalists don't experience that.

Mike McGlynn

I think it is good that we got some experience because all of it helps. I don't know if I'll ever take a snap in a game, but it is good to be ready and the more positions on the line you play, the better it helps you.

Brian Viloria

This was a great experience for me. Last year I only got in seven rounds total, so this is a fight that I can look at and really take away a lot of things from.

Jenny Pfeiffer

This was a great experience and we would have liked the season to keep going. Next year will be different.

Carol Brady

What we found was that many of the mothers that experience those poor outcomes are unhealthy and uninsured before they ever get pregnant.

Buck Showalter

Going in, that may be the thought. But we want to see, with the experience he had last year, how he's grown from that.

Daniel Breaker

I think that the major message in 'Shrek: The Musical' is be who you want to be. I think that it is about being your true self in this world.

Phil Goff

It is not within the power of the president to remove the prime minister other than on the vote of a majority of the house,

Art Hogan

I think that turned (the market) around, ... There is no inflationary pressure and that was one of the major concerns.

Pete Boone

I think that, when it all boiled down, production of the offense was a major factor.

Hugh Johnson

I don' think we are ready for a major move,

Murray Walker

I don't know what happened, but there was a major malmisorganization problem there.

Fidel Castro

We can do it better and take on the major leagues. ... For each player that leaves, 10 better ones arise,

Alan Greenspan

Roger was the major policy maker during 9/11.

Harry Orf

In terms of major equipment, we won't know until we can get back in.

Stephen Sondheim

I happen to like movies and plays about dislikeable people as long as I get to know why they are what they are.

John Fithian

Here's what we know about 2005: The movies are not as good,

Heather Graham

I watched movies and thought, 'I want to be in movies,' and wanted to be an actor.

Kristan Higgins

There's something so satisfying about road trip movies - and books!

Steven Bauer

I'd like to make movies as a producer and a director.

Vincent Cassel

When you see violence in movies in general, it's very quick and painless, which isn't what it's like.

Hugh Dillon

I'm working consistently, and they're using my music in the movies,

Jasper Fforde

I'm not sure my books would translate into movies very easily. So rather than have someone do a terrible job, I haven't been willing to sell them.

Warren Beatty

I'm not sure two movie stars can run - not even here.

George Jennings

It is a little unsettling to be the first wave. It's going to be a rough deal. Nobody wants to go on a strike on Christmas.

Rena McCullough

We're pretty much the redheaded stepchild around here. Nobody respects us." ()

Ron Fussell

When he's on, there's nobody who can touch him.

John Salmon

When he's in a groove, he's in a groove. Can't nobody stop him, can't nobody stop him.

Mick Koczersut

I thought one run would win it - especially at that time, because nobody had done a whole lot of anything.

Bob Harrington

Later, I don't know when, they pushed in the walls and made it a pond. Nobody has a record of why.

Kelly Price

There was no person, whether they thought I was too fat, too black, too country, too ghetto, too New York, too thug or too whatever! Nobody ultimately had the say over whether or not I was going to make it.

George Jones

I don't know why nobody thought of it earlier.

Michael Hearst

We can keep them from stinging people. But because nobody else is doing it around us, eradication is probably not likely.

Buck Showalter

He has said he's comfortable being a reliever. I've told him he may want to rethink that.

Richelle Mead

But I didn't know about the other story." "What other story?” "About how you and Adrian Ivashkov are—" "No, whatever you heard it’s not true." "But it was really romantic" "Then it’s definitely not true.

Rex Stout

Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.

Salman Rushdie

Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.

Salman Rushdie

An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.

Roddy Doyle

No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't yours and, actually, whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words.

Robert Penn Warren

You don’t choose a story, it chooses you.

Wally Lamb

I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.

Walt Disney

You'll be a poorer person all your life if you don't know some of the great stories and great poems.

Rohinton Mistry

So we tell the same story, over and over. Just the details are different