Famous Quotes & Sayings

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

B. B. King

Kevin did a great job tonight. He gutted it out there at the end for us. It was a great team win.

James Patterson

Kids don't read as much as you'd like them to, just in terms of seeing the world from different perspectives. I mean, that's the great thing about books, still. Here's television, here are the movies, and it's pretty limited in terms of the perspectives.

Mary Carskadon

Kids are too sleepy to learn well. They're too sleepy to be happy. And they're at great risk for such things as traffic accidents.

Alan Trammel

I wouldn't say it was one of his greatest performances, but he pitched well enough to win.

Jim Schmitz

Jake Wade did just such a great job throwing strikes, going right at them. He pitched six quality innings. It was just nice to see him come out like that.

Alden Ehrenreich

I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always know whether I want to do something or not. The character is important to me, as is getting to work with people that I feel like I can learn from and make a great movie with.

Michael Santos

John always had his heart in this village. Sometimes he thought he was the village. He was a great ambassador. He put Brewster on the map on several occasions.

Harry Redknapp

I was looking for a reaction in the second half and I got it.

John Wardle

Kevin has got one and a half seasons to go so we are not silly enough to sit back and say that we are not going to do anything.

Franz Humer

I would say that we would see an acceleration (in drug sales), especially in the second half of the year, with the introduction of new products, with the acceleration also of the penetration of the oncology line in the non-U.S. markets,

Jim Boeheim

He couldn't play those last two games. I had to take him out. He played like himself in the first half and we needed that. Our offense has been terrible and we need him to get it going and we did today for the first time in a while.

M. Thompson

Half the time, we don't even notice that they're there.

Leon Cooperman

Half the stocks I picked are up and half of them are down.

Jeffrey Levi

Half of America's workers have no sick leave.

Quiara Alegria Hudes

I'm half Puerto Rican and half Jewish and so, in some ways, living in many worlds at once is where I feel most at home.

Kevin Mench

He said he'd never seen 'turf toe' in the second toe. He said, 'Your shoes are a half size too small.

Rick Riordan

Yeah! Bring it on lake!" -Coach Gleeson Hedge

William Wordsworth

A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable.

Wallace Stevens

The wind had seized the tree and ha, and ha, It held the shivering, the shaken limbs, Then bathed its body in the leaping lake.

Ma Jun

In some cases, it's not just about cleaning up the factories. It's about cleaning up the nearby rivers and lakes that have been tainted with heavy metals.

Thomas Friedman

No matter where I go - London, Beirut, Jerusalem, Washington, Beijing, or Bangalore - I'm always looking to rediscover that land of ten thousand lakes where politics actually worked to make people's lives better, not pull them apart.

Ameen Rihani

In the Lakes of Light, Love and Will, I would baptize all mankind.

Robert Adams

A lake that is noisy cannot reflect anything

Tom Felton

I'd like to know about some of the things that they teach down there, like building a lake. If I ever wanted to build a lake, I'd like to know how to do it.

John Sterling

Speech is as a pump, by which we raise and pour out the water from the great lake of Thought,--whither it flows back again.

Condoleezza Rice

The northwest is very different from what I could have imagined.

Steve MacFarlane

Obviously, we would have like their support. Once Northwest is done with us they're going to go after them.

Robert Pozen

I am a great believer in the OHIO principle: Only handle it once. When you read an e-mail, decide whether or not to reply to it, and, if you need to reply, do so right then and there. I have found that about 80 percent of all e-mails, whether internal or external, do not require a response.

Urban Meyer

The future is bright at Ohio State.

Mike DeWine

There's no typical person [addicted to heroin]. It just has permeated every segment of society in Ohio.

Mike DeWine

There is no place in Ohio where you couldn't have drugs delivered to you in 15, 20 minutes.

Muhammad Ali

I came back to Louisville after the Olympics with my shiny gold medal. Went into a luncheonette where black folks couldn't eat. Thought I'd put them on the spot. I sat down and asked for a meal. The Olympic champion wearing his gold medal. They said, "We don't serve niggers here." I said, "That's okay, I don't eat 'em." But they put me out in the street. So I went down to the river, the Ohio River, and threw my gold medal in it.

Rahm Emanuel

President Obama made the right choice, over one million Americans are still working today. The American auto industry is not just surviving. It is thriving. Where Mitt Romney was willing to turn his back on Akron, Dayton and Toledo, Ohio, the president said, 'I've got your back.'

Lee Trevino

If Jack Nicklaus had to play my tee shots, he couldn't break 80. He'd be a pharmacist with a string of drugstores in Ohio.

Carol Moseley Braun

The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their right to vote.

Kelly Wallace

what are the realistic prospects of Ohio turning around.

Amanda Vanstone

The Pacific solution has been an outstanding success,

Susan Jackson

We're not worried about the Mississippi River levee. Is it a concern? Yes, it is a concern, but it is not a top concern.

Rebecca West

Birds sat on the telegraph wires that spanned the river as the black notes sit on a staff of music.

William Whipple

The river route is certainly preferable, as it affords good grazing and an abundance of water.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

The revelation that we have everything we need in life to make us happy but simply lack the conscious awareness to appreciate it can be as refreshing as lemonade on a hot afternoon. Or it can be as startling as cold water being thrown in our face. How many of us go through our days parched and empty, thirsting after happiness, when we’re really standing knee-deep in the river of abundance?

William Blake

Dip him in the river who loves water.

W. H. Auden

Far from his illness The wolves ran on through the evergreen forests, The peasant river was untempted by the fashionable quays; By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.

Robert MacNeil

Change is legitimate and inevitable, for our language is a mighty river, picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there, but growing ever wider and richer.

Norman MacCaig

I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that.

Cheryl Ward

They look like river ships, but scaled up.

Woodrow Wilson

The only place in the world that nothing has to be explained to me is the South.

Wilbur Smith

I am a closet birdwatcher. I can identify Southern African species, but it irks me I can barely tell a jay from a blackbird in the U.K.

Katy Mixon

You can't do Shakespeare with a Southern accent, honey.

Cal Brown

Ah, to be young and in love, in Southern California.

Joe Tex

Currently, I bowl regional tournaments out of the PBA Southern Region.

Mike Colter

You see a lot of Baptist churches in Harlem, you see a lot of the same kind of cuisine, the soul food - there's a lot of places that remind you of its southern roots.

Paul Prudhomme

When the taste changes with every bite and the last bite tastes as good as the first, that's Cajun.

Padma Lakshmi

In southern Spain, they made me eat a bull's testicles. They were really garlicky, which I don't like. I prefer to take a bull by the horns, not by, um...

Peter Mayle

No matter what their background, the southern French are fascinated by food.

Wislawa Szymborska

Something doesn't start at its usual time. Something doesn't happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.

Richard Shelley

Otherwise, everyone was wearing masks, gowns, gloves, and all of the usual precautions.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world.

Nellie Bly

I was too impatient to work at the usual duties assigned women on newspapers.

Martin Amis

He awoke at six, as usual. He needed no alarm clock. He was already comprehensively alarmed.

E. T. A. Hoffmann

Let me ask you outright, gentle reader, if there have not been hours, indeed whole days and weeks of your life, during which all your usual activities were painfully repugnant, and everything you believed in and valued seemed foolish and worthless?

Martin Luther

Here again you confuse and mix everything up in your usual way.

Marjane Satrapi

Once again, I arrived at my usual conclusion: one must educate oneself.

Franz Ferdinand

He would never do just the usual on-the-road burgers and chips.

Samuel Rutherford

Grace grows best in winter.

Samuel Beckett

The short winter’s day was drawing to a close. It seems to me sometimes that these are the only days I have ever known, and especially that most charming moment of all, just before night wipes them out.

W. H. Auden

Swans in the winter air A white perfection have

Robert Fitzgerald

I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one case, shaken by the impact of the Mediterranean winter storms on the rocks below.

Rick Riordan

In case you're wondering, the underside of a sheep doesn't smell that great. Imagine a winter sweater that's been dragged through the mud and left in the laundry hamper for a week. Something like that.

Rudyard Kipling

No one thinks of winter when the grass is green.

Ryan Adams

Do you remember stormy winter?Well button up your coat, one's comin' soon

Roy Bean

And finally Winter, with its bitin', and whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow.

Yotam Ottolenghi

The combination of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice lifts the spirits in winter.