Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kass James

The performance is part of a larger picture. Getting up and performing poetry in front of big crowds is another way for these kids to view their lives from a different perspective, and we want the kids in our program 20 years from now to be reading the books some of these kids have written.

Peter Kent

There are books on HTML, JavaScript, Java, ActiveX, and all sorts of other geeky subjects. But not only don't you need to understand these things in order to set up a Web site; you can read a dozen such books, and you still won't know everything you need to do.

James Browning

We started off in the Oak Hill Flea Market, about 1988, selling just about everything, but after a short period of time we found that books sold best. After a while we just got too big for the flea market and since my wife and I always loved books and reading, the natural progression was for us to open a bookstore.

Heinrich Heine

Where one burns books, one will soon burn people.

Nicolas Roeg

When my sister and I were very young, my father used to tell us fairy stories that he'd made up. My mother was always telling him that he should write them down, but he would say, 'Well, they've all been done before. There are so many blooming books in the world - why should I write another one?'

Gretchen Rubin

For notes related to books I'm writing, I've wondered whether I should organize my notes better, but I do find that the action or scrolling through them and seeing odd juxtapositions of ideas helps to stimulate my own ideas and creativity. I worry that if I kept the notes in a highly-structured way, I might lose some of these benefits.

Xavier Chambon

We want to put books in everyone's hands.

Ron Cooper

We have no problem with the audit. Our books are open to everyone.

Alexander McCall Smith

I think people in Botswana are pleased that my books paint a positive picture of their lives and portray the country as being very special. They've made a great success of their country, and the people are fed up with the constant reporting of only the problems and poverty of the continent. They welcome something which puts the positive side.

Brian Giles

We're slowly closing this thing out, but it hasn't been easy,

Shane Gibson

Always be closing...That doesnt mean youre always closing the deal, but it does mean that you need to be always closing on the next step in the process.

Alison Adams

They have circled, and they are now closing in. It's not looking good.

Gary Robb

They generally like to come in one point and go out another. By closing off their entrance or exit, we make it less likely they'll drive through.

Alando Tucker

They're two freshmen but they're out on the floor closing out a game. It just shows the confidence that he's got (in them).

Michael Cohen

It's not tech specific, it's market specific, ... As soon as we see the closing of the path to escalation -- not just with Iraq but with North Korea, as well -- I think investors will take the risk scenario out of the equation.

Harley Shaiken

For a plant closing of this magnitude, the overall impact is somewhere between traumatic and devastating.

Bob Richardson

They are cutting the mountain cattlemen out, they are always closing more of the timber industry down. There is a lot of hypocrisy in what they are doing here.

Peter Culshaw

This might be a record for the closing of a deal this size. This was really done at breakneck speed.

Edith Wharton

Only the fact that we are unaware how well our nearest know us enables us to live with them.

Daymond John

You can make up your own opinion, but you can't make up your own facts, go sell.

David Bryant

God cannot lead you on the basis of facts that you do not know.

Antony Jay

The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact they are the Opposition in exile. The Civil Service are the Opposition in residence.

Derek Jacobi

I'm always conscious of the fact that I am part of a profession that is 80% permanently unemployed. So, to be working in any sense is to be privileged.

Luke Bracey

I wake up every day and look at my own ugly mug in the mirror and don't think twice about it. The fact that other people might want to look at me still feels funny. It's flattering, but funny.

Gene Smith

The positives are closure. The fact is we participated with an ineligible player. That's the truth. You can't sugar-coat that.

Maria Bamford

I've learned from my pets that it's okay to sit around, and people don't love you any less if you sit around all the time. In fact they might love you more, 'cos they always know where you're always going to be: you're always going to be laying in bed.

Marge Kennedy

Everyone needs reminders that the fact of their being on this earth is important and that each life changes everything.

Charles Caleb Colton

Habit will reconcile us to everything but change

Alan Paton

It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.

Bertrand Piccard

Very often, human beings are living like on autopilot, reacting automatically with what happens. What interests me about the life of an explorer is you are in the unknown; you are out of your habits.

Charles Baudelaire

The habit of doing one's duty drives away fear.

Bryan Adams

Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.

Benjamin Franklin

He that resolves to mend hereafter, resolves not to mend now.

Daniel Patterson

You can't just go out and plow lizard habitat into the ground.

Stephen Covey

Some habits of ineffectiveness are rooted in our social conditioning toward quick-fix, short-term thinking.

Robert A. Heinlein

A poet who reads his own verse in public may have other nasty habits.

Alan Alda

Kids are natural scientists.

Chris Carmack

I think I was a pretty energetic kid. Well, I was energetic until about my mid-20s when I discovered alcohol. That's not entirely true, but you get older and the edge comes off.

Chingy

I want to invest and have my own record label and artists. I want to have a business where my kids, kids, kids will still have something going on long after I'm gone.

Chita Rivera

It's important that the kids stay busy. It's important that they have something to focus on, and something that they feel good about.

Chip Conley

When any of us thinks of ourselves as a role model - whether thats as a parent being observed by their kids or a leader under the microscope of their followers - it creates a natural stepping up of how we carry ourselves and what we expect from ourselves.

Eddie Murphy

I'm 42 and the age of a guy who has kids, so I guess I'm playing right where I'm supposed to be. I'm comfortable with that, but in the same breath I'd do something edgy. If someone came to me and offered me an edgy and funny story, then I'd do it.

Eddie Murphy

The thing about kids is that they express emotion. They don't hold back. If they want to cry, they cry, and if they are in a good mood, they're in a good mood.

Dean Cain

I grew up the son of a director and grew up on sets myself, so I was the kid getting dragged around from this set to that set and I loved it. There's something about it which is really interesting.

Daymond John

I don't want to leave my kids an inheritance, I want to leave them a legacy

Jesse Spencer

All of my girlfriends have been actors, and I've realized that maybe it's not for me - and find something else outside of the industry.

Mark Basham

They realize they have to be executing. It's not just about a Web site.

Eric Roberts

the sun starts to come up and they don't even realize that it had set yet.

Jim Taylor

After Andrew, insurers realized the premiums they were charging weren't enough,

Chris Browne

Some stuff fell. Before it hit, I realized it was a person who jumped.

Lindsay Lohan

Sometimes being that thin doesn't look healthy. I kind of didn't realize that.

Marcella Anderson

I shouldn't have trusted her. It was wrong, I've realized it now. But she was there, she was friendly, she was warm, someone I thought I could trust.

Justin Tuck

I used to like cufflinks, but I got too lazy for them. I realized I don't need them for a polished tailoring look, so more times than not, I skip them.

Marcia Freeman

The wheel was awesome, just awesome. You can't realize how big the thing is until you see it.

Kevin McKenzie

All my experiences with Lonoke schools have been great.

Elaine Hanratty

I've seen different schools and interacted with different disciplines.

Sherry Sturner

Every year, the schools were taking another week out of our summers. It was hot. So I said, 'You know what? I've had enough.

Rick Page

Right now I don't think my 5A schools would go to the Valley. But they could put us with Laredo.

Anne Anderson

Situations in low-rated schools like Jasper are very frustrating,

Ron Messick

Lauren's so big as a player. A lot of schools are starting to take notice.

Mark Zupan

Students from his schools come out with real-world seasoning.

Mike Babineaux

They will be monitoring the schools throughout the week. They go in and use a form, similar to the one the state uses when it does its walk through.

David D. Burns

There is no standard 'therapeutic process,' since there are so many different schools of therapy.