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." ()

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

Brian Clifford

I think it's a great time to find buying opportunities in names that you can revisit, ... It's a lot easier to buy stocks as they're coming towards you rather than running away from you. It's a good time to sharpen your pencil and go after some of these names that have kind of run away on valuation.

H. Hunt

I think it is rather unfortunate that motorists filled up in panic buying when they will find it 4p cheaper now.

Russell Hall

Having a good allocation only protects you if you're willing to rebalance periodically so you're selling high and buying low.

Simon Spurr

If you are already familiar with a brand, buying online is fast, convenient, and probably the way forward.

Stephen Briggs

Gold is fashionable today. Most people are buying because the price has gone up, not because they think the price will go up.

Marshall Cohen

Holiday 2005 will be remembered as the year of giving to those in need. Retailers want consumers to feel good about buying and helping others.

David Healy

I think that the sales drop is temporary, ... Explorer buyers, or some of the buyers, may be buying Ford's new small Escape SUVs or waiting until the new Explorer itself comes out after the first of the year.

Michael Silverstein

We may be seeing one of the greatest shifts in consumer buying habits and taste since the 1950s.

John Walsh

He was not talking about a specific object. Neither he nor any of us had information that any work we were considering buying was stolen.

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.

Bryan Randall

He seems to be real comfortable with the system. He seems like he's been doing it longer than two years. He seems like he's made strides.

F. Stone

I think what makes this one different is just the sheer scope and size of it. It's just going to be a much, much longer haul.

Alberto Fujimori

It is no longer a possibility or an option.

Matisyahu

People aren't religious because it's easy not to be. Like anything, it's habitual, and once it's a habit it's no longer hard.

John Phelan

Our message is that suffering years of misery to remain super-skinny is not going to have a big payoff in terms of a longer life.

Dr. Armstrong

In our trial, women who received part of their chemotherapy via an IP route had a median survival time of 16 months longer than women who received only IV chemotherapy.

George Charamba

I no longer talk to you and you must never phone me again.

Georg Hackl

I have the strength of a 10-year-old. If the track was 500 meters longer I might have a chance.

Elliot Morley

In many parts of the country, water is a precious resource which we can no longer simply take for granted.

Angus T. Jones

Jake from 'Two and a Half Men' means nothing. He is a non-existent character.

Janet Weiss

Just really be yourself, and if being yourself means you play two snare drums and nothing else, then play two snare drums and nothing else! Really figure out who you are and how you want your drums to feel because it's a very emotional instrument.

Craig Williams

I think it means a lot to the stable

Jerry Jeff Walker

'Gonzo' means taking an unknown thing to an unknown place for a known purpose. But sometimes we're lost in an unknown place for no known purpose.

Chris Higginbottom

Going to the state tournament means lot for our team, the school and the community. I think it's been six years since they've been, and to go in my first year here, there's just nothing sweeter.

Matthew Glotzbach

We're in the first inning of an extra-innings game. By no means are we at the point where search is perfect.

Ed Howat

I think that number is staggering. It means a lot to have a rate that high.

Jonathan Turley

Law professors like Obama tend to view the law as one means to an end, and others, like myself, tend to view it as the end itself.

Steven Forester

He'll be singing in his upper register to give the idea of what it means to be roasted on a spit.

Scott McCallum

What you don't read about, it's never a story of the 98 percent who are doing things right and view this as a public service and want it to work.

Robert McGrath

He's able to do about 80 percent of what he did this year.

Paul Reiser

He's 50 percent Peter Falk, 50 percent my own father,

Michael Andretti

He's all but signed. It's not 100 percent done, but we're down to the piddly stuff.

Ed Peterson

We're probably doing 60 percent as many ships as we had been before the storm.

Eric Price

What you see here on the facility, we are probably running about 90 percent of our workforce.

Sarah Parcak

I think archaeologists are stuck, and we are losing our past at a very rapid rate. Tens of thousands of sites will be lost, and we've only unveiled a tiny percent of the past.

Ronaldo Ronaldo

I'm only going to play if I'm 100 percent fit,

Joe Horn

In my heart, I'm 150 percent ready to play.

Paul Johnson

I'd like to get one win, ... I'm not thinking about getting six wins.

Richard P. Feynman

Therefore psychologically we must keep all the theories in our heads, and every theoretical physicist who is any good knows six or seven different theoretical representations for exactly the same physics.

Rohit Shetty

All my films have been criticised, but here I stand with six superhits and three 100-crore films!

Warren Farrell

Blacks are six times more likely than whites to be victims of homicides.

Lee Watkins

They'd been there for six generations and it was all gone.

Ralph Stanley

I live about six miles from where I was born and raised.

Juliette Lewis

As early as when I was five or six I wanted to perform.

Josh Hartnett

I get quite fed up being on a film set day after day, six days a week. It can get to be a grind.

Emiliano Zapata

One of the happiest days of my life is when I made five or six hundred pesos from a crop of watermelons I raise all on my own.

James Henderson

I'll play here. I got two stores to go to.

Philip Green

I don't like department stores. I had a chain of department stores back in 1994 which was Lewis's and Owen Owen, only for a short time, and I found department stores personally difficult.

Oscar Wilde

Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.

James Blake

In terms of writing more club tracks, writing more electronically influenced - I feel like it was all electronically influenced, but now that influence has come to me in a different way.

Dana Rohrabacher

I'm aghast at what American corporations have done in terms of trading American technology.

Tim Henman

It was much better today, in terms of the result,

Craig Venter

Traditional ways of distinguishing populations are irrelevant in terms of genetic code.

Joe Mathis

We are already tapped out in terms of volunteers and staff.

James Bell

If I find any one of you violating the terms of this sentence, I'm going to put you in jail,

Lars Larsen

I never think in terms of gold, currency, diamonds. I'm not clever enough for that.

Hallie Ephron

Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.

Chelsea Leyland

I never dress appropriately in terms of comfort, but I wear what I'm feeling. I often to like to feel a little different from everyone else.

Annika Sorenstam

I have had two weeks off and I'm rested,

Tony Mortensen

It's going to be a long, long bye week. Two weeks to think about this.

Paul Johnson

We'll have to see. Two weeks into the spring, we'll have an idea of the separation.

Joe Gibbs

Two weeks in a row, he's been pretty impressive.