Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mary Isselhard

We've found old newspaper articles that mention sleds and when we do our speaking programs we ask individuals who attend whether they have any diaries from family members that might mention sledding. People mail us information from old diary passages that mention sledding parties.

Carl Sewell

It gets a little tiresome to read articles from people who don't understand the situation and continue to pick on someone who is working so hard.

David Behring

I don't believe my father ever felt embraced. From the beginning, there was an outpouring of negative articles from the media and a lot of backlash.

Umberto Eco

I enjoyed your article, but I preferred my own.

Gilles Duceppe

Paul Martin couldn't not have noticed the articles in The Globe and Mail. That began in 1999, and it wasn't until February of 2004 that he reacted.

Mike McCue

I had been reading magazines a lot, and I love magazines, and so I was always asking myself why is it that these gorgeous articles just don't translate well to the web? Presentation was one aspect of it.

Rick Clausen

I just wanted to say, 'Thanks for all the good times, thanks for harping on me and writing articles like they did while I was there saying I wasn't good enough to play there,' ... It was just to go and show them I don't care if they like me or not anymore.

Ray Daniels

It has gone from utterly nothing to something we have written articles on and commercial producers are getting involved in.

James Rollins

I subscribe to 'National Geographic,' 'Scientific American,' 'Discover,' and a slew of other magazines. And it is while reading articles for pleasure and interest that an interesting 'What if?' will pop into my head.

Oscar Gonzalez

I would think the probability of a move (on interest rates) would be somewhere around the 40 percent range.

John Kessel

Kafka is not interested in documenting the manners and mores of any particular place; he is not interested in probing the psyche of individual characters.

Len Lichtenfeld

I suspect that there will be a significant interest in getting better tests into the mainstream.

Scott Shapiro

I think it's 18 teams that have shown interest.

George Burley

It can have a snowball effect. With the national side doing well there is more interest in the game, which is great.

Lisa Presley

Having kids was the smartest thing I've ever done. They're little sponges who come into the world with a clean, shiny slate and such pureness. I'm interested in having more kids.

Ron Hilliard

He should have a big year. He's been rated by Dennis McCarty as one of the top linemen in the state. Michigan State, Penn State and Rutgers are very interested in Dan.

Dick Miller

I think it's going to go very well. She's an outstanding talent and a lot of interest has been shown.

Robert Baker

I thought we were interested in saving time.

Horace

He has won every vote who mingles profit with pleasure, by delighting and instructing the reader at the same time.

Virginia Woolf

For pleasure has no relish unless we share it.

William Congreve

Who pleases one against his will.

Voltaire

There is a pleasure in not being pleased.

William Feather

Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.

Samuel Johnson

The great source of pleasure is variety.

Robert Morgan

Part of the pleasure of being a writer is that you get to go to unexpected places. If a place sounds interesting, I like to go.

Dick Bennett

It has been my pleasure to serve WSU in these years.

William Cowper

I never received a little pleasure from anything in my life; if I am pleased, it is in the extreme.

Roger Ortmeier

He was battling. He was throwing strikes and he had a lot of pop on his fastball. He was locating it really well.

Grant Hill

It wasn't popular for college athletics to embrace Title IX.

Bobby McGee

There are subdivisions popping up all over the place.

Will Wright

I think the primary thing that's made the Sims popular is that they're accessible,

Alex Walker

I thought that one was a pop up.

Frances Kissling

He will go down as a fifth-century pope in terms of who women are.

Van Orden

He never put on airs. He never tried to outdo anybody. Because of that, his popularity simply grew,

Travis Barker

I listened a little to punk when I was younger, but it was straight edge punk. It was nothing like what is going on now, like poppy punk.

Vance Havner

Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.

Harold Bloom

I think that's not reading because there's nothing there to be read,

Robert Creeley

Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, it's so grimly brutal!

Robert Creeley

The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I mean, it would be heartbreaking that there was no more of it.

Richard Dawkins

We are digital archives of the African Pliocene, even of Devonian seas; walking repositories of wisdom out of the old days. You could spend a lifetime reading in this ancient library and die unsated by the wonder of it.

Richard Whately

Those who relish the study of character may profit by the reading of good works of fiction, the product of well-established authors.

Richard Avedon

My photographs don't go below the surface. They don't go below anything. They're readings of the surface. I have great faith in surfaces. A good one is full of clues. But whenever I become absorbed in the beauty of a face, in the excellence of a single feature, I feel I've lost what's really there been seduced by someone else's standard of beauty or by the sitter's own idea of the best in him. That's not usually the best. So each sitting becomes a contest.

Rose Macaulay

Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill afford taxation that we rightly welcome any reading matter which avoids this.

Umberto Eco

I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.

Umberto Eco

To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual world. By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something true about the world. This is the consoling function of narrative — the reason people tell stories, and have told stories from the beginning of time.

Chris Benz

Growing up in Seattle, I was always that kid who didn't subscribe to what everyone else was wearing.

Jeffery Smith

I tell him, 'Do it right. Do it light. Don't subscribe to Creatine,'