Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Marshal Cohen

Kids are not interested in taking their summer vacation to start thinking about back-to-school wardrobes, supplies and book bags.

William Rehnquist

I wrote this book for a sense of personal satisfaction. Just like taking a good photograph or painting a picture or playing a good golf game or something, it's the thing in itself that justifies it.

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.

Kathleen Norris

Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier

John Eccles

I can explain my body and my brain, but there's something more. I can't explain my own existence - what makes me a unique human being.

Roberto Unger

Insofar we are death-bound, existence is urgent and frightful. Insofar as are groundless, it is vertiginous and dreamlike. Insofar as we are insatiable, it is unquiet and tormented.

Zoe Heller

When you live alone, your furnishings, your possessions, are always confronting you with the thinness of your existence.

Source Unknown

I remember reading somewhere about an organization called Procrastinators Anonymous. I think they had been in existence for some years but had never gotten around to having a meeting.

Tom McDonald

In the seven years of the Munsterlander Club's existence, we have had six of these get-togethers in some centrally located, upper-Midwestern state,

Bhagwan Rajneesh

The truth is that existence wants your life to become a festival...because when you are unhappy, you also throw unhappiness all around.

Emile M. Cioran

An existence transfigured by failure.

Jim Tufts

It's been a day-to-day existence for them for quite a while. They're seeking some normalcy. I hope they've found it.

Joseph Rotblat

Then, we were told that a world war was prevented by the existence of nuclear weapons. Now, we are told that nuclear weapons prevent all kinds of war.

Foxy Brown

Jacki-O proved you far from a fighter/ ... I'm not gonna come at you, I'm gonna come at your ghost writer.

W. Hull

Keep it out of the middle of the field, take it up the sidelines as far as you can and then shoot it at the net and hope it goes in off someone.

Joe Gibbs

I take responsibility for all of it. It all rests with me. We don't have to look real far to find somebody. I'm to blame.

Steve Hammond

I think it's a first step. As far as we're concerned, we'd go for a three-buck limit.

Asa Hutchinson

I think it is very disappointing. Whenever you talk about the justice system, politics should be as far as imaginable from the outcome.

Zach Malvik

I think in the back of our minds we thought it was possible. That's just all of us being competitors and never saying we can't do it. I do think it's a surprise to all of us that we made it this far and accomplished our goal.

Jimmy Dowell

He knows what's going on as far as how I want to play the game. He's probably one of our most experienced players. He's very good at placing the ball.

Howard Davidowitz

has been trying very hard to do that for a long time. So far they have been left with a giant loss of market share.

Adnan Pachachi

has been far greater than we had expected.

Paul Gascoigne

Kevin has done a tremendous job here and now it's a matter of trying to work together and move the team forward. We want to give the supporters something to look forward to and get them in the Football League.

Dirk Koetter

Keegan Herring has been outstanding, but he is making the jump from high school football to the largest stage in college. I just think it is much better for us to have Randy help transition Keegan in as well.

Scott Schmitz

Joe is just a hard-nosed football player. He loves the game.

Joe Hampton

He could have done a two-hour football camp, but that's not long-lasting.

Michael Hagan

He didn't play any football, he played seven games I think, for us last year.

Josh Aciukewicz

He just kept pushing me around. At times, it seemed more like a football game.

Damon Allen

He is the heartbeat of this football team and possibly the heartbeat of this city.

Todd Dodge

He is such a great football player and such a great competitor. I'm real proud for him personally that he had those things happen.

Rob Ciarlo

He likes to show off his guns. He?s a good kid. He played football and he?s trying to be more of a leader.

Richelle Mead

Oh God. Why, oh why, did I have to be the one to deliver this news? Why couldn’t I be locked away in my room or the library doing something enjoyable, like homework?

Richard Russo

Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation.

Zadie Smith

The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.

Walter Savage Landor

Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.

William Osler

For the general practitioner a well-used library is one of the few correctives of the premature senility which is so apt to take him.

Bob Richardson

presents all the options; we show the library of tea.

Jorge Luis Borges

In truth, the Library includes all verbal structures, all variations permitted by the twenty-five orthographical symbols, but not a single example of absolute nonsense.

Jorge Luis Borges

Yo, que me figuraba el Paraíso / Bajo la especie de una biblioteca. I have always imagined Paradise as a kind of library.

George Bancroft

Libraries collect the works of genius of every language and every age.

David Garrick

Here lies Nolly Goldsmith, for shortness called Noll, Who wrote like an angel, and talkd like poor Poll.

Ed Garland

His oath should have been, 'I Tony Harwood swear to lie, I say you should reject Tony Harwood 100 percent. Throw him out. He ain't worth nothing.

Cassandra Gash

I don't know where the responsibility lies, but I know I've done everything I can do.

Mark Twain

I am different from Washington. I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't.

Tom Nalen

Playing doesn't lie, you've got to go out there and get it done. And if you do, it doesn't matter how you got there, they'll find a place for you to play.

John Rzeznik

All we are is what we're told and most of thats been lies.

Jason Dourisseau

It's going to be tough on Wednesday, I'm not going to lie. But I think we'll be ready to go.

Eric Anderson

As you say, ... the power lies with all the heterosexuals.

Romeo Crennel

That's correct. Therein lies more of a problem.

Truman Capote

If you can't be friends with a lover, then forget it. It's not going to work.

Sarah Dessen

You didn't have to take a punch for me, you know,' he said. 'I'm a lover, not a fighter.' 'You're a freak is what you are,' I said.

Sandra Bullock

I am a lover like no lover has ever loved before!

Saint Basil

To lovers of the truth, nothing can be put before God and hope in Him.

Rose Tremain

Life should be embraced like a lover.

Khalil Gibran

Lovers embrace that which is between them rather than each other.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

The lover's pleasure is in the pleasure of the beloved. The lover is satisfied when the beloved is fed. The lover is vain when the beloved is adorned.

Mahatma Gandhi

Lovers of Swaraj cannot rest till a solution is found which would allay Mussalman apprehensions and yet not endanger Swaraj.

Gina Lollobrigida

I've had many lovers and still have romances. I am very spoiled. All my life, I've had too many admirers.

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.

Nafisa Joseph

Most important was to remain focused and always have presence of mind.

Laurie Peterson

It's the presence of endorphins in the system that suppresses the cravings.

Tagg Romney

You just couldn't be in George Romney's presence without some of his goodness and integrity wearing off on you.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We cannot enter into the presence of God while we are rebelling against God.

Dee Brown

When he got back in, he made his presence known.

Nancy Young

We're still going to have a significant presence in Alabama.

Scott Matthews

Stover's presence was just a little too much tonight.

Jeffrey Montgomery

We just thought it would be important to have a presence right here ... a place to relax a little bit, warm up and find out what's going on around town.

Stefan Zweig

Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come.

Kerry Collins

I take pride in the way I play, ... This organization has treated me well. I still have a lot of fight. Every time I go out there I am going to give it my best.

Paul Hatch

I take pride in being a results-oriented person.

Bill Freeman

I think it's just pride in the United States, period,

Richelle Mead

Not at all. I'm saying there's a fire in you that drives everything you do, that makes you need to better the world and those you love. To stand up for those you can't. It's one of the wonderful things about you.'' ''Only one, huh?'' I spoke lightly, but his words had thrilled me. He'd meant what he said about thinking those were wonderful traits, and feeling his pride in me meant more than anything just then.

Umberto Eco

A human best, which is very little. Its hard to accept the idea that there cannot be an order in the universe because it would offend the free will of God and His omnipotence. So the freedom of God is our condemnation, or at least the condemnation of our pride.

William Wordsworth

I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in his pride; Of him who walked in glory and in joy, Following his plough, along the mountain-side. By our own spirits we are deified; We Poets in our youth begin in gladness, But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.

William Saroyan

There is little pride in writers. They know they are human and shall some day die and be forgotten. Knowing all this a writer is gentle and kindly where another man is severe and unkind.

William J. Clinton

Even as people take pride in their national independence, we know we are becoming more and more interdependent.

Will Davis

Pride and entitlement always go with unforgiveness. The longer you hold someone's offense over them, the more likely you are to start feeling arrogant and entitled to your posture toward him.

Brad Richards

I would say it was one of the better teams I've seen.

Trey Smith

Just the way they work together was really unique. A lot of other teams don't have that.

Dave Orlandini

He can penetrate. He can take it to the hole. Other teams have to worry about him.

Mike Eaves

He just has to do his part, let his teammates do their part and we should come out all right.

James Spithill

Going to the gym on my own I struggle with, but when I'm in there with a teammate or a group of guys, it's the ultimate environment.

Alejandro Canizares

He's a valuable player. He's one of the top three on the team, so we had a much weaker team this week.

Sergei Samsonov

He's a terrific player. He's tricky. He makes a lot of plays. He makes that team a lot better. Him being out of their lineup works to our advantage.

Matt Wichorek

I was down on myself. Our team was all over the place.

Willie Williams

We just have to go there and finish. This is a different team from 1995 and, hopefully, we will have a different result.

Teller

Magic's about understanding - and then manipulating - how viewers digest the sensory information.

Susanna Moore

The task of understanding the past is neverending.

Richard P. Feynman

The female mind is capable of understanding analytic geometry... The difficulty may just be that we have never yet discovered a way to communicate with the female mind. If it is done in the right way, you may be able to get something out of it.

Richard Whately

The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.

Richard Baxter

It is as hard a thing to maintain a sound understanding, a tender conscience, a lively, gracious, heavenly spirit, and an upright life in the midst of contention, as to keep your candle lighted in the greatest storms.

Rick Riordan

My understanding of magic is fairly straightforward. Hit enemies with a sword until they’re dead. If they rise again, hit them again. Repeat as necessary. It worked against Set.

William Matthews

What lasting progress was ever made in social reformation, except when every step was insured by appeals to the understanding and the will?

Woodrow Wilson

Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.

Woody Allen

How the hell do I know why there were Nazis? I don't know how the can-opener works.