Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Carlyle

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.

Rosecrans Baldwin

Bookstores don't exactly dot the American highway in the grand manner of Sbarros.

M. K. Hobson

I love those books like 'Gone with the Wind,' the huge, sweeping family sagas.

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.

Jack Johnson

This is game we came here to play.

Daniel Bard

This is one I've needed. I've been waiting for an outing like this. It came on a good day.

Younis Khan

This is perhaps the most valuable and memorable hundred for me in my career. I was under pressure in this match to perform and I came good,

Willie Nelson

The whole house came up and I came up with it, ... I was just praying to the Lord to take care of me.

Joe Dunn

The whole game came down to free throws. At one point we had eight straight possessions with an opportunity from the line. It's very uncharacteristic of this team.

Daryl Hall

The whole American pop culture started in Philadelphia with 'American Bandstand' and the music that came out of that city.

Mackey Sasser

The way we came back in that game was something special. The guys never quit. That's what winning teams are made of.

Scott Green

The way we came back from that loss and responded in that match showed us we could be a top team.

Mo McHone

The way they came out is not surprising, but now we've got to get our focus back.

Arnold H. Glasow

Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.

Demi Lovato

As a kid I'd play with homemade recipes, like putting pineapple on my face to exfoliate my skin and doing facial steams with lavender or peppermint oils. I just loved doing stuff like that. It's what motivated me to launch my skin care line.

Anthony Hopkins

Well, everyone likes movies when they're a little kid.

Alicia Keys

I think you are who you are, and your kids will see who you are. So you'd better be a good person, because they are going to see it, and that's going to shape them. They are going to become you.

Alice Walker

Aside from the fact that they say it's unhealthy, my fat ain't never been no trouble. Mens always have loved me. My kids ain't never complained. Plus they's fat.

Alice Lowe

When I was a kid the highlight of my week would be doing a fossil hunt at the local quarry... that kind of thing.

Alice Hoffman

The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know what's happening on the adults' universe

Anne Lamott

It's almost like learning to meditate to learn to hear what your kid is actually saying.

Anne Lamott

It is a violation of trust to use your kids as caulking for the cracks in you.

Anne Lamott

When I was a kid, our family used to watch 'Bonanza.' I really liked having a Sunday night TV ritual.

Desmond Tutu

In order to turn around and do something better, we must first escape the vicious circle of self-righteousness and denial. And that calls for the humility to say "I'm sorry. Please forgive me."

Nikola Tesla

His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance intervened and, at first, I was almost a sorry witness of his doings, knowing that just a little theory and calculation would have saved him 90 per cent of the labor. But he had a veritable contempt for book learning and mathematical knowledge, trusting himself entirely to his inventor's instinct and practical American sense. In view of this, the truly prodigious amount of his actual accomplishments is little short of a miracle.

Mark Twain

I should be sorry to think it was the publishers themselves they got up this entire little flutter to enable them to unload a book that was taking too much room in their cellars, but you can never tell what a publisher will do. I have been one myself.

Michel Gondry

I learned to drive when I was 35. I'm driving like an old lady and very close to the wheel. I don't take many risks, and when people yell at me I say 'sorry, sorry, sorry!' I don't have road rage yet.

Martie Maguire

Sorry to take your award, Faith ... Everybody knows that it's really not about the numbers and the chart positions and the sales and all that stuff, it's about relationships and my two best friends are at home ... I know you're as excited as I am ...

Oscar Wilde

I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of suffering.

Markus Zusak

I'm sorry. I shouldn't be asking such things...' She let the sentence die its own death

Brian Deegan

I feel so sorry for them and I feel so despondent for them. It's just so needless, it's just so pointless.

Jerry Seinfeld

Have you ever noticed that the waiter who takes your order is not the one who brings your food anymore? What is THAT about? And which waiter are you tipping, anyway? I think next time I go to a restaurant I'll just say, "Oh, sorry, I only eat the food. The guy who pays the bill will be along shortly."