Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kathleen Troia McFarland

The problem with people who live in a world of speeches and books and theories is they don't know how to fix things in the real world when they go wrong. They feign ignorance, blame others, and make another eloquent speech.

Katherine Paterson

I love writing for young adults because they are such a wonderful audience, they are good readers, and they care about the books they read.

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.

Jojo Moyes

I wrote three books before I got one published. Most writers do. Have faith, and know that with each work you are getting better.

Len Deighton

I wrote my first books the way people would write science fiction, because they gave me much more latitude to invent situations.

Kelly Rowland

I saw someone the other day with yellow on their eyelids, and it looked so fresh. But I thought if I did that I'd look like a clown. So I went and I bought some yellow eye shadow from M.A.C. and I noticed that when you mix it with water it works better. So I tried it, and I looked like Big Bird. I will never do that again.

Brian Jenkins

I was looking for a space heater today, which I found, but a lot of the other stuff I bought isn't stuff that I really need.

John McDowell

Kinky can truly speak his mind. He is not bound by the party machine. He is a true independent. He cannot be bought off by lobbyists. He is not taking money from corporations or unions.

Lonnie Starks

I actually think the kids have bought into what I'm selling. It's hard work and determination.

Leila Smith

He wanted to buy me a Cadillac. But I only saw hard men and rough women in those cars. So he bought me a Buick.

Kermit Davis

He violated team rules. We got to Troy and bought him a one-way bus ticket back to Murfreesboro.

Sam Worthington

Clothes have memories, and sometimes you don't want to remember. People remember where they bought the clothes, who gave them, or where they stole them from.

Sam Hunt

I was a big music fan, but I never bought a bunch of records or was very educated, I guess, on who was who or what was what.

Suki Waterhouse

The first coat I ever bought is in a plastic bag in about five pieces. It's by Sonia Rykiel. I can't wear it anymore, but I still like it.

Harry Browne

Job was tested, and he proved himself. Because of that he was rewarded greatly, and I think the same opportunity exists for those people suffering so sorely now.

Jennifer Connelly

I think it's a different type of horror film than has existed before,

Thomas Piketty

When you are an entrepreneur, you have founded your own firm, it is so easy to find that you exist - you are the main shareholder of your company; it is very easy to look at the stock market position of your company to know how rich you are.

Shakira

I think, if you can prove the existence of God, it can only be proven through love.

Monica Johnson

As a child of God, our whole reason for existing is to give God praise. What a testimony to give in a difficult situation.

Danny Meyer

What you can do is present existing flavors in a fresh way, in a fresh context.

John Springer

Here is an existing structure we can use. There are several advantages. It's centrally located, a good height, there are not a lot of trees in the way and it's good topography (without many hills in the area).

John Springer

Here is an existing structure we can use, ... There are several advantages. Its centrally located, a good height, there are not a lot of trees in the way and its good topography (without many hills in the area).

Jeffrey Hirsch

I think the hurricane really just exacerbates an existing situation for the market,

Kelly McBride

Journalists' notes are incredibly useful for historical perspectives.

Jack Horner

Historical science is being left in the dust.

Yasuo Fukuda

Historical perspectives or outlooks represented in textbooks should not be identified as those of the Japanese government.

Tom Harkin

there is no constitutional or historical precedent for any kind of findings of fact.

John Updike

I didn't need to write historical epics, no, or science fiction, though I read a lot of science fiction as a kid and rather liked it. But I didn't have the mentality.

Ed Harris

I don't have the luxury of the firsthand historical knowledge that you have. You'll probably find the same thing with the board.

Reza Aslan

The New Testament is not a historical document.

William Wordsworth

Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history?

William J. Clinton

We must fortify African democracy and peace by launching Radio Democracy for Africa, supporting the transition to democracy now beginning to take place in Nigeria.

Ben Bernanke

He lived with us for 24 years, ... He studied with us.

Steve Nash

It's a strange one - I've been away for 20 years now; I've been away longer than I lived in Canada, but for some reason I remain wholly Canadian.

Russ Reineke

What matters most is how we lived and loved between the dash.

Al Sevier

He was just a little bitty toddler when he lived here.

Richard C. Armitage

I have been to the theater more since I have lived in New York than I ever really did in London working on a television show.

Al Pacino

I'd like to be remembered as the only man who lived to be 250 years old!

Mikael Tellqvist

I don't feel too much pressure like that (taking over as No.1). I've lived with it since I was 7 and I can live with it now.

Kadiatou Diallo

I don't know what went wrong that night. I just know that he (Amadou) was in the right place because he lived here, ... He was going in the place where he lived.

Orhan Pamuk

I am a Turk. I've lived in Turkey for 43 years, and for that reason my political observations are about Turkey, because that's what I know.

Quvenzhane Wallis

When I need to cry, I think of very sad things, mostly about animals.

Dario Fo

I am interested, too, in satirical theater, in the grotesque, or even in tragedy at times, but I am mostly comfortable with comedy.

Sheila Nevins

respect mostly the people on the other side of the camera.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

REFORM, v. A thing that mostly satisfies reformers opposed to reformation.

Rand Paul

In the search for culpability for the tragedy in Ferguson, I mostly blame politicians.

Jami Attenberg

I have watched Occupy Wall Street mostly from the sidelines.

Barbara Mertz

I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.

Mia Sara

I'm mostly retired. Now I'm a mother with a really noisy, difficult house to maintain!

Dana Schutz

I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.

Mark Wilkinson

I think it's a better-kept secret than the Special Forces.

Tommy Russell

I think Ward is one of the best-kept secrets in West Tennessee.

Carl Jung

As above, so below, as within, so without.

Jason Schmidt

I don't know what the big secret is.

Rebecca West

Once a secret society establishes itself within an open society, there is no end to the hideous mistrust it must cause.

Russell Crowe

The secret to riches is the same as the secret to comedy - timing.

Ron Carlson

The big secret is the ability to stay in the room.

Tyler Perry

Forgiveness is important in families, especially when there are so many secrets that need to be healed - for the most part, every family's got them.

Truman Capote

Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.

Paul Slavin

There are stories that you don't have to be first on.

Candace Bushnell

I was a freelancer all through my twenties. I did about one story a month and I wanted to write fiction, so the stories that I would do were precursors to 'Sex and the City.'

Joe Meno

What makes my work my own is where I'm writing from. And I feel like I have a million stories to write about Chicago.

Trinny Woodall

I don't have a problem with the stories saying I'm skinny at all.

Jocelyn Moorhouse

I am interested in stories that concern women.

Richard Paul Evans

I've yet to read a love story that compares with mine.

Richard Wright

I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true [...].

Richelle Mead

But I didn't know about the other story." "What other story?” "About how you and Adrian Ivashkov are—" "No, whatever you heard it’s not true." "But it was really romantic" "Then it’s definitely not true.

Richard Bausch

A good story needs only a good storyteller.