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.

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

James Jeffords

I was lucky to be able to call Christopher Reeve a friend.His passion for life and for improving the lives of all Americans serves an inspiration to all of us. He may have played the character of Superman in the movies, but he lived the role of a superman through his life.

Pierce Brosnan

I was looking forward to making (Bond) edgier and grittier -- and for all of that to go down in one phone call was highly disappointing,

Tony Oliva

Kirby meant to me a lot. For me, it's like my own son. He used to call me 'Papa', too.

Gregory Craig

I would urge the relatives in Miami, if they truly want to get back together with Juan Miguel and his family, that they give me a call and let's talk about timing. Let's discuss this in a civilized way, rather than having national press conferences where demands are made.

Cindy Mannes

I would not say it's an epidemic by any stretch, but it is a problem. We used to get one or two calls a year ... Now we're getting one or two calls a week.

Manny Fernandez

Jacques said any roll we can get on is a bonus. Well, I would start calling this a roll.

Rick Dunlap

I would say the ice fishing is what we call gravy. The lion's share is made in the summer and fall.

Mark DiCamillo

I would suspect his tone would change significantly if they don't make it onto the November ballot. If that happened, I could see calling the Legislature all sorts of names by the end of the campaign.

Brian Finnerty

I would still call it a trading-range market. It's nice for today and the short term, but I doubt it's sustainable.

Aaron Johnson

I was lucky enough, when I was younger, to have the chance to do as much as possible, and I found what I wanted to do. I did swimming, gymnastics, kickboxing and the one that took off more than the others was acting.

Tim Thomas

I was looking forward to showing some character by giving a good effort all the way to the end of the year. I thought there was a good chance that maybe we could end the season with a win and feel good about ourselves. But it wasn't to be.

Lyle Overbay

I was looking for a pitch to hit. I had a chance to drive it. When I saw it go in the gap I thought maybe there would be a chance to score. Next thing you know, we win the game.

Jarome Iginla

Kipper, he's played like that all year. He's been amazing. Especially early tonight, they had some chances and he made some timely saves.

Buck Showalter

Kevin made good pitches when he had to, but it took a lot out of him. It was a tribute to him that he was able to get through it for five innings and give us a chance there.

Jeff Boogaart

Jacob is a good, young kid. He's got a chance to be real good for us. ...He needs to get a little tougher, and little more physical, but he does a good job with the ball.

Alexander Veshnyakov

I would say that as of today the chance of a second round is fairly high.

Floyd Ciruli

I would say that the 7th right now is clearly the nation's most competitive seat, with the Democrats having a clear chance to win it.

Alan Trammel

Just to even say there's a possibility, wow. But I'd have to say chances are we're going to have to make an adjustment.

Karol Wight

He didn't want to collect objects that had an association with death.

Andrea McCauley

What you are seeing is a move by TSA to collect it.

Warren Christopher

It is a grave concern that an employer would stoop so low as to illegally eavesdrop on their staff during negotiations for collective agreements.

Lauren Enns

I was a farmer during the Depression and didn't have many toys-and I missed that. We decided to collect toys because it's a lot larger hobby and the items hold their value so much better than other things.

Russell Sciandra

What makes them think he's going to collect it unless they do something?

Ryan Sims

There is a general consensus in the community of the need for a multipurpose facility. A general consensus doesn't provide the details needed for funding, so we are collecting this data to solidify the consensus into a concrete form.

Walt Kyle

We talked about the importance of collecting wins at home. We need to get wins right now. If you have an opportunity to sweep an opponent at home you need to do it.

Pat Roberts

I think we ought to be using all of our capabilities in terms of collecting the intelligence we need,

Patricia Stevens

I was always enthralled in Latin American art. I even got to work on a collection of Latin women self-portraits. They were so beautiful.

Howard Simon

Kids now are smarter than we were. They want the facts. They want to know what's happening. That's why being open and honest with them is so important.

Richard P. Feynman

It is the fact that the electrons cannot all get on top of each other that makes tables and everything else solid.

Richard Dawkins

...there are no natural borderlines in evolution. The illusion of a borderline is created by the fact that the evolutionary intermediates happen to be extinct.

Richard Widmark

I felt pretty comfortable with Westerns, apart from the fact I couldn't ride.

Richelle Mead

In fact I was fairly certain there was no one in the entire world quite like Adrian Ivashkov.

Umberto Eco

The Roseicrucians were everywhere, aided by the fact that they didn't exist.

William Manchester

The sum of a million facts is not the truth.

Woodrow Wilson

The facts of the case will always have the better of [an] argument.

William J. Clinton

I did have a relationship with Ms Lewinsky that was not appropriate. In fact, it was wrong. It constituted a critical lapse in judgment and a personal failure on my part for which I am solely and completely responsible.

Trent Rollins

I was disappointed with that. We're on top of the guy and then all of a sudden we flipped to our back and we're pinned within seconds. I don't know how that happened.

Delta Burke

I put the weight on after we were together. I put on about 20 pounds when we got married, and people were flipping their lids. And then I put on more after that, and I've gone up and down since then.

Finding Nemo

Chum: Dolphins. They think they're so cute. Oh, look at me, I'm a flippy little dolphin, let me flip for you.

Kelly Clarkson

I know, I know, I know. So I flipped out!

Jim Crowley

You've got to flip over every rock you can. There's some untapped ground, but not much.

Chris Armas

And on the flip side, they know us pretty well. There won't be any big secrets.

Don Harrison

The flip side of hurricane preparation is hurricane cleanup.

Taylor Swift

Words are everything to me. Words can build you up and feel so good. On the flip side, words can absolutely demolish you.

Karl Lagerfeld

I am physically allergic to flip-flops

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.

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.

Luanne Rice

I was born in a library, in the fiction stacks.

Ashleigh Brilliant

The closest you will ever come in this life to an orderly universe is a good library.

Pete Seeger

Some folklorists just collected dead bones from one graveyard, only to bury them in another, their library.

David Butler

They'll have to shrink their operations and vigorously sell whatever they can.

Joseph Schwieterman

They have to completely revamp their operations to survive.

Carina Perelli

This has been a much more solid operation than the one we saw in January, ... It has been a peaceable election. Voters were much better prepared.

Kazimierz Krzowski

The rescue phase of the operation is over.

George H. W. Bush

How do you feel the operations are going?

Cilla Black

I am falling apart. My hand is falling apart. I can't shake hands. I had arthritis, and I had an operation for it.

Ajay Singh

But since they have been a part of similar operations previously we are not ruling out the possibility.

Satoru Iwata

If we stay in one place, we will become outdated

Freman Hendrix

In many ways, this is a tired, kind of outdated strategy that may have had its place in the 1970s and 1980s.

James Boswell

He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

John Atkinson

If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.

Josefa Iloilo

I will, from this day strive to forge togetherness out of our differences.

Phil Keoghan

I like to have fun with them. I like to toy with them a little bit. we're making television, after all. Right?

Joan Armatrading

Just an hour with you, and I understand why we had to meet.

Brian Koslow

One way to evaluate your own reputation is to think about what would be said of you at your eulogy.

Brian Koslow

During a negotiation, it would be wise not to take anything personally. If you leave personalities out of it, you will be able to see opportunities more objectively.

Samuel Smiles

The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.

Paul Celan

Reality is not simply there, it must be searched and won.

Esther Hicks

If you look in 'The Science of Getting Rich,' you see no reference whatsoever to the 'law of attraction.'

Trevor Noah

I'm not an abrasive person. I do speak my mind, but my goal is never to offend. I don't intentionally want to strike a chord.

Rigoberto Medina

There is no connection. The nationwide strike has nothing to do with this.

Lorenzo Bundy

He was pretty good, especially early. He pounded the strike zone, but he still has to work on his location.

Jimmy Harris

He was spotting his fastball. He had a real tight strike zone.

Vance Wilson

If you look at the way he was continually getting strike one down in the zone ... if he does that, he can do whatever he wants.

Toby Hall

I'm safe, and it was strike three. So there it is.

Steve Friswell

They can't come to work when they feel like it and strike when they feel like it.

Brian Giles

They were one strike away from a sweep. You never know what that can do to a team.

Terry Wilczek

They want to be a big-play offense. It's a high-risk offense, but they're having some success with it. They want to strike with the big play.

Emily Lyons

I was in the right place, just at the wrong time that day.

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Denny Green

J.J. is the starter. I said that a long time ago.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Leslie Cohen

I think it'll be time at the end of this year for them to go off and try something new, ... It'll be torture. It'll be torture.

Mary Lambert

I think I streaked one time when I was 16, which was scary.

Cynthia Johnson

He didn't get the time that we may feel he deserved, and he may not get it in this lifetime. But before it's all over with, he will get it.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

Mona Singh

It is about time that TV actors were paid as well as film stars.