Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Labonte

A top-five finish in the 150 is a good start. It gives us something to build on for Sunday.

William Griffin

There's no need to build it up if someone else is going to tear it down.

Pat Fagan

There's no way we can buy 60-plus portables. We can't build enough schools in a short period of time. I don't know what else we can do but lobby the legislators.

Walt Jocketty

There's nothing you can really do to expedite the healing process. It takes time to heal, and it takes time to build the strength up. It's something he hasn't had before. I don't know if we've had an injury like that.

Richard Lee

There's not enough skilled labor in this town to build even half of what has been proposed.

Brian Curran

The tradition of the team is one where they've always won, ... Quite frankly, I want a championship. I have a desire to build a team that will win championships. That's a great challenge, and I look forward to it immensely.

Kathryn Gallagher

The timing is perfect because spring and summer for us is like the holiday season for other retailers. When the sun comes out, that's when you build your deck or paint your house.

Guus Hiddink

The time together and the match will be crucial for us. It is vital that we continue to improve as we build to November.

Louis Michel

The time has come, ... to try to build new conditions to improve and to build new relationships between Pakistan and EU in order to construct and to feed a new and long-term partnership.

Consider the daffodil. And while you're doing that, I'll be over here, looking through your stuff.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

She did not admire him any more than she had. It was merely that she considered him the Lesser of two evils.

John Curran

As soon as they switched over, I knew it was Kristi on the ground. They said Kristi Yamaoka, and I was out the door. I didn't lock my door or anything.

Stephen King

There are things of such darkness and horror—just, I suppose, as there are things of such great beauty—that they will not fit through the puny human doors of perception.

Burn Gorman

I'm afraid the 'Doctor Who' door is probably closed because of me being in 'Torchwood.'

Ellen DeGeneres

I have the picture of Barack [Obama] and me dancing right outside of my dressing room door, I see it every single day, and it makes me very happy.

Tony Crescenzi

Greenspan opened the door to 50-basis-point rate hikes,

Clay Aiken

It's very rare that you get to go up and meet fans and especially at their house and surprise them. To come and knock on somebody's door is kind of a neat experience.

Nathan Fillion

It's very Jehovah's Witness. I'm not sure if anyone's actually going door to door, but it's not far off.

Lin Ezell

I want every marine who comes through the door to find something that relates to his or her career.

Lara Pulver

I'm not shutting doors on myself, in any way, within theater, musical theater, TV and film.

Pearl Norris

We thought it was a warehouse but when we opened it, the pews were still in it.

Bella Thorne

I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well.

John Taylor Gatto

Close reading of tough-minded writing is still the best, cheapest, and quickest method known for learning to think for yourself... Reading, and rigorous discussion of that reading in a way that obliges you to formulate a position and support it against objections, is an operational definition of education... reading, analysis, and discussion is the way we develop reliable judgment, the principle way we come to penetrate covert movements behind the facade of public appearances.

Margaret Mahy

Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act.

Jeanette Winterson

Reading is a rendezvous with your soul.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.

Sarah Orne Jewett

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

Vivienne Westwood

I remember reading a book set in the future, it was written in the 1870s projecting to 1920, and this time traveler said you couldn't tell the difference between men and women. He saw what was coming.

Will Oldham

I feel like, for me, reading Thomas Merton is like that. When you're a ways into it, you're five pages in, 20 pages in, 30 pages in, it seems like one of the more oxymoronic undertakings you could attempt.

Virginia Woolf

It was love, she thought, love that never clutch its object; but, like the love which mathematicians bear their symbols, or poets their phrases, was meant to be spread over the world and become part of human gain. The world by all means should have shared it, could Mr Bankes have said why that woman pleased him so; why the sight of her reading a fairy tale to her boy had upon him precisely the same effect as the solution of a scientific problem.