Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maureen Johnson

'Harry Potter' achieved a very special act of actual magic: it made it completely acceptable for an adult to carry around, read and enjoy a children's book.

Shah Rukh Khan

In the world of creativity, laziness translates into an inability to be rigorous enough to create fearlessly. It makes us plagiarise or water our creativity down to make it more acceptable to the public.

Clarence Briggs

There are some who've asked us if this isn't simply part of the cost of doing business. That high a cost is neither acceptable nor tenable.

Pam Carpenter

We expect to have a lot of first-time, in-person voters taking advantage of a more acceptable process.

Brooke Smith

I think that as a team we've come a tremendously long way since November and December. But I don't think that makes this loss more acceptable or makes it hurt any less.

Mike Stoops

It is not OK to fumble. That is not acceptable in this program. It is never going to be OK when you screw up. You have to have a certain amount of accountability and responsibility in the way you take the field and the way you play. I think that is something Chris has learned. I think he will be a more accountable player.

John Panciocco

I think that this title is really a testament to the boys' character and what they bring to the game -- the intangibles, the desire to win. It's almost a code of honor that they have to give 100 percent every singe game, and nothing else is acceptable to them. They're a remarkable bunch of guys.

Andy Melin

I think that just like with many other things in our society, certain things are much more acceptable now than they were five, 10 years ago or longer. I know a lot of pregnant teens who have had no problems staying in the regular school environment, trying to maintain their regular schedule as long as they could.

John Conyers

It is not acceptable to force mothers to testify against their daughters, to make lawyers testify against their clients, to require Secret Service agents to testify against the people they protect, or to make bookstores tell what books people read,

Kathleen Hanna

Find something you really love doing and mix it with something you really care about. That's why I've had such longevity as an artist. I really, really care about ending violence against women, and I really, really love playing music. It's super enjoyable!

Dave Bush

I was kind of thinking I just have to settle down, keep throwing strikes, just because of a run in the first inning I can't come out of the game plan. I feel like I've executed fairly well against them.

Tyronn Mitchell

I was just caught up in the moment, that was a shot of a lifetime. Who would think a number 14 seed against a number three seed? The emotion was just so high. I was running around like crazy.

Bill Gibbons

I was looking forward to competing against her for years to come. She really was a rising star.

Jai Courtney

I was always dressing up as a kid in the backyard, building some sort of fort and having battles against imaginary enemies. It's often that same feeling when you're pretending for a living, but it's with bigger toys.

Flip Saunders

Kind of how we've been for 37 games. Different guys lead us over different parts of the game, play unselfish. Thirty assists, eight turnovers, that's kind of where we've been when we win games. I think how we played tonight against New York is pretty much how this team has played through the first half of this season.

Brian Vereb

Kenyon is opening a new facility and we will be the second opponent to swim in their new pool. The Ladies are a powerhouse in Division III swimming and this should be a good test for us, swimming against a quality opponent on the road.

Jerry Ryan

Kill the Pope; that's obviously anti-Catholic, but that's against the message of the other writings where they say 'no more war,'

Matt Hasselbeck

Knowing Chike -- he's a guy with a great pass rush and he's got a motor -- I don't think any quarterback gets excited about going up against him. I think our guys, hopefully, will be up to the task.

Pat Ruel

It angers me. His agents told him he's going the first day of the draft. That's what they told him. They are pieces of garbage.

S. Walker

guarded by a couple of CIA agents and some Treasury Department guys.

Nadine Velazquez

Something like 'The Matrix' would be ideal, something where it's super agents and wire work and special effects - not necessarily running from bombs and shooting people. Something more sleek, like an assassin.

Henry Harteveldt

What Yahoo has and the travel agents don't have is user generated content. Travelers will change their behavior based on what they see from other consumers.

Don Maloney

History has shown to us, especially in New York, that signing the 30-plus-year-old free agents without a very strong base is very risky. It has not worked for us in New York. You have to develop a core group, then you can go out and add.

Sergei Ignatchenko

It is most important that we caught them having contact with agents and funding a number of non-profit organizations (NGOs). We are investigating the goals of this funding.

George H. W. Bush

Our border patrol and immigration agents are doing a fine job, but we still have a problem, ... Too many illegal immigrants are coming in, and we're capturing many more non-Mexican illegal immigrants than we can send home.

Steve Nickerson

Our mission is to give real estate agents the recognition they deserve by giving their clients a voice and a platform in which consumers can read reviews from others' experiences.

Jerry Colangelo

In my mind how it's been done in the past was a little bit ludicrous. Guys would receive letters. Agents would get calls. Is your guy interested? That's not where we are. We only want players who want to participate, and I have to look them in the eye to find out where they are.

Caroline Leavitt

Indie bookstores love writers as much as they love readers, and there is something about a community store, where you walk in, you feel known, and the delight in books is just infectious.

Gabrielle Zevin

A place isn't a place until it has a bookstore.

Lisa Jackson

I hate that bookstores are closing. Hate it! What's better than hanging out a bookstore, be it independent or chain, and talking books with people who love books?

Annalee Newitz

Radio Shack is meeting the fate of many other stores that were wildly popular in the twentieth century, including record stores, comic book stores, bookstores and video stores.

Julia Glass

Somewhat sadly, the survival of many bookstores now depends on selling merchandise other than books.

M. J. Rose

PR and marketing doesn't sell books. It gets attention for them. It sends readers to bookstores and websites to read a few pages.

Barbara Bradford

Bookstores see a book by a woman and they put it in the romance section. I write mainstream fiction about women.

Rosecrans Baldwin

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

Roy Blount, Jr.

An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again.

Lao Tzu

Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is enlightenment; Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self needs strength

Cato June

I take my hat off to our D-line. They force a lot of quarterbacks to throw under pressure. They'll make any quarterback nervous.

Bo Ryan

He didn't force anything, and he gets a double-double. That's a good line for Brian. It's a good line for anybody.

Margo Lewis

He'd been ill for a while and was forced in 2005 to take a hiatus from performing.

Glen Hanlon

He keeps on doing stuff like this. Just when I thought I've seen it all, he does something else. He did a lot of things tonight that were pretty impressive. I think you got a pretty good idea of what a force he is.

Ronnie Moore

You have to force Richie to come off, but he will be okay.

Sergei Ivanov

there are sufficient forces in the region to stop such attacks.

Doug Heller

The only thing more shocking than these profits is the prices that motorists are being forced to pay at the pump. It's hard to imagine that these numbers won't rattle the cages pretty severely.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I'm an impatient person in many respects. I like to put myself in uncomfortable situations. It forces me to deliver.

Cindy Sheehan

Lawyers in Washington (D.C.) are working on that right now. It should be filed next week.

Peter Andersen

Lawyers can't just get off a plane and walk with their briefcases into the courtroom.

Proverb Proverb

Lawyers and painters can soon make what's black, white.

Ken Johnson

If Miss Stewart has been truthful, as her lawyers insist, then why won't she tell her story to us under oath?

Mark Lanier

It will at least preclude lawyers like me from saying they've resolved to never settle any,

Tom Waits

and I have lawyers over there investigating my options.

Kent Schaffer

This is where we'll see what the lawyers really get paid to do.

Angela King

Women were professors, lawyers and judges. They were journalists, writers and poets.

Nick Powers

I've been told by my lawyers that I will not be made whole.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.

Rudyard Kipling

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

Zora Neale Hurston

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.

William Feather

Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.

Rudyard Kipling

If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!

Napoleon Bonaparte

Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.

Jodi Picoult

The best place to cry is on a mother's arms.

Mark Twain

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

Oprah Winfrey

I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

MC Hammer

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

H. Hunt

He used to laugh. He'd get people to do it and not tell them what was going to happen.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Susumu Tonegawa

The brain is hugely complicated, and because it is so complicated, it requires multidisciplinary research.

Evan Osnos

To Confucius, harmony was consensus, not conformity. It required loyal opposition.

John Lloyd Young

I think that of musicals - especially the big, splashy ones - require an actor that's also part cheerleader, too, and that's really tough to do if it's not something that really grabs you and your heart's not in it.

William Amelio

In this industry, it's required of us to be best-of-breed in terms of operational efficiency.

Malin Akerman

My only requirement for life is that I don't get stuck in a rut.

Benjamin Franklin

Youth, Age, and Sick require a different Quantity.

Steve Schultz

It may require some bor­row­ing, using the village's bond­ing agreement.

Ronald Hill

When you research companies, they now have a statement on Y2K compliance, which they are required to give you,

Noam Chomsky

The basic principle, rarely violated, is that what conflicts with the requirements of power and privilege does not exist.

Tommy Russell

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

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.

Rhea Perlman

The secret to success is to try to never figure that out.

William Lyon Phelps

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.

Will Durant

Perhaps it is one secret of their power that, having studied the fluctuations of prices, the [bankers] know that history is inflationary.

Robin Wasserman

I guess that's the secret. It would never have occurred to Lia to want to escape -- but then she gets kicked out. Best thing that ever happened to her? I'm not sure she would say yes, because obliviousness tends to be rather pleasant, but once you realized you've been bolivious, there's no turning back. You can't un-know what you know. You know?

Walt Disney

The four Cs as secret of my success-curiosity, confidence,courage and constancy.

Saul Bellow

The secret motive of the absent-minded is to be innocent while guilty. Absent-mindedness is spurious innocence.

Dan Levitan

In the web products and services world, you have a real-time interaction with your customers, and then a real-time editing of how you as a company are doing.

Phil Crosby

When you're out of quality, you're out of business.

Arun Sarin

As was evident, mobiles are better than the wire service here.

Connie Shade

This is where true coordination and sharing of services comes in.

Rhonda Bright

We want them to speak up on what they want in terms of service and care.

Dan Bailey

We're going to try and make it a one-stop social services fair,

Bill Gates

Your customers get better when you do.

Pope John

Anything done for another is done for oneself.

John Keefe

After all these years of service, ... you kind of feel, 'Why did I do this?'

Trey Gowdy

You don't get John Gotti to testify against his driver. You get the driver to testify against John Gotti.