Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

John Faso

I think someone gave it to him out of a briefing book, and he's just not as familiar with New York as I am.

Dan Bloom

All the wins are great, but I'd rather be on the right side of that book. Pete Tilman won a New England championship, and I don't consider myself the greatest wrestler in Sharon history because I don't have a New England title to back that up.

John Foley

A bookstore to me is ike a candy store, ... There is not a book I would not want to read at some point. My son is learning to read right now. Watching him get excited how he can discover things through books is pretty phenomenal.

Samuel Johnson

A man ought to read just as his inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

Sally Quinn

They had not been viewed as demigods in the newsroom. Only after the book, and really after the movie, did it become clear that their celebrity was a little over the top.

Brian Halla

It's one thing to put this business on the books. It's far more important to maximize the profit from it.

Marshall Brain

It started in January 1998 on a total whim. I didn't want to write another book. I wanted to do something fun on the Web to relax.

Al Jones

It's the personal, intimate nature of books. It's hard to curl up with a computer.

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.

Alice Braga

I do a lot of research. For 'I Am Legend', I did a lot of research about survivors. If everybody is dead around you, how you can keep surviving. I went to the bookstore and found psychiatry books about survivors from the Holocaust.

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.

Nancy Werlin

No matter how beautiful and loved a cover may be, the jury on it remains uncommitted until the book has been in the world for a while. Perhaps bookstore buyers will be indifferent. Perhaps it will be lost on store shelves. Perhaps there's another book or two out there using the same or a similar photo.

Gabrielle Zevin

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

Stacie Orrico

It's one thing for the people in the industry to know who you are, because they've heard about you earlier. I have friends calling me from the Christian bookstore because there's a poster on the wall. It's just weird.

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.

Andrew Ross

The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have beenpresented in the entire history of television."Andrew Ross

Stephan Sirard

He loves it. He was like this kid in a candy store.

Alecko Eskandarian

I'm like a kid in a candy store right now. I'm excited to be running, which is funny, because a lot of guys dread coming to preseason and sprinting around and working your butt off, but I'm really excited just to be out there with the guys. I really missed it.

Jose Castro

The kids definitely like it. I'd say the cotton candy is the most popular thing in here. That and the hats. People like those a lot.

Tommy Albelin

That's one of the only times I've seen Dano get nervous. You could see he was on edge. He was like a kid in a candy store. He was really nervous.

Ruth Johnson

That grocery store, that was something. You would be just tickled to go in there and pick out any candy you could want.

Andy Wood

They don't have that kind of candy over there, ... It is not as sweet (as in the U.S.).

Angela Bozorth

This particular individual is looking for gumball candy and candy machines.

Dylan Lauren

To save money on gifts, give someone their favorite candy in a beautiful, customized vessel with a personalized tag. It's sweet and always appreciated.

Steve Mooshagian

When everybody found out he was available, it was like a kid in a candy store. We're lucky we got the candy first.

Daniel Petrie

They studio were flabbergasted when they discovered how interested everybody was in 'those old people.' And now many upcoming projects feature older people; it's become a trend.

Ken Robinson

Whether or not you discover your talents and passions is partly a matter of opportunity. If you've never been sailing, or picked up an instrument, or tried to teach or to write fiction, how would you know if you had a talent for these things?

Jim Fox

Her perspective led me into self-discovery. I got to see the other side.

Brett Johnson

It is a journey of discovery - artistically, sexually, socially.

Dan Shechtman

I think the main lesson that I have learned is that a good scientist is a humble scientist who is open-minded to listen to other scientists when they discover something.

James Hogg

He was scarcely then a year old, and knew so little of herding that he had never turned a sheep in his life; but as soon as he discovered it was his duty to do so I can never forget with what anxiety and eagerness he learned his different evolutions.

Pierre Fermat

I have discovered a truly remarkable proof which this margin is too small to contain.

Matt Reeves

I discovered the fun of genre is... you get to explore your fears, and you get to use the metaphor of the genre - whether it's a giant monster or a... 12-year-old vampire. Whatever it is, you can sink something underneath the surface and make a personal film under the guise of great fun romp.

Michael Steger

I discovered that I wanted to be an actor back when I did my first play in junior high. I've been doing theater in junior high and high school, and I just kept feeding the fire, kept wanting to pursue acting full-on.

Jim Haslett

I think it is a great opportunity for Todd. I think the team will rally around him and give him the support. He's excited about the opportunity.

Acie Law

I think I rushed them. I got so excited because I wasn't expecting to be wide open.

Tom Donahoe

It always is. People get excited when you win and too upset when you lose. There's never any middle ground.

Jim Rise

He is young, will make some young mistakes but has all the tools to do an outstanding job and I am really excited about him, also.

Rob Vega

There are so many reasons to be excited about Glen Erin. It has no weaknesses.

Reggie Sanders

He's a faithful guy, ... He's worked really hard this year to show this team that he's worthy, and now to get the opportunity to do this for the first time ... I'm just so very excited for him.

Doug Murray

He's a great player, great guy. Happy for the team and for Sweden. I'm excited myself.

Rick Anderson

He's a totally different pitcher. That's why he can get excited about what's gone on this spring.

Jonathan Hill

He's a swimming legend. I was excited to meet him.

Ingvar Kamprad

Waste of resources is a mortal sin at IKEA.

Gerald Shields

Here's the deal. I want people reading. We are professionals, and we need to be reading and studying. We need to have a life-long learning mentality.

Dave Fullerton

I think what I am learning is to listen to my body.

Matisyahu

Every record I do is a learning process for how I want to do the next one.

Amanda Voorhis

We have to become more proficient ball-handlers. They're learning from their mistakes.

Jamie Russell

He was learning a lot from his dad.

William Ellery Channing

The hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vain If learning's altar vanish from the plain.

Virgil

He is fortunate who had been able to learn the causes of things. -Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas

William Cobbett

Learning consists of ideas, and not of the noise that is made by the mouth.

William Golding

One's intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there.

Ricky Fante

I wrote the song in tribute ... at the time she was murdered,

Dan Hill

Songs sometimes are so connected to the sociology of the time.

Estelle

Labrinth is a super talented singer, producer, songwriter from London.

Nick Cave

I would hate to think my songs were giving advice to people.

Robert Cray

Normally when we go in and write the songs we write, we think about doing a cover, but never a covers record. That would be, for us, a concept. We don't want to have a concept!

Robbie Coltraine

My sons the same, hes terribly funny. Its a wonderful power to have. Its also fantastically disarming. Women find it unbelievably disarming. You can say the most astonishing things if youre funny. You can tell a woman that shes irresistibly attractive, but do it in such a funny way.

Rob Thomas

I've had the pleasure of working closely with Marc Von Em as a singer, but when I heard his original stuff, I asked him to open up a 10,000 seat gig. Just him, his guitar, and his songs. He killed it!

Rob Sheffield

Every moment of my life has a soundtrack, so I never know when some song is going to jump me by surprise and bring the memory alive.

Rob Sheffield

Singing what's in your heart? Naming the things you love and loathe? You can get hurt that way. Hell, you will get hurt that way. But you'll get hurt trying to hide away in all that silence and leave your life unsung. There's no future without tears. Are you really setting your hopes on not getting hurt at all? You think that's an option? You clearly aren't listening to enough Morrissey songs.

Alan Trammel

He's a keeper. We'll be watching him for years.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I was kind of amused, and shocked. At first I was watching it with my children. Then I said 'Children, OUT!

Andy Robinson

It has been killing me watching from the stands, I want to get back into the action,

Turner Gill

I'll be watching right up front. Won't everybody?

Gavin Henson

I'll probably be watching it at home, with Charlotte.

Brian Urlacher

If I was someone, I'd do the same to us after watching that film.

Madonna Madonna

I had the same thing when we were watching Live 8,

Betha Aris

I am still watching you as well Mr. Whitey!

Sandra Bullock

I feel like I always have someone watching my back.