Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kass James

The performance is part of a larger picture. Getting up and performing poetry in front of big crowds is another way for these kids to view their lives from a different perspective, and we want the kids in our program 20 years from now to be reading the books some of these kids have written.

Peter Kent

There are books on HTML, JavaScript, Java, ActiveX, and all sorts of other geeky subjects. But not only don't you need to understand these things in order to set up a Web site; you can read a dozen such books, and you still won't know everything you need to do.

James Browning

We started off in the Oak Hill Flea Market, about 1988, selling just about everything, but after a short period of time we found that books sold best. After a while we just got too big for the flea market and since my wife and I always loved books and reading, the natural progression was for us to open a bookstore.

Heinrich Heine

Where one burns books, one will soon burn people.

Nicolas Roeg

When my sister and I were very young, my father used to tell us fairy stories that he'd made up. My mother was always telling him that he should write them down, but he would say, 'Well, they've all been done before. There are so many blooming books in the world - why should I write another one?'

Gretchen Rubin

For notes related to books I'm writing, I've wondered whether I should organize my notes better, but I do find that the action or scrolling through them and seeing odd juxtapositions of ideas helps to stimulate my own ideas and creativity. I worry that if I kept the notes in a highly-structured way, I might lose some of these benefits.

Xavier Chambon

We want to put books in everyone's hands.

Ron Cooper

We have no problem with the audit. Our books are open to everyone.

Alexander McCall Smith

I think people in Botswana are pleased that my books paint a positive picture of their lives and portray the country as being very special. They've made a great success of their country, and the people are fed up with the constant reporting of only the problems and poverty of the continent. They welcome something which puts the positive side.

Joe Perry

After a while, no matter how much you love any pop song, you're going to get tired of it. That's the way it is with any entertainment. It's good when you first hear it or see it, you like it for a while, then it gets old. It gets chewed up and spit out and it's done.

Jack Campbell

After I saw our time, we just crossed our fingers and chewed our nails. Irvington's time was so close to ours the whole way, so we had to wait for the announcement. The kids really wanted to win, so I'm happy for them and proud.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

'The X Factor' is great entertainment, but it doesn't prepare people for getting chewed up and spat out by the music industry.

Ray Allen

The way we played in the last game (a 99-74 loss to Memphis on Wednesday), it was just a difference in attitude. We started the first half tonight with that same muddy approach. We were lethargic and really didn't have any enthusiasm and we got chewed out at the half.

Joel Fuhrman

Don't forget: cruciferous vegetables must be chopped, crushed, or chewed well for maximum benefit!

Eric Johnson

When the tent went down, one of us chewed through the wall of the tent until he'd opened up a hole big enough to crawl through.

Eric Bruntlett

If the guy's safe there and the runner goes to second base, I deserve to be taken out to the tunnel and chewed out. But it did work out for us.

Scott Sword

I feel terrible about it. I'm having a hard time forgiving myself because he was so chewed up.

Joe Roetheli

Greenies are safe if they are fed properly and chewed by the dog.

Charles Dickens

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

Charles Caleb Colton

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.

Charles Caleb Colton

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

Charles Dickens

She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and entwined with it. She has produced some delightful pieces, herself, sir. You may have met with her 'Ode to an Expiring Frog,' sir.

Charles Dickens

I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born, in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality, and against the dissuadinig arguments of my best friends.

Charles Dickens

For your popular rumour, unlike the rolling stone of the proverb, is one which gathers a deal of moss in its wanderings up and down.

Charles Dickens

In the majority of cases, conscience is an elastic and very flexible article

Charles Dickens

Think! I've got enough to do, and little enough to get for it, without thinking.

Leonard McKay

I understand that they've got to have something really strange in order to sell tickets. But I do think it's an injustice to Sarah Winchester.

Brandon Marshall

I understand that you're supposed to protect a fellow officer, but when injustice is happening, it's on them to speak up as well.

Bryant H. McGill

Many an injustice is presented as solution and gift.

Edmund Burke

Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.

Elie Wiesel

For us it's not easy to be conformist, I cannot stand to be conformist, I don't accept what it is, I like to say no. If I see an injustice I scream.

Aristotle

Injustice results as much from treating unequals equally as from treating equals unequally.

Ed Miliband

While there's capitalism, there'll be socialism, because there is always a response to injustice.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

... but it is human to be outraged by injustice, even to the point of courting destruction!

Dolores Huerta

As a youngster and being a Latina, you see so much injustice.

Jerry Clements

We respond to lots of things; that's why it's interesting. You're not doing the same thing every day.

Christine Walsh

Usually, it's complicated enough just doing a role. But when it's your senior project, there's lots, lots more involved.

Jeanette Miller

It's a small town with lots of shops, sort of like Peddler's Village. We thought we'd look around.

Carol Lee

A lot of stress, lots of that. Sleepless nights, the waiting is the hardest.

Cesar Conda

They have been in recent weeks delegating lots of responsibility to other members of the senior staff. They've been preparing for it. There are lots of talented people there.

Paul Saffo

They're taking lots of really smart risks and doing things that are very strategic.

Julian Schnabel

It's very difficult, I think, for people to be around you when you're getting lots of attention. It's very difficult for young people to understand what that's about when people start treating you differently when you've been doing the same thing you were doing the day before.

Richard Long

There was lots of red ink, but that was to be expected.

Richard Dodd

There was lots of apocalyptic talk before it was introduced.

Robert G. Allen

We're mainly providing a place to sleep, shower and use restrooms.

Ted Kempf

There was no real news out there. This was mainly technical selling.

Liu Xiaoming

Some will be used mainly for business, and others will be for living.

Troy Johnson

It would mainly be for people who already live and work in the Mankato area.

Sanyo President

We have high-end range refrigerators which are mainly meant for the urban areas.

Pattie Boyd

I think men are mainly unfaithful because as they get older, they feel the urge to prove to themselves that they are still attractive. They need proof from outside the marriage. It's really sad. It's all about them. It's not about their wives at all.

Mike May

Still, I tune out the visual input when it is too distracting, mainly in conversations.

Jonathan Coe

Well, mainly it's because I'm not a writer who's comfortable with writing about periods that I can't remember firsthand.

Martin Chalfie

Mainly I study the sense of touch and what the molecules are that transduce touch. And I use mutants in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans to look at that problem.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Studd

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

Charles Stross

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

Charles Stanley

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.

Charles Spurgeon

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

Bill Nighy

If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I'm in crisis.

Charlie Daniels

The United States of America took a giant step toward a totalitarian socialist government when the Supreme Court voted to uphold Obamacare, allowing the individual mandate for the government to force American citizens to buy health insurance whether they want to or not.

Bruno Latour

Change the instruments and you will change the entire social theory that goes with them

Bryan Adams

I swear, I wanna be your underwear.

Ed Koch

I have a social life. But I don't discuss it.

Benjamin Tucker

Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism

Ted Schadler

It's not really about social networking. It's not wide open.

Jim Blake

As part of the deal, there's a social mobilization effort.

Jason Calacanis

Apps, email, and social are the three things Google does not control.

Charles Dickens

Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.

Alan Rickman

The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.

Alan Rickman

It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

Alan Rickman

I like it when stories are left open.

Alan Moore

This is an IMAGINARY STORY...aren't they all?

Alan Moore

Everybody has their story to tell.

Chris Colfer

A villain is just a victim whose story hasn’t been told.

Chinua Achebe

Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.

Chinua Achebe

In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.

Benjamin Franklin

At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wife; and at forty, the judgment.

Bob Dylan

Twenty years of schoolin' / And they put you on the day shift.

Hal Lindsey

Twenty years ago, I said there was going to be something that would stop the Soviet Union from taking over the world. And now we see that the Soviet Union has been stopped, through its own disintegration.

Jane D. Hull

In twenty years, the Lottery has raised over $1.4 billion. It has been run successfully and efficiently.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

I don't want any more vicissitudes, I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I've had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted.