Famous Quotes & Sayings

Katherine Paterson

Some say it is the elements of hope and wonder in children's books that make them special. But there are many dark young adult novels these days. Adults loved Harry Potter, though it was written for the young. In the end, it is probably up to the reader of any age to decide if this book is for him or her.

Jack Shafer

I also think that anyone in late years of college is anxious about their future, asking themselves, 'What do I want to do? Also, I think that we all live vicariously through children and these kind of trend stories are an expression of adult anxiety.

George Herman

You're an actor, are you? Well, all that means is: you are irresponsible, irrational, romantic, and incapable of handling an adult emotion or a universal concept without first reducing it to something personal, material, sensational - and probably sexual!

Bobby Vinton

I was able to stay on because in those days I was selling songs like 'Blue Velvet' and 'There I Said It Again'. But they were kind of adult hits.

Rick Derringer

I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults.

Yehuda Berg

The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.

Kate Winslet

Part of Breast Cancer Care's work is to make sure everyone in the UK is breast aware throughout their adult lives,

Lloyd Kolbe

Part of the problem is if you've got an adult population where 64 percent of the adults are obese, that's the model that the upcoming generation sees every day. So the potential for it to become the norm, that's part of the self-perpetuating cycle.

Joyce Johnson

In the age that I am, in my entire adult life that I have been lobbying for reproductive freedom--why does it seem like we're going so far backwards?

Hermann Hesse

Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.

Alan Murray

Kieron is very, very low at the moment because he cannot seem to get a run of games in the team injury-free,

Rauf Denktash

Just to come to the negotiating table I cannot say that my state does not exist. I demand the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is either recognized or taken into account.

Bhagwan Rajneesh

Just think of a man who wants to sit but cannot sit because he says, I have legs -- how can I sit? Or, think of a man who wants to keep quiet and silent and cannot keep quiet and silent because he says, I have a mind. It is the same.

James Caan

Joseph Russo is a dear friend of mine and I cannot express enough how pleased I am that your office has taken interest and is in pursuit of correcting this problem.

Hugo Ch

It cannot be that the countries that have developed nuclear energy prohibit those of the third world from developing it,

Samuel Jutzi

It can be contained in domestic birds. It can be eliminated in domestic birds, but at the current level of money, it cannot be contained.

Samuel Hopkins

In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and holding the Negroes our slaves, as we do, cannot be vindicated by any thing we can find there, but is condemned by the whole of divine revelation.

Tony Leung Chiu-Wai

If I want to experience the life of an ordinary person, I cannot do it in Asia.

Kevin Hanson

He's a freshman in a different country, eating different food and going to a new school. He has a lifelong girlfriend back in Austria. So it was a great reward for him to play big in a big game like this.

Kate Hudson

(Goldie) told her to put on some weight, ... eating practically nothing.

Greg Gilchrist

He's eating well and breezed well over the track,

Paul McGee

He?s eating good, training good and things have gone without a hitch.

Torii Hunter

I think about what his kids are going through more than anything. It's killing me right now. It's eating me up.

Mary Quant

Eating outdoors is a particular passion - that is, eating trestle-table a la nicoise.

Jeff Mallonee

I don't even think its sunk in yet how lucky or how big this is going to be. They are just taking it in stride, and they are eating it up. It's going to be an everlasting memory for each and every one of them.

Mike Wahle

I don't know what he's been eating for breakfast, but we need to keep feeding it to him because he's making some great cuts, hitting the holes hard and running through the extra man. We're going to need more of the same.

Ray Burrows

I'd be so happy to be sitting at my desk, eating a Pop-Tart and keying away, ... Nothing would please me more.

Sarah Rees Brennan

Some magicians are rich, some are famous, some are stupidly good-looking.' Jamie gave Nick a rather complicated look. Nick raised an eyebrow. 'Some of us manage to be stupidly good-looking on our own.

Paul Erdos

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.

Patrick Ness

Schooling ain't life." "Ain't it?" she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.

Olivia Wilde

I do not tweeze my eyebrows. I've been letting them grow out for years. I try to fill them in wherever nature has abandoned me.

Marc Almond

Russians have a new freedom, but as long as they don't express that freedom on a public platform.

Terry Pratchett

Lord Vetinari lifted an eyebrow with the care of one who, having found a piece of caterpillar in his salad, raises the rest of the lettuce.

Terence McKenna

The world is MADE up of language. We can SAY that the world is composed of little demons doing calisthenics, each one the size of a pissant's eyebrow.... Or we can SAY the world is made of tiny wave mechanical packets of matter hurling through space at near the speed of light.... But notice that what we get each time are WORDS....

Randall Munroe

Correlation doesn’t imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing ‘look over there.’

Shannon Lucid

It was just using the liquid shampoo - the Russians have one very similar to the stuff we use on the Shuttle - you just wet your hair with it and then wipe it out.

Sathya Baba

Knowledge that is not put into practice is like food that is not digested.

Timothy Ramey

There is a lack of innovation, lack of reinvestment, and lack of news in the category. We're not recommending any large-cap food names.

Eric Schlosser

There is a growing market today for local, organic foods produced by small farmers. And farmers' markets have played a large role in making that happen.

Allen Johnson

We've been told they have to be 'completely self-sufficient,' ... so they have to take their own food, water and clothing. There is no local support.

Gilbert Arenas

We've got to realize that these people lost everything they had. For some people they didn't have food or water for days. I'm just trying to do my part and help out as much as I can.

Sara Schmitz

We substitute foods that are on the menu with a doctor's excuse. With 20,000 kids, it's impossible to be short-order cooks.

Mario Batali

I think that the rise of a group of people called the slow food movement is doing a lot to try to protect and preserve traditions.

Thomas Armstrong

When they see the Spirit of Connecticut coming, they'll know they're going to get good food coming.

Joyce Kirk

He goes through 30 pounds of food every week.

Gary Waddock

He knows that he's let the group down. I'll be looking at the incident and if he needs to be fined, he will be.

Kevin Breslin

I think that the groups do get things done around here.

Vernon Briggs

There is no group that has benefited less from immigration.

Jeff Moorad

We're open-minded about the profile. The group that we've identified tends to be a younger group, but also a group that has significant experience.

David Sedaris

Underneath my window, there were huge groups of people running in the streets. They tried to overturn a car. So the woman opened her window and tried to throw water on them. So then they threw rocks up and tried to smash her windows. It was very exciting.

Richelle Mead

I stared. "Canadian Satanists? You're sending me to a group of Canadian Satanists?

Reinhold Niebuhr

As racial, economic and national groups, they take for themselves, whatever their power can command.

Christie Hefner

In online, which skews to a young demographic, we've seen strong growth in our subscription and e-commerce business, and the group reported its first two quarters of profits in the first half.

Barry Hinson

I just told our group in the locker room that when (SIU) had to get tough, they did, and when we had to get tough, we did not.

Andrea Martin

I was intimidated at first, ... But everyone was very helpful and kind.

Brian McLaughlin

I was in Pensacola, Fla., for Ivan and I just want to be able to feel like I have helped people in my life,

Patrick Hogan

(Kirby) helped people...he always wanted to help people so splitting the money up is most in the spirit of (Kirby),

Rig Veda

Knowledge increases his thinking capabilities and helps him in getting new and innovative ideas.After implementing those ideas successfully he earns wealth.

Will Peterson

Knowing the way he throws can help us. But it is a different team, a different offense now.

Luke Donald

Knowing I have played well here before helps a lot.

Robert Reed

Katrina, in some sense, helped that process be a little quicker.

Pat Callahan

Just to release a rock record with very little help from MTV, and with just touring and radio, I think it's awesome. I think it did a lot better than any of us expected. But we're a touring band. That's where our roots are and we love touring. It's a lot of fun.

Mark Slotsve

It actually helps to have played them, we know a little of what they're about.

Kyle Goodrich

He comes to practice with a big old lunch pail and sweats on.

Robbie Coltraine

It's hell with that big beard and stuff. That's the one bit I don't like. Either you take out at lunch or you don't eat. So I opted not to eat, 'cause having to put it on twice is horrific.

Will Ferrell

I am a bit of a gourmet chef. I love cooking mostly Thai food. And a lot of times on movies, you have these trailers that have these little ovens and kitchenettes. A lot of actors never use them, but I would cook lunch just about every day.

Epictetus

I have to die. If it is now, well then I die now; if later, then now I will take my lunch, since the hour for lunch has arrived - and dying I will tend to later.

Barbara Ehrenreich

I don't know when the cult of conspicuous busyness began, but it has swept up almost all the upwardly mobile, professional women I know. Already, it is getting hard to recall the days when, for example, 'Let's have lunch' meant something other than 'I've got more important things to do than talk to you right now.

Mike Jackson

Missing your lunch is not exactly the end of the world.

Larry David

The lunch in a normal American restaurant is very problematic for me. I don't like to have hot food for lunch.

Marc Jacobs

The attention toward me is basically because of what we've built as a company. If we built a pile of crap then nobody would care what I ate for lunch.

Rafe Spall

When you do a film, you get picked up in a car, lunch is free. Theatre is really hard, and you get absolutely no money.

Adam Nelson

I didn't notice the rain. I thought it was sunny all day long.

Bill Harden

I'm not going to say how many ways we can wear the uniforms. I want people to notice that we have something different on each time we're out on the field.

Nikki Burish

I'm not going to notice until Tuesday comes around and I'm not going to be able to practice anymore. It hasn't really sunk in yet.

Ed Loyd

All of this was done without any prior notice or consultation.

Wayne Davis

They don't notice a whole lot, especially with it being just a penny.

Tommy Bowden

They ran a lot of pursuit drills. If you noticed they ran a whole bunch. They ran their tails off pretty good. That's while they're dragging.

Robin Wright

As an actor, I had noticed very vividly that very few directors know how to direct actors because they haven't done it.

Jack Clarke

Rats are much more noticeable and destructive than mice.

Dave Brown

(Officer Paul Holey) pretty much took notice of this as it was happening.

Chris Reid

It's like reaching back in time. This vase survived the years and made its way home.

Jane Soepardi

This second round will take a week ... but on this second day we have already received reports (of) reaching around 70 percent. We are optimistic.

Marina Tsvetaeva

Don't you know no one can escape the power of creatures reaching out with breath alone?

Casey Kasem

Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars.

Wislawa Szymborska

Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!

Wislawa Szymborska

Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.

Louis Tomlinson

Even if there's a tiny tiny chance, isn't that worth going for it?

Greg Boyle

God can get tiny, if we're not careful.

Darren Shan

Leave him alone!" Debbie shouted. "Shut up, please, or I'll kill you," Mr Tiny replied.

Bill Watterson

My problem is that I don't paint ambitiously. It's all catch and release - just tiny fish that aren't really worth the trouble to clean and cook.

Alain de Botton

What kills us isn't one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can't turn down for fear of disappointing others.

Edwidge Danticat

All anyone can hope for is just a tiny bit of love, like a drop in a cup if you can get it, or a waterfall, a flood, if you can get that too.

Roz Chast

There's something about most phobias where there's a tiny, tiny corner where you think this really actually could happen.

Mike Rucker

He's kind of like a younger version of Brett Favre.

Paul Rudd

We're now the (junior varsity) version of that,

Wallace Stevens

It is never the thing but the version of the thing.

Jon Corzine

If you want a long version of the inaugural address, come on Tuesday.

Mark Lewis

The new CMC version removes the need for an administrator to visit each site.

Phil McGraw

The truth doesn't have versions, it just is.

Daniel Tosh

Yes, I am aware that I am the gayer version of Jeff Lewis.

Theresa Klein

But there is only one version of the truth, right?

Rene Russo

If something comes around that would be a challenge, then that would be wonderful. But if it's a watered-down version of something I've already done, I'd rather do something else.

Ron Gardenhire

Have you watched us bunt? Does it look like we have it down now?

Alan Trammel

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

Chris Remley

When he was selected, I wasn't surprised. I'm going to watch it.

Matt Berninger

I watched R.E.M. connect with the back row of a 50,000-seat venue.

Chord Overstreet

I watched 'Full House.' I loved 'Full House.'

Mikhail Baryshnikov

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

Rob Corddry

Apparently it's cool to watch The Daily Show.

Richard Dawkins

I sympathize with politicians who have to watch every syllable they utter for fear it will be misused by somebody with an agenda.

Will Estes

I don't really get a chance to watch much television. I mostly watch BBC Worldwide and repeats of Seinfeld and Everybody Loves Raymond