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.

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.

James Howe

I like to read fiction, and I particularly enjoy reading young adult fiction. But I also read children's books, adult books, current authors, and classics, but I like fiction the most.

Michael McCoy

I tend to have them submit to psychological testing, and what I find is they're not predators, but they're immature and, males especially, flattered girls find them interesting. Treating them as if these people are grooming these young females for some illicit relationship ? my own judgment is most of the time, that never happens. They're ceasing to be the adult in the situation." ()

Evan Thomas

I think in our lifetime there is a probability that one of these weapons is going to go off in New York or Washington or some big city like that. The CIA needs to be doing everything it possibly can to penetrate terrorist cells and outlaw states.

Thomas R. Insel

Most of our brain cells are glial cells, once thought to be mere support cells, but now understood as having a critical role in brain function. Glial cells in the human brain are markedly different from glial cells in other brains, suggesting that they may be important in the evolution of brain function.

Triple H

Alcohol does kill brain cells, because you've lost it.

Sara Zarr

I tried his cell over and over but he never answered. Then I’d call just to hear his voice on the outgoing message, until eventually that was gone too.

Richard Dawkins

When you plant a fertile meme in my mind you literally parasitize my brain, turning it into a vehicle for the meme's propagation in just the way that a virus may parasitize the genetic mechanism of a host cell.

Satchel Paige

If you want to live a long time, don't fool with nothing old but money, nothing big but a bank roll, nothing black but a Cadillac, nothing over twenty-two years, nothing that weighs over 130. If you do, you're in trouble. 'Cause when you're getting old and your cells gettin' low, you'll need a Delco battery to boost ya.

James Gleick

The cells of an organism are nodes in a richly interwoven communications network, transmitting and receiving, coding and decoding. Evolution itself embodies an ongoing exchange of information between organism and environment.

Lynn Margulis

The idea that we are "stewards of the earth" is another symptom of human arrogance. Imagine yourself with the task of overseeing your body's physical processes. Do you understand the way it works well enough to keep all its systems in operation? Can you make your kidneys function? Can you control the removal of waste? Are you conscious of the blood flow through your arteries, or the fact that you are losing a hundred thousand skin cells a minute?

John Boehner

We can continue to make significant strides in the scientific community by exploring new stem cell research methods that do not include destroying human embryos.

Ken Hill

I have come up with very creative ideas that really didn't work with the song I was currently composing.

Seth Shostak

It's worth noting that invoking God as the entity who set our universe in motion isn't contradicted by the data. Of course, scientists would say the supreme being hypothesis is faith, and outside the realm of science - that it's not amenable to experiment. But we currently have the same problem with the notion of parallel universes.

Dick Cheney

To date, that hasn't happened, and therefore has been no meeting currently scheduled.

Stella Young

I currently live independently without any funded support. I'm educated, and I'm employed. I enjoy paying my taxes and contributing to the economic life of Australia.

Peter Davis

Relevance to Alzheimer's? I don't know, ... It's a nice piece of work in the snail model, but any possible link to Alzheimer's is currently obscure.

John Hahn

Our organizations currently provide the majority of the security details required during events at our venues.

Richard Wilson

If there's a frustration about the Rosebud season this year, it's that there's not enough Friday nights to screen all the good stuff that's currently available.

J. Taylor

We are currently two hundred thousand dollars over goal for the Meyer wellness center.

Brian Jones

We are currently over the Sahara Desert. We are positioning ourselves to enter the Gulf Stream.

Steve Gibson

I think that some people looked for a scapegoat because we lost to Sunderland, and thats one of the diseases in football,

Mary Moran

Research in neglected diseases is happening and partnerships are working away on new products.

Mark McClellan

It just doesn't make sense for us to be paying that much money on complications of diseases we can prevent.

Michael Leavitt

All of the infectious diseases that occur when people are in large congregations of people can spread,

Robert Temple

Devastating diseases often are treated by drugs that have problems of their own.

Craig Venter

Space X's Elon Musk wants to colonize Mars with modules where earthlings can live. My teleporting technology is the number one way those individuals will get new information, new treatments of diseases that will occur on the planet, and new food sources.

Elizabeth Holmes

When I thought about having the greatest impact with my life, I thought about all the times people lose loved ones because diseases weren't detected early enough. I thought, 'I can play a role there.'

Bill Maris

There are environmental threats to health; there are internal threats to health - genetic conditions, viral threats, diseases like cancer and Parkinson's. And then there are societal and global ones, like poverty and lack of nutrition. And unknown viral threats - everything from a new kind of influenza to hemorrhagic fever.

Thomas Pogge

The stunning thing about the world as it is, is that we have a tremendously large problem in it: namely, one-third of all human deaths, 80-million every year from poverty-related causes, trivial diseases and so on, and stunningly, nobody is really paying attention to it.

Mike Quigley

Just the circumstances of being in D.C., people give you books, and there are issues you want to learn more about, so you are tearing into as many as you can.

Ted Cruz

I think issues and substance, policy and vision and record should be the meat of politics.

Judith Sayers

There are still treaty issues that First Nations will have to negotiate on the rail corridor, but those negotiations will be between First Nations and government.

Reuben Brewer

I think the most salient issue right now (in the industry) is how to make a buck.

Jon Karkow

I think we're at the point where it isn't an issue now.

David Neumark

I think what the living-wage movement has done in the past 11 years is incredible. How many other issues are there where progressives have been this successful? I can't think of one.

Laura Tyson

I think that's understood as a policy issue in China. I don't think it's understood as a policy issue in the United States.

Paul Robertson

I think some of the technical and infrastructure issues haven't been completely realized,

Duane Lewis

He's doing fine. I think it was just a routine procedure. It had been prescheduled. It was not the result of any issues the last two weeks or three weeks.

Michael Rains

What we're saying is, who are the real cheaters? They are the ones who are using these illegally obtained materials.

Granth Sahib

Tell me, without the worship, who has ever obtained the supreme status?

Daniel Woodrell

I think there are some folks who don't particularly like what I have to say, but on the whole, the reaction has been very positive.

Paul Nicholls

I think it's a really positive idea and I'm sure I shall be having runners in the first stage at Haydock.

Bob Poole

I think it's going to be positive for that end of town. I think it's going to be the right fit.

John Davidson

I think we will have a positive year.

Aly Michalka

I think that, as an actor, you have to break out eventually, and if you do it properly, it can be something that's positive.

P. Herbert

I think to come out of here, you have to have a positive attitude. I've had remained discipline-free for two years to get this job.

Leigh Steinberg

I don't know what happened, but I know Ricky didn't test positive for anything. Someone made a mistake.

Robert Collier

See things as you would have them be, instead of as they are.

William McDonough

We prefer to talk about 100% renewable instead of zero carbon. When you say zero carbon, you are not positively defined.

Mike McGuire

He's going to put all his resources into providing for his family.

Rick Jones

I have the same feeling, you know. We're taxpayers providing a service to the needy, and somebody's taking advantage, and that is wrong.

Dan Rosensweig

It's about providing a service that users really want.

James Perkins

We wanted to respect him and that is why we are providing the appropriate honors,

Andrew Patel

We will be providing him with a zealous defense.

Mary Barra

My definition of 'innovative' is providing value to the customer.

Charles Wang

We have to see the follow-through in terms of implementations and providing support for foreigners.

Natalie Kerris

We are not providing a way to run Windows within OS X.

Todd Swindall

We're not just providing shelter, we're providing housing.

Greg Schiano

Sometimes you make a play like that interception in the end zone and you stem the tide and find a way to win. We interfered.

Plato

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

Kathleen Blanco

We're dumping things into the hole, just to stem the tide.

John Timoney

He's being treated for a gunshot wound to the head,

Rowan Atkinson

It's a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.

Ted Demme

I'm at Miramax now, where I've actually been treated like a Prince.

Dr. Esse

A lot of those could be treated out in the communities.

Sofia Boutella

Working with Madonna, she always told me the meaning behind the steps and why I was doing these steps - she treated us like actors. So I feel like I've always been an actor, truly.

Alec Baldwin

Actors are treated like suppositories that are inserted into cavities of the movie-going public.

Michael Dukakis

Like a good general, I treated everyone who wasnt with me as against me.

Mary Scott

No one should have been treated like that.

Jill Carroll

I was treated well, but I don't know why I was kidnapped.

Woodrow Wilson

I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist's trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.

Ricardo Semler

The era of using people as production tools is coming to an end. Participation is infinitely more complex to practice than conventional corporate unilateralism, just as democracy is much more cumbersome than dictatorship. But there will be few companies that can afford to ignore either of them.

Steve Dixon

If youre using the same filter, youre going to get a lot of the same byproducts at the end,

Sam Phillips

I'll never retire. I'm just using up somebody else's oxygen if I retire.

Scott Podsednik

I'm pretty crazy, so to speak, a little superstitious. I'm using something different up there just about every week.

Rodrigo Santoro

In film, you're always using your tools, your body, your voice, your emotions, but onstage, you use them in a different way.

Lucy Liu

When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt.

Stephen Chbosky

So what's the point of using words nobody else knows or can say comfortably? I just don't understand that.

Shaun White

There are plenty of skills I've learned from playing video games. It's more interactive than watching TV, because there are problems to solve as you're using your brain.