Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Jones

Kid books can get cute and a-d-o-r-a-b-l-e. Garfield says cute rots the intellect. Don't forget the name of the cat! You pick up cats the wrong way and they stop being adorable...they become Scratch.

James Patterson

Kids say the No. 1 reason they don't read more is that they can't find books they like. Freedom of choice is a key to getting them motivated and excited.

Spike Jonze

Kids are so fiercely opinionated, that if they love the Harry Potter books and they go see the movie, they'll be the first to say, 'That was wrong! They didn't get that right!' They're storytellers themselves. They're critics. They're going to have the critical opinion.

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.

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.

Ray Manchuk

We're optimistic that the new Harry Potter will bring more foot traffic to stores and perhaps become a catalyst to drive sales of other books as well.

Hilaire Belloc

When I am dead, I hope it is said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.

Chip Kidd

What you must remember about hardcover books is that they are like tattoos. Once you get one, it's never really going to go away.

O. J. Simpson

It is so important for parents to read in front of their child, so the child knows how much reading can teach them, ... I make sure I am reading books around my children to set good examples for reading throughout life.

Marian Gaborik

We've got to try to find more ugly goals out there.

Mike Ryn

We've got to score some goals on the power play. That's part of the reason we were winning; we were getting a goal here and a goal there.

Evelyn Fox

I personally am pleased with the strategic planning process. Staff, and the board, set goals and are accountable.

Wendy Ward

I know she's thinking that everything has to be perfect. You have in mind these individual goals of how you want to remember your first round. You can put a lot of pressure on yourself that just doesn't need to be there.

Paul Harris

I'm real disappointed. It really hurts because it's one of the goals I really wanted to accomplish.

Dan Stauber

The guys know what's at stake if we win, we're in, and if we lose, we're done. One of our goals was to make it to the national tournament -- to give us an opportunity -- and we have it right now.

Steve Graham

The goals of NCLB are good, but realistically it's not going to happen,

Lofa Tatupu

We still have a lot to prove. We have to reset our goals now and make new ones.

Scott DeMonte

We had some of our younger players get their first goals for us today.

Danny Bonaduce

It's weird because horses kind of come and go in my life.

Ben Howland

He's going to be with our trainer all night. It will take a team of horses to keep him out.

Frank Berry

He looked a nice horse on the day and he won well. There are no plans for him at the moment, but he will stay with Tommy.

Rick Riordan

If not for the horses, Piper would've died.

Robert Duvall

I wouldn't mind starting to ride some more if I had a really good horse to just work a little bit with every day.

William Henry Ashley

We continued to move forward without loss of time, hoping to be able to reach the wood described by the Indians before all our horses should become exhausted.

William Henry Ashley

After an unremitting and severe labour of two days, we returned to our old encampment with the loss of some of my horses, and my men excessively fatigued.

Warren Buffett

If horses had controlled investment decisions, there would have been no auto industry.

Vladimir Mayakovsky

If an American is motoring on his own, he (the paragon of morality and chastity) will slow down and stop beside every solitary pretty female pedestrian, bare his teeth in a big smile, and tempt her into his car with a wild roll of the eyes. A lady who fails to appreciate his passion will qualify as an idiot who doesn't realise how lucky she is to have the opportunity of getting to know the owner of this 100-horse-power motor car.

Robert Wyatt

This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.

Waylon Jennings

Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.

Tony Visconti

The object is to make a great record and you have to do whatever it takes.

Tony Visconti

My profession is called record production.

Tony Visconti

Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one.

Willie Nelson

You can't make a record if you ain't got nothin' to say.

William Osler

Few diseases present greater difficulties in the way of diagnosis than malignant endocarditis, difficulties which in many cases are practi- cally insurmountable. It is no disparagement to the many skilled physicians who have put their cases upon record to say that, in fully one-half the diagnosis was made post mortem.

Kate Smith

In 29 years, I had recorded over 2,200 songs. I was amazed.

Brian Giles

If you're in October, not at all. I don't care. It's a new season in October. Throw your records out the door, and it's about winning series.

Mike Lynch

I really didn't think we'd be able to be standing here. I never really thought I'd be able to do something like this.

Johnny Christ

If I ever wanted a gnome, I guess Id just stand out on my lawn for a while.

John D. MacDonald

A nonreader is somebody standing there in a blindfold.

Dr. Seuss

Whats the point of fitting in, when we were meant to stand out?