Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kathleen Troia McFarland

The problem with people who live in a world of speeches and books and theories is they don't know how to fix things in the real world when they go wrong. They feign ignorance, blame others, and make another eloquent speech.

Katherine Paterson

I love writing for young adults because they are such a wonderful audience, they are good readers, and they care about the books they read.

Jeff Kinney

Kids and adults have a difference of opinion when it comes to what constitutes legitimate reading. Adults often push books that they loved as children, which, ironically, were often books that their parents weren't particularly keen on.

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.

Japanese Proverb

Knowledge without wisdom is a load of books on the back an ass

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.

Jojo Moyes

I wrote three books before I got one published. Most writers do. Have faith, and know that with each work you are getting better.

Len Deighton

I wrote my first books the way people would write science fiction, because they gave me much more latitude to invent situations.

Latin Proverb

It is the heart which makes people eloquent

Marc Garneau

I am not as eloquent as Stephane Dion.

Adam Cummings

The most eloquent way I could offer my respect is with a moment of silence.

John Updike

A lot of the Koran does not speak very eloquently to a Westerner. Much of it is either legalistic or opaquely poetic.

David Ansen

It's one of the most emotionally eloquent performances of the year. It shows how Hollywood has just scratched the surface of her talent.

David Mitchell

Nothing is as eloquent as nothing.

Indian Proverb

There is nothing so eloquent as a rattlesnake's tail

Francois VI Duc de La Rochefoucauld

The passions are the only advocates which always persuade. They are a natural art, the rules of which are infallible; and the simplest man with passion will be more persuasive than the most eloquent without.

Renee Zellweger

I was in the bathroom. I thought I had something in my teeth and I wanted to fix it.

Ron Holvey

Kids see it as the glamorous life, they see this as a way out. Until we come up with a way to fix the family, it's going to get a lot worse before it gets better.

Frank Borgia

He said if we paid now we wouldn't have to pay for another service call. I thought that was a pretty good deal, to pay for it then and just have them fix it a week or so later.

Steve Gunderson

It could be a variety of things that may require them to fine-tune their system. In our enforcement, we take into consideration not only impacts to the environment, as well as whether we have a pattern (of problems), but also how responsive they are in trying to fix the problem.

Neil Sindicich

I think the parents are now saying, ok, there's a problem, now we need to know what to do to fix it.

Peter Hamilton

Whatever problems have occurred in the past, I will fix those things I can, ... And going forward, I hope the public will recognize the funeral home is under new ownership, uninvolved with past problems.

John Rainey

We've got to get this number fixed because we're being unfairly penalized by it.

David Lubell

We support them fixing their internal issues, but we hope they will restore the program quickly.

Brad Williams

We support encryption. But there is no magic fix for music piracy.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

Carlisle Floyd

I was interested in what was really going on in Salem at that time, and I resolved to investigate this seemingly unorthodox treatment of the people and the period.

Travis Bradberry

Kindness is weak when you use it in a self-serving manner. Self-serving kindness is thin - people can see right through it when a kind leader has an agenda.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Sally Quinn

I would say I think it's about time. People have a tendency to think that entertaining in Washington politically and diplomatically is frivolous, but it is not. It is part of the work.

Karen Russell

I wrote 'Ava Wrestles the Alligator' when I was 22 or 23. These people and that world have been evolving in me for a while. It's such a shift not to be in that world.

Jason Robert Brown

I write about outsiders. I write about people who are outside and don't know quite how to get in because it's how I've always felt.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

I get terrified the first day I'm on a film set. I get nervous walking down a red carpet. I find making speeches the most terrifying thing in the world.

Abdolkarim Soroush

Goals and objectives are based on theories and foundations.

Simon Travaglia

There's no such thing as 'facts of life'. Only standing theories that haven't been disproved as of yet.