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!

Mark Sanford

Having literally dedicated the whole of his adult life to representing the people of Clarendon and Williamsburg, Alex was truly a servant of the people, ... That commitment to the ideals he lived by and the people he served will be sorely missed.

Jim Collins

He's a big-sized adult bird and he keeps coming back to this area.

C. Thomas Howell

Going from a child actor to an adult actor is not an easy thing, and I was sort of lost in a no man's land for a while, trying to figure out who I was as a person, and going from a young actor to an adult actor.

A. Johnson

There is a huge interest in adult skating. They see it on TV and want to give it a try.

Jeanette Siemens

The purpose of the rally is to bring youth and adult leaders together to discuss issues. The issue this year is alcohol and drug abuse. The Kids have identified this as a major issue.

Michael Imperioli

When he started, Christopher was really like a kid. He's had, over the years, more and more adult responsibilities and adult experiences. He's kind of closed some of the generation gap with Tony. But to play a character that actually progresses throughout time and matures is a luxury.

H. Hart

I think the number one criteria (for getting into NCAA Tournament) has to be how you did in your conference.

Wayne Smith

Our acquisition pace has been strong and steady, and we have established a track record for not only finding hospitals that fit our criteria but also for successfully assimilating these facilities into our system.

Ben Howland

I'm excited about a No. 2 seed. It was well-deserved. Our guys have worked very, very hard. One of the criteria that is used is how are you playing at the end of the season.

Tom Kelley

(The Federal Emergency Management Agency) has some pretty tight criteria to get any disaster relief. People need to take some initiative on their own.

Jane Castor

The frustration comes in, in that we're not privy to the criteria that's used.

Simon Cook

To me, the traffic studies were kind of a sham, because they never defined the criteria for the evaluation. The studies said the roads are adequate, but they don't state what would be too much traffic.

Igor Ivanov

does noes not meet the criteria which the Russian side has stated earlier and affirms now.

Sean Connery

It makes you wonder at times what exactly is the criteria to qualify.

Troy Aikman

It's like Peyton Manning after last year; if he doesn't throw for 49 touchdowns, then he had a down year. And I felt that people were going to be judging on that type of criteria. That's unfair. And yet no matter what criteria you're judging him on, he had as good or better a year this year than he had last year.

Michael Ching

We expect to maintain our estimates at $1.05 a share for 2000 and $1.43 for 2001, so Motorola remains the most attractively valued stock in our universe, at 23 times 2001 EPS estimates.

Paul Ballew

We've exceeded the sales estimate for the month. We turned the production at a very healthy pace.

Simon Hauger

We've estimated that there's probably between $80,000 and $100,000 worth of parts in the car.

John Snow

I think it's probably on the high side. I've seen other estimates more in line with a half-percent hurt to GDP growth in the third quarter and fourth quarter -- but with a pick-up of roughly that order for '06,

Les Wright

In the near future we estimate that we will have 2 to 3 million fewer page views per day. But the farther you go out, the greater the likelihood we will recapture that and then some.

Ralph Acampora

In technology, I think I would go with the big ones. I'd go with IBM ( IBM : Research , Estimates ). That would be my first pick in the technology area.

Saddam Hussein

I just wanted to be able to reach at least half of the show's estimated viewers.

Christin Armacost

Cisco has an excellent track record of meeting analysts' expectations and the probability of them missing the estimate is low.

David Orr

Initially, we estimated the number of people in need was about one million and we had reached about 50 percent of them. We've had a food security team in the field and they've revised the estimate up quite dramatically.

Joe Moore

Knowing what they have to pay for the next four years would be a luxury for their budgeting.

Ricky Woods

I wouldn't be surprised if we don't (make up) this game. They might not have school down there for three or four weeks.

Mark Tiby

I yelled out to her that the fourth quarter was hers, and she took it.

Chris Higgins

Just wanted to let you know your wife is four weeks pregnant' -- those were the first words out of the doctor's mouth.

Terry Roberts

keep the next group down to four or five.

Buzz Peterson

Joseph and Moses got four fouls each. That completely takes us out of what we want to do defensively. So the game plan was thrown out right there.

John Dunning

I think it's a good way for all four teams to start the year,

Ivan DeJesus

It can't be just three or four guys, it has to be the whole lineup to do the job. That's the only way we can win.

Harry Wilson

He learned how to lose first before he learned how to win. He didn't end up in the top three for three or four years, before he started to step up and started placing in the top rounds.

Randy Carter

He kept gambling even though he didn't need to. But he got that one.

Richard Whately

All gaming, since it implies a desire to profit at the expense of another, involves a breach of the tenth commandment.

William J. Clinton

She got to go to heaven four days early.

Richard Roeper

Sometimes a 3-1 favorite loses. That's why they call it gambling, and that's why they keep flipping over the cards.

Wilson Mizner

Gambling: A sure way to get nothing from something.

Wilson Mizner

Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something.

Will Rogers

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

Voltaire

Almost all life depends on probabilities.

William Ralph Inge

Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.

Bob McDonald

He just had that something, that intangible. You don't know who has it, but he had it. To do whatever it took to meet his goal.

Kate Bosworth

I don't really get star-struck, but I do get talent struck. If I meet somebody that I think is just wildly talented and brilliant, that's when I start getting nervous.

Larry Gregory

Having these meetings was more important than taking part on that panel,

Howard Stringer

He's a star. Nobody turns down a meeting with him.

Alison Goldfrapp

I thought what everyone thinks when they first meet Will,

Mike Pincus

The people that were at this meeting had no opinion at all.

George Speight

I think some people are trying to do me over ... and they're going to meet with some very stiff resistance.

Mike Bohn

I'd like the players to have the opportunity to meet him before the game.

Tony Fabrizio

I don't know that the rocky start is as important as what people see at the end of the day. The real rubber meets the road when they see what their expectations were versus what they actually get.

Scott McCallum

What you don't read about, it's never a story of the 98 percent who are doing things right and view this as a public service and want it to work.

Robert McGrath

He's able to do about 80 percent of what he did this year.

Paul Reiser

He's 50 percent Peter Falk, 50 percent my own father,

Michael Andretti

He's all but signed. It's not 100 percent done, but we're down to the piddly stuff.

Walt Jocketty

I think you need to turn the roster over. I think turning a percentage of your roster over every year is healthy.

Ed Peterson

We're probably doing 60 percent as many ships as we had been before the storm.

Eric Price

What you see here on the facility, we are probably running about 90 percent of our workforce.

Sarah Parcak

I think archaeologists are stuck, and we are losing our past at a very rapid rate. Tens of thousands of sites will be lost, and we've only unveiled a tiny percent of the past.

Steve Alford

He's fine. If he had to play today, he would probably have to tape it and go. But he's going to be 100 percent by Friday.

Lynne Black

Our position right now is that this is not an appropriate program and population to put in a heavily populated two-square-mile village.

Kelley Armstrong

A stereotype becomes a stereotype when a significant percentage of the population appears to conform to it.

Niccolo Machiavelli

When every province of the world so teems with inhabitants that they can neither subsist where they are nor remove themselves elsewhere... the world will purge itself in one or another of these three ways (floods, plague and famine)

Noam Chomsky

You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.

Elliott Abrams

Syria's population is 74% Sunni Muslim.

Garrett Hardin

The population problem has no technical solution; it requires a fundamental extension in morality.

Garrett Hardin

The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum.

Helene D. Gayle

Any discussion of investment or putting monetary value on the environment must start with the populations who rely on those resources.

Marc Lumpkin

It's a way to go after another segment of the population that wants to sign up for satellite-TV service but hasn't had a way to do it.

Lyndon B. Johnson

I wrote once every two or three weeks for about a year, ... and then about a year ago, I got an e-mail.

Mark Grindstaff

Joel is real dominant. He didn't have any trouble. He has one loss. All three are undefeated in league.

Chris Edwards

What we had in 16 acres, ... they have in three counties.

Spencer Stewart

Going 30-0 is amazing, but we want three more wins.

Clark Haggans

He's got three rings. There's nothing else you can say.

Karen Woodall

We've been trying to get that back for three years.

Phil Jackson

We stumbled and fumbled around out there for three quarters.

Robert Meyer

It is phenomenal. When we first started, it was just me and three employees. We all wore many hats.

Amy Walter

It is one thing if it is three weeks. Three months, that is another story.