Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kass James

The performance is part of a larger picture. Getting up and performing poetry in front of big crowds is another way for these kids to view their lives from a different perspective, and we want the kids in our program 20 years from now to be reading the books some of these kids have written.

Peter Kent

There are books on HTML, JavaScript, Java, ActiveX, and all sorts of other geeky subjects. But not only don't you need to understand these things in order to set up a Web site; you can read a dozen such books, and you still won't know everything you need to do.

James Browning

We started off in the Oak Hill Flea Market, about 1988, selling just about everything, but after a short period of time we found that books sold best. After a while we just got too big for the flea market and since my wife and I always loved books and reading, the natural progression was for us to open a bookstore.

Heinrich Heine

Where one burns books, one will soon burn people.

Nicolas Roeg

When my sister and I were very young, my father used to tell us fairy stories that he'd made up. My mother was always telling him that he should write them down, but he would say, 'Well, they've all been done before. There are so many blooming books in the world - why should I write another one?'

Gretchen Rubin

For notes related to books I'm writing, I've wondered whether I should organize my notes better, but I do find that the action or scrolling through them and seeing odd juxtapositions of ideas helps to stimulate my own ideas and creativity. I worry that if I kept the notes in a highly-structured way, I might lose some of these benefits.

Xavier Chambon

We want to put books in everyone's hands.

Ron Cooper

We have no problem with the audit. Our books are open to everyone.

Alexander McCall Smith

I think people in Botswana are pleased that my books paint a positive picture of their lives and portray the country as being very special. They've made a great success of their country, and the people are fed up with the constant reporting of only the problems and poverty of the continent. They welcome something which puts the positive side.

Ed Helms

Probably my favorite thing about watching a movie that I'm in the first time is to see all the things I didn't know were happening in a scene around me.

Jay Cutler

It's the steak I always get when I go there. It's my favorite cut.

Christopher Davis

It's one of our favorite large value funds, and has offered very good long-term returns with a lot of stability.

Steve Solomon

It's one of my favorite times of the year to be down here in the Grand.

Jake Shears

I travel so much and am always living out of a suitcase, so my favorite saying is 'Wherever you go, there you are'. I love it because it's reassuring to me that you have to live in the moment wherever you happen to be.

Danton Cole

This is why playoffs are great. This has always been my favorite time of the year.

Pete Sampras

They're all very valid: Not only is he winning majors, but the way he's winning them -- with pretty much ease. He's pretty much the favorite in every major for the rest of his career.

Jim Rosborough

It was a whale of a game. That's my favorite memory of the place.

Elena Dementieva

It was a very tough match but I am just thinking, 'Why is my favorite score 7-6 in the third?

Neneh Cherry

Frank Ocean is our modern-day Marvin Gaye. In our house, we have nothing but respect for him.

Doug Campbell

It's the perfect opportunity to give Minnie Lilley the recognition, and frankly the respect, that she deserves.

Jeff Blake

It's a buffer. We do them frequently, and quite frankly I think you're going to see them more often. Sometimes the way (to go) is to share the risk.

Drew Goddard

Like everyone else, I love 'Born Again:' that was a seminal work for me. Everything Frank Miller did on 'Daredevil' is like the Bible.

Sergei Lavrov

Frankly speaking, we don't see any other way for the steady development of the Ukrainian state apart from as a federation.

Ann Nelson

As a woman, I just don't think it's safe for me to walk Franklin Street alone.

Michael Heizer

The size thing is not some gimmick or attention-getting trick but a genuine undercurrent of the work. Frank Gehry for instance likes to imagine his buildings as sculptures. I like to imagine my sculptures as architectural.

James Malone

The team owner, Frank Rogers, is in shock, very surprised and stunned, as are all of us. He was there whenever we needed him. He was a lot of fun to be around, had a great sense of humor and was very friendly and outgoing.

Rebekah Brooks

'The Sun' had a good relationship with Frank Bruno. We did lots of interviews. He was a great character, very friendly to the media.

Ravi Shankar

We spent the day before with him, and even then he looked so peaceful, surrounded by love. George has left so many precious memories and moments in all our lives which will remain with us forever.

Corey Brewer

When you turn on the TV, all you see is George Mason, so you can't really overlook them.

Tom Pecora

We're rooting for George Mason. I'm really getting a kick out of it.

Jerry Palm

The regular-season championship is going to mean something. Say Temple, Saint Joseph's or Xavier wins it, then that team plus George Washington could get in.

Tom Izzo

We're going to hone in 95 percent of our time on George Mason. If you don't win the first one, you don't get to the second one. But if you get to the second one and you're not prepared and you don't get out of the weekend, I don't feel like that's where Michigan State is right now.

David Elliot

They don't have much in the way of legal resources remaining other than a clemency petition to President George W. Bush.

Billy Donovan

It's teams like George Mason that give so many people hope in their lives, just seeing what great things can be accomplished.

Max Minghella

It's surreal working with people you admire. I don't think it ever goes away, no matter how human people are; there's always that moment of 'Oh wow, that's still George Clooney!' But I find that the most talented people tend to be the nicest.

Karen Russell

I took a fiction-writing workshop my sophomore year at Northwestern, and I hadn't yet read Junot Diaz or George Saunders, Flannery O'Connor. There was something so attractive about those voices.

Charles Dickens

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

Charles Dickens

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Charles Caleb Colton

Love is a volcano, the crater of which no wise man will approach too nearly, lest ... he should be swallowed up.

Charles Caleb Colton

The plainest man that can convince a woman that he is really in love with her has done more to make her in love with him than the handsomest man, if he can produce no such conviction. For the love of woman is a shoot, not a seed, and flourishes most vigorously only when ingrafted on that love which is rooted in the breast of another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.

Charles Caleb Colton

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Charles Dickens

Do not close your heart against all my efforts to help you...

Charles Dickens

Miss Mills replied, on general principles, that the Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was.

Charles Dickens

If I may so express it, I was steeped in Dora. I was not merely over head and ears in love with her, but I was saturated through and through. Enough love might have been wrung out of me, metaphorically speaking, to drown anybody in; and yet there would have remained enough within me, and all over me, to pervade my entire existence.

Michael Brown

We're going to need everything that we can possibly muster, not only in this state and in the region, but the nation, to respond to this event.

Greg Norman

Would there possibly be another woman? Absolutely. Time will tell who that will be.

Chuck Jordan

It's just something I thought his supervisors would want to know about, and possibly the public.

F. Stone

There was quite possibly one other person shooting, ... We do have witness statements.

Paul Reiser

There was nothing you could come up with that would possibly be wrong.

Anna Paquin

Sookie is about as radically different from me and a lot of the work I've previously done as you could possibly come up with.

Duane Gapinski

The situation is intense. But we are determined. Certainly, we are not panicking. We are doing all we possibly can with the resources we have.

Oenone Wood

The thinking was that one person on their own could not possibly stay out there for that long on their own. We were wrong there.

Mathew Baynton

I've seen a lot of shows, but I can't possibly cram in everything that I'd like to, and it's exhausting trying to.

Skip Snow

The stomach of the python still surrounded the head, shoulders, and forelimbs of the alligator.

Barbara Kingsolver

I made it to the childbearing phase without TV dependence, then looked around and thought, Well gee, why start now? Why get a pet python on the day you decide to raise fuzzy little gerbils?

Alice Cooper

Nobody and nothing beats The Simpsons. Even after all this time, it's still the best satire since Monty Python.

Seth MacFarlane

I love the English. My God, they brought us 'Benny Hill,' 'Monty Python,' 'The Office,' Neville Chamberlain.

Louis Leakey

I saw what looked like another fallen tree in front of me and put my foot on it to cross over. At that moment it reared up in front of me-the biggest python I had ever seen!

Michael York

The great thing about university is that they incline you to get up and do it, from the Classics to modern plays, to the humor that Monty Pythons made popular

Isla Fisher

I love 'Monty Python,' 'Black Adder,' 'Fawlty Towers.' I'm a huge fan of British comedy.

Guido van Rossum

Modern programs must handle Unicode —Python has excellent support for Unicode, and will keep getting better.

Guido van Rossum

My own perception of that is somewhat colored by where people ask my advice, which is still, of course, about changes to Python internals or at least standard libraries.

Paul Loriquet

As soon as he raised his weapon was when the shot was fired.

Richard Genthe

This is the sixth consecutive year we've raised over $6 million.

Robert Thomas

It raised our spirits up and made us feel good. It makes us ready to play.

Dinaw Mengestu

I couldn't be more American if I tried. I was born in Ethiopia, but I was raised and educated as an American.

Howard Wolfson

No wonder Ms. Pirro raised so little money,

Victor Herrera

The rumors that Mexico's rating is going to be raised imminently are groundless.

Derrick Williams

I used to live here. It's because they raised their rents I had to leave.

Bridget Fonda

I was raised on Bruce Lee.

Brenda Strong

There's an integrity and a strength to women who have been raised in rough country.

Vince Carter

I'm going to make Tim Thomas come here. So it doesn't matter. Only kidding.