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.

Sophie Hannah

Agatha Christie's writing is incredibly skillful because her books are incredibly intellectually puzzling and challenging.

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.

Robertson Davies

The people who are always monkeying with these great books to make them fully (comprehensible) have no friend in me, for in their realm the fully comprehensible is not worth comprehending

Mark Foley

We track library books better than we do sexual predators.

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.

Jason Statham

I was like, 'Well, we'd think he'd be useless around kids,' ... But I think he finds himself more comfortable around children than he realizes.

Kerry Nelson

Kids at the children's shelter are coming out there and getting a lot of one-on-one because there are so few children out there. The reading program out there is really helping these kids a lot.

Britt Ekland

I would teach U.K. parents how to stop their children throwing litter. London is a beautiful city but its streets are disgusting.

John Romano

Keeping an elderly couple in their home for another 10 to 15 years makes good financial sense. If they stay in their home, their cost to the town is minimal compared to the family with four children that would replace them.

Pam Saylor

He just kind of fit in, personality wise. He was funny, happy. Chandler was the kind of kid that the children always wanted around. He just was kind of the life of the party.

Tony Buzan

All children are much more intelligent than they are told they are or the school thinks they are; they just have different intelligences.

Sugata Mitra

It would be better, in a way, if any adults present were completely uneducated. There is nothing children like more than passing on information they have just discovered to people who may not already have it - an elderly grandmother, for instance.

Sugata Mitra

In most schools, we measure children on what they know. By and large, they have to memorize the content of whatever test is coming up. Because measuring the results of rote learning is easy, rote prevails. What kids know is just not important in comparison with whether they can think.

Sugata Mitra

If children know there is someone standing over them who knows all the answers, they are less inclined to find the answers for themselves.

Todd Musburger

Doctors refer to the left anterior descending artery as the widow maker. It was about 90 percent blocked. He needed to get this done much sooner than later. I talked to him today and he was in good spirits. He'll be fine.

Yajur Veda

Herbs (medicines),while descending down from heaven to earth proclaimed those who eat us, are never destroyed.

Dusty Baker

I talked to him last night and this is the first time he's been in a playoff situation. I just told him to go enjoy it.

Josh Beckett

He can't even give me a week to enjoy my home run. He has to hit to a shot in the upper deck. He sure can steal the show, can't he?

Greg Behrendt

I don't know if you know you're funny, but you enjoy being funny. I know I'm funny because people tell me I am, but when I watch myself, it doesn't make me laugh. Does that make sense? Because I know the jokes, and to me, I feel like I'm pulling the wool over people's eyes. And there are probably people who do not enjoy what I do.

Norm Parker

The only thing I've ever told myself is I would never do this just to have a job. If I lost my competitiveness . . . then I wouldn't insult the game by (sticking around). But I enjoy being around the kids. I'm having a good time right now.

Chi Rodriguez

Golf is the only sport that a professional can enjoy playing with his friends. Can Larry Holmes enjoy fighting one of his friends?

Larry Brown

I thought with this young team he was vital for us, ... I wouldn't have enjoyed watching him play handicapped as he is.

Steve Carpenter

I think the ownership is happy and the fans seemed to enjoy themselves. I think the scoreboard reflected that.

John Reed

I thoroughly enjoyed my years at the newspaper. It was a fantastic, wonderful experience, and I had the opportunity to work with some really excellent people. I leave with a heavy heart.

Joe Gibbs

It is fun being in, I'll say that. It's a thrill to be in the playoffs. I really enjoy that part of it. From that standpoint, it makes the day much easier.

Plaxico Burress

Just let Eli be Eli and he's going to be OK, ... Stop putting so much pressure on him and just let E be E. I've got a lot of faith in him. He's the quarterback of this team.

Atharva Veda

Have faith in Him; He will never give you up; He will guard and guide you until victory is won.

Sathya Baba

Have faith in God and in the correctness of moral living. Then, you can have peace and joy, whatever may be the fare that fortune offers you.

Debra Roberts

God's got your back when you give Him your heart

Chris Byrd

To fight three times in three years is crazy. It has been disappointing to the point of sometimes you get frustrated and really just want to retire. I have been to that point, but God is faithful and I just keep plugging along. I just have to remain patient and fights will happen, but it has been disappointing.

Walter Scott

To every lovely lady bright, I wish a gallant faithful knight; To every faithful lover, too, I wish a trusting lady true.

Jay Wyatt

To come to the table with that $5 co-pay is not negotiating in good faith.

Kurt Cunningham

I thought we had a good look. We have faith in Coby. It looked in from the bench.

Mike Trapasso

I thought Steven was a little empty. He was at 106 pitches and Frost was getting good swings off of him. Steven was getting a little tired and we had all the faith in Rich to get the job done.

Willie Randolph

He knows his body, he knows what he has to do to get ready. He might not have been on the field a lot (in Florida), but I trust him. And when he tells me he s ready to go, I give him the ball.

Tim Cleland

This was one of the toughest, if not the toughest, fields we've had.

Michael Vick

Guys are four and five yards down the field and I'm throwing bullets. You can't do that.

Bruce Arena

I think the first half we were a little sloppy in different parts of the field, but I think in the second half we were much more solid. Obviously, we could have scored more goals.

Mike Sherman

We took shots down the field, but they have to be open shots, ... When they're playing your vertical routes, it gets tough. You can't force balls. When you force balls, you have interceptions. We sent vertical guys down field. Missing a player like Walker, there will always be a what-if. But we still should have been able to win this game.

Josh Scobey

We're on special teams, and that's our job. Get our team in great field position so they can score, and keep the other team from scoring.

Peter Bell

We're now on a level playing field with diesel.

Ron Gardenhire

When he was on the field, he knew what was going on. He was always in the game. ... I had a lot of fun with Denny. I probably knew him as well as anybody.

Romeo Crennel

We've got to take it from the paper and put it on the field. That's where the test comes in.

Joe Monahan

He could influence the outcome of the race. If he does have any ideas he wants to see advanced, this is the time to do it.

Jon Hurst

There are still a ton of mom-and-pops out there that come up with new ideas and new niches.

Monica Procar

We make a lot of what is in here ourselves. We make the wreaths and the swags and whatever ideas that we can come up with.

Isadora Duncan

ideas and words that do not make any sense.

Robert Collier

All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money.

Rob Reiner

Harry [Shearer] and I had an idea to do a movie about rock 'n' roll from the roadies' perspective, from backstage. Then Meat Loaf came out with a movie called Roadie and we thought, "Oh, we can't do that now." So we kind of discarded the idea.

Rob Reiner

The idea of playing a part where I get to wear a completely undetectable hairpiece... you can't walk away from that.

Rob Sheffield

We all get as miserable as Erika M. Andersen sometimes, but we rarely approach her musical-ideas-per-miserable-minute ratio.

Rob Brown

When you work on a computer in the studio, it's almost like fossilizing on the spot, you know, the idea of getting solidified on the spot, like a snowflake might create branches by accumulation.

Virginia Woolf

For pleasure has no relish unless we share it.

Voltaire

There is a pleasure in not being pleased.

William Feather

Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.

Samuel Johnson

The great source of pleasure is variety.

Robert Morgan

Part of the pleasure of being a writer is that you get to go to unexpected places. If a place sounds interesting, I like to go.

William Cowper

I never received a little pleasure from anything in my life; if I am pleased, it is in the extreme.

Philip Yancey

Pleasure represents a great good but also a grave danger.

Karolina Kurkova

Music is another great pleasure of life. I like all sorts.

Manuel Puig

My pleasure was to copy, not to create.

William James

Humanism . . . is not a single hypothesis or theorem, and it dwells on no new facts. It is rather a slow shifting in the philosophic perspective, making things appear as from a new centre of interest or point of sight.

Samuel Johnson

A blaze first pleases and then tires the sight.

Zhuangzi

To examine oneself makes good use of sight.

Voltaire

It was decided by the university of Coimbre that the sight of several persons being slowly burned in great ceremony is an infallible secret for preventing earthquakes.

Rick Riordan

Their goal was in sight. They had a Titan with a very loud kitten on their side. That had to count for something.

Steve Vai

If you want to be a virtuoso then you have to set your sights above me. You have to go beyond what I'm doing. And that's for you to figure out. Because if you can do that, then I'm going to be trying to go beyond you.

William Hazlitt

Love at first sight is only realizing an imagination that has always haunted us; or meeting with a face, a figure, or cast of expression in perfection that we have seen and admired in a less degree or in less favorable circumstances a hundred times before.

Zygmunt Bauman

The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It is something we have lost sight of.

Zig Ziglar

The same God who created Rembrandt created you, and you are as precious in God’s sight as Rembrandt or anyone else.