Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sharon Chang

People call each other when they see new books on the shelves. New books are usually checked out in two days, DVDs in (only) hours.

Richard Nash

These books now stand both as a testament to the resilience of the residents of New Orleans ... and as a map back from disaster, offered by the city's teenagers.

Daniel Handler

The way Sunny speaks in the books seems a perfect fit for the cause in question. She often uses words that can't be found in the Oxford English Dictionary, which then are explained as sly commentary on what's going on around her,

Michael Lewis

There are enough books in the world. You want to write the ones that are good. The minute you write books because you need the income not because you think you have a good subject, you should just stop. There are sixty thousand books published in this country every year, and most of them are crap.

Thomas Carlyle

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.

William Shakespeare

And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

Bernie Siegel

I decided to become a surgeon named Bernie who writes books and gives seminars to teach people what he has learned and is still learning about how to deal with life's difficulties.

Gustave Flaubert

Books are made not like children but like pyramids and they're just as useless! And they stay in the desert! Jackals piss at their foot and the bourgeois climb up on them.

Dorothy Sayers

Books . . . are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.

Libby Doggett

Pre-K is gradually being integrated into the K-12 education system nationwide. In a state that has so many great universities like Purdue, Indiana and Notre Dame, it's a shame (Indiana) won't do more to ensure its own children are better prepared to enter those schools with high quality pre-K.

Jenny Nimmo

I've read up on magic, and I think it sets you free, and it gives you hope. You can explore worlds you didn't know existed. It stretches your imagination, and I like my own imagination to be stretched and also the children I'm telling the story to. It gives you a sense of wonder.

Jack Horn

This is a serious problem nationally and statewide as well as in the county, ... Solano County has been particularly proactive, signing people up on various programs, particularly children with the SKIP program, but it's still a serious problem, no question about it.

Barbara Mertz

Since I am not as stupid as my children believe I am, I had immediately realized this might be a ruse, but I was not at all averse to a confrontation. In fact, I had been hoping for some such thing.

Jane Gardam

If you've not been loved as a child, you don't know how to love a child.

Jane Goodall

As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn't have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job.

Ogden Nash

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

E. L. Konigsburg

After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.

Carl Sandburg

The simple dignity of a child drinking a bowl of milk embodies the fascination of an ancient rite.

Dan Castellaneta

Press the any key ... hmmm where's the any key?

Brett Myroff

While the US accounted for over half of all spam sent two years ago, it is now less than a quarter. This shows that more Americans are protecting their home computers from hackers. The reality is simply that more viruses, worms and Trojan horses are being designed to take over innocent users' computers to steal information or send out spam.

Conrad Wolfram

Computers do the calculating to allow people to transform the world.

Bill Brennan

Near as we can tell, there's no sensitive or confidential sort of information contained on the computers that were stolen. They're your typical office computer for e-mails and the like.

Frank Press

When the first computers started to come in, we tried to digitalize the seismological equipment.

Allan Bristow

The big thing is where to set up offices and where to play games. We want to make sure that the first two weeks (of workouts) we're in a facility where we feel comfortable.

Jeff Anderson

We have a facility we'd like filled and you have one you'd like to see stay filled.

Sean Hayes

We'll have a class-A facility in four to five years.

Bill Gerstenmaier

The (Michoud) facility is in pretty good shape. The question is, what does the workforce want to do?

Jackie Dorwin

We were able to use the facility and had two instructors.

Bill Johnson

We're very proud of that fact that we have been able to maintain a manufacturing facility in Western New York not only locally but supply the world globally with products.

Al Bagnoli

While it is a shame, a smaller facility will suffice for now. It's not like the stands are filled during games anyway.

Sergei Bubka

My main idea was to create a sports facility for the basics. This is why I established the club.

B. F. Skinner

The grades as far as the facility are excellent. A lot of money was spent here a number of years ago upgrading this facility and it shows. It's very functional and the people that are occupying that space are doing an outstanding job,

Elie Wiesel

..you do not leave a library; if you do what it wants you to do, you are taking it with you.

Alberto Manguel

Every library is a library of preferences, and every chosen category implies an exclusion.

Studs Terkel

All you need in life is truth and beauty and you can find both at the Public Library.

Storm Jameson

invaders always destroy libraries.

Stuart Pearce

Are you in a library or what?! (on the crowd being quiet)

Ray Bradbury

A library is all the university you will ever need.

Jerzy Kosinski

Here was one place where I could find out who I was and what I was going to become. And that was the public library.

Jim C. Hines

...bookstores, libraries... they're the closest thing I have to a church.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.

Joe Flaherty

There's just something about youth and comedy that go together. Maybe it's that foolishness, that silliness that you can get away with when you're younger, that you can't get away with when you're older.

Edward Snyder

People were worried that like Lucent and maybe a little like Ericsson things were softening up for them. But it doesn't look like that.

Peter Schroecksnadel

Maybe they were scared of the police, we don't know. They got in touch and we're going to talk about it.

Chris Beatty

Maybe the senator should think about when he was 17 years old.

Bruce Myers

Maybe there were some answers, but they were not in the files.

Frank Sciolla

Maybe there was something today that was different. Maybe it was a momentum thing, but they had us so out of character.

Stephen Merchant

Maybe there's a sort of veneer of optimism about U.S. comedy, whereas perhaps in England, we don't mind ending it on a sourer note.

Bill Walsh

Maybe there are more weapons, maybe there aren't. I don't know about that. I can tell you that the administrators are much better trained in detecting them.

P. J. O'Rourke

Maybe the real secret to America's greatness is that we hate one another.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Sarah Davis

People think, 'It's a winter hike, I don't have to take as much water,' but they do.

Richard M. Nixon

People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead.

Jon Jansen

People say this stuff like they just thought of it, ... Everyone thinks they're so clever. I'm like, 'Heard that two weeks ago. Where ya been?'

John Abraham

People talk about the money, but it had nothing to do with the money,

Jay Jacobs

People stumbled into the war by making mistakes.

Tom Daschle

People still would have the right to go to court,

Jodie Sweetin

People still watch 'Full House' all the time. It's on three times a day!

Gary Koenig

People still want it, that's why the old stars are still doing it.

Dave Bowman

As of now, no response from the public or business.

Dan Stessel

Some (drivers) have opted to switch to public transportation, and we're working to welcome them to the system.

Alicia Munnell

With public employees, the day of reckoning is more in the distance.

Adam Smith

We want the public to be more engaged.

Robert Reich

Public employees should have the right to bargain for better wages and working conditions, just like all employees do.

Michelle Williams

When you're in a relationship with somebody who is also a public personality, then it doubles the attention from the media.

Glen Richardson

I am very pleased. This is a win for public schools.

Romesh Wadhwani

I don't want to take a company public and not have it do extremely well and fail the public shareholder.

Gary Peck

If I were the public officials, I would look at this ruling very carefully.

Richard Roby

A win is a win. When you can scratch and claw and pull out a win like that in an ugly game, it's a plus.

Brad Taylor

The tires just went sideways and pulled me into the ditch.

Jamon Gordon

We thought we were going to pull it out. That?s how the season has been this year.

Corey Claitt

I didn't want to get frustrated, but I'm not used to losing. We just had to trust one another. We pulled together as a team.

Shatha Atiya

He has a lot of confidence, but I never thought he would be able to pull this together.

Jim Shaw

I pulled myself out. The timing was too tight.

Brooke Shields

I have bad-mom moments all the time. Sometimes I have the wrong reaction, but I try to remember to pull back and think about it. Even when I make the mistake, I'm able to then go, 'Oh, okay, let's do this again.'

Bill Harden

While it would not be popular, we could give them a year to pull out some of those decks.

Carl Sandburg

All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pull rabbits out of if elected.

Evan Osnos

Confucius, who was born in the sixth century B.C., traditionally had a stature in China akin to that of Socrates in the West.

Ned Yost

I said, don't worry about it. He's only going to throw about 50 pitches. That's about six innings, and then he'll be done.

Tim Healy

That's the most assists we've had in six games.

Mike Shanahan

I think if you take a look at any of the six teams, any of those six teams could go all the way.

Lee Watkins

They'd been there for six generations and it was all gone.

Lou Holtz

There are certain things in this world we all have in common such as time. Everybody has sixty seconds to a minute, sixty minutes to an hour, twenty-four hours to a day. The difference is what we do with that time and how we use it.