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.

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.

Hilaire Belloc

When I am dead, I hope it is said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.

Daniel Gorrell

I think it has to be looked upon as a play to get new buyers in the franchise.

Mike Doyle

Having a jackpot in excess of $200 million makes it a very exciting time to be in California. The draw is Friday night but buy your tickets early unless you enjoy standing in line with your neighbors.

Russell Hall

Having a good allocation only protects you if you're willing to rebalance periodically so you're selling high and buying low.

Simon Spurr

If you are already familiar with a brand, buying online is fast, convenient, and probably the way forward.

Ryan Larson

There are still so many uncertainties with the Fed, with what's going on in Iran. Until those get resolved, where are we going to go? What's going to be the catalyst to buy this market?

Katrina Kaif

Personally, I'm a simple dresser. I usually buy my own clothes. Jeans, T-shirts, summer dresses and track pants. Whenever I get the time or see a shop that catches my fancy, I buy something.

David Cutcliffe

What will happen is they'll understand quickly that unless they do buy in they won't be playing. That's a hundred percent on that statement.

Tom Eagan

What will be interesting is how Rainbow goes forward and uses the stock as a currency to buy more programming assets. They could also take more ownership positions.

Dennis Mannion

Having a venture of this magnitude fills two obligations: One to the state to get as much usage of the stadium as possible, which is a hard task; the other is to our suite holders, who we try to get a couple of extra events for the buy they make.

Jon Bruning

Conservatives, come out of the closet

Sherwood Smith

As a kid, I pretty much got nothing but scorn, and occasionally active animus, for writing fantasy and squirreling it away in my closet and, later, under the mattress supports in my bed.

Estella Chung

People who had worked with Leone kept mementos of his films props and costumes and they would pull them out of cupboards and closets and offer them to us for the exhibit. Making these movies was very important to them, even 40 years later.

Bill Wright

Some were already hung, but many were stuck away in a closet on the second floor, in various states of disrepair and deterioration.

Kourtney Kardashian

I remember playing in my mom's closet with Kim as little girls - we had this game we played, I was Donna Karan, and she was my assistant, and I was really bossy.

Mona Williams

You can immediately see what's in the top of that closet and pull it down the next season.

John Stossel

I was a closet stutterer.

Marianne Williamson

God is definitely out of the closet.

John Bauer

But it's sort of like we've come out of the closet now.

J. Taylor

He was a DUI offender and wearing inmate work clothes,

Walker Percy

What nuns don't realize is that they look better in nun clothes than J.C. Penney pantsuits.

Samuel Beckett

Words are the clothes thoughts wear.

Sally Ride

NASA has to approve whatever we wear, so there are clothes to choose from, like space shorts - we wear those a lot - and NASA T-shirts.

Wendy Liebman

I just got my first bikini. It's a three-piece: a top, a botton, and a blindfold for you.

Tory Burch

I just like easy clothes - comfort.

Tyra Banks

I always feel great when I don't have clothes on.

Rodney Dangerfield

I'd like to get some new clothes, but I can't find a Big and Short store.

Robert Pattinson

[A fan] said, 'What can I do to get your attention?' I was like 'Um, just take your clothes off.' She stood there and frantically started taking her clothes off and got dragged out of the room by security.

Friedrich Schiller

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

Annika Sorenstam

I just thought that is pretty neat. She comes from a small town, just like I do, and I thought, 'Wow! If she can do that, maybe I can follow my dreams and one day be able to follow her path.

Jeff Mangum

I'm very influenced by the circus. A lot of the dreams that I have, I'm in the circus.

Lucy Lawless

I'm thrilled that women are encouraged to follow their dreams and I am equally pleased that young men are getting a new view of women: an unapologetic woman.

Hilary Clinton

In my dreams I meet six New Yorkers I screwed over. Whether I did it legally or not is irrelevant.

Henry David Thoreau

Do not lose hold of your dreams or asprirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.

Michael Jackson

I wake up from dreams and go "Wow, put this down on paper." The whole thing is strange. You hear the words, everything is right there in front of your face . . .

Michael Jackson

I wake up from dreams and go ""Wow, put this down on paper."" The whole thing is strange. You hear the words, everything is right there in front of your face . . .

Liz Murray

My mother used to sit at the foot of my bed, and she would share her dreams with me.

Kelvin Sampson

I just think he's a good player that fills a need for us. Every time he and I have talked, I left with a good feeling.

Chuck Schumer

Everyone has a hole inside themselves. They don't know they had it until they have kids, and then that hole fills up. And it's so great; it's just God's greatest gift to us.

Brene Brown

I love to take, process and share photos - it fills me up.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

Herb Cytyrn

Jake is a very good skier and I wouldn't be surprised if he made it to sectionals.

Bill Walsh

I would say that we made a lot of good trades, but that may have been the best.

Mark Bailey

I would've preferred if ours was the last shot. But we had a good look, and we had the guy shooting that we wanted to.

Billy Beane

Ken did a great job for us. We've always said that. He was a good enough manager for us to want him back before, and he's still a good enough manager to come back.

Tim Crowder

Keeping them at their average, no, I don't think that's going to be good enough to win.

Alan Greenspan

Keeping out competitively priced goods would materially lower our standard of living.

David Parker

Keeping everything as lean as possible is a good thing in the long run.

Andrew Zimbalist

I think the press has been sucked in by the rhetoric of brinkmanship. I've been optimistic all along.

William McDonough

Design is inherently optimistic. That is its power.

Zig Ziglar

Everyone, including you, just naturally feels better when exposed to a cheerful, optimistic individual, regardless of the nature or length of the contact.

Zig Ziglar

I'm so Optimistic I'll take my last 2 dollars and buy a Money Belt.

Zig Ziglar

Today is the tomorrow you were optimistic about yesterday. What are you doing today to make tomorrow as rewarding as you had hoped today would be?

Norma Martinez

I'm trying to be optimistic but it's hard.

Francis Cheung

I'm cautiously optimistic that it will work out well for the industry.

Andre Agassi

I really, really want to. I plan on it. I'm optimistic about it.

Shigeru Omi

I'm quite optimistic on how much support will be given.

Nick Licata

Whatever Peter wants, I am with him. He understands the complexities and subtleties of planning.

Liane Moriarty

They say it's good to let your grudges go, but I don't know, I'm quite fond of my grudge. I tend it like a little pet.

Robbie Loomis

This is just another step toward what we want to do at Petty Enterprises. We keep trying to do it every day and keep getting better and better.

Frank Beamer

You think you're part of a special breed. You think that you're his pet Pekinese.

Billy Joel

Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.

Carol Anshaw

Taking on a pet is a contract with sorrow.

Charles Bukowski

places to hunt places to hide are getting harder to find, and pet canaries and goldfish too, did you notice that?

David Hawkins

The body is like a companion, a friendly pet that follows one around...One can continue to own the body and be responsible for it without identifying with it as one's identity.

Rick Riordan

Mrs. O' Leary is my pet. I couldn't let you stick a sword in her rump, now, could I? That might've scared her.

Deirdre McQuade

They want to make sure RU-486 is on the shelf of every doctor's office. It's really disgusting.

Chris Donahue

The shelf space has been shrinking, ... We underinvested in making sure that hasn't happened, and that's one of the things we're going to fix.

DerMarr Johnson

He kind of let me know what he wants out of me. I know that he wants more rebounding with a small lineup. He wants me to be a little more intense.

Sgt. Reynolds

His statement was that it was a very small amount.

Ian Fleming

To come and see them live at a small track has appeal.

Dale Maharidge

In a small town, there is a thin veil of anonymity,

Mikhail Prokhorov

I don't understand small businesses, only big ones. Marriage is the hardest small business.

James Fenton

An aria in an opera - Handel's 'Ombra mai fu,' for example - gets along with an incredibly small number of words and ideas and a large amount of variation and repetition. That's the beauty of it. It's not taxing to the listener's intelligence because if you haven't heard it the first time round, it'll come around again.

Ron Lievense

It's small and hot. It's a tough place to play. We will have to get everybody's 'A' game.

Steve Chesley

It will be potentially resolvable with small telescopes, but they'll have to be able to track pretty fast,

Philippa Gregory

It is no small thing, this, for a woman: freedom.

Ray Brown

He walked into the storm. He's probably dead.

Jerry Bailey

I want to walk away in one piece.

Tracey Gold

My body started to shut down. I got really, really ill. When you're starving yourself, you can't concentrate. I was like a walking zombie, like the walking dead. I was just consumed with what I would eat, what I wouldn't eat.

Bill Doyle

I'm going to this movie and if I don't like it, I'm going to walk out.

M. Thompson

It's like you're walking into an old, underground tavern,

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We cannot walk alone.

Red Herring

Walker Digital's going to be around for a long, long time,

Denise Levertov

But for us the road unfurls itself, we don't stop walking, we know there is far to go.

Alex Honnold

I've walked away from more climbs than I can count, just because I sensed that things were not quite right.

Alexandra Roach

I think you should just wear something you feel comfortable in. It's important to make a statement, but don't kill yourself over it.

Marie-Chantal Claire

I like wearing classic pieces with a modern twist.

Don Cherry

I never, ever said 'don't wear a visor,'

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The key to wealth is that it doesn't matter. Once you've had it, you don't think anything of it; you can wear cheap watches.

Natalia Kills

I really can't break away from wearing black and leather!

Blake Lively

The older I get, I guess I wear less sparkles.

Mia Sara

To keep your skin looking healthy and young, wear a hat.

Scott Ishikawa

We try to use it more on the freeways because that's where we have the most wear and tear.

M. Wolfe

We don't wear shoes, we're uneducated, we all live in trailers.