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!

Bobby Vinton

I was able to stay on because in those days I was selling songs like 'Blue Velvet' and 'There I Said It Again'. But they were kind of adult hits.

Rick Derringer

I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults.

Yehuda Berg

The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.

Kate Winslet

Part of Breast Cancer Care's work is to make sure everyone in the UK is breast aware throughout their adult lives,

Lloyd Kolbe

Part of the problem is if you've got an adult population where 64 percent of the adults are obese, that's the model that the upcoming generation sees every day. So the potential for it to become the norm, that's part of the self-perpetuating cycle.

Joyce Johnson

In the age that I am, in my entire adult life that I have been lobbying for reproductive freedom--why does it seem like we're going so far backwards?

Tom DeLay

I would suggest to Senator Daschle that he put aside his party's planned fund-raising trip and take up the serious business of this country.

David Paulison

Part of the fire grants designated by Congress is set aside for health and safety for firefighters. We lose, over 50 percent of our firefighters' fatalities are heart attacks and strokes.

Masahiro Kami

Investors, especially pension funds, have lots of cash set aside to buy bonds, and most of that money is still waiting to be used for purchasing debt.

Richard Stallman

In practice, the copyright system does a bad job of supporting authors, aside from the most popular ones. Other authors' principal interest is to be better known, so sharing their work benefits them as well as readers.

Jake Long

I really couldn't believe it. When they told me I had to have surgery, I couldn't believe it. I was really upset. I was having a great camp, and I was really excited to get the season going. I had a couple hard days, but after that, I realized I'd have a chance to come back and help the team. I threw everything aside and dedicated myself to getting back.

Randy Johnson

If you're worried about what happened last year, I mean I suppose there's certain things you could take from last year that will help you this year. I think you've got to put everything aside from last year. This is a new year.

Lynsey Addario

I generally don't follow domestic news that much aside from how it relates to the stories I'm covering abroad, like what Americans think of the War in Afghanistan.

Matt Mullenweg

If you have a fantastic idea you're really passionate about and are making $100,000 in your job, if you can set aside some of that to invest in servers or contractors or other folks, that's actually the best way to start a business in my opinion.

Kathleen Blanco

If you help us with these incentives, we believe we only have to step aside and let business

Mike Jackson

There are still archaeological places (on the island) that are significant to our tribe culturally.

Chris Lee

It has a dream-like quality that takes you to places that don't exist,

S. Walker

In a lot of places this would've come off hokey because there's not the tradition this place has. It works here because it's not contrived. It's genuine. It's real.

Felicity Huffman

I'm not a beauty. That's not my thing. So it wasn't like I was risking anything. What I was risking is whether I could do it. There are many places to fall.

Rick Morris

I know that it is coming, such as paving places in Crusader Court, but we don't know the schedule and that's not under our purview.

Simon Baker

L.A.'s a better place to live than it is to visit.

Bill Clinton

A lot of places can be the wrong place at the wrong time

Linda Jeffers

They are sending us to places that we know not of. Who do we know in Kansas?

Brent Heavner

(This) places us consistently within the top 20 programs in the nation.

Randy Woods

The range is 40 yards and in, preferably 30 yards and in. And every manufacturer will tell you the same thing.

Fletcher Smith

We still have a ways to go but I'm optimistic. We'll have to wait and see, but I think we all know where the range is.

Upinder Dhillon

It's stunning, shocking use whatever word you want. We're in disbelief. When you know somebody well, and you don't have any idea of something like that happening, it's a whole range of emotions.

Paul Gascoigne

Glasgow Rangers. God I loved playing for them

John Gilbride

They utilized a wide range of smuggling, the most repulsive of which was the use of puppies.

Jim Stone

They (USDB) have a wonderful range of capabilities.

Tamara Tunie

There was a time, actually, when I hadn't been singing, and I'd lost a lot of my ability. My range had shrunk.

Mario Testino

Ultimately, I made my range wider because I wanted to suit each publication that I worked for. Talk about reinvention - I'm like the Madonna of photography.

Paul Gascoigne

The most important thing is to get Rangers into the Premiership.

Simon Spurr

Spring 2010 is the second season that I'm showing the double-breasted suit. I think the right double-breasted suit is young again.

Doug Tolin

I thought we would come out and play better in the second half. But we could never really get anything going. It kind of went the other way on us.

Jim Court

I thought about it for 10 seconds or so.

Sue Donohoe

When he wanted to know what time it was, you had to get down there. You didn't tell him that it was 30 seconds left.

Jim Calhoun

We've got to take away 3-point shooting and not get fatigued by the shot clock. They make as many shots under 12 seconds as any team you're going to play.

Bruce Bainter

I went down there and it was up over the second step.

Manny Acta

I don't know Soriano as an outfielder. He is here to play second base.

Umberto Guidoni

And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite.

Vladimir Putin

Russia will not soon become, if it ever becomes, a second copy of the United States or England - where liberal value have deep historic roots.