Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Rosecrans Baldwin

Bookstores don't exactly dot the American highway in the grand manner of Sbarros.

Mark Morris

It has been up to parents to hit the Web and hit the books and find information on both sides about K-8.

John Corey Whaley

I remember, for the first time, sitting down and consuming books in a matter of hours. This was such a new experience for me because reading, up until that point, had been such a struggle and source of stress. I think I just needed to find the right kind of stories with which I could identify.

Mini Grey

I love picture books - with picture books, you can use words and pictures as a double act, even tell two different versions of a story at the same time.

Chelsea Cain

I like signing books for a living; I do. But you have no idea the panic that sets in. I am not a very good speller. Put me in a stresser situation, and I lose all capacity to recall how to spell the most simple names.

Mark Haddon

I'm really interested in the extraordinary found in the normal. Hopefully, my books don't take you to an entirely different place but make you look at things around you.

Chris Murray

I'm reading six, seven, eight books at a time.

A.J. Chilson

If life is short, then how come most books reflect the opposite approach?

Meghan Coward

Sometimes Molly will fly out to L.A. for a few days, raid the gallery scene there, and come back with a list of names and try to lure them down here.

Beth McNamara

We gave it a good fight today. Our team hustled and did a few things well and a few things not so well that we will work on, ... We made a few mistakes defensively and they capitalized. They made some really good plays.

Jonathan Cheechoo

We weren't very disciplined; (we) took a few penalties maybe we shouldn't (have). It was pretty one-sided, the (penalty) calling, but at the same time we were putting ourselves in that position.

Jan Egeland

We need more resources to save 2 million to 3 million lives and we need much more resources in the next few days.

Gin Wigmore

That would be awesome, to be totally making records whenever I want and to play a show and have a few hundred thousand people there at any city you go to because people know you and your music.

Vernon Smith

I think people (at Butler) put out the word that I was going to Pittsburgh, and those other schools just figured it was a done deal. But I haven't talked to Pittsburgh more than a few times in the last two years. I really don't think those people really thought I was going to make it out of here (academically).

Jason Giambi

We don't get worried when we're behind. We know we're only a few walks and a few swings from being back in the ballgame.

Joseph Wood

I thought it had gotten better, but in the last few weeks there have been more incidents,

Rockie Bork

We played good ball, took them to the wire. You have to be proud of the kids because they're trying real hard and they put 100 percent into the game. We just got off to a way too slow start and we had a few too many turnovers. What do you do?

Blaise Pascal

We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves.

Thomas Haden Church

I love knowing that I'm not better than any other person on the planet.

Vernor Vinge

Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it.

Tony Gilroy

I like knowing where I am in action sequences if I'm supposed to.

Socrates

Knowing thyself is the height of wisdom.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

So much of what we understand comes from knowing what something is and what that something used to be, which allows us to figure out, or at least imagine, what happened in between.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

When I reach to the edge of the universe, I do so knowing that along some paths of cosmic discovery, there are times when, at least for now, one must be content to love the questions themselves.

Plato

Anything worth knowing is already known and must be remembered and reclaimed by the soul.

Paulo Coelho

No one can desire the love of God without first knowing human love.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is the nature of strong people that they can bring out crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.

Abraham Lincoln

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Albert Einstein

Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent People Ignore.

Alfred Sisley

To mention only contemporaries, Delacroix, Corot, Millet, Rousseau, Courbet are masters. And finally [I like] all those [painters] who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

And so the Word had breath, and wrought With human hands the creed of creeds In loveliness of perfect deeds, More strong than all poetic thoughts; Which he may read that binds the sheaf, Or builds the house, or digs the grave, And those wild eyes that watch the waves In roarings round the coral reef.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

But thy strong Hours indignant work’d their wills, And beat me down and marr’d and wasted me, And tho’ they could not end me, left me maim’d To dwell in presence of immortal youth, Immortal age beside immortal youth, And all I was, in ashes. - Tithonus

Alexander Downer

I think any good government will target on the finishing date, that is, the polling day and make sure that their strategy is strong and in place to get them successfully re-elected.

Aldous Huxley

A man may have strong humanitarian and democratic principles, but if he happens to have been brought up as a bath-taking, shirt-changing lover of fresh air, he will have to overcome certain physical repugnance before he can bring himself to put those principles into practice.

Albert Pike

He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the winds. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most men yield to the stress of the current... Only here and there the stout, strong heart and vigorous arms struggle on toward ultimate success.