Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joanna Lumley

I was involved with the landmines before the Princess of Wales, and nobody gave a damn about people losing their limbs. It only became a success when she came along.

Dan Brown

I was already writing 'The Lost Symbol' when I started to realize 'The Da Vinci Code' would be big. The thing that happened to me and must happen to any writer who's had success is that I temporarily became very self-aware.

Frank Bruno

Just recently I got a request for a proclamation in Volusia County for a gentleman that became 80 years old, ... That is not appropriate because you are proclaiming the day because that person is 80 years old. So I sent a letter instead.

Mark Badgley

I think it just became too formula, ... Everybody looked the same. Certainly women have to dress very practically by day now, so I think they really love the idea of indulging themselves in dressing up for night.

Randy Levine

I think it became obviously clear that no matter under what analysis, this deal is a good deal for taxpayers.

Zulima Farber

I think it became a big case only because of the names involved. I think it would have been a routine -- if there is such a thing -- illegal gambling case if it wasn't for the names of those people involved. However, because there was a trooper involved, it was big to us.

Courtney Pratt

It became pretty clear we weren't going to get any kind of wage concessions from our labour union,

Gordon Huether

It became pretty clear to me the place to expand it was where the population is.

Daisy Ridley

It became my solace. Because it's the only thing structured in my life right now. Training is sort of a therapy session, I guess.

Jeff Kinney

Kids and adults have a difference of opinion when it comes to what constitutes legitimate reading. Adults often push books that they loved as children, which, ironically, were often books that their parents weren't particularly keen on.

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.

Japanese Proverb

Knowledge without wisdom is a load of books on the back an ass

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.

Marshal Cohen

Kids are not interested in taking their summer vacation to start thinking about back-to-school wardrobes, supplies and book bags.

William Rehnquist

I wrote this book for a sense of personal satisfaction. Just like taking a good photograph or painting a picture or playing a good golf game or something, it's the thing in itself that justifies it.

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.

Kathleen Norris

Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier

Adrian Moss

I wouldn't say Anthony whipped him, but he taught him. You're defending Anthony Roberson every day, and there's probably no better scorer that's come through this program than Peep. When you're defending him every day, you have no choice but to get better.

Marty Nemko

I suspect that it's going to be tempting to throw out this resume because I don't have a bachelor's degree. I made a conscious choice to do my learning in the real world. I've done things that I never could have done if I had been sitting in a class. I'm a go-getter, but now we've reached the moment of truth. Will you interview me?

Michael W. Smith

Greenberg is saying take my $46 or their $41. Seems to me there is not much choice there.

Ani Difranco

Here's a toast to all those nurses and doctors who daily provide women with a choice, who stare down a threat the size of Oklahoma City just to listen to a young woman's voice.

Joe Torre

He's a draw, and that's what this is about. I can understand his reluctance to make a choice between the two teams, because he doesn't want to upset anybody.

LaVerne Knox

I think that's a good choice. He didn't want to go far from home.

Bill Cowher

Whatever happens, and you kind of deal with the circumstances that you are dealt with. I think, at this point, that is the mindset that we have to have and we will deal with whatever decisions or other choices we have at that time. I am not going to waste any time thinking about that or talking about that.

Lana Stanley

What is encouraging to us is a lot of people seem to recognize that if they don't support the 'mom and pop stores' they will go away and then their only choices will be the 'big boxes' and they know that they won't be happy with those as their only choices.

Kurt Campbell

We (the U.S.) face a fundamental choice between a fundamentally flawed deal and no deal.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Grief is so human, and it hits everyone at one point or another, at least, in their lives. If you love, you will grieve, and that's just given.

Janet Leigh

I was in that shower for seven days-70 set-ups. At least Hitchcock made sure that the water was warm.

Lori Cooper

Kim may also play some outside hitter for us this season.

Sue Adams

Kim hits a 3, and all of a sudden everyone just started playing.

Ryan Zimmerman

I wouldn't say I am a power hitter. I am a gap-to-gap guy. If I hit one like I did today, so be it.

Sarunas Jasikevicius

Jackson hit a lot of big shots. I thought that everyone stepped up. This was a big win for us.

Allison Johnson

Just like practice. I knew I just had to hit it hard.

Ron Whitehurst

Katy was hitting all her spots. She was able to pitch it inside and outside.

Jay Alford

He just wasn't hitting the holes like he wanted to.

Clyde Prestowitz

I think the Japanese are in a very tough dilemma,

Wayne Wonder

Well, Japanese fans braced me since 1991 that was my first time I have been to Japan. So I know that Japanese fans has supported me over the years. So it just a lot of love and Wayne Wonder will release more music, more music and more music!

Zhang Ziyi

There's nothing in Chinese culture that is an equivalent of the geisha. It's so different, so special to Japan.

Sam Abell

For sheer majestic geography and sublime scale, nothing beats Alaska and the Yukon. For culture, Japan. And for all-around affection, Australia.

Sadako Ogata

Japan's diplomatic efforts could have had a broader international perspective. Relations with the U.S. are, of course, the cornerstone of Japan's diplomacy, but the U.S. acts on its global strategy. For instance, Washington suddenly got closer to China in the early 1970s as part of its strategy against the Soviet Union.

Yoko Ono

I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy.

Hitoshi Yamamoto

Relatively speaking, Japan looks the least uncertain market in regard to politics and the economy.

Paul Watson

I know when I am being harassed. It seems to me that Japan is pulling some strings around here.

Hiroaki Takai

The drop-off in Treasuries can't be ignored. That is contributing to weaker sentiment in Japanese bonds.

Sarah Pinborough

I wrote my first five horror novels while I was teaching.

Edmund White

I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.

William Golding

However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.

Wendell Berry

There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.

Brian Moore

Research is usually a policeman stopping a novel from progressing.

Jojo Moyes

Rejection is part of the process, so you can't let it crush you. My first three novels never made it into publication, but my fourth, 'Sheltering Rain,' was translated into 11 languages.

Rudolfo Anaya

In many respects, I think 'Bless Me, Ultima' is a novel about the indigenous.

Sarah Waters

I knew I'd always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, 'Well, I'd rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one'.

Eric Hoffer

To the old, the new is usually bad news.

Tom Nutten

It actually works, and he obviously has no inhibition to show it. I think it has some kind of a gravitational pull, because everything does go towards him. That's why he is the center, and he is in the middle.

Jamie Campbell Bower

'Hamlet' is obviously a role a lot of actors want to portray or be involved with in some way and that I'd like to be involved in.

Kate Middleton

It's obviously nerve-wracking, because I don't know the ropes really, William is obviously used to it, but I'm willing to learn quickly and work hard.

Burt Stellers

I thought we rebounded harder, and defensively we were a lot more intense. They took it to us the first time. For us to come back and get a victory was obviously a positive.

John Gordon Sinclair

I think the problem I have is that first impressions are the ones that stick with people. And people's first impressions of me are obviously from the film, from 'Gregory's Girl.'

Robert Wiley

I think that his performances (in the WAFL) have been outstanding and (he's come into the side) obviously to replace Phillip Matera,

Kerry Haigh

We're obviously disappointed for the spectators who were unable to see the finish. We all wanted to see a finish, obviously.

John Nicks

I think it was obvious the standard of skating tonight was not particularly good.

Peter Beattie

He'll obviously want to return to the U.S. as soon as possible,

Syed Ahmed

He not only sold us a building, he sold us the town.

William Kristol

These soldiers deserve a better defense secretary than the one we have.

Robert M. Gates

Development is a lot cheaper than sending soldiers.

Winston Churchill

You may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman, or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together- what do you get? The sum of their fears.

Brian Rolston

I'm just like, 'Exhibition game. Sold out?' ... It's unbelievable. It's a unique thing here in Minnesota. There's no question.

Steve Cohen

And 'Jack & Bobby' started two years ago, ... those 'Future President' T-shirts you see sold in airports for kids.

Maria Sharapova

All the soldiers are down and it will be whoever can get up.

Oliver Cromwell

On becoming soldiers we have not ceased to be citizens.

Mark Kimmitt

That soldier said: 'There are some things going on here that I can't live with'.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

He used to sit on my lap. I was sort of ambivalent about that. He was surviving any way he could.

Jennifer Hinson

It is a little frustrating. It's sort of put us into a year-by-year situation.

Jason Robinson

If you have got a problem, then go to the person and sort it out.

Jason Anderson

I know it's got a lot of sports fields. We're going to set all sorts of records.

Sam Heughan

I never once dreamed of sort of being able to be in an American TV series, you know? It was all about theater and touring and sort of being an actor around Scottish theater.

Stockard Channing

I never really thought of that. I just thought she was funny. Really, I just thought this was funny, sort of sweet, touching and human.

Grimes

I'm not, like, a natural performer. It's sort of a thing that I've had to learn to do.

Michelle Monaghan

I'm not so Hollywood; I live in New York, so it's very normal. I don't have many friends in the industry. My friends come from all sorts of different backgrounds and careers.

Tim McEachern

The idea started as sort of a joke,

Timothy Simons

If you're going to go to an audition, you don't want to go in trying to force yourself into some archetype that has been thought up by a director and translated by a casting director.

Antonio Munoz Molina

Many of the books I read, I had to read them in French, English, or Italian, because they hadn't been translated into Spanish.