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'.

James Jeffords

I was lucky to be able to call Christopher Reeve a friend.His passion for life and for improving the lives of all Americans serves an inspiration to all of us. He may have played the character of Superman in the movies, but he lived the role of a superman through his life.

Pierce Brosnan

I was looking forward to making (Bond) edgier and grittier -- and for all of that to go down in one phone call was highly disappointing,

Tony Oliva

Kirby meant to me a lot. For me, it's like my own son. He used to call me 'Papa', too.

Cindy Mannes

I would not say it's an epidemic by any stretch, but it is a problem. We used to get one or two calls a year ... Now we're getting one or two calls a week.

Manny Fernandez

Jacques said any roll we can get on is a bonus. Well, I would start calling this a roll.

Rick Dunlap

I would say the ice fishing is what we call gravy. The lion's share is made in the summer and fall.

Mark DiCamillo

I would suspect his tone would change significantly if they don't make it onto the November ballot. If that happened, I could see calling the Legislature all sorts of names by the end of the campaign.

Gary Brown

Ken Lay is what I would call a fix-it man who thinks he can pick up the phone and take care of it because of who he is, a man of power. It's as though he thinks he can call anyone, any time. They're not going to like that kind of attitude.

Rich Beem

Just think of it as a golf cart with a V-8. Call it the Silver Bullet, baby.

Andre Bakhos

With the Fed watching every stream of data that's coming out, investors are taking a cautionary stance due to ongoing concerns about the likely direction and the extent of future rate increases.

Ben Dogra

Jon enjoyed the visit with the Jets. They did an incredibly good job with the visit. They got his attention. But his comfort level is in Philadelphia. Going into this I thought it would be between money and comfort level, in that order. Comfort level clearly proved to be more of a factor. He just decided signing with the Eagles was what he wanted to do.

Bob Dorfman

He did everything right in Turin. He was even crying on medals stand. He lived up to the hype. He's clearly comfortable on camera. You'll see a lot of him.

John Remington

He clearly does not want to get in the middle of the parties and leave them worse off than they were. He will do everything he can to coerce a final settlement.

Jeremy Grantham

History speaks pretty clearly that the markets do better with Democrats. Republicans' ideas of what constitutes fiscal responsibility simply are not good for the stock market. Democrats have many tendencies, but one of them is to look after the workers, and actually that tends to be good for demand and good for markets.

Doug Porter

It clearly shows that the U.S. economy is very strong and isn't slowing down. That doesn't bode well for the possibility of inflation and it doesn't bode well for the outlook for the U.S. dollar.

Bob Pack

The purpose was clearly to seek to protect the lychee crop,

Ariel Sharon

The people clearly opted for my plan, ... Political forces must follow the wishes of the electorate.

Ted Forrest

What is clearly needed is a force on the ground that has the person power, the mandate and the logistical back up to be able to make a difference.

Charles Miller

What is clearly lacking is a nationwide system for comparative performance purposes, using standard formats.

David Thwaites

I suspect it's going to be a fairly weaker open. Stocks are still looking for direction in Europe -- there are no big macro drivers today.

Taha Ramadan

It (Iraq) is cooperating with all initiatives in this direction provided there is no encroachment on Iraq's sovereignty and security,

Tim Wakefield

I think with Jason as our captain, he can lead us in the right direction.

Tony Fabrizio

There is a growing, deep-seated discontentment and pessimism about the direction of the country.

Dale Tallon

We talked about the direction we're going in and how valuable he would be to us on and off the ice with our young kids. He was high on our list.

Michel Therrien

I think we are in the right direction and it's going to be positive, but I know they can play better. Eventually.

Mark Zeller

I think that it shows that the people have trust in the direction the school district is going in, and they would like to see it continue.

Ryler DeHeart

It is just another stepping stone in the right direction for this team.

Jim Sterk

Last year, I let Tony and Dick know what my intentions were and this summer I put it into writing so there would be no question about the direction of the program.

Wade Redden

He was there to save us. We've got to be better for him (tonight).

Richard Lee

If you save one soul, your work has been done.

Sue Lyon

If you take down a tree to save a house, you should save the house. Don't come tomorrow and want to take down the house.

Marsha Blackburn

If you see something suspicious, don't just walk by. Notify authorities. Get help. You could save innocent lives.

Mike White

You come to a point where you realize your work doesn't save you.

Kurt Russell

All I wanted for him was to save the world,

Henrik Lundqvist

It was one of the most important saves of my career.

Linda Lopez

They can save their own lives. And others.

David Ferrell

They are not toys. They are very useful tools that save you a lot of money.

Douglas Adams

I remember very little about writing the first series of 'Hitchhiker's.' It's almost as if someone else wrote it.

Aileen Anderson

This is a first step in what has to be a long series of steps to get to anything clinical.

Christy Romano

Developing a series is a next step for me.

Laurel Lea

A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility.

Alan Ball

What the series is all about is: We die. So while we're here, let's live fully.

Brandon McArthur

The series isn't over. Tomorrow is another day.

Scott Hatteberg

The whole series was tough. When I look back on things, yeah, I wish they were different.

Jack Miller

This is the first in a series of meetings.

Rahul Dravid

The way we've won this series is heartening.

Justine Henin-Hardenne

I had a lot of trouble with my serve in this tournament.

Francis Bacon

Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability.

Michael Brown

I serve totally at the will of the president.

Alex Gibney

But it still serves as a primer for everyone who's watching the trial.

Steve Carter

If they can serve it from Sallisaw, and show they can serve it well, that's OK. But I would like to see a station there at some point, once it makes sense.

Nancy Stern

We had a lot of reinforcing in the basement. It took several years to get it where we wanted it, but it serves us well.

Venus Williams

I'm this overachiever type, I'll just work and work and I'll just do it over and over and over again.

Zach Duke

I'm not unhappy or anything. It's a business. It's kind of a rite-of-passage type of thing.

Rebel Wilson

I never thought I'd be the type of girl who'd be doing, like, fashion shoots.

Derek Theler

I'm actually a Type 1 diabetic, so growing up, I had to eat pretty healthy.

Man Ray

You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.

Louise Brown

I like many types of music and probably too many to mention here.

Alex Rodriguez

You usually don't see this type of celebration when the Yankees win a division,

Eric Hoffer

Totalitarianism spells simplification: an enormous reduction in the variety of aims, motives, interests, human types, and, above all, in the categories and units of power.

Karin Slaughter

I could type in a closet and be fine. It's just a matter of cocooning myself. Just me and the story.

Joseph Biden

He said he was 35 when he wrote that.

Mike DeWine

This is really what we anticipated when we wrote the law,

Kent Haruf

Writing is the hardest thing I know, but it was the only thing I wanted to do. I wrote for 20 years and published nothing before my first book.

Kelsey Primiano

Everyone wrote state. So everyone got what they wanted.

James Frey

I think most of what they wrote was pretty accurate, absolutely.

William Gibson

In 1981, I was a futurist - or at least I was a guy who put on a futurist hat occasionally - and I wrote about the 21st century.

Gail Carson Levine

I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.

Ed Emberley

I don't know how old I was when I started writing books. But, I was born in 1931, and I wrote my first book in 1961.