Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Russo

What does it feel like to be a parent? What does it feel like to be a child? And that's what stories do. They bring you there. They offer a dramatic explanation, which is always different from an expository explanation.

John C. Hawkes

I didn't know what kind of jobs, because how was I prepared? At best, I would be an AB in English.

Charles James

The antitrust division has been left in very good shape by Joel Klein. I've found a number of enforcement issues I'm happy to pursue.

Ernest Hemingway

All things truly wicked start from an innocence.

Richard Wright

I'd like to see the bay cleaned up before I die.

Booth Tarkington

Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.

Arthur Herzog

The main advantage of the omniscient approach is that it's the easiest to handle. That's the major reason so many writers select it.

Sue Grafton

At that point, I sat down and made an alphabetical list of all the crime related words I could think of. So here I am now, nearly half-way through, probably tied up until the year 2015 or SO.

Vicki Baum

You don't get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what's eating you.

Paul Blake

I do think it's a larger censorship problem. Here we have to battle just to be in locations. We've been banned from several of the businesses in town.

Julie Vallese

Retailers who are unaware that the product has been banned for sale should remove it from store shelves, and parents should take them away from children.

James Wagoner

And as more people find out what is being taught and what is being censored in these ineffective programs, more and more of these 'stay pure or we don't care about you' programs will be banned from public schools.

Sharon Chang

People call each other when they see new books on the shelves. New books are usually checked out in two days, DVDs in (only) hours.

Ray Waddell

The Stones have written and rewritten the book on touring.

George Smith

I self-published the first edition, hardcover, in June 2003. The book is now in its third printing.

Philip Chien

The whole object of the book is to take the two-dimensional bios and make them into three-dimensional people.

Travis Paquet

This is a win in our book as far as I am concerned. We keep working hard. It'll come.

Gena Prochaska

That's why I chose it, it's the first book in a series. This way they get the first book and it will suck them in. It draws them in and gets them interested in the book, and then they want to continue the series. And it gets them reading, which is the whole point of this group.

Augustine Birrell

Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste, surround himself with books, all in his own language, and thence forward have at least one place in the world.

Augustine Birrell

A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.

Arthur Koestler

In my youth I regarded the universe as an open book, printed in the language of equations, whereas now it appears to me as a text written in invisible ink, of which in our rare moments of grace we are able to decipher a small segment.

Harvey Pitt

This is not an economic problem, it's a physical catastrophe,

James Gaston

You can't do right by the students in an economic vacuum,

Lauryn Hill

I had an economic system imposed on me.

David Emery

Maine's economic performance has been spotty for a long time.

Donald Trump

The plan I am proposing today does not involve smoke and mirrors, phony numbers, financial gimmicks, or the usual economic chicanery you usually find in Disneyland-on-the-Potomac.

Friedrich List

Only now did I recognize the reciprocal relationship which exists between manufacturing power and the national system of transportation, and that the one can never develop to its fullest without the other.

Jerry Patterson

The economics work, and they work well, and we're excited about it. The environmental impacts are very positive.

Pamela Falk

The economics of Washington's strained relations with Venezuela could prove costly.

Dominic Barton

The economic leg is much longer than the social leg in China. That's why the big new motto of the government is 'harmonious society'.

Matt Stone

I just hate that Lucas... and it is not just Lucas, because everybody does it, where, boom, they get it out, and then there's a special edition for a movie that doesn't deserve a special edition.

Rey Mysterio

Reading helps me be more creative, it helps my imagination and I like the fact that it gives me some quiet time,

James Mcewan

People hate the fact that they kidnapped people, including a little child.

Peter Lehman

The technology needs to get out of the lab and into the factory to reduce costs,

Jeff Holland

Quite honestly, I don't know anything about (the fungus). I guess it just reiterated the fact that it's important to be careful.

H. Hunt

The sad fact it is could have been anybody. My feeling is that whoever is involved in this is still walking free.

James St. James

I've sort of come to accept the fact that when I'm 80, people will ask about Michael Alig. I've had to realize that this is part of who I am.

John Manion

This is special, ... The fact that you have a game with two teams undefeated this late in the season is rare.

Melanie Sloan

The way that they've presented it makes it look more independent than it in fact is, and that's misleading.

Bob Keller

This does underscore the fact that West Nile is a potentially fatal disease.

Richard Estrada

So we said, let's organize this huge march of the pueblo, of the people.

Steve Lowery

It would be very satisfying after the start I had. That would be a huge accomplishment.

Octavio Dotel

This is huge in my country. Just huge.

Richard Sullivan

This is the first time we have been able to predict such a huge improvement in long-term survival,

Terry Ryan

Last year we won 83 games, which was a huge disappointment for us. Eight, nine years ago I would have been thrilled to win 83. That's no longer the case.

Todd Whetsel

That was a huge win for our team. You don't want to have to be in that play-in game. Even if you win, you're playing Stratford in the first round and you don't want to see them in the first round.

Marty Barnes

That was a huge steal by Kyle to set all that up.

John Buck

That was a huge inning for us to get the momentum back.

Alex Stepheson

It doesn't make a huge impact on the decision. It's nice to know who you are playing with and what kind of team you will have.

Bai Ling

You have to be proud of who you are.

Asa Butterfield

I can clap really fast. I can beatbox. I can type the alphabet in under 2 seconds. That's probably the one I'm most proud of.

Jane Garvey

We have, I am proud to say, successfully transitioned in a very uneventful way.

Britney Spears

Yes I'm a virgin and proud of it.

Dave Ramsey

Be very proud of what you do, and if you aren't then change it.

Steve Spurrier

toward the end there, my give-a-damn was busted. This is not the way I ever coached...I'm not proud of what happened, but there it is.

Ozzie Guillen

First of all, I feel proud of my players. We went through a lot, a lot of tough times.

Alvaro Garcia

The time has come to be proud of what we are.

Mike Brey

What an afternoon. I'm proud of our group.

Brad Childress

Quite frankly, I don't think he wanted to be here anymore.

George Ryan

I've never seen anything quite like the site I saw here.

Maisie Williams

I talk to myself quite a lot, and when things get stressful, I just tell myself to breathe.

Lena Headey

I'm small but quite tough. When incensed, I can swing a punch.

Rudyard Kipling

She was as immutable as the hills. But not quite so green.

Ben Chaplin

I care about all the characters I play, and I get quite defensive about them.

Charlton Heston

It's been quite a ride. I loved every minute of it.

Laurence Housman

That was luck: I should not then have been a conscientious objector; but I am quite sure that the abominations of war would have made me one, as soon as I got to the front.

Sam Johnson

We were friends for 40 years. He was quite a character.

Brian Tracy

The future belongs to the risk-takers, not the comfort-seekers .

Alicia Silverstone

All the things I've loved the most in life were my biggest risks.

Anne Lamott

Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story. Risk freeing someone else. Not everyone will be glad that you did. Members of your family and other critics may wish you had kept your secrets. Oh, well, what are you going to do?

Andy Stanley

You won't take risk without courage.

Susan Sontag

The danger, when not too dangerous, fascinate.

Ray Kroc

Take calculated risks. Act boldly and thoughtfully. Be an agile company.

Rick Perry

We must do right and risk the consequences.

Tony Blair

All the way through, we have been willing to take risks, provided at the end of it we can get a decent lasting settlement in Northern Ireland

Simon Sinek

True #leadership isn't the bastion of a few who sit at the top ... We all need to step up, take the risk and put our interests second-not always-but when it counts.