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'.

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.

Dan Bloom

All the wins are great, but I'd rather be on the right side of that book. Pete Tilman won a New England championship, and I don't consider myself the greatest wrestler in Sharon history because I don't have a New England title to back that up.

Mary Randolph

Sometimes it was September or October before we would get the books.

Al Hubbard

There are very good laws on the books. What's important is that those laws are enforced aggressively.

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.

Alan Milstein

Besides, there are privacy laws on the books, both state and federal, so there's no way they'd win. It makes you wonder what they're really worried about.

Tony Blair

At that point we close the chapter or we close the book.

James T. Mccay

What is important is not to be able to read rapidly, but to be able to decide what not to read.

Jack Harris

You have to go by the handbook. We have all the guidelines in that book. ... Coming out at a meeting and saying you can do this or that, we can't do that in a meeting.

Todd Berry

I think I probably wasn't as strong as I thought I was, but I never claimed I could do an hour and a half, because I just knew I couldn't.

Robby Hirst

I think the one from this year will be claimed by my wife.

Gordon Strachan

He has never claimed to be a great player. But until we find someone top class, he will do fine.

Wayne Allen

We have no suspects and nobody has claimed responsibility at this time,

Kevin Martingayle

No one has claimed Bubba Jenkins is a threat, that he's a dishonest person or that he's a disruptive person.

Mark Shapiro

Most players were claimed on waivers, so there was a very small pool of players available,

Drew Carter

I have never ever claimed 100 percent credit for anything that went on that,

Jim Parker

John would usually do a poem in one take. He claimed to be completely unmusical, but he wasn't really. He liked Victorian hymns and music-hall. I never heard him mention contemporary pop music, but we had in some really good rock-guitar session men and he was very happy with that. He would just sit there and look around. He seemed to think everyone was doing a good job and seemed very happy with proceedings.

Lance Loud

For the naysayers that claimed 'American Family' revealed us to be vacant, unloving, uncaring morons of the materialistic '70s, this image will be proven wrong when Mom and Dad remarry... Make no mistake. This is not to emphasize the sadness of my demise but rather emphasize the love of my family and friends.

Jeff Allen

I would say it would come down to Reggie or myself of Johnny Crumpler or Daryl (Baysden), just for the experience. All of us have played the courses right much.

John Sunderland

I suspect in due course they will reach a fruitful conclusion.

Rich Beem

Guys skipping this event to go prepare for next week -- are you kidding? This is the perfect course to set up for Augusta.

Hank Bontrager

Golf courses don't really want us very much. But some of them are so generous for letting us play there.

Dick LeBeau

He's a lot faster runner than you would think for a man of his dimensions. But his real strength of course is anchoring and inverting the line of scrimmage and letting us play around him.

Ernie Accorsi

He's got great numbers, considering his injuries, ... If he's healthy he's on a course for a big-time career.

Duffy Waldorf

His shots go so far that they're hard to follow. But I think this course plays well to everyone, whether you're a short or long hitter. If you get on with your irons and putt, you have a good chance.

Serena Williams

I think it's great, I'm actually rooting for her - unless of course she plays me.

Scott Lukas

I think it's an important opportunity to offer a course like this.

John Whitaker

Knowing that sexual harassment was going on, they in effect denied her her educational rights.

Jeff Bzdelik

Jake was relentless and not to be denied on the boards. Everyone contributed, and everyone was in the fray. It's just a wonderful team to coach.

Ric Garcia

Reno's guard play was too tough for us. They denied our entry passes and just played with a lot more energy than we did.

John Dingell

In short, you will have the rights and protections that have too long been denied by HMOs,

Alan Zweibel

I've had a bris, was Bar Mitzvahed and, on occasion, have referred to a temple as a shul. I've never denied it, nor have I disguised it. I am, indeed, a Jew.

Cynthia Ozick

The Hebrew Bible has long been the world's possession, and those who come to it by any means, through whatever language, are equals in ownership, and may not be denied the intimacy of their spiritual claim.

Ibrahim Lipumba

We were also denied a total of 116 results forms from different polling stations in 11 rural constituencies.

Joseph Abood

The statute itself is so overly restrictive, he's being denied due process.

Antony Beevor

Some novelists want to give people in history a voice because they have been denied it in the past.

Richie Sambora

I think what it all comes down to, first and foremost, is songwriting, ... Nashville has been famous for writing great songs.

Sophie B. Hawkins

I didn't want to be a performer. I didn't want to be famous.

Johnathon Schaech

I never wanted to be famous. I want to be more famous than I am so I can get the roles. I hate losing the roles. I was famous more for being around people who were famous, and I hate that kind of fame.

James Graham

I'll make thee glorious by my pen, And famous by my sword.

Tom Izzo

I'm only embarrassed that in front of our two most famous alums, we didn't play with that same kind of tenacity.

Dan Wheldon

I'm very proud of this team. They worked so hard all night long. There are some famous names that have won this race, and to now be on that list is very, very special.

Ronald Harwood

I mean he's a very famous director... they're not going to put their... and he's very tough, he doesn't like interference at all, so he kept them at bay.

Liz Smith

I mean he did this over and over again. He, he helped make me famous.

Brian Littrell

I'm not famous, I'm just in the spotlight more than you.

Alan Curbishley

He is a local ref and perhaps it is something we have to look at.

Kevin McCarthy

It's regrettable that we're going to spend local property taxes on schools the state would otherwise fund. As I understand it, we don't get back that money.

E. B. White

Its important to do things locally as well, ... impeach.

Scott Henson

They have a structural accountability problem; they're federally funded, state managed and locally staffed, therefore accountable to no one.

Herb Landau

The state, county, and local governments here really don't support us that well.

Jerry Spinelli

I've been writing since I was sixteen. At first, I wrote mostly short stories and poetry. The first thing I ever had published was a poem about a football game. It was printed in my local newspaper.

Brian Sullivan

At the local level, to be able to say that you're doing better than you were, or you're not, is pretty important.

Larry Rogers

Ninety-five percent (of the workers) will be from the local area.

Nathan Moss

I got to thinking of the school system, especially our local school here.

Paul Farris

I am the mayor whether they like it or not.

Martin O'Malley

If any mayor reduced school funding by 33 percent and called it the 'Strengthening Our Schools Initiative,' I think they'd be excoriated.

Jerrold Nadler

I don't think she's pandering. She's saying what she believes. I don't think she's pandering any more than the mayor could be said to have been pandering when he said the same thing.

Alex Padilla

I find it weird that he lost. He has been mayor for a while.

Gillian Jacobs

Craig Robinson is basically the mayor of wherever he goes.

Rudy Giuliani

I can't be the Mayor of L.A. I hate the Dodgers. I'm a Yankee fan. Yankee fans can't ever root for the Dodgers.

Jim Cavanaugh

We need to know and we need to know now whether the mayor is in or whether the mayor is out,

John Boland

We've had conversations with the mayor for a room for veterans to meet and it's been very positive.

Gene Weingarten

The whole point of corporate mascots is to be distinctive. No one in his right mind would ever confuse the Hamburglar with Mayor McCheese.

Terry Stotts

They obviously made Mike a priority. They didn't give him any open looks.

Lesley Manville

When I make films, I work with Mike Leigh, who's the most prolific director in England.

Tom Arnold

That's funny, Mike Tice. Is that your joke?

Dan Rooney

Mike speaks up all the time. I don't see him taking any back seat.

Shaun Alexander

Mike said from the very beginning, that we are always going to be the 'other' team.

Derek Schulz

Mike plays with a lot of passion in everything he does. It showed tonight.

Floyd Burnsed

Mike Neville's become more of a pocket passer. He's making the right reads and the right throws. He's come a long way.

Sylvester Stallone

Mike made a mistake making 'Rocky' and unleashing me to the public,

Tatum Bell

Mike is still the starter, so obviously he's doing something that I am not,

Howard Fineman

I think in the end, we were fair. He was riding a wave that overtook him. I don't think that was our fault.

Laura Melisi

He couldn't get her out of his life. She wouldn't leave. She wanted everything, and he didn't know how to get rid of her because of her threats.

Nicole Scherzinger

We're on a wave, ... And we're going to ride it as long as we can.

Patrick Surtain

We told him to get out, but he wanted to ride it out. He was a little stubborn,

Walter Savage Landor

Ridicule has followed the vestiges of truth, but never usurped her place.

Kevin Mahaney

If you're going to ride a bike, the ultimate ride is the Tour,

Joey Graham

I'm not going to be nervous, it's just like riding a bike,

Michael Winter

The greatness of being an artist is the kind of ridiculous guffaw you can have at one's own misery. 'That was miserable! Now how can I write about it?'

Tracy Anderson

The trick this year is the '1080'. If you can't do that you won't get on the podium. Riders are airing much better.

Elizabeth Dole

Today I am not going to get into the specifics of the legislation.

Justin Vernon

I really have to be in a specific headspace to even begin to illuminate an idea that would create another Bon Iver record, and I'm just not there.

Bob Hamilton

We?re still proceeding at best-possible speed and we?re still trying to get the specifics on the street.

Michael Brown

Thanks for update. Anything specific I need to do or tweak?

Clara Shih

Technologies and specific vendors may come and go, but massive cultural transformations and new kinds of relationships? Those don't go away.

Robert Aitken

The Universal is always the same, the specifics are always different.

Michael Robinet

When the new vehicles arrive, you don't want too many of the old ones on the lot. I see this as a specific case, not a wide-ranging trend.

Shannon Edge

Even though you do not live in a specific area, you can come to any of the meetings.

Romany Malco

The Universe responds to specificity.

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

Mona Singh

It is about time that TV actors were paid as well as film stars.

John Shimkus

It is a bittersweet time for many of us to be here,

Jack Smith

It is a long season, we have a long time to get at them.

Lorrie Moore

I think women do write politically all the time. Margaret Atwood does; Doris Lessing does.

Scottish Proverb

What may be done at any time will be done at no time

Lorena Ochoa

There is going to be a time when they come my way.

Dudley Etheridge

He kind of turned it around for us.

Wayne Gretzky

A lot of times, I can turn and pass without even looking.

Brian Anderson

I have to go out there and turn some heads.

Dan Hinote

I made the hit, turned around and it was chaos. I still don't know what happened.

Roberto Hernandez

You can turn around and walk away with that one.

Tamra Strano

Once I turned in the packet, I didn't have another thought about it.

John Boland

It's NBC's turn to lag for a bit.

Meg Mallon

It turns out I've had this for a very long time,

Steve Olson

It turned out to be the right project.