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'.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

There are so many high school students who are not interested in going to a four-year college to be a doctor or lawyer but who want to learn a trade,

Mitch Ashmore

God loves baseball. It's not a real big deal. The colleges and pros they all play on Sundays.

Elizabeth Davis

When I am finished college, I am moving to another state where tax dollars are well spent, ... In the meantime, I will be sure to vote for ..people who will recognize true problems in our state such as our poor education system and high property taxes, not how many more thousands of dollars they can pocket for nothing.

F. Stone

I thought the whole world was like Midland College in those 10 years, and when I left I found out the rest of the world wasn't like that at all.

Thad Schultz

I thought she could go in and be a fine college swimmer. Her future is right in front of her.

Tony Skinn

I think we've done something tremendous for college basketball. We showed that all you need is opportunity, a chance. Then you just go out there and play great basketball. I'm definitely happy I was a part of something special.

Herman Edwards

I think what's going to help him, he's in with the first group, ... That's always settling for a quarterback, rather than playing with some guys that were probably some good high school, college players, and won't make your team. He had to do that for three years, survived it. Now he's going in with our first group.

Tommy Tuberville

I think Brandon Cox is going to be a heck of a college quarterback. He's going to make a name for himself.

David DeJesus

I think being in the spotlight all year with a college team helped him.

Grant Billmeier

Kelly and Donald really set the tone. We wanted to do everything possible to get this one for them. For four years, they've done everything they could to help the program.

James Hyde

I played off of minimalism: Donald Judd, Carl Andre. But their work is about the power of industry. Mine makes it domestic.

Sue Young

I have forgiven Donald Miller, ... I don't live my life hating him. But I hate what he did.

Chris Ender

The Donald is always good for a chuckle. But we're not going to engage in such banter.

Bill Rancic

Donald Trump has taken me under his wing,

Toby Britt

I've always been outgoing, and I can talk like Donald Duck.

Jay Rockefeller

I've been in touch with his family, and I've already written (Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld) to request that they immediately refund his money and review this horrendous policy. I'm shocked that he has been treated this way by our military.

Kirk Kerkorian

I wish I could talk like Donald Trump or Steve Wynn. Hell, I'd love it.

Sinbad

Who the heck is Donald Trump to fire me? I regret I didn't tell Donald Trump, 'You need to fire your barber. I'm sorry. I ain't feeling you, man. You're fired! I fire you, Donald Trump.'

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

Alden Ehrenreich

I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always know whether I want to do something or not. The character is important to me, as is getting to work with people that I feel like I can learn from and make a great movie with.

Chuck D.

Joey wrestled a great tournament, and we don't want him to get lost in the shuffle. He was solid all weekend.

Tim Ehresman

Joe was great tonight. He did things tonight he's been practicing all year. Come heck or high water, he was going to make it (to the regional tournament) again.

Ike Turner

Joe Louis is a great artist. He kind of helped me somewhat getting back to the blues.

Fay Vincent

John is the hero. He did a great job. Now Rose admits John was correct.

Mitchel McLaughlin

John Hume has, I think, demonstrated great sensitivity and judgment throughout this peace process. And I think it's hard to imagine a more inappropriate moment to make that suggestion.

Donnie Henderson

I think it's a great opportunity. You always want to hear your name, and now a team has actually called. It's exciting.

Richelle Mead

I stared. "Canadian Satanists? You're sending me to a group of Canadian Satanists?

Reinhold Niebuhr

As racial, economic and national groups, they take for themselves, whatever their power can command.

Alain Vigneault

I know this group and they've got to be looking at the standings. You've got to be motivated and sharp to play these games. I think we're going to be fine.

Teresa Jones

I know that we did lose some very talented players from last year's team, a group that had played together for a long time. (But) when you're on the outside looking in, you see things differently.

Dave McCoy

I knew this was a special group when I had them in junior high. And they've proven to be that." ()

Wayne Gretzky

I like how hard this team played (on the trip) and how unselfish it was. . . . We're playing as a group and that's most important. The outcomes have been better because we're playing better as a group.

Alan Trammell

I'm going to be flat-out: When we started the season, we thought we had a group that we were going to be able to grow and work with and try to get better,

John McCormack

The first group of songs which I give, on any program, are songs which I sing to please myself. They represent my musical taste.

Dan Caldwell

The group we met with seemed very interested.

Kevin Johnson

Being selected Most Improved was a special individual award because when I speak to young people I always try to tell them the importance about it's not where you start but where you end up.

Andrew Chesley

That's No. 1. It's probably impossible to overstate the importance of getting the Measure K renewal program.

Thomas John Barnardo

Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is of more importance than the highest.

Herbie Hancock

Tradition can be negative though, if the importance of having roots outweighs the importance of searching for what's valuable in new things being presented.

Harold Phillips

Everyone understands the importance of this park to the facility.

LL Cool

To he who much is given, much is required. That's the importance of this day,

Joseph Bruchac

The Trail of Tears should teach all of us the importance of respect for others who are different from ourselves and compassion for those who have difficulties.

Andrew Luck

Whether I'm on or off the field, I know the importance of getting enough sleep and starting the day with a wholesome breakfast like oatmeal made with milk and fruit.

Maria Cantwell

We'll make our voices heard loud and clear on the importance of cost-based power.

Tony Buzan

In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four books of my poems.

Jose Marti

Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests.

Jose Bergamin

The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.

Jonathan Swift

From not the gravest of Divines, Accept for once some serious Lines.

Hartley Coleridge

A bard whom there were none to praise, And very few to read.

Henry David Thoreau

My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.

James Russell Lowell

It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland.

George Farquhar

Poetry's a mere drug, Sir.

Ogden Nash

Poets arent very usefulBecause they aren't consumeful or produceful..

Meg Rosoff

The more you live, the better writer you are.

John Dos Passos

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Brian K. Vaughan

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

Charlaine Harris

Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.

Sara Sheridan

Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre.

Eleanor Catton

I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children.

John Irving

I sometimes think that what I do as a writer is make a kind of colouring book, where all the lines are there, and then you put in the colour.