Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Sophie Hannah

Agatha Christie's writing is incredibly skillful because her books are incredibly intellectually puzzling and challenging.

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

Corey Dillon

I think it's a great move for me, a great move for the organization, ... I'm just happy to be a New England Patriot.

Edmund White

I always feel I'm better known in England than I am here in the U.S. Americans don't read that much, and the French are very good at knowing the names of everybody.

Luiz Scolari

I think the England team has evolved, they're much better than at the World Cup,

David Givens

I was willing to give Houston a hometown discount. I would have stayed in New England if they'd given me an offer I couldn't refuse. They didn't.

Terry Edwards

I am expecting six medals and hoping for eight. Our Sport England target is eight, which is very stiff indeed but it is up to us to rise to the challenge.

Heather Mills

I love England but everything that has happened makes me realise that I would be better off in the States.

James Frain

X-Files wasnt a big show in England.

Steven Gerrard

was something for the England manager to consider, not me.

Ira Robbins

Everyone in England saw something they'd never seen. It was a totally different world.

Kelly Osbourne

They are the only people in the world who I can truly trust and rely on. Touring gets really lonely. I guess I have friends around me but when you're paying them can they ever really be true friends?

Graham Nelson

By the new year of 1994, it had grown up into Inform 4 and could produce games twice as large.

Thomas Sydenham

I watched what method Nature might take, with intention of subduing the symptom by treading in her footsteps.

Thomas Malory

For love that time was not as love is nowadays.

Muriel Spark

All my pupils are the creme de la creme. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine for life.

Andrew Wiles

Here was a problem, that I, a ten year old, could understand and I knew from that moment that I would never let it go. I had to solve it.

Joss Stone

For me, personally, Mind, Body and Soul is my real debut.

Daniel Kim

His pronunciation was fantastic. I was going around, saying maybe he should be the one speaking Korean and I'll speak English and say, 'Dude,' a lot.

Charlotte Curtis

His venture sounds like a banana peel awaiting its victim.

Mike Ford

Recently, the news has been filled with big jackpots and winners. Wouldn't you love to be part of the winning?

Ray Brown

They did a great job of scheming. I was surprised at some of the looks we got. They filled (the gaps) a different way with their linebackers that we didn't anticipate. I don't think we did a good job of adjusting.

Haruki Murakami

It's a terrible thing when a person dies, whatever the circumstances. A hole opens up in the world, and we need to pay the proper respects. If we don't, the hole will never be filled in again.

Corey Miller

It's filled with water from the Hudson River, and we have to shake it up.

Sam Allardyce

They (Senegal) filled him with pain killers to get him to play and we might have to pay the price.

Paddy Harrington

The year was filled with such wonderful highs and then such terrible lows. It was very difficult.

Mark Harmsen

There will be canyons of people grandstands filled with spectators watching them.

Gary Dunn

We always have a lot of new guys come out for the team, but the new guys have a lot of potential. Before, we just had people who filled the spots.

Mark Wigley

We have to get past the standardized image. It didn't include any of the poor people - any of those neighborhoods that we only know now because they're filled with water.

Jim Gallagher

They imposed on it unilaterally and said we had to do it. Well, that violates our contract.

Malcolm X

For me, my 'X' replaced the white slave master name of 'Little' which some blue-eyed devil named Little had imposed on my parental forebears.

Vladimir Putin

The United States has overstepped its borders in all spheres - economic, political and humanitarian - and has imposed itself on other states.

Leos Carax

I've always been interested in invisible worlds, and I like to visit digital worlds, you know, any world that's imposed on us.

Michael Walden

Right now, the sales tax is imposed only on goods, and not services. At the retail level, people are starting to spend more on services than on goods.

Adrienne Shelly

Theater represents to me this phenomenon in juxtaposition to real life, where there are all these imposed guidelines.

Frederick M. Vinson

There is a vast difference - a constitutional difference-between restrictions imposed by the state which prohibit the intellectual commingling of students, and the refusal of individuals to commingle where the state presents no such bar.

Roger Toussaint

We're not talking about a new strike. We're saying that we want a negotiated settlement, not one imposed through arbitration.

Walid Jumblatt

There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect.

Bill Freeman

Just patriotism, ... No matter what went down, we were supporting our own nation and land.

David Eckstein

Just stepping to the plate, just understanding it's you vs. him, that's all that really mattered at that point.

Greg Puhalski

He didn't play too badly. It's just a matter of getting a little rust off.

Doug Miller

He comes up with a lot of big plays no matter where you put him.

Sally Field

The only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.

Sloane Crosley

Going to a museum is one of those inexplicably tiring things. You're not actually doing anything, more shifting your weight from room to room than walking. And yet it is one of the more tiring things one can do, no matter how thrilled you are by the exhibits.

Brian Beckwith

His success is all to him. It's all a matter of how he thinks each night and how he prepares for each game.

Dave Duncan

His stuff is there, it's just going to be a matter of time. He'll get into the swing of things.

Arlen Specter

I think it's more a matter for them than us because we've got ... a lot of matters which take precedence over this for our own time,

Leslie Moonves

God, it seemed like we had shot somebody.

Mark Kantor

He said he was getting a new job. Everything seemed to be going fantastic.

Robyn Robichaux

He seemed like his usual self, ... Same as he always was.

Hope Schulte

I don't know what was going on. It just seemed like everything was just going in for me. I just did what I usually do, and (the shots) just seemed to fall.

The Sense

It's how me and my friends talk to each other. It seemed very real and very natural.

Larry Long

It just seemed very suspicious that he would be doing that activity.

Louise Hall

It just seemed appropriate that I got it back on this day.

Steve Kerr

It seemed like they were disregarding the pass,

Mark Andrews

It walked around and seemed like she was OK.