Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Michael Lewis

There are enough books in the world. You want to write the ones that are good. The minute you write books because you need the income not because you think you have a good subject, you should just stop. There are sixty thousand books published in this country every year, and most of them are crap.

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.

William Shakespeare

And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

Rosecrans Baldwin

Bookstores don't exactly dot the American highway in the grand manner of Sbarros.

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.

James Dimon

Several of our trading books were on the wrong side of interest rates. It was a bunch of positions that didn't work out.

William Hazlitt

One would imagine that books were, like women, the worse for being old : that they open their leaves more cordially; that the spirit of enjoyment wears out with the spirit of novelty; and that after a certain age, it is high time to put them on the s

Shaun Alexander

My first day here, just like my first day at Alabama, I went and got the record books and looked it all up. It was like, 'OK, how hard is it going to be for me to get this thing?' I started setting goals to get them fast.

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.

Greek proverb

If you do not have brains you have legs.

Aristophanes

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

Charles Bukowski

there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too clever, I only let him out at night sometimes when everybody's asleep. I say, I know that you're there, so don't be sad. then I put him back, but he's singing a little in there, I haven't quite let him die and we sleep together like that with our secret pact and it's nice enough to make a man weep, but I don't weep, do you?

Daniel Kahneman

I don't try to be clever at all. The idea that I could see what no one else can is an illusion.

Bobby Robson

We haven't paid 25 million and 10 million and all the dazzling figures you see being banded about for strikers at the moment. We've been very clever and frugal in our dealings. He's not cheap, he's not for nothing, but we're very happy with the deal.

Thomas Huxley

No mistake is so commonly made by clever people as that of assuming a cause to be bad because the arguments of its supporters are, to a great extent, nonsensical

Thomas Sowell

You cannot take any people, of any color, and exempt them from the requirements of civilization - including work, behavioral standards, personal responsibility, and all the other basic things that the clever intelligentsia disdain - without ruinous consequences to them and to society at large.

Thomas Sowell

It may be expecting too much to expect most intellectuals to have common sense, when their whole life is based on their being uncommon -- that is, saying things that are different from what everyone else is saying. There is only so much genuine originality in anyone. After that, being uncommon means indulging in pointless eccentricities or clever attempts to mock or shock.

Robert Montgomery

My advice to you concerning applause is this: enjoy it but never quite believe it

Robert Harris

But clever people all make one mistake. They all think everyone else is stupid. And everyone isn't stupid. They just take a bit more time, that's all.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of one's own

Ayn Rand

A good quotation must be a complete entity. It must be like a headline - sharp, clear, whole.

Dan Lankheit

As I said, the head on this thing was unreal.

Robert Harris

I wasn't going to let it get in my head that I had missed a couple. I was going to keep shooting and relieve pressure off some of these guys.

Bethany Koch

We have one more step. We've been waiting for this game. We just have to realize this is it. Our season is going to be over by (next) Saturday, win or lose. We have to get our heads straight.

Deion Sanders

I like what I see. I think the league is heading in the proper direction.

Matt Young

I hit the wall with my head and shoulder and now my whole left side hurts.

Keith McCrimmon

I heard this one guy, faintly, 'help me.' I put my head down and looked and they say if you don't know what you're doing, don't touch nothing, so I didn't." ()

John Riggins

I really don't like saying this, but it's what I think and feel so I have to say it. I don't think Joe Gibbs is right yet. I think there's uncertainty in Joe Gibbs. I think that Joe Gibbs is somewhat pre-disposed, and that he's thinking about other things. I use the term psychologically splitting. He's there as the head coach, but he's really somewhere else.

Rhonda Johnson

Teachers are frustrated. They just don't know if they are going to be laid off or not. They'll find out when they come back from spring break.

Michael Quinn

I share the frustrations of everyone who was laid off. It was the last thing we wanted to do, but the money isn't there yet.

Bible Bible

And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was laid.

Jeff Roberts

We've got a master trail system that has ? laid down on a map ? hundreds of miles of what will someday be trails.

Scottie Somers

A wise man once told Me that an overnight success takes 10 years. But I may not have 10 Years. I might have to settle for a naptime success.

Edward Fitzgerald

Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! / That Youth's sweet-scented Manuscript should close!

Baltasar Gracian

At 20 a man is a peacock, at 30 a lion, at 40 a camel, at 50 a serpent, at 60 a dog, at 70 an ape, and at 80 nothing.

O. Singh

I am still the man of the series, and you still remember it.

Mark Twain

But when the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface

Stanley Asumnu

I faked my man and got around him. There was another man standing there but I just kind of went over him.

Bible Bible

If a man will not work, he shall not eat.

Joseph Addison

I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species

Antonio Machado

Man would be otherwise. That is the essence of the specifically human.

Don Haskins

I spent 18 months, off and on, with the script writer. I might as well have not spent one second with him.

Gordon Strachan

You might as well scrap offside now if you are not going to rule that offside.

Bret Harte

If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be!'

Pat Olmi

We might go over there and watch 'em. We can sit back and rest a little bit.

Ryan Ward

We might be related, but it's very distant.

E. B. White

And you can use the time as you want. You could say, 'I need you to go pick up a prescription for me,' and that might take up 15 minutes of your time allotment.

Jim Calhoun

This weekend might be like a root canal.

Les Miles

This team (LSU) might be the worst team to play if you're the next team,

Sam Perry

You do see that a lot. People being overly nice because they are worried you might think they are racist.

Otis Smith

You want me to tell you that moving Steve was big? I told you that when we moved him.

Adrian Beltre

Don't like them, ... I'm not comfortable with them. When you move, it moves around. I never wear one.

Anna Kendrick

When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society,' so we moved to New York for the run of that.

Janet Reno

Everyone working together has made a difference, but you can't say, 'Okay, now let's move on to something else,' ... We can never relax our vigilance about crime, about enforcement, about prevention ... there's going to be some new problem down the road.

Ron Carey

This victory sends a signal that American workers are on the move again.

Jay Wright

You get past that first one and now we are in the tournament. We've moved on and I think that makes them feel better, that they can just go play basketball.

Andrea Dworkin

Could women's liberation ever be a revolutionary movement, not rhetorically but on the ground?

Aldous Huxley

Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.

Dorothy L. Sayers

We cannot really look at the movement of the Spirit, just because It is the Power by which we do the looking.

Calvin Coolidge

There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer.

Dale Carnegie

Close your eyes. You might try saying. . . something like this: "The sun is shining overhead. The sky is blue and sparkling. Nature is calm and in control of the world-and I, as nature's child, am in tune with the Universe." Or-better still-pray!

E. B. White

"What's miraculous about a spider's web?" said Mrs. Arable. "I don't see why you say a web is a miracle--it's just a web." "Ever try to spin one?" asked Mr. Dorian.

E. B. White

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

Anne Bronte

A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.

Robert Frost

For hard it is to keep from being King When it's in you and in the situation.

Thomas Starr King

Nature is hieroglyphic. Each prominent fact in it is like a type; its final use is to set up one letter of the infinite alphabet, and help us by its connections to read some statement or statute applicable to the conscious world.

John Muir

The mountains are calling and I must go.

John Ruskin

Nature is always mysterious and secret in her use of means; and art is always likest her when it is most inexplicable.