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'.

Sandra Smith

He was a leader, he wasn't a follower. The boys are really having a hard time. Every last one of the kids is having a hard time because they really looked up to Jeffrey.

Frankie Dettori

He could win it and go on why not? He's done nothing wrong. He just lacks experience. He's got to tackle the big boys sooner or later, so Saturday should be a good test for him.

Simon Fuller

S Club 7, in some ways, was a continuation of some of the things I'd have liked to have done with the Spice Girls. It was also a shift in tone. S Club was this equality of boys and girls, very positive, very uplifting, didn't have the edge of the Spice Girls. I didn't want to repeat it.

Maura O'Connor

Hockey has always been a big deal here with the boys program. But people are starting to realize what we're doing. That's good, because we really do have a good team.

Dan Hoffa

I thought we really stepped up in the fourth quarter on defense, otherwise we struggled the other three quarters. Offensively I was very pleased with what the boys did. They just seem to step up when they need to and that is something we've been doing all season. This was a good team win and I'm proud of them.

Dean Tower

I thought we'd get a bunch but we only had four for most of last year. This will be the first time we haven't had a boys team. I don't know why they're not coming out for the sport.

Colin Clarke

I thought the boys were magnificent, ... They come to compete, they come to play from the first whistle. . . . We're a good league, a strong league with a lot of good players.

John Worsfold

I think we kicked 4.6 in the third quarter, and seven points straight in the last - but the boys were pretty tired so I am going to take that into account, certainly in the last quarter.

Corey Parish

I think we played a great game. Even though we were scoreless in the second quarter the boys didn't quit.

Jason Statham

I was like, 'Well, we'd think he'd be useless around kids,' ... But I think he finds himself more comfortable around children than he realizes.

Kerry Nelson

Kids at the children's shelter are coming out there and getting a lot of one-on-one because there are so few children out there. The reading program out there is really helping these kids a lot.

Britt Ekland

I would teach U.K. parents how to stop their children throwing litter. London is a beautiful city but its streets are disgusting.

John Romano

Keeping an elderly couple in their home for another 10 to 15 years makes good financial sense. If they stay in their home, their cost to the town is minimal compared to the family with four children that would replace them.

Tony Buzan

All children are much more intelligent than they are told they are or the school thinks they are; they just have different intelligences.

Sugata Mitra

It would be better, in a way, if any adults present were completely uneducated. There is nothing children like more than passing on information they have just discovered to people who may not already have it - an elderly grandmother, for instance.

Sugata Mitra

In most schools, we measure children on what they know. By and large, they have to memorize the content of whatever test is coming up. Because measuring the results of rote learning is easy, rote prevails. What kids know is just not important in comparison with whether they can think.

Sugata Mitra

If children know there is someone standing over them who knows all the answers, they are less inclined to find the answers for themselves.

Ann Veneman

There are still too few helicopters to reach more than 1,000 remote villages with lifesaving supplies that children urgently need.

Tom Renney

Just something we have to deal with internally as a team when it comes to penalties.

Joe Torre

He deals with the stress and pressure very well,

Steve Atkins

He deals with it well, and it makes things run that much more smoothly. He's also very forthright. He knows how he feels and tells you how he feels and that makes the process of governance that much easier.

Seth Shostak

Here's a news flash: scientists can be wrong. That's no big deal (unless the scientist is you), since research is self-correcting. Consequently, most errors by scientists become historical curiosities, with little long-term importance.

Maria Rodriguez

What we want is the deal they promised us -- if we paid them, we were covered.

John Jay

Having them being released is a good thing. People make a big deal about it because it's an unknown.

Deborah Silverman

had a great deal of success with this program. We've set a number of sales records in the past few months, and we thought it was important to extend for the month of September.

Rebecca Loos

He's a stranger to me now. He looks very different to how I knew him. And the way he dealt with the whole thing. He's just a very different man.

Albert Smith

It is a good deal better to be seventy-nine years young than it is to be fifty years old

Martha Stewart

It could be a lifestyle suite devoted to exercise or to love...but you have to have a vision.

Cindy Heuer

He spent a lot of years devoted to his family. There was never a break.

Matt Ridley

I'm perfectly happy to eat organic food, but if I choose to pay more for it, I don't pat myself on the back ethically. Quite the reverse. I think I'm actually being quite greedy, because what I'm doing is essentially saying, 'I want more land to be devoted to growing my food.'

Katherine Webb

Of course, I love football, but I'm not one of those die-hard fans that never miss a game or with rooms devoted to team colors. At the end of the day, it's just a game.

Thomas Wilson

Shawn was a very devoted man and husband who went about doing his duty in a very quiet, humble way,

Bill Sadler

They do hear voices underneath the (pea-sized) gravel and they're trying to devote their efforts ... to extricate any persons who may still be alive.

Anthony Rapp

The number of people who said that it made a difference to them that I'm out is the reason that I'm out. There are people who devote their lives to taking away the rights of gays and lesbians, and I think that visibility is very important. I'm trying to encourage more people to come out, and show everyone who they are, because it's harder to take away the rights of a human being. And this is a miracle state, because we can get married. And I think that these people working to take away our rights are going to lose, because of this generation.

Lesley Manville

I have been devoted to my son, and there have been lots of jobs in the past that I haven't done because I didn't want to be away from him.

Larry Peterson

As he has done before when he's been president, he will do an excellent job. He's been devoted to the port and to the things we're trying to accomplish.

Andrea Dean

They looked over the roster and matched up the females on the roster with the information given in the tip.

Joe Moore

Knowing what they have to pay for the next four years would be a luxury for their budgeting.

Ricky Woods

I wouldn't be surprised if we don't (make up) this game. They might not have school down there for three or four weeks.

Greg Graham

He's a four man (power forward) that can go inside or outside. He's a very good athlete.

Lenny Bernstein

Going into the tournament, we recognized the considerable parity of the top four teams in the conference. So, we looked at it in terms of if we do really well, we could take the whole thing. And on the other hand, if we do really poorly, we could be fourth.

Jim Swift

Good grief! You realize I'm going to be 60 in four years? What's a matter with you?

John Hogan

He's a little insecure right now about what he's doing, but I don't think he has reason for it. In the four years we've been using him he's grown immensely, but he still maintains great quality.

Preston Clark

He's got 'em all, four pitches. And nobody really hits him hard.

Breakfast tiffany's

Holly: It takes four seconds to get to that door... I'll give you two!

Joe Foust

He's as strong as I've seen him through four years of running. I'm optimistic and happy with where he's at.

Jim Sheehan

This was a good win. I am really pleased the girls played as well as they did.

Javier Ramirez

What we worked on this summer was our vertical. I don't have great size. But these girls can get off the ground.

Julie Klausner

Here is how you meet women: You tell the girls you are friends with - the ones in relationships - that you want a girlfriend. You shouldn't even have to say 'Set me up' or 'Introduce me!' If they're good girls, they'll get the hint.

Todd Borrison

I thought when their guards penetrated and got good shots, our big girls made the shots tough one them and that made the big difference.

Dallas Richter

We surprised a lot of people. It's starting to sink in with the girls and the community. The town is abuzz.

Andy Scott

We threw it into high gear. The girls played with passion.

James Avery

When I picked up those little girls that drowned, all I could think about was my grandbabies.

Kevin Edwards

I thought the girls played with a lot of heart tonight,

Kris Kleeman

I thought the girls played well tonight. We didn't handle the pressure as well as I would have liked, but they played well.

Mark Rowen

Their model has a lot of hurdles that they need to leap to get it to work.

Bill Warlick

It looks like the last hurdles are something they can get over here.

Joe Girardi

Those are little hurdles you have to get over. Sometimes you have to learn to pitch with a lead, even if it's a slight lead.

Tony Oller

I've learned the truth in these sayings: 'Luck is when opportunity meets preparation' and 'The right project will find you'.

Pat Hill

He said, 'I think you can learn from others,'

Dick Jauron

What I learned is you better win. When you win, you're pretty smart. When you don't, you're not.

Dave Fullerton

I think what I am learning is to listen to my body.

Harry Campbell

I went from summer school to merit roll. I learned that the more you do in school, the better you will be in life.

Lauren Hutton

I was making $50 a week as a house model at Christian Dior for nine months before I learned that photographic models made $50 an hour!

Matisyahu

Every record I do is a learning process for how I want to do the next one.

Ernie Grunfeld

He was in the wrong place at the wrong time. He'll learn from it.

Shawn Olsen

I didn't come out pitching like I should have. I wasn't really myself. We'll learn a lot from these losses.

Plato

The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life.

Gerald Johnson

I think we'll pull through this, ... Real Men Pray Everyday.

Jane Fonda

I was a chameleon, the woman men wanted me to be.

Raquel Cassidy

I went to see 'Men In Black 2.' It was just a commodity, just money being shifted.

William Wilberforce

Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, and then go straight forward.

William Wilberforce

Men of authority and influence may promote good morals. Let them in their several stations encourage virtue. Let them favor and take part in any plans which may be formed for the advancement of morality.

William Wilberforce

Sulky labor, and the labor of sorrow are little worth: if you could only shed tranquility over the conscience and infuse joy into the soul, you would do more to make the man a thorough worker than if you could lend him the force of Hercules, or the hundred arms of Briareus.

Allan Carr

I'm just generally hugely frustrated, I'm a very, very frustrated man. I'm just a ball of pent-up frustration.

Abbott L. Lowell

There's a Harvard man on the wrong side of every question.

David Clark

It's unfair to the students, because they don't know what they can do to get themselves expelled.

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

Matt Berninger

I watched R.E.M. connect with the back row of a 50,000-seat venue.

Johnny Damon

It's going to be a very watched weekend.

Cristela Alonzo

I couldn't afford therapy, so I just watched 'Frasier.' Season 4 was a breakthrough.

Jane Elliot

My guilty pleasure is 'Revenge.' I've watched it from the very first episode.

Sergei Lavrov

Everything will be watched during the New Year's.

Daniela Bobadilla

While I was doing 'Desperate Housewives,' I actually watched it from the beginning.

Billy Laird

We watched film and had a workout in the weight room. I don't like to do it, but we're going to have to do it two more times.

David Edwards

I watched my daddy play that guitar, and whenever I could, I would pick it up and strum on it.

Gary Johnson

I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.

Richard Whately

Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.

Woody Allen

See, I will always have this penchant for what I call kamikaze women. I call them kamikazes because they, you know they crash their plane, they're self-destructive. But they crash into you, and you die along with them.

Vanessa Bayer

Sometimes the funniest people don't know that they're funny - like the administrators in my high school.

Robin Hobb

A woman of many talents. And intelligent, too. He'd probably have to kill her soon.

Robert Smith

B is for Breasts Of which ladies have two; Once prized for the function, Now for the view.

Samuel Johnson

If we require more perfection from women than from ourselves, it is doing them honor.

Samuel Johnson

Ladies, stock and tend your hive, Trifle not at thirty-five; For, howe'er we boast and strive, Life declines from thirty-five; He that ever hopes to thrive Must begin by thirty-five.

Warren Beatty

Women are a problem, but if you haven't already guessed, they are the kind of problem I enjoy wrestling with.

Virginia Woolf

Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have never shaken an empire or led an army into battle. The plays by Shakespeare are not by you, and you have never introduced a barbarous race to the blessings of civilization. What is your excuse?