Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Moody

writing about the classics is a really important exercise, because you really need to dig deep to do it

John Krasinski

I'm a huge classics fan. I love Ernest Hemingway and J.D. Salinger. I'm that guy who rereads a book before I read newer stuff, which is probably not all that progressive, and it's not really going to make me a better reader. I'm like, 'Oh, my God, you should read To Kill a Mockingbird.'

Robin Wright

Now that my kids are out of the house, I'm finally able to get to the classics I never read: Emily Bronte, Dylan Thomas, Joseph Heller's 'Catch-22.' It's endless. They're all in this gigantic pile next to my bed.

Johan Bruyneel

We were up there in the Classics and the Tour of Spain as well.

Lauren Tarshis

I had learning problems when I was in elementary school, and didn't really start to read well until high school. I never read any of the middle grade classics that were popular when I was young - 'Harriet the Spy', 'Charlotte's Web', 'The Witch of Blackbird Pond', 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'.

Trofim Lysenko

Darwin himself, in his day, was unable to fight free of the theoretical errors of which he was guilty. It was the classics of Marxism that revealed those errors and pointed them out.

Trofim Lysenko

The classics of Marxism, while fully appreciating the significance of the Darwinian theory, pointed out the errors of which Darwin was guilty. Darwin's theory, though unquestionably materialist in its main features, is not free from some serious errors.

Scott Rudin

Classics stay alive because a great actor or a great director wants to do them.

Aimee Bender

I developed a prejudice in high school that it was all going to be boring. That kind of teenage, why-do-I-have-to-read-these-goddamn-classics feeling. And then you discover that the classics are classics because they're lively. They don't stick around because they're boring. If they're boring, they go away.

David Bolland

Hopefully, we can get Dylan those two more points this weekend. It's not every year you have three guys on the same team with 100 points.

Anthony Wall

I haven't detected the slightest hint of Dylan intervening or even wishing to intervene in the way that Scorsese has made the film.

Aaron Bender

Dylan threw strikes and that made for a good outing.

Dean Cappel

Dylan has only played football for two years after transferring in from Minnesota. We were a little disappointed in that penalty. We weren't happy to start on our 10.

Jane Lawrence

In that time she got to graduate, go to her prom, and even went on a road trip with her friends before they went off to college. Emily just loves life.

Yvette Girouard

I have to give kudos to Emily because that kid has come a long way since she started. I always thought it would take until her junior or senior year until you could really see what kind of pitcher she is. She's always had all the talent in the world and now she's getting the mental aspect.

Bob Horen

The nominees for the Olympic team are Emily Hughes ...

Emily Campbell

The swimming was really fun and a new experience. I got to go to Universal Studios and a big mall. Emily Schwab (friend from Wisconsin) was there and a lot of my other friends on other teams.

Mal Peet

When I'm working, I always read stuff that's as far away from what I'm working on as possible, so I'll read American crime fiction at bedtime, or Emily Dickinson.

Mike Caldwell

Emily Taylor ran well at No. 2, and Kayla Erwin did really well for us. That's what we're going to need from those two.

Gregg Williams

Emily set the table for us by getting on base. That inning was huge for us. The last five games we're been playing behind. That puts a lot of pressure on the pitching and defense.

Mike McCain

Emily pitched well for us today. It's always tough to throw back-to-back games. It was even harder with it the 95-degree weather. We just have to make the plays in the field.

Becky Carlson

Emily Middleton had some nice shots. They all did a good job of stepping up when we needed something.

Matthias Platzeck

I will do everything to pay back this gigantic offering of confidence.

Mike Judge

I've got a huge, gigantic deal. We're talking about huge deals.

Sharon Stone

We've got 400,000 girls with beach-y blonde hair, the same nose, gigantic lips, implants in their cheeks, and little Chicklets for teeth. Are they really prettier?

David Friedman

For Hunchback, we needed this live, gigantic choir. So we went to London and said, This is Disney! I need singers who can sing high D's, hold them for 18 seconds, and do it 60 times!

William Ernest Henley

Balzac's ambition was to be omnipotent. He would be Michelangelesque, and that by sheer force of minuteness. He exaggerated scientifically, and made things gigantic by a microscopic fulness of detail.

Tom Riley

What you don't get necessarily at drama school is a gigantic mix of people. At university, there's people from every social background, and you get to go through that period of being naive and not quite sure who you're going to be.

Bill Clarke

You didn't realize how gigantic these things were. Wow!

Andrew Motion

Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there's been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived... Poems on the Underground, poets in schools, football clubs, zoos.

Scott Taylor

It isn't like Joseph needs to program stuff that's really controversial,

Bible Bible

And Joseph and his mother marvelled at those things which were spoken of him.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

The Prophet Joseph Smith lived in troubled times.

Kelly Shackelford

Kids are being told they can't mention God.

Andy Schulz

Kids were making plays all over the place. They refused to lose. We refused to lose. Time just ran out. Fortunately, we were ahead.

Lionel Anderson

Kids walking to school are getting offered rides, players are getting let in line at the cafeteria, people are doing little things to show support. It's really great.

Linda Jones

Kids today need to know that people think they're special. Each day and each thing that they do is so precious.

R. L. Stine

Kids think you just sit down and start writing. I always tell them you never do that.

Lisa Murray

Kids saw their town from a different perspective, through the lens of a camera.

John Lawrence

Kids need to try different things. They're making us do this and we shouldn't be doing this. There is no reason.

Patty Murray

Kids need something in this town to do,

Vicky Rideout

I would suggest that parents want to probably take a look at how much time their kids are spending with media and how much time their kids are spending in other activities,

Monica Crowley

Just when you think you've heard it all from Team Obama, the next day brings another jaw-dropper.

Meredith Ostrom

John Casablancas was saying, 'You will be the next Claudia Schiffer!' But I said, 'Actually, I have to go to college.'

Stephen Colbert

All I can do is today and tomorrow and have some idea of what we're doing next week. That's all I can worry about.

Erin Dethloff

Having a season-best performance before the Big 12 (conference meet) is really huge. We are just going to keep practicing next week.

Nick Price

He's a little older than me and out of respect he should be the next one to be asked,

Ted Ligety

I think it's kind of stupid to make him do it if he isn't going to be in the next run.

Carl Poston

It could be (today), it could be next week. It's all up to him.

Ken Warwick

When they go to school the next day, it's become the show to watch, and if they haven't seen it, they've got a problem.

Elliott Sadler

I actually am pretty pumped up for the next nine races.

Antony Beevor

In my library/study/barn, there is a Ping-Pong table on which I can pile working books and spread maps.

James Smith

It's a pile of rubble now. It's down and gone.

John Schuerholz

There's a lot of it still on the table. Big piles of it.

Mike Hanson

We did 18 piles yesterday and will keep going today. We plan to be there until Friday.

Michael Robinet

Toyota is sitting on a pile of money.