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'.

Torii Hunter

I think about what his kids are going through more than anything. It's killing me right now. It's eating me up.

Ray Burrows

I'd be so happy to be sitting at my desk, eating a Pop-Tart and keying away, ... Nothing would please me more.

Robin Gibb

I love food, I love eating.

Sara Ramirez

Eating well is a lifelong priority.

Tyra Banks

When I am full, I stop eating.

Roselyn Sanchez

I stay healthy through eating well, working out - simply living a healthy lifestyle.

Rick Yancey

I would kill for a cheeseburger. Honestly. If I stumbled across someone eating a cheeseburger, I would kill them for it.

Trisha Yearwood

I'm like it's - it's like taking out whatever you have in your fridge and putting it in a bowl and eating it.

Sandra Cisneros

Instead of putting cheese with ranchero sauce, chile is really very good for you. If you put that in, you get flavoring, so you're not eating bland food, especially if you're used to spicy food.

Cam McLeay

Having listened to family, friends, and everyone else, without exception everyone encouraged us to continue.

Paul Vasconi

I have to admit, I wasn't encouraged at first.

Robert Towne

I'm excited and encouraged to see people getting involved with their public lands and forests. We really need the public's help to repair these heavily used recreation sites.

Joe Morford

The underlying trends look positive, and I'm encouraged by stability in the margin and strength in loan growth.

Karen Doering

The ultimate goal is to make sure that no other person has to experience this type of discrimination again. We're not encouraged the goal of the litigation is satisfied by these actions.

Princeton Lyman

You've got the general problem of poverty and lack of government capacity. In Africa, everyone is encouraged to privatize, but there is a very important role of the state, strengthening oversight and regulatory mechanisms as you open up the economy. We've gone far in one way, but not the other.

Bill Davis

Tom had encouraged me and been an inspiration to me.

Mike Riley

It's been a long time since he's competed, but I'm very encouraged by it. Marcel had a good feel for it from the minute he walked in here, and he still has it.

Marilyn Behrman

It's been nearly six years now since Jill disappeared. I'm very encouraged by the fact things are happening today.

Dinah Sheridan

They wanted Guy Middleton instead of Kenneth More, and even Kay Kendall wasn't their first choice!

Elizabeth Taylor

So much to do, so little done, such things to be.

Dinah Sheridan

While making Genevieve, I learned there could be a lot more to a film than just acting in it.

Rachel Ward

When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted really to be the kind of actress I became.

Dinah Sheridan

Well, I suppose that, in a sense, every screen role is a favourite with me.

Anna Friel

For Closer, we've had five weeks. You go into every single word because it's very, very concentrated dialogue.

Jenny Agutter

But John Landis wrote a good relationship which is really what the film's about. A very straightforward young woman who's very sure of herself and she meets a young man who needs some taking care of.

Jane Birkin

He painted me when I was young because he was in love with me, but now that he has loved me he doesn't paint me anymore.

Stephanie Beacham

To this day I will not be called Steph.

Jim Arthaud

(The county) being 50 percent federally owned already, we're opposed. This is the third time it has come up now, and we opposed it every time.

Chris Burke

The style of play will be to our advantage. They'll have to make the adjustments to us, as opposed to vice versa these two games.

Kate Winslet

I think heartbreak is something that you learn to live with as opposed to learn to forget.

Rand Paul

In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.

John Goglia

We need to look at that report to see what it says to see why people would be opposed to it.

Alison Sweeney

Working towards something you're excited about - as opposed to something that makes you feel badly about yourself - is what will keep you going back to the gym.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Gale Norton

I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.

Gary Sheffield

I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?

Sam Rockwell

I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.

Sam Worthington

I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

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.