Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brad Gushue

There will either be a lot a lot of sick days or a lot of TVs in offices. In Newfoundland, nothing has ever come close to this.

Lynn Johnston

Yes, and when I had Aaron, he left me, and I didn't know how to raise a child. And I wasn't close to my parents, and because I was too proud to go to my parents for help, I mistreated that little baby. I didn't want a baby.

Mark Morris

We didn't know we had such a good example so close by.

Lisa Stuckey

We're taking a very close look at who our dropouts are, to see if there are common trends or characteristics so we can better predict who might drop out, and provide the support they need.

Krist Novoselic

We all live in Seattle, and this is a close music community. We just, Peter and I met each other about 7 years ago. I'd stay at his house in Athens.

Eldon Hoy

We all knew coming into the season that the league was wide open. We stepped up in the fourth quarter of many games and won some very close games.

Lorenzo Williams

Tonight we just wanted to handle the situation and close the game out.

Kenneth Dotson

To see that this close to the game is very rare.

Hunter Rawlings

To me, he is a representative of what we are trying to accomplish, namely, to have a very close intellectual association with China.

Bella Thorne

I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well.

Neil Gaiman

I like reading. I prefer not reading on my computer, because that makes whatever I am reading feel like work. I do not mind reading on my iPad.

John Taylor Gatto

Close reading of tough-minded writing is still the best, cheapest, and quickest method known for learning to think for yourself... Reading, and rigorous discussion of that reading in a way that obliges you to formulate a position and support it against objections, is an operational definition of education... reading, analysis, and discussion is the way we develop reliable judgment, the principle way we come to penetrate covert movements behind the facade of public appearances.

Nora Ephron

Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. ... Reading is bliss.

Nasser Hussain

Graeme Smith is capable of reading other people's heads.

Mason Cooley

If you do not throw in a few promises of better things to come, gloomy one, I am going to take you back to the library.

Mason Cooley

Reading gives you some place to go when you have to stay where you are.

Margaret Mahy

Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act.

Jerome K. Jerome

I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck.

Jenny Slate

I just left wishing that it was longer because I enjoyed it so thoroughly.

Ernest Hemingway

I wish I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.

George Washington

[M]y wish is, that the Convention may adopt no temporizing expedient, but probe the defects of the Constitution [i.e., the Articles of Confederation] to the bottom, and provide radical cures.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

We do not understand that life is paradise, for it suffices only to wish to understand it, and at once paradise will appear in front of us in its beauty.

Cassandra Clare

Alec keeps sending me annoying photos. Lots of captions like Wish you were here, except not really.

Gary Player

I wish I could put a patent on that thing. That was so straight I had to lean over sideways to see the flag!

Gary Oldman

If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would've liked to have been John Lennon.

Franz Wright

I wish you all the aloneness you hunger for.

Christine Baranski

I wish I didn't have to live up to anything.