Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gail Carriger

I get really flowery and verbose in my adult books, but I don't think I dumb down my Y.A. It's just cleaner and more snappy. And the adult books have multiple points-of-view. In my Y.A., it's always third person from the main character's perspective.

Gail Carriger

As for genre, my adult books are usually filed under science fiction / fantasy, although some stores put them into romance, and few have stuck them into horror. I consider all my books a mix of steampunk and urban fantasy.

Bruce Coville

In terms of age, I think I've covered about as wide a range as is possible, having written everything from picture books to early chapter books to middle grade novels to YA to one adult novel - and having been editor and lead writer for a magazine for retired people!

Bill Hader

If I get a chance to write a comic book or do a voice in an Adult Swim show, I do it. It's much more fulfilling to me and I get to work with people who I'm a fan of.

John Boyne

I move between the two: I write an adult novel, and then I write a children's book. I quite enjoy that. It's a nice change of pace each time.

Bertrand Russell

The sentiments of an adult are compounded of a kernal of instinct surrounded by a vast husk of education.

Stephanie Hall

The adult witness is believed to be a staff member, not a teacher.

Judith Paice

The adult patients are able to express their fears, their emotions, their concerns, their wishes and their dreams in another manner.

Jill Krutick

The adult market might have more longevity, as they go after watches and cellular phones, lots of different things, when the video comes out that will certainly reinvent that wheel all over again too.

Yael Stone

I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.

Todd Rundgren

I never thought a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland or anywhere else was a good idea.

Ivan Allen

Atlanta? I think it's the greatest city anywhere I know of.

Ismail Kadare

We cannot deny that 80 or even 90 percent of the spiritual treasures from the past 3,000 years have come from Europe. There is no other Greek theatre anywhere else in the world. There is no other Shakespeare, Dante or Cervantes.

Gail Tsukiyama

During the day, if I don't have any other commitments, I'm usually at my desk writing, revising, or researching anywhere from four to six hours.

William Fichtner

I have no problem having any actor from anywhere play a role. I'm excited for any actor that gets a job, I truly am. Even if it's a role that I'm up for and I don't get it, I never begrudge any actor having it work out for them.

Yann Martel

I'm happy pretty well anywhere on this big, beautiful planet.

Esme Bianco

You can't get anywhere in life without taking risks.

Phil Gee

The pilot was taken off-duty. He certainly didn't go anywhere near an aircraft.

Graham Kavanagh

That was the impressive thing, that Joe took to the first team like a duck to water,

Connie Kalter

I thought I was just in higher water. I knew I wasn't in the road when I saw the duck swim by.

Darin Shepardson

We didn't run well at home in our last meet, so improving on that is a first step. If we don't get our ducks in order Saturday, we'll get schooled.

Bob Sullivan

If it walks and quacks like a duck, it's a duck and hopefully the duck won't have oil all over its wings.

Caitlin Kittredge

How can you be dour when you have a tiny duck?

Alan Sugar

My history of lending money from banks is that they want to know the ins and outs of the backside of a duck.

Charles Rangel

For a member to say, 'I'm a lame duck' violates political science 101.

Henry Samueli

For me, it's just a pleasure to be out in the community wearing my Ducks logo on shirts and hats and so forth in representing the team.

Bill Maher

Disneyland's a mess. And it's not just the measles. Donald Duck has bird flu. Pocahontas has small pox. The Little Mermaid has crabs. And the Monorail? Mono.

Rebecca Solnit

To say that everything without exception is going straight to hell is not an alternative vision but only an inversion of the mainstream's 'everything's fine.'

Mark Zuckerberg

Our role is to be a platform for making all of these apps more social, and it's kind of an extension of what we see happening on the web, with the exception of mobile, which I think will be even more important than the web in a few years - maybe even sooner.

Vinod Thomas

We have more scientific know-how today than we did before. We know the vulnerability; we know the hot spots. But prevention is far more the exception than the norm.

Max Gartner

With the exception of women's slalom, I think we have a medal shot in every event.

Harley Dale

With the exception of Sydney, which is still very weak, there is no feeling that a substantial pull-back is in the offing for the housing industry over the next 12 months.

Toye Taylor

With the exception of one or two people, all (32) are new people to participate (in government). There is a new excitement and a new momentum for Washington Parish.

Chris Curry

With the exception of one of our recent losses, we've been playing some solid volleyball. Hopefully, we'll keep this going.

Jerry Schartner

With the exception of North, there wasn't any place where we didn't have to do a lot of scouting.

Wendy Roberts

With the exception of a little plateau here or there, they have pretty much gone up steadily

Bertrand Russell

Civilized life, if it is to be stable, must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in hunting. In Australia, where people are few, and rabbits are many, I watched the whole populace satisfying the primitive impulse in the primitive manner by the skilful slaughter of many thousands of rabbits.

Bertrand Russell

Civilized life has altogether grown too tame, and, if it is to be stable, it must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in hunting.

Chris Carter

Hunting whales is like hunting tigers (or) gorillas. New Zealanders regard it as unjustifiable,

Joe Lewandowski

Hunting revenue is not growing. It's pretty much staying flat.

Billy Baldwin

If they really want to make some changes, then it's treatment that we're looking at. Not witch hunting on the industry.

Bill Gottschalk

I don't have time to fish. I take my time off in the hunting season.

Ed Asner

The treasure shouldn't do the hunting, and you're a treasure.

Mike Hayhurst

We're still struggling to get things right. We're still moving people around and still hunting for the right player at the right position.

Charles M. Schwab

The captains of industry are not hunting money. America is heavy with it. They are seeking brains - specialized brains - and faithful, loyal service. Brains are needed to carry out the plans of those who furnish the capital.

Imelda May

I was one of those annoying kids that loves singing and entertaining.

Gwen Moore

We cannot allow our kids not to have an educational opportunity.

Gail Carson Levine

Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.

Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange

One has to divide attention between having kids and a full workload.

William H. Macy

I'm not against watching myself, but I miss a lot of it. I've got two little kids who we don't let watch TV.

William Joyce

I like stirring things up. I'm on the side of the kids more than I am on the adults. And occasionally I find some adults that have that same mischievous streak, so I don't get in too much trouble.

Wendelin Van Draanen

You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.

Vanessa Hudgens

My advice to kids is give it your all! Give it 110 percent and don't give up!

Wyclef Jean

As a producer, I always want to know what makes the kids tick.

John Carroll

We're working on trying to get some regular testing done on our own,

Elizabeth Smith

You just feel helpless. It was just a regular Sunday afternoon.

Shannon Brown

We didn't do the things we wanted to do in the regular season. So the slate is clean.

Garry Marshall

I think she's a find. She's got a shot. She's pretty, but she's not a sexpot. She can play a regular person in a film. And she's also very bright.

Garry Marshall

I think she's a find, ... She's got a shot. She's pretty, but she's not a sexpot. She can play a regular person in a film. And she's also very bright.

Fred Sosnoski

We were 10-10 in the regular season and just turned it on as a team in that tournament. They got a taste of a championship, and every year they want to improve.

Jerry Kelly

He runs on a regular basis, I truly don't know what his capabilities are.

John Servis

He's been able to train on a regular basis, and it's been a long time since he's done that.

Tequan Richmond

I never got to go to prom. I never went to regular school. I ate lunch by myself.

Walter Brower

The PD is over now. We've got a new season to play now, and we need to go 3-0 to get to where we want to be.

David Dellucci

That was the worst part of the season that stands out.

Daunte Culpepper

We can still do what we set out to do. We have a lot of season left.

Rohit Sharma

Every first-class season is important; every game is crucial, irrespective of whether you are in the Indian team or not.

Willie Randolph

We'll probably be going back-and-forth all season with these guys.

Sam Madison

Usually this time of the season takes a nosedive.

Steven Gerrard

I'm signed here for this season and another two so there is no situation. There's a lot of speculation but that's not down to me.

Pete Mackanin

I'm sure by the time the season is over we'll all find out what we're doing.

Keri Nichols

We've talked all season about free-throw shooting. We talk about shooting with confidence.

Randeep Hooda

I think 'method acting' is a widely abused term.

Willie Parker

I thought it was going to come back to me. But Hines was wide open.

Larry Krantz

When it's all said and done, it's probably going to be more than $10,000 because it's pretty wide spread.

Quentin Moses

With me, with my decision, I'm wide open.

Anthony Brown

If they're going to have that rule, they should make wider streets.

Eskinder Nega

I am jailed, with around 200 other inmates, in a wide hall that looks like a warehouse.

Richard Hyung-ki Joo

We write for those who get the musical jokes. But for those who don't, there is always something else going on. That's why we have such a widespread audience.

John McCarthy

His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web.

Jamie Redknapp

Arsenal's width comes from wide areas