Famous Quotes & Sayings

Juliene Berk

Habits... the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way -- by finding that it is a means of satisfaction.

Jamie Retterath

What Microsoft liked about us was that we'd done a lot of image collection. They also liked the precision of our system ? we can make very precise maps and image location from that ? we also have a very long list of patents that we've acquired over the years that deal with efficient processing of that imagery and turning it into meaningful content.

Colin Clarke

He is a good player. We've seen him grow, we knew of his career and we're sure of his ability. We had to give him the opportunity to play in our team. He is one of the best players in the north of Texas. Now that he's already returned, we know that we've acquired greater experience and we're going to see it in action. He'll be able to help us in our cause.

Richard Pryor

reaping substantial profits from (the recordings) without ever having acquired any rights in such recordings.

Yang Yuanqing

Our mobile handset unit delivered strong and profitable growth, and, more importantly, the acquired PC business was profitable worldwide,

Michael Campbell

In 2005, Regal Entertainment Group acquired and integrated the Eastern Federal theatre circuit, returned value to cash shareholders?and continued to generate significant free cash flow.

Leila Janah

I own a shameless number of ethnic necklaces acquired at local markets in developing countries or inherited from my grandmother. These have seen me through meetings in Davos and visits to refugee camps.

Dino De Laurentiis

I have the rights to all the books where the character of Hannibal Lecter appears, I acquired these by buying the rights to Red Dragon.

Donna Dubinsky

I mean, they sort of refused to come to the table with any incremental capital. They would have loved for us to be acquired just get their money out and be gone.

Jeff Kinney

Kids and adults have a difference of opinion when it comes to what constitutes legitimate reading. Adults often push books that they loved as children, which, ironically, were often books that their parents weren't particularly keen on.

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.

Japanese Proverb

Knowledge without wisdom is a load of books on the back an ass

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.

Sophie Hannah

Agatha Christie's writing is incredibly skillful because her books are incredibly intellectually puzzling and challenging.

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

Charlene Tilton

JR was a 1-dimensional, evil character. JR was multi-dimensional, and Larry Hagman is probably one of the greatest actors that we have. Then, you go back and look at 'I Dream of Jeannie' - I mean, he's a comic genius, as well. So, I think they should give him an honorary Emmy Award.

Gale Anne Hurd

I also love the zombie genre, my zombie fandom going way back to 'Night of the Living Dead.' And 'The Walking Dead' is truly the ultimate representation of that sensibility in the comic book genre.

Melissa Marr

I watch comic book movies. Give me 'The Avengers,' give me 'Thor', those are my area. But I don't watch comedies.

Michael McMillian

I want to work on the 'True Blood' comic for as long as they'll let me.

Marc Guggenheim

I actually feel like comic book movies need to be better than your average movie.

Sandra Bernhard

I don't consider myself a comic but a performer. A comic tells bad jokes.

Damon Lindelof

In television, if I write that Matthew Fox flies up around the island so he can see how big it is, we have to actually shoot that. In a comic book, you write it, somebody draws it and there it is. No budget, no actors. That frees you up to really do some outside-the-box storytelling.

Chris Wooding

I like writing comic pages, discovering the rhythm of the panels, learning how much you can and can't express. It's good to stretch myself as a writer instead of always doing prose work; I write screenplays for the same reason.

Matt Ryan

I'm constantly trying to mine the DNA of John Constantine and stay true to that character in the comic books.

Ursula K. Le Guin

People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.

Walter Scott

Saint George and the Dragon!-Bonny Saint George for Merry England!-The castle is won!

David Moffett

It's up to the Dragons to have a good look at where they want to be in five or 10 years time,

Analeigh Tipton

There's a lot of things I nerd out over. Quantum Mechanics. I also love Dungeons and Dragons. I want to be an astronaut.

Rick Riordan

Destroy it?' Leo was appalled. 'You've got a life-size bronze dragon, and you want to destroy it?' 'It breathes fire,' Nyssa explained. 'It's deadly and out of control.' 'But it's a dragon!

Russell Sherman

The context for music is varied and profound. If their fantasy is to be awakened-so that their sounds may be incisive or ravishing-then the menagerie of saints and dragons must be faithfully recalled.

Pat Oliphant

There were dragons to slay in the old days. Nixon was a good dragon.

Marianne Moore

O to be a dragon, a symbol of the power of Heaven-of silk-worm size or immense; at times invisible. Felicitous phenomenon!

J. Tillman

I would play my Dungeons and Dragons songs and watch people's eyes glaze over, and then I would start joking around between songs, and all of a sudden people were lighting up and engaging.

Dario Fo

I am interested, too, in satirical theater, in the grotesque, or even in tragedy at times, but I am mostly comfortable with comedy.

Jami Attenberg

I have watched Occupy Wall Street mostly from the sidelines.

Mia Sara

I'm mostly retired. Now I'm a mother with a really noisy, difficult house to maintain!

Ed Orgeron

I'm disappointed we lost, but I'm mostly disappointed in myself not getting the team ready to play,

Michael Isikoff

The news comes in code, and mostly the silences speak.

Chellie Pingree

It's mostly window dressing. I don't think this will pass the straight-face test.

Jim Fischer

It will start out mostly as rain, end up as snow at the tail end of it.

Hamadoun Toure

They are mostly unidentified combatants killed with machetes.

Mary Roach

I've been writing full-time since about 1984 - mostly magazine features and columns.

Roger Ortmeier

He was battling. He was throwing strikes and he had a lot of pop on his fastball. He was locating it really well.

Grant Hill

It wasn't popular for college athletics to embrace Title IX.

Will Wright

I think the primary thing that's made the Sims popular is that they're accessible,

Alex Walker

I thought that one was a pop up.

Vance Havner

Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.

Robert Fitzgerald

One should indeed read Pope with his notes available, in the Twickenham edition possibly, to see what a vast amount he did understand about Homer.

Saul Williams

Half of the popcorn sh-t that's out there, we know it's popcorn. But we're like, "It's my guilty pleasure." I feel like we have more guilty pleasure than actual f - kin' pleasure.

Samantha Bond

If I pop off and do something drastic, everyone's going to realise because they know I'm 50. Anyway, middle-aged women are sensational.

Lynne Black

Our position right now is that this is not an appropriate program and population to put in a heavily populated two-square-mile village.