Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kathleen Troia McFarland

The problem with people who live in a world of speeches and books and theories is they don't know how to fix things in the real world when they go wrong. They feign ignorance, blame others, and make another eloquent speech.

Katherine Paterson

I love writing for young adults because they are such a wonderful audience, they are good readers, and they care about the books they read.

Dave Hager

Kerr-McGee has booked less than (1 trillion cubic feet of oil equivalent) as proven, which means we have the potential for a fivefold increase to existing proved reserves in this field alone.

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.

Mark Latham

Kim Beazley said my book would only be a two-day wonder, so he was not too worried about it,

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.

Richard Morris

It confirms what the Societe has said all along, which is that the Societe is the owner of the copyright and that any reproduction or even possession of plasters, molds and bronzes is a copyright violation,

Mark Stephens

There is no copyright in ideas. It's just about how words are expressed.

Carroll Dawson

We took a lot of criticism for drafting Hakeem when we already had Ralph. But we were excited about the Twin Towers concept. We were pretty sure it could work, and once it did, everybody around the league tried to copy it.

Doug Willmore

We told them we wouldn't pass those numbers around, but they were public documents. We'd like to see a copy of these supposed agreements.

Bob Jackson

We've gone out of our way lots of times to get to a Hampton Inn. Lots of hotels copy Hampton, but no one does it as well.

Greg Dierks

I think this year, she's going to have a hard time copying the offense she had last year. If she can match her numbers from last year, that would be great, but I think pitching-wise, she's going to improve some things and be more consistent.

JoAnn Carrin

It is not a formal investigation. Someone is sending us a copy of the study. When we receive it, we will review it and then respond to folks that inquired.

Yoko Ono

The only way you can better John is by copying him exactly.

Chris Widger

I probably will go get a copy of that film and keep it, just so I can say I did it one time. Honestly, in this game, you get lucky sometimes, and sometimes it's better to be lucky than good.

Steven Hall

I'd love a signed first edition of 'City of Glass' by Paul Auster. My favourite book of all time.

Matt Stone

I just hate that Lucas... and it is not just Lucas, because everybody does it, where, boom, they get it out, and then there's a special edition for a movie that doesn't deserve a special edition.

Gore Vidal

The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of 'Tales from Livy' that I'd found in my grandfather's library.

Lapo Elkann

My company Independent Ideas worked with Gucci on a special edition Fiat 500.

Bob Graham

What the president is insisting upon are not new ideas, ... Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer.

Richard Shelby

It would be embarrassing, I think, to a lot of people there, ... Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer.

Astro Teller

The Explorer edition of Glass wasn't for everyone, but the Explorer program pushed us to find a wide range of near-term applications and uses for something like Glass.

Keith Carradine

Gettysburg and Stories of Valor Public Television Edition

Ahmed Nazif

It doesn't look this way, ... Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer.

Shaun Cassidy

I think it has science-fiction elements, but I would say that overall it's a mystery.

Romola Garai

I love science fiction. I read a lot of science fiction.

William Gibson

I'm a reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don't really feel qualified.

Robert Reed

I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.

Sarah Zettel

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

Sarah McLachlan

Larger than life is your fiction in a universe made up of one.

Warren Ellis

If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it

Virginia Woolf

Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.

Virginia Woolf

The truer the facts the better the fiction.

Sprague Grayden

I was lucky I was raised by parents who gave me a lot of sense of self and a lot of confidence in myself.

Jim Calhoun

Kentucky gave us a great shot, but we're going to D.C..

Joseph Zadroga

James gave his life for the city, for this country.

Mike Scioscia

Kelvim just shined in his big innings tonight. He gave us big pitches and strong innings out of the bullpen, and that's why he's down there in the pen.

Joyce Majewski

Just look at this watch someone gave to me.

Luis Carmona

Just the way we gave up the goals, mistakes that we couldn't clear. It was like there were three different teams at one point out there. It was an all-around performance nobody played up to their expectations.

Vin Abene

Jon pitched well. He gave up a two-run homer in the first but he settled down after that and kept us in the game.

Jason Calabrese

Joel gave another strong performance, of which there were many in the two seasons he played for me.

Greg McAnally

Josh ran well. We got into situations where we gave it to him. We kind of wore them out. We pounded it.

Alan Cropsey

When he was in the United States Senate, he was noted as an intellectual powerhouse,

Bob Bowlsby

They called and notified me they'd like to talk with Steve and I noted their interest. That's all there was to it.

Mark Williams

Probably Adelaide (deserve it), they're on top. It's a noted thing to win the McClelland Trophy.

Amy Beaner

He did well today. He's been training with Ray (Gallagher) and Cory (Martin) and those two are (sidelined), at least temporarily.

Daniel Alfredsson

If Ray doesn't play as well as he did in the first period, we're down more than a goal.

Narada Michael Walden

Ray Gomez is one of the greatest guitarists of all times!

John Arlott

Ray Illingworth is relieving himself in front of the pavilion.

Eddie Jones

You've got to give him credit. Ray is clutch.

James Nichols

All I know is that Ray Hultman didn't write it. He just wants get on with his life,

Kirk Hammett

It's definitely true that Stevie Ray Vaughan is one of my all-time favorite guitarists.

Margaret Atwood

I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka.

Joseph Kosinski

For me the Blu-ray version is kind of the definitive version of the movie.

Greg Taylor

We can do science at every step of the way (during the project's expansion).

Richard P. Feynman

That is the logical tight-rope on which we have to walk if we wish to interpret nature.

Richard P. Feynman

This is not very important what I'm doing. I'm just proving something.

Richard P. Feynman

The present situation in physics is as if we know chess, but we don't know one or two rules.

Richard P. Feynman

If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives.

Richard P. Feynman

If I say [electrons] behave like particles I give the wrong impression; also if I say they behave like waves. They behave in their own inimitable way, which technically could be called a quantum mechanical way. They behave in a way that is like nothing that you have seen before.

Richard P. Feynman

I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong. If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives. We will not become enthusiastic for the fact, the knowledge, the absolute truth of the day, but remain always uncertain … In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar.

Richard P. Feynman

Unless a thing can be defined by measurement, it has no place in a theory. And since an accurate value of the momentum of a localized particle cannot be defined by measurement it therefore has no place in the theory.

Richard P. Feynman

I am going to tell you what nature behaves like. If you will simply admit that maybe she does behave like this, you will find her a delightful, entrancing thing. Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, 'But how can it be like that?' ...Nobody knows how it can be like that.

Bob Greenly

Justus is very much a work in progress, ... but he's getting better all the time.

Waris Ahluwalia

I take my work seriously, but I don't necessarily take myself seriously.

Mads Mikkelsen

I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right.

Dan Kane

It can happen. We just all have to work together.

Eric Kristenson

It can be as much of a workout as you want it to be.

Tory Burch

I think you can have it all. You just have to know it's going to work.

Taylor Hawkins

Why go on vacation when work is so much more fun.

Steve Bigam

The only thing that didn't work out was we lost.

Lord Warner

What we've got to work on is the rest,