Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Carlyle

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.

Rosecrans Baldwin

Bookstores don't exactly dot the American highway in the grand manner of Sbarros.

Charles Lamb

I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think; books think for me.

M. K. Hobson

I love those books like 'Gone with the Wind,' the huge, sweeping family sagas.

Melanie Rawn

The first fantasy books I can remember reading were 'The Shy Stegosaurus of Cricket Creek' and the series of 'Mushroom Planet' books.

Gene Nelson

The libraries of old -- passive organizations that just sat around waiting for people to come in and take the books off the shelves -- those days are over, ... We have competition out there.

Margaret Johnson

The Gainesville Chamber of Commerce organized a drive to collect books to be donated to the Gainesville Victory ship. Two hundred books were collected.

John Banville

This is a great surprise and a great pleasure. Any one of these books could have won. To my colleagues I say just hang around and it will come. I have hung around for many years.

Tom Lehrer

All books can be indecent books, though recent books are bolder.For filth, I'm glad to say, is in the mind of the beholder. When correctly viewed, everything is lewd. I could tell you things about Peter Pan,And the Wizard of OZ, there's a dirty old man!

Cindy Johnson

They all came in cheerful, ... Our kids are loving school.

Jack Johnson

This is game we came here to play.

Mike Russell

This is an initiative that came directly from the carriers, not our safety division. We need to slow down.

Tim Short

This is huge for us. We came over (to Jacksonville) where people don't see us, don't know us, and we had a couple kids with the flu bug, but we still found a way to win.

Aaron Gray

This is a typical Big East game. Even this game came right down to the last shot. The guys did a good job fighting back. It's going to be like this day-in and day-out. There's no gimme wins in this conference.

Shelia Smith

This is the first time we didn't go one and out. We came out flat in the first half. I don't know if we were nervous. We can't play like that in the next round and expect to win.

Bill Guerin

This is not a public-relations stunt. We've put a lot of work into this proposal and this isn't something we came up with overnight. We felt that we had to do something. We're getting down to crunch time and since the league isn't doing anything, we felt like we'd better do something before the whole season goes down the tubes. We've waited long enough for them to try to step up.

Joanna Schultz

This is probably the first time I've came into a season healthy. I'm all about keeping that going. Staying healthy and working hard. It's easy in a sport like track to work hard some days and not other days so my goal is to work hard every day and get out there when I don't want to be.

Philip Zweig

This is something I had hoped would happen. I guess I felt we had a feeling it could happen because we did a lot of test marketing before it came out, so we had a good sense that the game would be liked by a lot of people.

I think college administrators should encourage students to urinate on walls and bushes, because then when students from another college come sniffing around, they'll know this is someone else's territory.

Tom Rose

Once he adjusts to the college game, he's going to be a very good player. He's already very strong.

John Lithgow

I got a wonderful college education. I went to Harvard. In those four years I accumulated a lot of knowledge but I also created a kind of habit of learning that has stayed with me my whole life.

Larry Keating

A lot of pro teams like to play their exhibitions in various places. The NBA likes to go to different places, sometimes college campuses (where their players were popular).

George Cleveland

They got a big pay raise for everyone in the community college system,

Kim Moore

For a long time, we were taught if you go to college and get a job you'll make it in life. It's difficult to make it even with a college education.

Kellen Sampson

It's one of the first times that I've seen his eyes kind of light up. This is the mecca of college basketball.

Polly Adler

It's not the college degree that makes a writer. The great thing is to have a story to tell.

Manny Lopez

It's not ending. We're taking it to college now. That game was not our last together.

Jodi Picoult

As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening.

Bryan Price

We hope to see some real signs of the rotation coming to life in the last month. Or, inevitably, you're going to have to make a decision.

Peter Costa

Emotionally, there was a sense this week of people wanting to get home and be with their families. In terms of trading there was not a lot going on and the volume was really low. I think you'll start to see some money coming back in when earnings get started ... and when there is some progress with the Middle East.

Robby Wine

Even today with the rain we had last night, the field's playing 10 times better. We're just jelling. Our team is coming together. The defense will be OK if we keep water on the field and the hops true.

Rich Williams

Everyone wants to do the first one. You do it right the first time, runners will keep on coming back.

Lynn Franco

As the economic ramifications of Sept. 11 continue to reverberate in the coming weeks and months, and the number of layoffs continues to rise, the economy faces tougher times ahead. While consumers have managed to keep the U.S. out of a recession for several years now, that soon may no longer be the case.

Fabrice Santoro

At one point, it's great that it's coming so late. I've been playing since I was 16, and when your first quarterfinal arrives at 33, it's a long time.

Marty Simmons

At that point, you could just see the life coming back into our bodies.

Andrew Olvera

At 8:25 a.m. when they got there, they saw heavy smoke and fire coming from the second floor.

Kathy Christie

No matter how good your intentions are, you still have to find the money. That's what states are struggling with.

M. Thompson

No matter how good the show is, a 2-inch screen is still not same as big screen TV.

Chrissie Fit

Sometimes you need a good laugh, and then there are times when you need a good cry.

Matt Mullenweg

Sometimes you might feel blogs are like TV: You have a thousand channels, but nothing good is on.

Lorraine Bracco

So that's been very good for us, the long hiatuses.

Pat Jones

Soquel did a good job of double- and triple-teaming her when she got the ball. They played to win.

Christopher Howell

Some were good plays on his behalf. We have to make those plays.

Delia Smith

So often much of the flavour and nutrients in vegetables are near the skin, and with a good peeler you really are only removing the skin.

Raul Rodriguez

So now we're back to square one. Hopefully we'll come out next week and have another good race. But it's not over 'til it's over.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Mayor Vance

If you don't take some time to dream, then you never have a vision.

Elie Cohen

If you get burned, you will take time before you try again.

Mark Ruffalo

If you're not yelling at your kids, then you're not spending enough time with them!

Denise Miller

If you live here and you see wreck after wreck after wreck, you think about that every time you're in that intersection.

Dave Grohl

I like to keep things going, ... No breaks... We have such little time together!