Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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

Mark Foley

We track library books better than we do sexual predators.

Ray Manchuk

We're optimistic that the new Harry Potter will bring more foot traffic to stores and perhaps become a catalyst to drive sales of other books as well.

Hilaire Belloc

When I am dead, I hope it is said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.

Jerry Costello

Jobs are disappearing from every sector of the economy, from engineering to health care workers, forcing hundreds of thousands of families into unemployment and low-paying jobs.

Amar'e Stoudemire

It hit me personally because I've been in that type of situation when I was a kid (living in a number of different homes in Florida), when I really didn't have a household to go to. When I see those families and kids down there, I see myself.

Jose Bono

Today is a day of pain and mourning and solidarity with the families who lost loved ones.

Davitt McAteer

The families ought to be involved. If we have families that are involved in mine safety, the mines will be safer.

Ken Georgetti

These positive numbers also tell us that it is the time to plan and the time to invest in the skills needed for the future if, as a country, we want to keep unemployment low and improve the quality of life of working people, their families and their communities.

Laura Bush

This holiday, when we have so many American military men and women deployed, it's a bittersweet holiday for the families who are here separated from their loved ones, ... Larry King Live.

Kathi Moore

The hospital is taking an important step in support of stronger and healthier families in our community.

Jon Meyersohn

We actually see families work through their problems. It's a very positive story.

Paul Krell

The offer would be devastating to Delphi workers, their families and their communities.

Howard Dean

Harry Truman was willing to do things that were extraordinarily unpopular because they were the right things to do,

Rupert Grint

Are you kidding? This is Harry Potter! I love every last moment of it.

Jason Fuchs

I'm a sucker for 'When Harry Met Sally' and all that romantic stuff.

Matt Murphy

He said that he had partied with Prince Harry and that he knew (actress) Hilary Duff, which, even for royalty, didn't make any sense.

Rob Bishop

He's right on this one, ... Harry Reid has been talking about recycling and on-site storage (at nuclear power plants), and that is the real long-term solution for everybody. It solves Nevada's problem and it solves Utah's problem.

Dustin Hoffman

Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying All Those Terrible Things About Me?

Malcolm Smith

Maternity pay? Now every Tom, Dick and Harry will get pregnant.

Orlando Bloom

My mother's husband Harry Bloom was a writer, a novelist, a reporter, and an anti-apartheid activist.

Rupert Grint

Well, before I knew there was going to be a film. I was the biggest Harry Potter fan. I read all the books.

Kay Redfield Jamison

It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy.

Mack Strong

Just things that I've never experienced in my life.

Tom Arnold

I swear on my life that is true.

Quentin Blake

You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.

William Ellery Channing

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

Chris Stapleton

I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paintsville.

Cate Blanchett

It is so interesting when you meet an actor in real life and they look completely different.

John Hawkes

I think that no matter how dark a person is, the more you learn about them, the more you understand about their life, the more you can sympathize with them or even root for them.

Carine Roitfeld

I think when I became a grandmother my life changed a lot, and I think I changed personally.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Gale Norton

I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.

Gary Sheffield

I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?

Sam Rockwell

I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.

Sam Worthington

I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

Henry George Bohn

Every potter praises his own pot.

J. K. Rowling

According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scars than almost anything else.

Paul Davis

Keep writing that stuff ? I'll keep getting 27 points.

Jack Soden

We've been thinking about this stuff for so long, but now we can actually do it.

Allard Baird

We think he has the stuff to be a starter.

Mike Fitzpatrick

I think it's the weight of the swelling inventories. And the geopolitical stuff has cooled off a little bit, but it's just in the background.

Roderick Wilmont

I don't know what's going on. I'm here to play, that's all. I see the stuff on TV. I know as much as you all know.

Sandra Bullock

Stop being scared of the unknown, because anything I worried about didn't happen. Other stuff happened. The unknown, we can't do anything about,

Robin Trower

If all you've got is somebody else's stuff that you've lifted, nothing really deep, then it is going to thin out.

Robin Trower

During my early period I had custom-made overdrive stuff because I didn't like what they were making at the time.

Robin Trower

There are no plans to do any more live stuff. I really feel like there's enough live shows out there.

Harry Dean Stanton

But I'm not imaginative. I couldn't look into the future, like Star Wars or Robots or anything like that.

Karl Liebknecht

In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.