Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carole Bouquet

I didn't learn a lot from books. I learned a lot from movies.

Carol Shields

Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.

Carol Shields

Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.

Carol White

What I always tell my clients is to put yourself in your potential customer's shoes - what would you want to hear about this story/book and does this [marketing material] deliver that information?

Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.

Carlos Fuentes

I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.

Carlos Fuentes

For me, life without literature is inconceivable. I think that Don Quixote in a physical sense never existed, but Don Quixote exists more than anybody who existed in 1605. Much more. There's nobody who can compete with Don Quixote or with Hamlet. So in the end we have the reality of the book as the reality of the world and the reality of history.

Carlos Fuentes

Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living.

Carlos Fuentes

Some writers achieve great popularity and then disappear forever. The bestseller lists of the past fifty years are, with a few lively exceptions, a sombre graveyard of dead books.

Carol Moseley Braun

Bush is giving the rich a tax cut instead of putting that cut in the pockets of working people.

Carol Vorderman

I drive a tiny Toyota iQ. I'm quite frugal and often cut my own hair.

Carl Andre

The wood was better before I cut it, than after. I did not improve it in any way.

C. S. Lewis

For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts.

C. S. Lewis

And that's why, when they want to get rid of anyone, they usually bring him down here (like they were doing with me) and say they'll leave him to the ghosts. But I always wondered if they didn't really drown 'em or cut their throats. I never quite believed in the ghosts. But those two cowards you've just shot believed all right. They were more scared of taking me to my death than I was of going.

Agnes Varda

I made a braid because Chinese old people, they say that the God will take you by the hair to join you with - but God didn't take me, so I cut the braid.

Charlie Dent

There's a need to reform Medicare, but not a need to cut a half trillion dollars out of Medicare.

Charles de Lint

I wouldn't like to live in a world where everything's as cut-and-dried as most people think it is

Charles de Lint

You've got to spread out as far as you can, cut down a whole forest, irrigate a whole desert, just to make sure that you won't accidentally stumble upon a place that's still in its natural state.

Luc Robitaille

What the Sharks did, it shocked the heck out of me. We've always been rivals, but I think they know how much I love this game, and how much I've given to it.

Justin Murphy

We have pursued her with that and given her more and more time to come up to code.

Tom Penders

We've shown a lot of resiliency. I've been real happy with this team because we haven't given up on the season.

Tom Watson

I guess I have never been much of a complainer. You just take what is given you, and don't complain about what you can't affect.

Shaun Sipos

That's what people want to watch - somebody telling a story. So if you go in and tell a story that makes sense to them, that touches them, then they're going to watch; then they'll tell a friend and that type of thing. In terms of how many people are watching in a given week, it's more the advertiser's job, not mine.

Troian Bellisario

It's a very wonderful yet difficult thing to be given a lot of really good opportunities and the world is at your fingertips.

Tony Hawk

When I landed the first 900 at the XGames, it was just - it was a personal achievement. It was something that I have strived for for years and years and years, and in a lot of ways had given up on it. But I just didn't think of the resonance that would have.

Brian Dawkins

Respect is not given, it is earned.

Tom Daschle

very curious, given this has been under way now for this long.

Mark Nation

When he got to the school, they would not let him in and he was later told Christopher had been shot.

John Bolton

There are a lot of different ideas, ... We have a lot of work to do. ... But I think this is going to be an open, transparent process, and we'll work as late as we need to and see if we can come up with a strong outcome document.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

When I'm in London, I get a veggie-box sent up every week, with the latest pickings.

Garrick Phillips

We set the tone late in the first quarter and then more so in the second.

Umberto Eco

There are books on our shelves we haven't read and doubtless never will, that each of us has probably put to one side in the belief that we will read them later on, perhaps even in another life.

Bryan Adams

Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don't, there are consequences you'll have to deal with later in life.

Elizabeth Thornton

There are times when we are just not very kind to ourselves. The problem with our negative thoughts is that the latest science has revealed that thoughts are very powerful, even impacting us physically.

Ernst Toller

Later we learned that it was one of our own men hanging on the wire. Nobody could do anything for him; two men had already tried to save him, only to be shot themselves.

Kevin Colbert

We are going to spend as much time on the middle and late rounds as we do on the first-round guys. From our standpoint there is really not a lot of difference.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings.

C. S. Lewis

No more I do, your Majesty. But what's that got to do with it? I might as well die on a wild goose chase as die here.

Richard DeKaser

What the shock might be next time is unpredictable.

Aasif Mandvi

Because to Americans, Chechnya might as well be a suburb of Narnia.

John Gibbons

We were already down two there. If we were tied, we might have done something differently.

Charlie Chaplin

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

Charles Dudley Warner

What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be!

Charles Dickens

Mr Lorry asks the witness questions: Ever been kicked? Might have been. Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord.

Charles Stuart Calverley

But ah! disasters have their use; And life might e'en be too sunshiny...

Carl Bernstein

The failures of the press have contributed immensely to the emergence of a talk-show nation, in which public discourse is reduced to ranting and raving and posturing. We now have a mainstream press whose news agenda is increasingly influenced by this netherworld.

David Shuster

Critics of Fox News have pointed out that Fox News does partisan propaganda, and there's ample evidence on a daily basis.

David Sedaris

My sister's the type who religiously watches the fear segments of her local Eyewitness News broadcasts, retaining nothing but the headline...Everything is dangerous all of the time, and if it's not yet been pulled off the shelves, then it's certainly under investigation -- so there.

David Talbot

Other than that one year, Salon has been very cautious about the way it spends money. For instance, since last year, we've had virtually no marketing budget. It's just word of mouth. And our circulation continues to grow that way by breaking news stories.

Elaine Sciolino

Every day since the start of the Tour de France, the popular 'Le Parisien' newspaper has published a story about a book written with the bicycle in mind.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The good news isn't that God is victorious. How can He not be victorious? The good news is we can be victorious, too.

Chogyam Trungpa

Chaos should be regarded as extremely good news!

Brit Hume

We've had a series of major news stories that have brought in viewers who either were sampling to see what else was available or were normal news watchers. The Florida recount and the end of the election was a huge development. And then 9/11 came along.

Jane Fonda

The news is not gender-neutral, but it's usually reported as though it's gender-neutral.

Mark Langan

This rates up there as one of the worse we have ever seen.

John Kline

Let's get one thing straight: No one wants Stafford loan interest rates to increase.

Lawrence Yun

Obviously, many renters have become homeowners as rates have fallen.

Bill Gross

It's sort of like a teeter-totter; when interest rates go down, prices go up.

Elizabeth Warren

Homeowners refinance their loans when interest rates go down. Businesses refinance their loans.

Leon Black

Different industries have different risks and growth rates and volatility.

Charles Nelson

Overall, the story is that uninsured rates are relatively stable.

Russ Jones

Our rates only go up once a year, and that's in June.

Chris Perry

We don't know the rates of (reef) growth.

Craig Thompson

The state of your psyche is reflected in your body.

John Griffin

You won't see that reflected right away at the pump.

David Sedaris

But I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter.

Phil Bronstein

We stand by our reporters and the reporting they did.

Richard Barnes

Until the IPCC report is published, we are all in the realms of speculation.

Dr. Shannon

I am thrilled to report we have had terrific success overnight.

Nigel Cameron

Certainly, if these reports are true, it's a tragedy for science.

Mark Fuhrman

Nobody's reported my victories, my accomplishments, my true personality - the way I treat all people.

Anthony Chan

Nothing in this report tells things are running out of control.

Jack Rio

I don't have anything to report other than he was awake, alert, still conscious.

Ronda Tompkins

I didn't do anything extraordinary. I just reported what I saw that night.

Richard G. Scott

The Lord sees weaknesses differently than He does rebellion.

Edmund Burke

The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.

Edmund Burke

The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear.

Edmund Burke

Delusion and weakness produce not one mischief the less, because they are universal.

Edward Ruscha

All my artistic response comes from American things, and I guess I've always had a weakness for heroic imagery.

Brit Hume

What played to what had been a relative weakness for us-this was exploding overseas as well, and we had to scramble to mount some reach and get into places and be competitive on the ground.

Babe Ruth

A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.

Clarence Day

Every maiden's weak and willin' When she meets the proper villian.