Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexandra Paul

The human overpopulation issue is the topic I see as the most vital to solve if our children and grandchildren are to have a good quality of life.

Alexandra Adornetto

How could you tell children they were playing with fire if they´d never had the experience of being burned?

Rod Blagojevich

Whatever happened to a sense of idealism and embracing an idea that will help people and, in this case, children?

Kristy McNichol

My mother always wanted to be an actress. She was an extra in movies and stuff. I have a feeling this is the classic story: The mother wants to be an actress, and the child ends up doing it. But it was never a jealousy thing between us. It was like - well, I was making my mom happy.

Malorie Blackman

I hope to instill, in every child I meet, my love and enthusiasm for reading and stories.

Malorie Blackman

Children find prescriptive reading lists daunting, and they are a dangerous thing to have in schools.

Malorie Blackman

Books teach children to see the world through the eyes of others and empathise with others. It's about the story.

Luke Selking

We're not doing anything to help those children excel.

Aaron Baker

like a lot of research tends to overlook children in some areas.

Judith Rossner

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Jill Midkiff

Music is included because music downloads fit the definition of personal property.

Tao Lin

I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depression, right? And I don't have weeks where I don't leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those.

Martin Starr

I feel like there are things I can relate to in every character. But I feel like when you read a script, you don't get to see the definition behind someone, you just get to read what the person goes through and find a place to come from to make it real.

George H. W. Bush

From now on, any definition of a successful life must include serving others.

Joe Wright

Galaxy is twice as powerful as previous satellites. It will play an integral role in the development of high definition television,

David Mason

If all we're doing on the Internet is giving people another opportunity to vote, you can predict it's not going to work, ... If the definition of working is getting more people to vote.

Paul Kreutzer

Basically, you have to meet the definition of the school. Right now, part of the problem we're facing is we're meeting the definition of a program. We're going to work on that.

Deyon Pitter

I have learned a new definition of friendship...When you need me, I am always there...Whenever i need you, you'll be there too, but only if it's convenient!

Werner Herzog

I'm simply not afraid. It's not in my dictionary of behaviour.

Harold Bloom

I saw the Oxford English Dictionary there for the first time.

Erin McKean

There are hundreds of thousands of words that aren't in any print dictionary today... because there's no space for all of them.

Marvin Emerson

When you look up the word team in the dictionary his picture is there.

Jeri Ryan

I started by looking everything up in a Star Trek dictionary so I knew what I was talking about, but you can't do that because they talk in circles, and half of it doesn't make sense, so you'll just end up driving yourself more insane.

Martin H. Fischer

Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.

Erin McKean

Most of the words you know and love and use every day are not words you learned by looking them up in a dictionary and reading a definition.

Joey Santiago

I just found the word 'Pixies' in a dictionary and it sounded like rock 'n' roll.

Melanie Rawn

I have six or seven 'what to name the baby' books, the Oxford dictionary of names, and a fabulous tome that's 26 languages in simultaneous translation - French, German, all the European majors, plus Esperanto, Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, and so on.

Roger Penrose

Ordinary photons do have spin, they have a notion of helicity so they spin around their direction on motion.

Roger Penrose

So what I'm saying is why don't we think about changing Schrodinger's equation at some level when masses become too big at the level that you might have to worry about Einstein's general relativity.

Roger Penrose

As for morality, well that's all tied up with the question of consciousness.

Aldous Huxley

Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.

Jonathan Coe

Luckily, in my case, I have managed, by writing, to do the one thing that I always wanted to do.

Iain Dowie

Let's see which English striker can score 21 Premiership goals this season,

Alice Meynell

Let a man turn to his own childhood - no further - if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.

Piers Anthony

Much of what is published is actually science fantasy, seeming possible but actually impossible, such as faster than light space travel.

English Proverb

May as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb. English Proverb

David Bowie

Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.

Anthony Trollope

Upon the present occasion London was full of clergymen. The specially clerical clubs, the Oxford and Cambridge, the Old University, and the Athenaeum, were black with them.

Barbara Pym

There are no sick people in North Oxford. They are either dead or alive. It's sometimes difficult to tell the difference, that's all ...

Ashley Madekwe

I am a Topshop homing pigeon! I can walk into the Oxford Circus branch and ferret out the best bits in minutes.

Max Beerbohm

I was a modest, good-humored boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

Anne Fortier

While at Oxford in 1999, I met Jonathan Fortier, who is a Montreal-born Canadian. Despite the challenges of a transatlantic relationship, we remained keen on each other and eventually married in 2002.

B. F. Skinner

We are going to be ready for Wednesday night. We know it's going to be tough. Oxford wants to go back to the state meet. We want to get there because we've never been. I know they are going to be ready for us and we will be ready for them.

Samantha Shannon

What I like about Oxford is how small it is; it's really more of a big town than a city.

Noam Chomsky

I once did a three-hour interview with Radio Oxford only to be told the microphone hadn't picked me up.

Pat Buckley

The only sexual act that is sinful is the one that uses or abuses.

Jasmine Guy

There is no sexuality that is greater or lesser than another.

Barbet Schroeder

I chose to treat the homosexuality like I would treat any other form of sexuality.

Ann Landers

Are you better off with him or without him?

Anita Bryant

[On homosexuality:] I'm more inclined [now] to say live and let live.

David Swain

Is it just me, or is there a lot of sexual tension in here?

David Bowie

Sexuality and where it is going is an extraordinary question, for I don't see it going anywhere. It is with me, and that's it.

Adrienne Rich

The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs ...

Jake Gyllenhaal

My character's the one that kind of initiates these sexual encounters, which to me was, like, totally foreign.