Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Robinson

Record-breaking sales of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince drove significantly higher results in children's book publishing and distribution and for the company overall,

Robert Molleda

Relative to most of the country, it's still rather mild, but when people book Florida vacations, they're not expecting temperatures in the 40s.

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Or have We given them a book before it so that they hold fast to it? / Nay! they say: We found our fathers on a course, and surely we are guided by their footsteps.

Wayne Dellinger

Part of the reason I wrote the book was that so many people were leaving their jobs (to invest in foreclosed homes), and they had no idea of what they are doing.

Oprah Winfrey

passports to new and exciting worlds... and I know that I would not be the person I am today had it not been for my love of reading.

Malorie Blackman

Part of my job as Children's Laureate is to visit schools and talk about my love of books and stories and encourage them all to do it as well - to read, to write, to never be afraid of their own voice. Because we all have something to say.

Gunter Thielen

Our major acquisitions and joint ventures ... will be shown on the books for the second half of the year,

Martin Luther

Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.

Andreas Scheuerle

Order books are full and people are operating closer to capacity, so that companies are building up employment again.

Katarina Witt

He doesn't have any skeletons in his closet. He was young and naive.

Charles Barkley

I'm afraid of the skeletons in my closet. I've got a whole cemetery full of them.

Arthur Koestler

The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life.

Adrian Rogers

The day of judgment will be a day when the skeletons come out of the closets! And each of us will be standing there to face the record.

DAVID FEHERTY

Everybody knows pretty much everything about me. I emptied all the skeletons out of my closet a long time ago.

D. J. MacHale

You'd better put sunblock on that skeleton head of yours. You're gonna fry." -Bobby

Drew Goddard

The more work you put in on your outline and getting the skeleton of your story right, the easier the process is later.

Ambrose Bierce

Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the Poet Laureate is an officer of the sovereign's court, acting as dancing skeleton at every royal feast and singing-mute at every royal funeral.

Brian Eno

Any constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on - including your own incompetence.

Bertrand Russell

The sentiments of an adult are compounded of a kernal of instinct surrounded by a vast husk of education.

Art Spiegelman

Sometimes I don't feel like a functioning adult

David Foster Wallace

Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude-but the fact is that, in the day-to-day trenches of adult existence, banal platitudes can have life-or-death importance. That may sound like hyperbole, or abstract nonsense.

Elizabeth Olsen

I've never read a young adult novel, though. I'm sure I would love it, but I've never read one.

Aaron Swartz

The adults were completely wrong.

Ingrid Newkirk

Everything we do is based at adults.

Georges Pompidou

The most dangerous thing about student riots is that adults take them seriously.

Jeanette Winterson

Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not.

Herbert Read

Freud has shown one thing very clearly: that we only forget our infancy by burying it in the unconscious; and that the problems of this difficult period find their solution under a disguised form in adult life.