Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Bezos

We believe that over time this could turn into a significant business for Amazon, significant revenue stream for publishers and authors and a helpful customer service for readers,

Nigel Barker

Everyone gets a pencil as a kid, but it doesn't make them all authors or painters or drawers or anything else.

Nick James

Very few authors manage to keep selling that well. This is an author that clearly caught the imagination of their generation and then managed to keep capturing the imagination of generations.

Nick James

Very few authors manage to keep selling that well,

Lee Child

Male authors always take care to make their heroes at least one inch taller than they are, and considerably more muscular. Just as female authors give their heroines better hair and slimmer thighs.

Robert M. Pirsig

I did not want to write one of those sequels that famous first-book authors get into where everybody says, 'Oh yeah.'

Malorie Blackman

I would like to champion diverse forms like graphic novels and works told in verse and diverse writers and illustrators and diverse authors as well.

Ashwin Sanghi

It is easy to club people together, but there are bound to be influences of authors you've read. I grew up reading fast paced authors such as Sidney Sheldon and Jeffrey Archer, but to say I'm one of them isn't true; my style is intrinsically my own.

Laurie Halse Anderson

I think maybe I might have to do what some other authors do, which is do a variation on my name, just to send readers the message that, 'Yep, this is me, but this is a different part of me. So brace yourself.'

John Ballantyne

What we're looking for is the possibility of a genetic eyewitness.

Robert Casey

From the beginning, each human embryo has its own unique genetic identity.

Paul Souza

We've seen responses that these genetic problems are being eliminated.

Martin Chalfie

What I am primarily is a neurogeneticist: I use genetics to study problems in neurobiology. The one problem I study primarily... understanding of the sense of touch.

Susanna Larsson

We don't know how much milk is too much for women with genetic predisposition.

Brian Evans

From a genetic perspective, there are significant strain differences in their structure.

Iain McGilchrist

The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.

Dorothy Moore

It is somewhat of a rare genetic disease,

Matthew Binns

He was the greatest in history and to get a look at his genetic material will be pretty amazing,

Charles Dickens

God bless us every one! said Tiny Tim, the last of all.

Charles Caleb Colton

God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.

Charles Caleb Colton

Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

Charles Dickens

I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.

Charles Dickens

Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?

Charles Stanley

Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.

Charles Stanley

God wants to cast out the fear and doubt in your life. Go before Him right now and say, "Lord, this is what I am afraid of ..."

Charles Stanley

We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.

Charles Stanley

Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged, there's a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me to himself to trust him. Therefore, my discouragement is from Satan. As you go through the emotions that we have, hostility is not from God, bitterness, unforgiveness, all of these are attacks from Satan.

Michael Keaton

My first day in grade school, I was plain scared. I left the comfort of my run-down house, which I loved, and went to school where it was cold, it smelled, the lighting was bad.

Mike Davis

We're moving more than a grade level a year. That's way more impressive than anything we've done so far.

Kreayshawn

Sometimes I'll dress like a boy, sometimes I'll dress like a Japanese crazy teenybopper. I have clothes from the 7th grade that I've kept and still wear.

Gov. Carcieri

We are going to know what is going on with learning in grades 3 to 8, and we are testing for that, so the light will shine.

Melissa McCarthy

Since grade school, I focused on women's clothing.

Paul Kasriel

We really don't want to give Greenspan a grade yet. You want to wait a year or two to see whether the seeds turn to weeds.

David Nicholls

I applied for the University of Life. Didn't get the grades.

Ferid Murad

Grade school, middle school and high school were relatively easy for me, and with little studying, I was an honor student every semester, graduating 5th in my high school class.

Nikki Reed

My mom and I would make bracelets and necklaces, and I would sell it in the first, second, and third grades because that was my lunch money.

Patrick Ness

I write 1,000-1,500 words. The next day, I rewrite it and add 1,000-1,500 words to the end of it.

James Graf

This spacecraft is going to rewrite the science textbooks on Mars.

Jim Graf

It will rewrite the science textbooks on Mars.

David Sedaris

If you stepped out of the shower and saw a leprechaun standing at the base of your toilet, would you scream, or would you innately understand that he meant you no harm?

Roman Gutierrez

We still saw some of our inexperience today. That will be the case, but there were still some steps of improvement.

Bo Burnham

I saw a giraffe with a short neck That was sad Or a deer

Audrey Meadows

Fans always ask, What did the bedroom look like? All they ever saw was Alice or Ralph going in and out.

Arnold Bennett

Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.

Deborah Harkness

You do angry. I just saw it. And you left at least one hole in my carpet to prove it.

Dennis Hopper

I wanted to be an actor. I decided when I was very young, when I first saw movies, that I wanted to be an actor.

Bill Murray

If you walk up to some random person on the street, grab them by the shoulder, and say 'Did you just see what I saw?!', you'll find that no-one wants to talk to you.

Carol Leifer

There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage.

Michael Franti

You get everything you could have ever wished for if you're willing to give that eternal bliss away to somebody else, to give it back.

Dale Parsons

We want somebody who's going to do a lot for the county. We're not going to rush.

Dave Reed

We want somebody who is really going to do it.

O. Winston

We're just waiting for somebody to fall. It's going to happen.

Justin Timberlake

Make out in a club? I didn't do that when I was with Britney. Why would I do it with somebody I just met?

Justin Timberlake

Make out in a club? I didn't do that when I was with Britney, ... Why would I do it with somebody I just met?

Rich Rodriguez

Somebody just has to step up and take over. With our backs, somebody will do it.

Cliff Herberg

Somebody is supplying these lawyers. They've got an agenda.

Doug Adkins

Somebody is going to have to step in and take the load.

Eric Roberts

Yeah, some of my college friends and I have been tinkering around for years, you know, just for fun.

Gever Tulley

Tinkering is a way of understanding difficult problems, of wrapping our heads around them and quantifying the unknowns.

Paul R. Ehrlich

The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.

Eric Hoffer

Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can be a matter of chance, of idle tinkering, or even of the chronic dissatisfaction of the untalented.

Will Rogers

Congress is going to start tinkering with the Ten Commandments just as soon as they find someone in Washington who has read them.

Dennis Prager

Courage is the rarest of all good traits