Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louis Sachar

I actually started an adult book, worked on it for about two years, and then decided it just wasn't coming together for me, and thought I'll go back to children's books, and almost immediately I started 'Holes,' and it just seemed to take off on me.

Louis Sachar

I think what makes good children's books is putting the same care and effort into it as if I was writing for adults. I don't write anything - put anything in my books - that I'd be embarrassed to put in an adult book.

David Stevens

We applaud studies using animals to figure out ethical ways to obtain embryonic stem cells apart from the creation and destruction of human embryos. So far, however, no one appears to have accomplished this feat. Meanwhile, the good news is that adult stem cells are already providing real cures for real patients.

Cynthia Nixon

We've all seen the mom who devotes all her time and attention to her child and is so hungry for adult interaction that as soon as she's around another adult, she's not paying attention anymore.

Dan Collins

We believe that these types of cells are actually more primitive and more flexible than the adult stem cells that would be found in bone marrow, ... They're much younger. They're more robust.

Josephine Quintavalle

There are currently 58 diseases that are being treated using adult stem cells so the issue of stems cells has a positive side, providing the cells are obtained ethically,

Greg Olmsted

West Nile virus is not known to be here. Our concern is that after seven to 10 days after the rain stops, we could see a large number of adult mosquitoes.

Dennis McBride

When you've got a really good (teacher or) case manager, the kids learn to trust them, to really love them; they're starving for positive adult relationships.

Martin Seligman

If the point of the inner-child movement is to cure adult problems, it doesn't work. Reliving childhood traumas gives you a nice afterglow, but it lasts only for hours or days. There is no evidence it changes adult problems.

Gigi Hadid

A camel is a very awkward animal to ride, and it's very hard to get used to because they're not very graceful.

Willard Wigan

I heard someone say that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich man to get into heaven. I decided to sculpt camels in a needle.

Hugh Laurie

It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to make a blues record.

Turkish Proverbs

It is easier to make a camel jump a ditch than to make a fool listen to reason.

Kehlog Albran

It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased.

Ralph Ward

York is on the inside now. Now that the camel has his nose under the tent, it's a whole new ballgame.

Akhenaton

As a camel beareth labour, and heat, and hunger, and thirst, through deserts of sand, and fainteth not; so the fortitude of a man shall sustain him through all perils.

Bible Bible

And they took away their cattle; of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred and fifty thousand, and of asses two thousand, and of men an hundred thousand.

Bible Bible

They smote also the tents of cattle, and carried away sheep and camels in abundance, and returned to Jerusalem.

Pam Brown

Unsolicited donations have doubled since the campaign started.

Terry Murphy

We are pleased to offer senior citizens the opportunity to join a national campaign that provides guidance and simple steps toward healthier lifestyles,

Jan Egeland

We stand by the report. The eviction campaign was the worst possible thing at the worst possible moment. ... The important thing now is to look to the future. We have to help these people.

Jean Chretien

We spoke in this campaign about preserving social programs and Medicare and that we will do,

Mike DeWine

We're not going to talk about campaign tactics,

E. O. Wilson

We want people to look twice to save a life. That's our campaign slogan.

Alan Keyes

I personally do not owe the debt that was owed by the campaign.

Bob Beauprez

During the campaign for re-election, Barack Obama at least made vague references to a willingness to accept $3 trillion of reduced spending in exchange for a $1 trillion dollar tax increase.

Nathan Sawaya

I was looking to explore the theme of good and evil, so what better inspiration than the comics? I'd developed a relationship with DC and Warner Bros. when I donated a sculpture of Catwoman to the 'We Can Be Heroes' campaign a few years ago. That's what started it.

Jim Press

We're looking at maybe 4, 5 percent growth, fueled by some of our new products. Next year should be another good year for everybody.

Travie McCoy

The first record we put out on Fueled by Ramon, 'The Papercut Chronicles,' we had no idea what the term 'producer' meant. It was just us writing songs, and we are trying to go back to that - singing in a room and vibing off each other.

Ben Macklin

Fueled by a poker craze, the growth of broadband, and television coverage, online gambling is quickly moving to the mainstream.

O. Henry

We're prepared. We've got three sanders (dump trucks that spread sand to provide traction on icy roads), our trucks are loaded down, ready to go, fueled up.

Jim Press

We think our growth will be fueled by these new products.

Josh Boone

All that stuff, the Wiggins thing, the other thing, might have fueled what you saw tonight. There was trash-talking, pushing and shoving. I think the game was more intense because of that stuff.

Martin Villeneuve

All the difficulties surrounding the making of 'Mars et Avril' actually fueled its creativity and contributed to its international success!

Chua Sock Koong

The mobile Internet is growing, fueled by increasing smartphone penetration and better networks.

Andrew Busch

(South Korea's announcement) comes on the heels of Russia saying the same thing. This has fueled speculation that Japan may do the same,

Ken Marino

The stuff I write with Joe Lo Truglio tends to lean towards horror-comedy and horror.

George Burley

We have plenty of back-up on the left-hand side so we have let Joe speak to Leicester.

Caitlin Kittredge

I've been a big fan of Joe Hill ever since his first novel, 'Heart-Shaped Box.'

Crystal Bowersox

I have a lot of love and respect for Melissa Etheridge. I love Joe Cocker, Ray LaMontagne, Feist.

Kevin Reilly

We don't have any plans for Joey right now. We'll get into March and see how the schedule settles in and reassess to see where Joey can come back in.

X. J. Kennedy

My real name is Joe Kennedy, but if you live in Massachusetts, you can't sign 'Joe Kennedy.' So, back in 1957, I stuck the X on my name to be different from those people in Hyannis Port.

Claire Forlani

I just finished Meet Joe Black with Hopkins.

Muhammad Ali

I used to tease Joe Louis by reminding him that I was the greatest of all time. But Joe Louis was the greatest heavyweight fighter ever.

Muhammad Ali

Joe Frazier got hit more than me - and he doesn't have Parkinson's.

David Rakoff

Youth is not wasted on the young, it is perpetrated on the young.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

In [my] youth I was smacked around.

Dick Clark

The music of your youth stays with you throughout your life.

Elizabeth Arden

Hold fast to youth and beauty.

Agnes Repplier

the most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.

Charles Fourier

Certainly in each social period, youth must be made to venerate the dominant absurdities.

Anton Chekhov

It is always "Youth, youth," when there is nothing else to be said.

Chris Evans

For the youth, the indignation of most things will just surge as each birthday passes.

Dean Koontz

Some argued that the youth of today were poorly educated and insufficiently industrious, but one of them had sought to validate his generation by spending considerable time and effort chiseling an obscene word in the concrete picnic table, and he had spelled it correctly.