Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Krasinski

I'm a huge classics fan. I love Ernest Hemingway and J.D. Salinger. I'm that guy who rereads a book before I read newer stuff, which is probably not all that progressive, and it's not really going to make me a better reader. I'm like, 'Oh, my God, you should read To Kill a Mockingbird.'

Robin Wright

Now that my kids are out of the house, I'm finally able to get to the classics I never read: Emily Bronte, Dylan Thomas, Joseph Heller's 'Catch-22.' It's endless. They're all in this gigantic pile next to my bed.

Lauren Tarshis

I had learning problems when I was in elementary school, and didn't really start to read well until high school. I never read any of the middle grade classics that were popular when I was young - 'Harriet the Spy', 'Charlotte's Web', 'The Witch of Blackbird Pond', 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'.

Thom Browne

I do love the provocative side of my collection, but I also like the classics - the simpler skirts and the sweater sets and the shirtdresses. And I always love to see girls in jackets and trousers.

Trofim Lysenko

Darwin himself, in his day, was unable to fight free of the theoretical errors of which he was guilty. It was the classics of Marxism that revealed those errors and pointed them out.

Trofim Lysenko

The classics of Marxism, while fully appreciating the significance of the Darwinian theory, pointed out the errors of which Darwin was guilty. Darwin's theory, though unquestionably materialist in its main features, is not free from some serious errors.

Amy Lowell

In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.

J. G. Ballard

I had a very mixed kind of childhood reading. I read the childhood classics like 'Robinson Crusoe,' 'Alice in Wonderland,' 'Chums Annual.' At the same time, I read an enormous number of American comics because Shanghai was an American zone of influence.

Blake Bailey

I'm a huge fan of 'The Lost Weekend.' I have this dog-eared copy of the 1963 Time Reading Program edition, which was a series of contemporary classics reprinted as a quality paperback.

Chris Miles

(Sutton's) an outstanding pitcher, she really is. She is very composed and she does a good job, she's a competitor.

Mignon McLaughlin

Our strength is often composed of the weakness we're damned if we're going to show

Steve Sanchez

Our valley is pretty much composed of retired people - 'old school.' A lot of those traditions were passed down. There's a group of us that would like to preserve those old values.

Tom Slater

I was very pleased with how composed our kids were in another extra-inning game. We had a lot of first-year Auburn players come to the plate in that tenth inning and I thought we handled the pressure very well.

Phil Garner

I thought he was as composed as I've ever seen him,

Joe Thompson

He kicks it and he's never looked back from there. He's one of those guys that is a natural athlete. He's never out of control. That is his mentality. He is composed and poised.

Dick Umile

I give a lot of credit to Kevin Regan. It?s not easy to stay composed when you?re down 3-0. I was proud of the way the guys responded.

Larry Collins

He's going to be a lot more composed this year then he was in previous years. He has something personal to prove.

Rob Sumner

He's played well in all his appearances. He looked very composed and after giving up an early goal, he didn't panic.

Mary Wittenberg

Our races are to our sport what Wimbledon and the Australian, U.S. and French Opens are to tennis.

Francois VI Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Our virtues are most frequently but vices in disguise.

Thomas Keller

Restaurants like the French Laundry can be very intimidating for a lot of people.

Chris Bell

I think there was some burgers, and I know there was some french fries. I had been in school for two weeks. That's why my parents were so pleased, getting off to such a glorious start. Getting thrown in the clink in the first month.

Li Na

Just because you win the French Open it doesn't mean you can do well at Wimbledon.

Friedrich Engels

Just as Marx used to say about the French "Marxists" of the late seventies: "All I know is that I am not a Marxist

O. J. Simpson

It is inconceivable that French workers at Peugeot would be laid off on this magnitude.

Edmund White

I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.

Jaime Salazar

I tell people, yeah, you'll learn French if you want to stop bleeding.

Randy Huth

Our first original singer just pulled it out randomly. We couldn't think of anything better and we've been using it ever since. It's just words that don't make any sense together.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Anthony Storr

Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.

Dave Holloway

I still think that these three original suspects still know more than what they told us.

Ken Robinson

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. It is a process; it's not random.

Steve Smith

Frankly, we wonder if (the NCAA) ever read some of the original documentation we filed in the first place.

Antoni Gaudi

Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin.

Antoni Gaudi

Originality is going back to origins.

Mark Leyner

This wasn't calculated. We didn't sit down and think, 'In three weeks, we can sell 500,000 copies.' But Billy's original idea was a stroke of genius.

Ken Williams

I still have 17 pieces of shrapnel in my neck.

Jimmy Johnson

There are so many pieces to the puzzle,

Jill Buford

I don't think any one of these is the solution. It's going to be a combination of them all. This is just a big puzzle and we need to put all the pieces together.

Jacqueline Grebmeier

Here we put all the pieces of the puzzle together.

Charlie Batch

He's been able to put this together and make sure the right pieces are in place. And we were pieces of this team.

Carson McCullers

Sometimes this fellow's music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about.

Aaron Copland

The melody is generally what the piece is all about.

Eddie Carbone

She puts all the pieces together. I promote the tournament, work with the players. She runs the tournament.

Barbara Kruger

The so-called language of Barbara Kruger is vernacular language. Obviously, I pick through bits and pieces of it and figure out to some degree how to objectify my experience of the world, using pictures and words that construct and contain me.

Gerry Mulligan

You start way down on a low B flat on the tuba and you have a chromatic scale; you can match the colours all the way up, till you get to the top of the trumpet.

Peter De Vries

The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music.

Adam Baldwin

A lot of the television industry is so cookie-cutter. In general, there are so many shows that are easy and bland to watch. You can tune in at any time and know exactly where you are in the story arc because it's pretty much the same every week.

Colum McCann

The Irish are great for their tunes, but all their lovesongs are sad and their warsongs happy.

Donald Curtis

An aware person is in tune with all the powers of God and makes them his or her own.

Chuck Grassley

All week Senate will be on the Stimulus/Porkulus Bill. Tune in C SPAN

Anthony Hopkins

There's many a good tune played by an old banjo.

David Icke

If I get a computer and I tune it to the Internet, it will pick up the Internet from the invisible realms that I can't see.

Carlos Castaneda

...to tune the spirit when someone is trampling on you is called control

Agnetha Faltskog

I would like to sing the theme tune of a big film - something like 'Titanic.

Calvin Harris

There are a lot of mindless moments in my tunes.