Famous Quotes & Sayings

Xavier Chambon

We want to put books in everyone's hands.

Ron Cooper

We have no problem with the audit. Our books are open to everyone.

James Patterson

The fact is that our kids aren't reading books - or frankly, much of anything lately. Schools are under funded, some schools even closing their libraries. Parents have to realize that it's their job, and not the school's job, to get kids into the habit of reading for fun.

Rene Descartes

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.

Joseph Annotti

There is case after case on the books that have upheld the validity of flood exclusion language, exactly the language Mr. Scruggs is contesting.

Joe King

When I'm not playing football, I'm usually studying. I want to go to college, so I got to keep reading books and doing my homework.

A. S. Byatt

You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.

Thomas Carlyle

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.

Mark Frauenfelder

When I was a kid, one of my favorite books was George Gamow's 'One Two Three ... Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science.'

Mike Pence

We have no higher stewardship, no higher calling than to come onto this floor and into this chamber and make the tough decisions.

David Houghton

Whenever you get that sort of wetland component, you get a lot of productivity, ... People in the North Country would call that bugs.

John Heimlich

When your second-highest cost plummets, that's huge. I call it the saving grace of the fourth quarter after the (federal assistance). But we're not quite as sanguine that we can count on that this year.

Saul Klein

When you're visiting the page of an enterprise software vendor and you want to call their support number, that phone number will be highlighted and you'll instantly be connected.

Gary Condit

When folks start calling my dad a murderer or suggesting my mom and dad had something to do with the disappearance, that's too much, too far, unfair and it's wrong,

Jason Mraz

We want people to see us live before we continue on and call ourselves recording artists.

Nancy Verderber

We want people to realize that while we are a national organization and our roots are in the community. We do raise a lot of money but we are also something patients can call on when they need something.

Curtis Green

We want her to know we love her, we miss her and we want her to come home. Please call someone.

Ryan Metcalf

We were trying to find a new shoe place and we were calling all these places. They told us they were going to call us and we never got a phone call back. There was always some problem that kept getting in the way.

David Trimble

We have said repeatedly that we jumped first and gave them the chance to act... and a second chance. Doing nothing is not a cost-free option to republicans,

Gene Upshaw

We have to give them a chance to have their meeting and vote on our package. They can vote yes or no.

Andy Reid

We have to give Lamar a chance to get acclimated. We will see how he progresses there and then we will get him in and utilize his talents.

Bruce Williams

We have to give everyone a fair chance to register,

Bob Hartley

We have to give credit to Tampa Bay, New Jersey and Montreal. They have put on some great streaks, but by winning our games, we stay in the race and stand a chance to win.

Claude Julien

We have to get more traffic in front of the net. Those second and third chance opportunities won't come unless we start getting our sticks on some rebounds. But Belfour didn't make our job easy tonight.

Tom Renney

We have to get Kevin going, get him rolling. I wouldn't mind giving him a chance to go back and play the Islanders. He had a tough game the last time he was there.

Mark Leno

We have a small chance of changing his mind,

Willnett Crockett

We have no complaints about our bracket. The committee did what they did for a reason and we're happy where we're seeded and we're happy we have a chance to do what we hope to do, which is to come back home and play in front of our crowd.

Brooke Warrick

We were trying to characterize the lens through which people see the world. A community is a collection of symbols and images. And we wanted our symbols and images to be better than the other guy's.

Chris Taylor

The expectations are very high that the collection will come back in good condition. Some may be returned in even better condition.

Fred Lohmann

The fact that plaintiffs are using a court order to go into people's homes and collect data for them is unheard of. This is a company that has not been found guilty of doing anything wrong.

Carey Pinkowski

The creation of this series will generate collective interest and excitement at a level that has not existed between our great events in the past. The result of these marathons partnering together is increased visibility, exposure, and growth for the sport of marathon running on a national and international scale.

Thom Mayne

I've grown up a little bit. I understand the importance of the negotiation. It is a collective act.

Michael Devine

We know how much was collected and how much is unclaimed.

Johnny Weir

There's a lot in my closet. I've been collecting things since I was five. I'm definitely a pack rat. I'm not a hoarder, but I'm definitely a pack rat. I will keep anything if I have a memory in it or a good moment.

Logan Mankins

If I can run, I'm not going to sit out any game. I'm here to play football, not to watch and collect a check.

Landon Liboiron

TV is starting to become such a collective experience again. People are watching it on their own time, rather than being on a schedule. Netflix offers the easy opportunity to watch as much as you can.

C. S. Lewis

The proper good of a creature is to surrender itself to its Creator—to enact intellectually, volitionally, and emotionally, that relationship which is given in the mere fact of its being a creature. When it does so, it is good and happy.

Brett Hall

We have no interest in helping him (Coleman) be a martyr. He has demonstrated a lack of understanding of the facts in the past and probably misunderstands what this administration has accomplished in hiring minorities and women in the state work force.

Ken Cohen

There is a lot being said, but if you take a look at facts and fundamentals, we are doing what we can.

Saul Alinsky

It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith.

Susan B. Anthony

The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.

Michael Bennett

Wait just a minute. They didn't keep us out of the end zone. I was tackled in the end zone for a safety in the fourth quarter. Get your facts straight, or get a job working for the New York Times .

David Graeber

[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft.

Carlos Salinas de Gortari

Globalization is a fact of economic life

Charles Spurgeon

You may alter an opinion, but you cannot alter a #‎ fact .

Elle King

I flip the turntables. I write a lot from the male perspective, but as a female. That's how I live my life. I can roll with the boys.

Edward M. Lerner

Anything that can unambiguously represent two values - while resisting, just a wee bit, randomly flipping from the state you want retained into the opposite state - can encode binary data.

Judy Greer

'Citizen Ruth' I saw when I was in college, and I really flipped out over it. I just knew I wanted to work with the person who made that movie.

Jim Kaat

On the flip side, he's going to make the guys toe the line and play the game the right way. It will be professionally run. There won't be anything left to chance. Joe will have everything covered.

Raymond Devine

Basically, she just flipped out. She was under a lot of pressure, I guess, and whatever happened, she just snapped.

Barry Zito

Basically, I had to grab it and side flip it. I was trying to grab it with two hands and stop my momentum. In retrospect, I should have taken my glove off and used my right hand. Plays didn't go our way.

Bryan Lerg

I don't even know if Jared saw me. He just flipped it, and I took over.

Blake Jenner

I take my hair, and I just play with it. I'll just take my hand, I'll mess with the front, and then I'll just pat it on the back, and that's it. I promise you, I don't use hair spray, I don't go crazy with products. I just wake up, flip it, and boom, I go bowling.

Andrew Young

We've changed in the sense that we flipped - and this is no longer the Republican party of Lincoln. This is the party of suppression.

Diane Setterfield

What better place to kill time than a library?

David McCullough

Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.

David Strathairn

Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries.

Jandy Nelson

Each time someone dies, a library burns.

Jane Austen

I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these." - Mr. Darcy

Jane Austen

I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt.

Janis Ian

Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society.

Thomas Jefferson

A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry.

Elie Wiesel

..you do not leave a library; if you do what it wants you to do, you are taking it with you.

Howard Thompson

The proceeds are used for the operation of the Bedouin Shrine Temple and to support our transportation department,

John Byrne

Ultimately it's going to be better for the patient. It's going to transform otherwise high-risk operations into lower-risk operations.

Mark Cooper

Basically, you've got one and two in programming and one and two in system operations now all interconnected in a little knot.

David Moffett

I feel that the operations could and should have been performed a lot sooner,

Ajay Singh

But since they have been a part of similar operations previously we are not ruling out the possibility.

Hong Zhijian

We've been preparing for such operations ever since 2003.

Mick Keelty

The operation is a long way from finished. There's a lot more work to go.

E. O. Wilson

We think that cross-border operations would be unwise.

Cilla Black

I am falling apart. My hand is falling apart. I can't shake hands. I had arthritis, and I had an operation for it.

Alex Roland

It's probably harmless, ... but it trivializes the space program. It seems as if they've got nothing better to do than send up an old, outdated senator.

Freman Hendrix

In many ways, this is a tired, kind of outdated strategy that may have had its place in the 1970s and 1980s.

Satoru Iwata

If we stay in one place, we will become outdated

Tom Watson

We tournament golfers are much overrated. We get paid to much.

John Metcalf

Writers don't have to keep themselves honest. They have to keep themselves accurate.

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

You're going to be hearing a lot about one scrappy president.

Khaleda Zia

Does any one know the number of illegal arms in the country?

Robert Anderson

I expect we will become more demanding as citizens.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

I remain your servant and I will do as you ask of me.

James Boswell

I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

Peter Malkin

Writing and Painting are the same for me.

Peter Bondra

We're getting rewarded. We don't give up on the play and we show some character at the same time, but there is a long way for us to get to where we want to be.

Esther Hicks

If you look in 'The Science of Getting Rich,' you see no reference whatsoever to the 'law of attraction.'

Brooke Shields

Depression is so smart - it uses all your references and patterns.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

Let lying dogs sleep is something I always say in reference to the Smiths.

Mike Eaves

He's like a surrogate grandfather. He represents a reference you can always go back to.

Tom Matzzie

I'm only 30. I don't really understand the reference that much.

Lauren Graham

All my references are 50 years old-when somebody shot J.R., you know? Oh my god, I'm 100!

Peter Capaldi

You can't, as an actor, conduct yourself by making constant references to other people.

Siv Meisingseth

We have no idea how long the strike will last.

Connie Mack

You're born with two strikes against you, so don't take a third one on your own.

Maximilian Schell

Directing is like meeting a woman. You don't know her, but something strikes you, and then you just have to go into it.

Lorenzo Bundy

He was pretty good, especially early. He pounded the strike zone, but he still has to work on his location.

Jimmy Harris

He was spotting his fastball. He had a real tight strike zone.

Derek Jeter

He was throwing strikes, that's the thing. You try to be patient, but if he's throwing strikes with it, you find yourself in the hole.

Rigoberto Medina

There is no connection. The nationwide strike has nothing to do with this.

Trevor Noah

I'm not an abrasive person. I do speak my mind, but my goal is never to offend. I don't intentionally want to strike a chord.

Dan Nobbs

We throw strikes and play defense, that's pretty much our philosophy.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.

Charles W. Chesnutt

There's time enough, but none to spare.

Charles de Lint

In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.