Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexandra Fuller

Until I read Anne Frank's diary, I had found books a literal escape from what could be the harsh reality around me. After I read the diary, I had a fresh way of viewing the both literature and the world. From then on, I found I was impatient with books that were not honest or that were trivial and frivolous.

Alexandra Fuller

I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really wonderful book, written by someone I've never heard of before.

Cory Doctorow

Well, I don't know. It's long, it's longer than both of the other books put together, so it's more ambitious. I think I get under the skin of the people a lot more than in the other books.

Robert Wilson

As a very young man growing up in Texas, usually I got a shotgun or cowboy boots for Christmas.

Malorie Blackman

I loved reading when I grew up but did feel totally invisible because I couldn't see myself and my life reflected in the books I was reading.

Malorie Blackman

What I wanted to do was use literature and different kinds of stories and poems as a springboard, tapping into the creativity of our teens - I wanted teenagers to come up with their own creative responses to literature - using books themselves as a starting point.

Jean Kerr

Life with Mary was like being in a telephone booth with an open umbrella-no matter which way you turned, you got it in the eye.

Oprah Winfrey

Like Dr. King I have a dream of my own, too, that the powerful message of this little book would be engraved on every human heart and will never be forgotten again. That you who read this book will feel as I do that these 120 pages ... should be required reading for all humanity.

Johann Kaspar

Let none turn over books or scan the stars in quest of God who see Him not in man

john bejo

Love should make us smile, jest and laugh. A stiff relationship is a symptom of a demented affair. God loves a cheerful lover.

Sasha Carter

My grandparents, I'm sure, were nervous sitting on the couch watching. And I hear that my dad had some friends over to his house. My sister's in Winnipeg and I'm sure they were all glued to the TV and cheering and sweeping on that last shot.

Phil Hardberger

No one told these fans to cheer for the Saints, ... They chose to do it, and I'm proud.

Gerhard Schroeder

No one will be forced to cheer or love the grand coalition,

Terry Jones

I'm cheerfully optimistic about life. Optimism is very important!

Tullian Tchividjian

The required cheerfulness that characterizes many of our churches produces a suffocating environment of pat, religious answers to the painful, complex questions that riddle the lives of hurting people.

Charles Spurgeon

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.

Elbert Hubbard

I believe in courtesy, in kindness, in generosity, in good cheer, in friendship and in honest competition. I believe there is something doing somewhere, for every man ready to do it. I believe I'm ready, RIGHT NOW.

Andre Johnson

If another team was in the same situation we're in, the fans would be doing the same thing. They come out and support us every week, but when you're down you have to do something to cheer yourself up.

Ozzie Guillen

Last year, we took a lot of heat in Chicago because they always say,

Barry Ritholtz

Maybe the reason the VIX has dropped so low is that the options guys in Chicago are so exhausted from watching the Cubs,

Daniel Clowes

When I close my eyes to draw I always think Chicago in 1975.

Radim Vrbata

If Chicago was a Stanley Cup playoff team, I might not be here. I want to show I can play. I'm just glad I'm here. I'm trying to prove I'm a good player.

Bob Wickman

The pitching is a big core. You look at the Chicago White Sox, what they did last year, the New York Yankees, when they were in their heyday, they had pitching and that's what wins championships. You're very seldom going to slug it out with a team in the playoffs.

John Parsons

On that particular day, the incidents occurred while we were transporting people to Chicago for a work day.

David Schwimmer

I love directing. It's something I started doing in theatre when I was in university in Chicago and I started a theatre company right out of college and was directing for many years.

Mike Royko

Show me the worst school districts in Detroit, New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, and I'll show you parents that shouldn't be raising a Chia Pet, much less a child.

John Cruickshank

Since our voluntary reporting of the problem, the Chicago Sun-Times has been committed to make fair and equitable restitution to our advertisers.

Craig Biggio

Last year we got to really see what our crowds were all about in this building. They're your 10th guy.

Greg Paulus

Lee is a natural leader. He's been great to me, just telling me crowds are going to say this, or they're going to try to do this. He just makes sure you're doing your thing.

Dustin Moskovitz

There's a lot of complacency in philanthropy. People figure organizations are trying to do good, and that's enough, even if the results aren't there. But that's wasteful and inefficient. It crowds out better programs.

Diane Kruger

I have a kind of boring personal life, to the paparazzi anyway, and I don't hang with the cool crowd.

Elizabeth Edwards

Honestly, I get energized by the crowds. They feed me emotionally.

Paula Brown

On the second Sunday of Mardi Gras, we had the largest turnout for those parades that we had ever seen on a Sunday. This Fat Tuesday's parade drew one of the largest crowds we've ever seen on any Fat Tuesday.

Lupe Fiasco

Once you've been on tour six, seven years, you get an idea of what works and what doesn't work universally. There will be some crowds that we just can't play a song, but we've got 90% of a show that we know is going to be a hit with the Lupe Fiasco fan. I think the catering has already been done.

Terry Pirtle

We have a local mix of 4A and 3A teams, so I hope the crowds will be really good.

Tim Tierney

We have an idea what to expect when we get down there. We know what the floor is like. We know what the crowds are like. We didn't get to play, so we didn't get the full experience of it. But now we're ready for that.

Marc Rotenberg

We're not big fans for the posting of privacy policies because what is much more important is privacy practice.

Gary Bettman

Like all fans, we're thrilled that we're back and that the game is doing as well on the ice in terms of entertainment, excitement, speed and skill. And that our fans have been receptive.

Lance Armstrong

Luckily the fans saw through these (doping) allegations.

Mark Sanchez

'Luchadores, mil mascaras'... a thousand masks. I see a lot of those in Jets colors. And then the Hispanic fans of other teams, they'll wear them in their colors. And they're like, 'You're our guy, Sanchez, but I'm a Steelers fan.'

Mike Tice

Look, when you go to some stadiums, it's so deafening that you can't hear. When you have 15,000-20,000 of the opponent's fans in there, it's not deafening. There is a difference. The fans that were there were great. But it wasn't like a big game when it's just your guys in there.

Simon Cowell

Look, she doesn't need to thank me and she doesn't need to thank American Idol. She does need to thank the fans who voted for her on American Idol. That's all.

Elaine Elliott

My kids are great kids. I would think the Lobo fans would support us because we are from the same conference.

Jaromir Jagr

One positive thing is we don't have to travel very far. Maybe our fans will be in the building. Maybe it will feel like seven home games. It's good for hockey and it's good for New York. More people are going to get interested in the playoffs.

John Bunting

Obviously when you get into the season, the fans are taking it one game at a time, too. But all of a sudden, here it is. Here it is.

Isabella Rossellini

There is often a great disparity between a director's personal style and the movies he makes.

Kristy Swanson

I can't ask for every movie I make to be great and brilliant. I can only try.

Mallory Ortberg

In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.

Malorie Blackman

Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.

Jerry Reinsdorf

Like I said, Dennis has been of great value to our team.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.

Scott Peck

Life is difficult. This is the great truth, one of the greatest truthsit is a great truth because once we see this truth, we transcend it.

William Congreve

Let us be very strange and well-bred: Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while; and as well-bred as if we were not married at all.

Thomas Ryan

Let him sit here in his skivvies while we get him a new suit if they want to play like that.

Greg Sterling

Many of these video-sharing sites are all variations on a theme. So at some point, we're going to see consolidation.

Joe Keller

Now we won't be sitting on each other's laps. This will be nice.

Jack Nicholson

Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.

Todd Jones

When I left, I didn't like the situation and didn't want to be here.

Dean Smith

There is a point in every contest when sitting on the sidelines is not an option.

John Delaney

I can't see a sustainable situation here, because there are too many loopholes.

Eric Takamura

From where I am sitting now, 2008 is not realistic.

Bulgarian Proverb

From walking - something; from sitting - nothing

Daniel Craig

Now, product placement, whichever way you look at it, whether you like it or you think it's disgusting, or whatever, it's what it is.

Deirdre O'Kane

I can't function if I don't have tea. I don't know whether it's psychological or a real necessity, but I just need it.

James Wallace

From our standpoint, we're being very reasonable. It's up to (RIM) whether they want to be shutdown.

Tom Woods

I don't know whether 3-3 would do for us, I don't know if 4-2 would do. But I know 6-0 would do.

Teresa Heinz

I've always worked on bipartisans, whether it's on healthcare, drug reform, et cetera. All my work is bipartisan, because what I'm - as nonpartisan actually, because I look for solutions. I'm very practical.

T. Boone Pickens

I don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American.

Simon Sinek

Whether individuals or organisations, we follow those who lead not because we have to, but because we want to. We follow those who lead not for them, but for ourselves.

Trip Adler

We actually determine whether the book is read and make payments to the publisher based on that.

Vanessa Hudgens

You have a choice whether you want to be happy or not. I choose to be happy.