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.

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.

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

Eytan Rockaway

Life is a book and you are the author. But the ending someone else writes so makes every page count.

Jean Bruyere

Making books is a skilled trade, like making clocks.

Lewis Carroll

Make a remark,' said the Red Queen; 'it's ridiculous to leave all the conversation to the pudding!

Phil Klay

Less than 1 percent of American have served in 12 years of war, and serious public conversation about military policy is sorely lacking.

Stephen Marley

Music is like a conversation. One person says one thing that speaks with a harmonica, with a bass, with a drum. They're all conversating, and we're just trying to find a way to make conversation rather than blah, blah, blah. But it's not really so hard a thing to do if you know the way to approach it.

Eleanor Roosevelt

No, I don't. Well, I mean, she's here, she's a presence, but we haven't been able to have a conversation.

Tom Renney

We had a very professional conversation. It was not any kind of confrontation, it was just sharing thoughts.

Andy Cole

When I have a conversation with anybody, I do look deep into them,

Daniel Portman

I'm a point of conversation for my friends.

John Hopkins

Get the lead and help the customer move forward in their purchase decision. Convert the customer shopping online into a referral, the referral into a telephone conversation, the conversation into an appointment and the appointment into a sale.

Skip Bertman

Fresno State is one of the top teams we're looking at. I think our last conversation with them was pretty positive, but I wouldn't say it's done until ESPN finishes talking with them. We need ESPN to cooperate and pay them some money.

Manolo Blahnik

I'm very painful to deal with when I create a shoe.

Marc Bolan

I'm serious about the music, but I'm not serious about the fantasy. It's no big deal being on TV!

Tim O'Brien

Life is never all one thing. It bounces around. Certainly, my own life has. Look at Woody Allen's funny movies - all the humor comes out of sad stuff. Sometimes you have to laugh, no matter what life deals you.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism?the way you play it is free will.

Michael Ryan

Like everyone else, the school system will have to deal with increased utility costs. We already are running with a deficit from fuel oil for this year's budget.

John Glover

Luck has had a great deal to do with my career.

Kip Winger

Major labels they're not into me at all because the name is like - all they can remember is what I've done, so I don't even want to deal with that.

Patrick Quinn

Magazines and newspapers are loath to discuss these types of deals publicly.

Tim Fitzpatrick

Lexmark's cartridge return program deals exclusively with laser printer toner cartridges. It does not involve any inkjet products. The court's decision was very specifically about this program.

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

Every time you work, it's a new film, and generally when you work with auteurs, people that write and direct their films, there's always an originality.

Isabella Rossellini

It's nice to go and be a guest on a television sitcom. It pays well; it's easy because generally it's a supporting role, so you go, you do two or three things, you're in touch with people there. They're widely popular, so they're seen by many people.

Robert Toombs

The instant the Government was organized, at the very first Congress, the Northern States evinced a general desire and purpose to use it for their own benefit, and to pervert its powers for sectional advantage, and they have steadily pursued that policy to this day.

Mallory Ortberg

After I do my first writing of the day, I will generally look at Twitter and Google News - and that's my big media secret. I look at Twitter and I look at Google because they pull all the headlines from other websites.

David Cole

Low risk is something we generally recommend that users can ignore. Medium risk is something we quarantine, and high risk is something we automatically remove.

Lord Byron

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Michael Healey

Scott taught me a lot on general high jumping stuff, using my forearms and trying to keep me relaxed. He taught me how not to always be in such a hurry and missing stuff.

Richard Suzman

Minority health in general is worse than white health.

William Wood

Most water professionals think people use too much water in general and irrigate their lawns too much in particular. But we think the state is being unreasonable in their requests.

Robert Kazinsky

I would have liked to have had more to do with Kristin Bauer van Straten. She's the nicest human being that I think I've ever met.

Albert Schweitzer

Never for a moment do we lay aside our mistrust of the ideals established by society, and of the convictions which are kept by it in circulation. We always know that society is full of folly and will deceive us in the matter of humanity. ... humanity meaning consideration for the existence and the happiness of individual human beings.

Albert Schweitzer

Who shall enumerate the many ways in which that costly piece of fixed capital, a human being , may be employed! More of him is wanted everywhere! Hunt, then, for some situation in which your humanity may be used.

Albert Schweitzer

Search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.

Warren Farrell

Men are not human beings,they are human doings

Ivonne Sanchez

Men is able to clonate a human body, but will never be able to clonate a human soul

Tom DeLay

medical research predicated on the destruction of human embryos.

John Kricfalusi

My intended audience was everybody. I just want to make cartoons for human beings.

John Lydon

My inspiration is everything that the human being gets up to.

Janet Napolitano

Several of them are inside doing their homework,

Eric Newman

Max was kind enough to give us an inside look at how the story was developing.

Mike Kopp

No one knows our program inside and out better than Harold.

Jimmy Fallon

On 'Late Night,' it's like we're all in on the joke. That's what I wanted it to be. I'm not doing something sneaky. Inside jokes, I don't like those. We can all ride together, and everyone's on the same thing going, 'Aha, I know where you're going here.'

Takeru Kobayashi

The one thing that's broken inside of me is that I've lost the signal most people have to feel hungry or feel full.

Tommy Amaker

I can't say enough about Jason Williams. Boy, is he a tough player. He's relentless. He scores inside and out.

Alex Wurman

What I did was to be a little more inside the box,

Taha Ramadan

on Monday there will be no American inside Iraq (taking part) in inspections.

Bill Peterson

She's a very strong inside presence. She rebounds well and scores very well down low. She has a number of back-to-the-basket moves that are really nice. Defensively, she shuts down the other team's big girls.

Rick Perlstein

Economic issues are a subset of social justice. Social justice is unimaginable without economic justice. Isn't that obvious?

Bill Flott

Make it your top priority in this next week to get these issues resolved.

Christopher Klaus

Many of the issues come from software vendors trying too rapidly to get the software out of the door,

Gerardo Copca

Many issues that had lagged are rising this week.

Christopher Richter

Setting those two issues aside, we would have seen a pretty nice rise.

Matthew Fassler

Mr. Edmondson's personal issues ... are tangential to the firm's recent lack of execution, results and direction.

Ron Pollack

Of all the policy issues going on right now in Washington, this is probably the most important.

Richard Boucher

Non-proliferation is one of the most important issues on our agenda.

Gene Green

On issues like this, we are trying to pull together,

Jeffrey Eugenides

One of the reasons I like Barthes more than other writers of that ilk is because he had a literary quality.

Ian Mcewan

Something is missing in our culture. We can't quite celebrate the scientific literary tradition.

Aberjhani

Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one's mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks.

Siri Hustvedt

It's not as if I've been unlucky. My books have been published and reviewed. I haven't lived through terrible literary suffering!

Ellen Potter

I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But I had so much more fun writing kids' books.

Tawni O'Dell

I write literary, not commercial, fiction - or so I've been told by my publishers who are proud I write literary fiction but secretly wish I wrote commercial.

Horace Engdahl

I think he is unassailable from a literary point of view, ... On the other hand, there may be some people who think he's too established.

Andrea Hirata

I think what matters most in literary work is the context, not the text.

Paul Theroux

Japan, Germany, and India seem to me to have serious writers, readers, and book buyers, but the Netherlands has struck me as the most robust literary culture in the world.

Ed Stern

You look for a stage manager who really is in charge, who can really smooth things out.

Ted Lindsay

The owners and managers were too stupid to realize we had brains.

Namie Amuro

I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried.

Paul Anka

I wrote 'She's a Lady' on the back of a TWA menu, flying back from London after doing Tom Jones's TV show. Jones's manager wanted me to write him a song. If I have an idea and I don't have a pad of paper, I'll write on whatever is available. What's the difference? Paper is paper.

Arne Glimcher

I've been told I'm a good midcareer manager.

Michael Carty

We're seeing a little turnaround, after so much negative news. It's also the end of the quarter, so portfolio managers need to do a little window dressing.

Scott Cooley

He is one of the smartest managers around.

Donald McDonald

We've been trying to get applications out, but everything has been rejected because of his record. I would go with him to talk with some of these managers to just be a support for him.

Jon Lester

Pitchers really don't deal with the managers a whole lot. When we come in the clubhouse, we see him, we say, 'Hey.' That's really it.

Ted Lindsay

The owners and managers were too stupid to realize we had brains.

Namie Amuro

I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried.

Arne Glimcher

I've been told I'm a good midcareer manager.

Michael Carty

We're seeing a little turnaround, after so much negative news. It's also the end of the quarter, so portfolio managers need to do a little window dressing.

Scott Cooley

He is one of the smartest managers around.

Donald McDonald

We've been trying to get applications out, but everything has been rejected because of his record. I would go with him to talk with some of these managers to just be a support for him.

Jon Lester

Pitchers really don't deal with the managers a whole lot. When we come in the clubhouse, we see him, we say, 'Hey.' That's really it.

Bill Lee

Most of the managers are lifetime .220 hitters. For years pitchers have been getting these managers out 75% of the time and that's why they don't like us.

David Hensley

The (Purchasing Managers Index) points to robust, broad-based growth.

Terry Fox

Ms. Garcia is stretching the truth for her own personal gain,

Dick Van Dyke

Rob Petrie is who I really am - in personality and general ineffectiveness.

Patrick McMahon

give everything they have right down to personal sacrifice.

Deepak Chopra

Unless there's a personal transformation, there can be no social transformation.

Aaron Copland

The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the other half listens and notates. The half that listens has better look the other way, had better simulate a half attention only, for the half that dictates is easily disgruntled and avenges itself for too close inspection by fading entirely away.

Justin Timberlake

My career decisions have nothing to do with my personal life.

Jessica Valenti

One of the difficult things, especially about blogging, is that you put all of your personal out there, into the political. And what's been difficult, for me at least, is trying to keep some of the personal for myself.

Dale Romans

I wouldn't have taken it personally even if he was. I've got more important things to worry about than what he does with his horse.

Howard Stern

I have a personal rule that I'm not going to curse.

Kelly Golob

Scoring points has never been a priority. It's always been the team's success.

Ken Goldstein

One of the things this points out is that we're on the road to recovery, but the road is going to be bumpy -- it always is.

Mark Dyer

Obviously, we're getting closer. At some point in the calendar, we have to have negotiations with the one it comes down to.

Jeff Shaffer

No one point is more important than another.

Mike Heimerdinger

No. I don't have a point of reference.

Heather Bowie

No, I don't feel like I have a point to prove. I don't think there is anything to prove.

Julie Robertson

No point in going out of here too early. We'll take all the time we can get.

Dennis Ritchie

A program designed for inputs from people is usually stressed beyond breaking point by computer-generated inputs.

Mike Graham

(Girard) has pushed him to the point where his serve is much better.

Chris Roberts

Obviously, we would have preferred that it wouldn't have been taken to this stage.

Ted Ligety

I would prefer to win standing up to him.

Jeffrey Skilling

I would prefer they not know I'm considering selling.

Peter Hain

I would prefer that it wasn't there. I would prefer it was closed, yes.

Cate Blanchett

I guess I prefer to be quite private. It's a myth that actors are exhibitionists.

James Lindsay

If they are successful, they will be doing a very chunky rights issue. Our preference is that they stick to what they've got and do that better.

Johan Reinhard

I'd much prefer that they not be displayed, just because of all of the headaches.

Charlie White

From my own personal standpoint, I've always preferred my hair shorter because it's just easier.

Kristine Fauerbach

We prefer to give them away than to have them go somewhere where they will be turned around and sold again.

Joe Wurzelbacher

Private unions, such as the UAW, is a choice between employees and employers. If that is what they want, then who am I to say you can't have it?

Greg Evans

Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.

Wolfgang Schauble

My private financial situation is such that I don't need to worry about my investments. I don't have much to invest.

Betty White

Avoid tweeting any photos of your private parts.

Mark Delegal

What they say in public and what they say in private are so different.

Brigitte Bardot

My private life became public.

Bode Miller

I like to keep my private life private for the most part.

Nick Velasquez

I think that raises questions about what he has done in the private sector. What's he trying to hide?

Shannon Flaherty

His tight schedule deemed these private travel arrangements necessary.

Robert Kazinsky

There are always things you wish you could've done better, and there are always things that you wish would've turned out a different way in terms of storyline, which you're not in charge of.

Craig Venter

Traditional ways of distinguishing populations are irrelevant in terms of genetic code.

Al Pacino

Explain to me what Italian-American culture is. We've been here 100 years. Isn't Italian-American culture American culture? That's because we're so diverse, in terms of intermarriage.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

For me to think in terms of employing security seems ostentatious.

Lars Larsen

I never think in terms of gold, currency, diamonds. I'm not clever enough for that.

H. L. Mencken

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

Yossi Beilin

We have no terms for dialogue, but we do have terms for negotiations.

Joe Mathis

We are already tapped out in terms of volunteers and staff.

Willis Reed

We would still have been here if we could have come to terms with the union.

Alexandra Adornetto

Gabriel: Bethany lacks understanding about the ways of the world. She still has much to learn and that makes her vulnerable." Beth: "Do you have to make me sound like a full-time babysitting project?" Xavier: "I happen to be an experienced babysitter. I can show you my resume if you'd like.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Mon cher, you are a simpleton. You really don't understand a thing.

Eleanor Roosevelt

To be mature you have to realize what you value most... Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one's own values is a tragic waste. You have missed the whole point of what life is for.

Elizabeth Drew

Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits.

Eliot Spitzer

Jimmy Carter laid out policies that we now look back at and say, 'Gee, that actually made sense.' But you also need to explain it and convey and communicate in a way that provides that tableau, that understanding.

William Ford

The only person who can understand a veteran is another veteran.

David Jenkins

Deep thoughts (come) from a deep well. Society is useful because when we see ourselves reflected through others we can gain a deeper understanding of ourselves.

Edward Witten

I have a much easier time imagining how we would understand the big bang, even though we can't do it yet, than I can imagine understanding consciousness.

John Sweeney

I have a very understanding wife, and she understands this is part of the job.