Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.'

Kass James

The performance is part of a larger picture. Getting up and performing poetry in front of big crowds is another way for these kids to view their lives from a different perspective, and we want the kids in our program 20 years from now to be reading the books some of these kids have written.

Norman MacCaig

There are books up there I haven't read for many years but I wouldn't put them out. I never know when I might want to read them again.

Peter Kent

There are books on HTML, JavaScript, Java, ActiveX, and all sorts of other geeky subjects. But not only don't you need to understand these things in order to set up a Web site; you can read a dozen such books, and you still won't know everything you need to do.

Adam Rothberg

We're in favor of any program that can give our books more exposure.

James Browning

We started off in the Oak Hill Flea Market, about 1988, selling just about everything, but after a short period of time we found that books sold best. After a while we just got too big for the flea market and since my wife and I always loved books and reading, the natural progression was for us to open a bookstore.

Heinrich Heine

Where one burns books, one will soon burn people.

Nina Jacobson

I am happy to keep working on books because I'm always reading, and I'm always trying to fall in love.

Nicolas Roeg

When my sister and I were very young, my father used to tell us fairy stories that he'd made up. My mother was always telling him that he should write them down, but he would say, 'Well, they've all been done before. There are so many blooming books in the world - why should I write another one?'

David Mitchell

Nothing is as eloquent as nothing.

Francois VI Duc de La Rochefoucauld

The passions are the only advocates which always persuade. They are a natural art, the rules of which are infallible; and the simplest man with passion will be more persuasive than the most eloquent without.

Indian Proverb

There is nothing so eloquent as a rattlesnake's tail

Adam Cummings

The most eloquent way I could offer my respect is with a moment of silence.

David Ansen

It's one of the most emotionally eloquent performances of the year. It shows how Hollywood has just scratched the surface of her talent.

Latin Proverb

It is the heart which makes people eloquent

John Updike

A lot of the Koran does not speak very eloquently to a Westerner. Much of it is either legalistic or opaquely poetic.

Marc Garneau

I am not as eloquent as Stephane Dion.

H. Hunt

We want to travel, and we haven't had time to. And we have to get our house fixed up for our old age. It's been sad and it's been happy. It's been emotional.

Jack Shaw

We know what the solution is - raise the road about 18 inches. That fix could be done in one work week.

Jay Williams

The point for me is to get in, fix it up and get out within two years.

Tim Hendricks

We are always preparing. We work on specific things like the jumps, because they take longer to fix and get together.

Jenny Moshak

We started brainstorming about what were the problems, how could we fix them, what were our resources and where could we start.

Pete Carroll

Why stop a game if you're going to make mistakes fixing mistakes?

Kevin Browne

We have to fix a lot of bugs, improve our features, and get them working as they should.

John Cornyn

There is no more urgent imperative in the United States today than to fix this problem.

Mike Whalen

Until you stop the supply side, it won't fix itself.

Charlie Daniels

I can't wait to get off the bus and... go on stage and entertain people. That's my thing, that's what I love. I love doing it... I thank God I can make a living doing it.

Charlie Chaplin

The people are applauding you because none of them understands you and applauding me because everybody understands me.

Charlie Chaplin

The building is a special place because of its architecture; But it's people who make it special by participating in it.

Charlie Chaplin

I am for people. I can't help it.

Charlie Chaplin

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

Charlie Chaplin

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone

Charles Wagner

If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich

Charles W. Pickering

The public airwaves provide a chance to affirm we want to be a good, decent people; a good, decent nation.

Charles Sumner

The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the people, I appeal.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

I get terrified the first day I'm on a film set. I get nervous walking down a red carpet. I find making speeches the most terrifying thing in the world.

Rob Lowe

I've always written a little bit. I mean, I've written screenplays, and I've doctored my dialogue for years, and I've written speeches - I was a speechwriter on 'The West Wing,' so I like that kind of thing. But I never really thought I'd write a book.

Abdolkarim Soroush

Goals and objectives are based on theories and foundations.

Simon Travaglia

There's no such thing as 'facts of life'. Only standing theories that haven't been disproved as of yet.