Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Johann Kaspar

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

Jean Bruyere

Making books is a skilled trade, like making clocks.

Emily Johnson

Let?s just say you?re not going to see these books at the public library.

Mary Kaufman

Libraries and books have always been a part of my life and have made a difference in my life. I have always had a passion for books, both reading and collecting.

William Shakespeare

Love goes toward love, as schoolboys from their books;But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.

Maureen Corrigan

Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books

Greg Owen

If we're going to be involved in leadership work, we not only have to teach, we have to learn. And we need to work vigorously to remove the reasons that gangs exist.

Tony Sirico

I've done, like, 45 movies, played 40 gangsters and five crooked cops.

Robert Pattinson

I never really considered myself attractive. I was always kind of gangly in school.

Julie Myers

Transnational street gangs pose a growing public safety threat to urban and rural communities throughout the United States. Their violence, sophistication and scope have reached intolerable levels.

Binyavanga Wainaina

Every human being has a bit of gangster in him.

Martin Gleeson

Whether this confrontation was in any way related to youth gangs is something that is still under investigation.

Charles Koppelman

We grew up watching gangster movies. We wanted to make a film that people would quote to each other like 'Diner' and 'Godfather,'

Al Capone

I am like any other man. All I do is supply a demand.

Tone Loc

Me, myself, I was a part of gang bangin', you know what I'm sayin'?

Juan Cole

My gut tells me the letter is a forgery.

Rich Greenfield

My gut instinct is they need to do something in the $350 million range to be seen as 'Disney's on its way back in animation,'

Tony Leon

Only the DP has the guts to stand up to the ANC.

Brandon McCarthy

I go with his gut feeling. In most situations, it works out.

Ryan Hall

If they've got the guts to do it, you can't really say anything about it.

Mike Tyson

I don't have the guts to stay in this sport anymore.

Kathy McCartney

We played with a lot of guts and heart. I like the way my team is playing right now because they are winning the tough games, and obviously that is what you want to see this time of year.

Bruce Jackson

The mainstream media showed, for example, no blood and guts resulting from the 9/11 attacks.

Lisa Unger

I read 'Rebecca' when I was a teenager and was swept away by the powerful voice, the gut wrenching suspense and the dark, twisted love story at its center.

Sanford Rubenstein

Let the message go out that in this country, when a police officer kills an innocent victim, he will be held accountable.

Tony Blair

Milosevic is responsible for the welfare of those people, ... When we go into Kosovo finally, he will be held responsible for what we find.

Kerry Carr

My expectations for the weekend were always held in check. I had never seen the team perform.

Alafair Burke

Now that I think about it, maybe my own literary exploration of the dark secrets held by families could be traced back to V.C. Andrews.

Doug Harvey

I always tell my wife, 'If you're ever looking for something to put on my gravestone, put down, 'He was an honest man, and he never held a grudge.'

Heidi Perlman

We want to make sure these kids aren't held up.

Ray Stevenson

One of the most profound things for me is that my character's name was held by somebody, ... It's not just made up.

Cy Alexander

I was real pleased how we held our composure, and I'm disappointed we couldn't come out with a win.

Craig Jones

She was in a position of trust as a public servant, so we held her to a higher standard than we normally would.

John Abraham

My instincts are where I need them to be,

John Cooper

I feel tremendous pressure. But then when I start to feel pressure I go, 'I have to trust my instincts.' Every time when I haven't trusted my instincts is when I've made mistakes.

Amy Cooper

She's a tremendous middle blocker. You can't teach instinct and she has it.

Thomas Mann

Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.

Kim Moore

We needed the killer instinct tonight and not let them get back in it.

Al Sharpton

I always go by instinct and then wrestle with where by instinct brought me.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

The more knowledge you have, the more you're free to rely on your instincts.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence.

Charles Macklin

The instinct of interest is the universal instinct of mankind.

Albert Schweitzer

Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you hold it up against the light of God's goodness, it shines and turns transparent, radiant and bright. And then you ask yourself in amazement: Is this really my own life I see before me?

Albert Schweitzer

Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power to forgive.

François Chateaubriand

One is not superior merely because one sees the world in an odious light

Joanne Davis

My hat's off to them for doing their process in the light of day.

David Burks

Maybe everything's on the up and up. But in light of what's happened, people are just going to be naturally suspicious when these names come up.

Retief Goosen

No, I'm not even thinking about the lightning incident,

Keenan McCardell

When the lights come on you've got to play like you're young,

Charles R. Swindoll

Faith is like lighting the torch that passes from one person to the next. You can't light the torch of another if yours isn't burning.

Denis Hayes

An aggressive building performance standard for all new buildings, and a set of performance requirements to be met by all buildings before they can be sold (when upgrades can be included in the new mortgage). These should encompass heating and cooling, lighting, and plug loads. Coupled with new efficiency standards for appliances, lights, and furnaces, this should reduce the energy consumption of new buildings by 50 percent, more or less immediately, and go on from there.

Jon Sakoda

Worms that are traditionally targeting MSN will also target the Yahoo users,

Darren Shan

I know who the demon thief is - it's me!

Bob Dylan

No reason to get excited,' the thief, he kindly spoke, There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene.

Ally Carter

Time, the greatest thief of all.

Clive Barker

We're both thieves, Harvey Swick. I take time. You take lives. But in the end we're the same: both Thieves of Always.

Diogenes

Once he saw the officials of a temple leading away some one who had stolen a bowl belonging to the treasurers, and said, "The great thieves are leading away the little thief.

Diogenes

The great thieves lead away the little thief.

Ann-Marie MacDonald

The thief you must fear the most is not the one who steals mere things.

Daniel Defoe

Pleasure is a thief to business.