Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louis Sachar

I actually started an adult book, worked on it for about two years, and then decided it just wasn't coming together for me, and thought I'll go back to children's books, and almost immediately I started 'Holes,' and it just seemed to take off on me.

Louis Sachar

I think what makes good children's books is putting the same care and effort into it as if I was writing for adults. I don't write anything - put anything in my books - that I'd be embarrassed to put in an adult book.

David Stevens

We applaud studies using animals to figure out ethical ways to obtain embryonic stem cells apart from the creation and destruction of human embryos. So far, however, no one appears to have accomplished this feat. Meanwhile, the good news is that adult stem cells are already providing real cures for real patients.

Cynthia Nixon

We've all seen the mom who devotes all her time and attention to her child and is so hungry for adult interaction that as soon as she's around another adult, she's not paying attention anymore.

Dan Collins

We believe that these types of cells are actually more primitive and more flexible than the adult stem cells that would be found in bone marrow, ... They're much younger. They're more robust.

Josephine Quintavalle

There are currently 58 diseases that are being treated using adult stem cells so the issue of stems cells has a positive side, providing the cells are obtained ethically,

Greg Olmsted

West Nile virus is not known to be here. Our concern is that after seven to 10 days after the rain stops, we could see a large number of adult mosquitoes.

Dennis McBride

When you've got a really good (teacher or) case manager, the kids learn to trust them, to really love them; they're starving for positive adult relationships.

Martin Seligman

If the point of the inner-child movement is to cure adult problems, it doesn't work. Reliving childhood traumas gives you a nice afterglow, but it lasts only for hours or days. There is no evidence it changes adult problems.

Evan Smith

The potential for a weakening dollar is definitely a driver for gold. We could see $700 an ounce in two years.

Jonathan Vilma

We've already been talking about it, how definitely as a unit we're going to step it up another notch. It would be great if we could all stay together and get it rolling for next year.

Greg Rusedski

We usually say it doesn't mean much, but it definitely does.

James Thomas

We are aggressively looking at expanding our coverage. In terms of our distributor and reseller network I would not get into forward projections but what I can share is that we would definitely expand our coverage.

Cathy Keefe

There are definitely more people traveling. And they might not be spending more on each trip, but they are definitely taking more trips.

Jason Rogers

There are definitely high expectations of him, he is saying the right thing, trying to please everybody. But the proof is in the pudding.

Peter Judge

There are definitely going to be lessons we'll be taking away from this,

Pawel Janas

There are definitely going to be a ton of Polish fans there to root us on.

Matt Hasselbeck

There are definitely enough resources of people that have been there. Even guys on our team that have been there and played in this game, and I guess you just have to listen and try to learn what you can from those types of people.

David Feider

We're in a wait-and-see mode hoping that the river is opened to ocean-going traffic.

Stephanie Stoutenborough

We wanted to win the state last year, but we're hoping to do it this year.

Nathan Parsons

Honestly, I'm not interested in gossip. Thing is, I know a lot of successful actors, and in hoping to be successful myself, I would like to think others would respect my privacy.

Dale Martin

We've always wanted to go. We're hoping to get away from it all. Now that the kids are gone, it'll be a little easier.

Kelly Green

We're sore, rusty, out of shape and out of sync. We're hoping they'll get that out of their system (today).

Tony Russa

We're going to talk, and we're going to make sure that nothing slips through the cracks. Scott is really important, and we're hoping that what he's done is not too much too soon. That's why it's important we talk.

Jack Allen

What we're hoping for is to come up with a generalized plan of how people want to see the town develop.

Dave Bristow

We're going to have to wait for more tests. We were hoping this would tell us something.

Jim Talent

Uniquely with methamphetamine, the drug isn't just used and sold in our neighborhoods and communities, it's made in our neighborhoods and communities. We're hoping this will throttle local labs because they will not be able to get the pseudoephedrine they need ... but that does not mean it's going to throttle methamphetamine altogether.

Tom Connelly

What he had in mind was something in the government, but he never mentioned FEMA.

Kathleen Kenyon

It has been mentioned that in Trench I there is evidence of three successive stages of these defences.

John Updike

I should mention something that nobody ever thinks about, but proofreading takes a lot of time. After you write something, there are these proofs that keep coming, and there's this panicky feeling that 'This is me and I must make it better.'

Bob Mayer

The distance between me and my readers is the Internet. I can communicate with them and respond to every email I get or every mention on Twitter.

Don Thompson

We want students to know what they are getting into, ... The recruiters mention travel, but they don't mention the Middle East.

Pat Summitt

I don't think I've mentioned it to the players one time,

Source Unknown

If others have sinned you need not mention it

Joe Gibbs

I couldn't see them overturning that, ... They called it, they reviewed it, and they reversed it. The way their team reacted, I thought it was a done deal. They didn't mention anything to me. They just reversed it.

Bernardo Bertolucci

If you mention any ideological thing about shooting 'Last Tango in Paris,' I was thinking I was doing a political film.

Al Sharpton

Somebody had to bring the truth to the doorstep of this president.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

When I talk about the assets, that was at the beginning of the talks. I was president then. I'm not president now. When I said it, this would be a sign of goodwill to begin the talks.

Chris Christie

Never be easy for any president to deal with any Congress. But republicans got to work together. We got to get things done.

Chris Christie

When the president of the United States says he's going to do something, he needs to do it. That makes not only our adversaries more emboldened. It makes our allies more nervous.

Chris Christie

He [Doanald Trump] had no business being president of the United States.

Chris Christie

The president needs to be a force that is trusted in the world.

Chris Christie

We didn't disqualify Hillary Clinton to be President of the United States the facts of her life and career disqualify her.

David Mitchell

Torturous advances won over generations can be lost by a single stroke of a myopic president's pen or a vainglorious general's sword.

David Kay

Fortunately, President Kennedy and Robert Kennedy disagreed with the estimate and chose a course of action less ambitious and aggressive than recommended by their advisers.

Chet Atkins

Copying one person is stealing. Copying ten is research.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing research and presenting that research to a general public

David Horowitz

Never before in the history of the modern research university have entire departments and fields been devoted to purely ideological pursuits.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I'm a high-functioning sociopath, do your research.

Derek Bailey

I don't research anything.

Edwin Land

Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.

Barbara Tuchman

One must stop conducting research before one has finished. Otherwise, one will never stop and never finish.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I'm not a psychopath, I'm a fully functioning sociopath. Do your research.

Brigham Young

I shall not cease learning while I live, nor when I arrive in the spirit-world… and when I again receive my body, I shall …still continue my researches

Charles Caleb Colton

Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.

Charles Caleb Colton

To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.

Charles Caleb Colton

Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.

Charles Caleb Colton

For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.

Charles Caleb Colton

To judge by the event is an error all commit: for in every instance courage, if crowned with success, is heroism; if clouded by defeat, temerity. When Nelson fought his battle in the Sound, it was the result alone that decided whether he was to kiss a hand at court or a rod at a court-martial.

Charles Caleb Colton

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Charles Caleb Colton

Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.

Charles Sturt

The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes.

Charles Spurgeon

The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.