Famous Quotes & Sayings

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?'

Nikki Grimes

I spent many hours ensconced in the local library, reading - nay, devouring - book after book after book. Books were my soul's delight.

Heinrich Heine

Where one burns books, one will soon burn people.

Emily Smith

What's not to like? I love fantasy books. I love magic and dragons.

Yves Guillemot

We're looking at books, movies and TV shows that have strong characters from the past that we can take and build upon.

Thomas Carlyle

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.

Al Hubbard

There are very good laws on the books. What's important is that those laws are enforced aggressively.

Iris Chang

When you count all the obscure monographic books, there have been many. I probably have most of them in my library.

William Shakespeare

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

David Casey

Many professors don't realize they can just buy the book. We need to create a reminder system for faculty.

John Galbraith

Several times I concluded that there was too much detail; always I returned to continue and enjoy the book.

Lynn Wargo

She immediately immersed herself in the chamber and took different leadership roles at the committee level.

Mike Malone

We've been in discussions about how the chamber can step in and help. The mayor's ideas, from a global picture, would help keep the national economy running but it's not exactly practical.

Marc Basnight

Sen. Thomas' diligence and energy will be missed in the Senate chambers and I wish he and his family the best.

Jeresa Hren

We are grateful the city and the chamber understand the importance and the history of the Chinese people in this valley.

Davy Jones

It's a crying shame we don't play more parks and fairs. I would love to go right to the Chamber of Commerce or whoever they are, so that we could get involved in a different way.

Nick Park

We actually provided a clay bunny, and he was scanned into a computer, fingerprints and all, ... And then he was cloned many times so they could show them all floating around inside the glass chamber in slow motion.

Daniel Hannan

Prime Minister, I see you've already mastered the essential craft of the European politician, namely, the ability to say one thing in this chamber and a very different thing to your home electorate.

Jody Kielbasa

There is incredible anticipation at this event. People sense the festival is on a roll and the weather is chamber of commerce perfect.

Doug Wilson

We planned to test the idea that magma chambers should be closest to the Earth's surface in crust formed at the fastest spreading rate.

Robert Aventajado

We want them to make collective decisions. Otherwise, how can we hold negotiations at all? ... Without them putting their demands in writing, we'll just be confused.

David Crockett

The power of collecting and disbursing money at pleasure is the most dangerous power that can be intrusted to man

Margaret Chan

New and emerging infections keep coming back and the world needs a collective defense system, and that requires international cooperation and collaboration, in the name of global solidarity.

Gretchen Rubin

I collect axioms, paradoxes, maxims, teaching stories, proverbs, and aphorisms of all sorts, because I love to see complex ideas distilled into a few words.

Pat Taylor

We actually collected about 40.5 million with about 7 million dollars pledged

Mark Norell

We always collect more than we can study.

Dennis Miller

America was founded by puritans and like it or not the anti-pleasure dogma of those buckled-shoed killjoys still pervades our collective unconscious like an I-max shot of Dennis Franz's naked hairy cop ass. Hence, anything enjoyable is automatically forbidden and bad and in our panic to avoid it at all cost we become obsessed with it... like dressing up in a pink teddy and a pair of ugboots and repeatedly screaming the word 'VERBOTEN!' into a conk shell balanced on the back on a miniature pony... Oh, I see.. That would just be me.

Brooke Warrick

We were trying to characterize the lens through which people see the world. A community is a collection of symbols and images. And we wanted our symbols and images to be better than the other guy's.

James Calvin

We don't have any doubt that, in one way or another, the taxes on sales to non-Indians are going to be collected by New York. The question is: How soon?

John Savage

When you think about all these people looking to live here and the commerce and housing that entails, you've really got to do some planning.

Patricia Clark

We have seen a move on the part of the (Illinois Commerce Commission) and the state and the utilities to try to introduce competition into these industries, and for various reasons it hasn't really worked for any of them.

Michael Leunig

What modern humans need help with is escaping from the despair of politics, commerce and media, escaping from the drabness and oppressiveness of worldly values and seeing through suburban mentality and normal community standards so that they can find some much-needed relief for their wilting souls.

Mark Jarvis

We're really at the start of the Internet commerce curve. It's a market we think we will dominate as we go forward. As more people use the Web, more people will be driven to our database.

Dean Koontz

Death came, Death went, but Commerce flowed Eternal.

Steve Ballmer

Today's announcements underscore our commitment to executing decisively and rapidly in the online services space by forming a seasoned management team that is dedicated to improving and facilitating commerce for consumers,

David Pressly

We are pleased that Commerce Secretary Gutierrez heeded our concerns, and showed a willingness to work with our industry and consider the needs of American consumers.

Jodie Bernstein

We don't intend to let a handful of rogues erode consumer confidence in Internet commerce or Internet auctions.

Thomas Jefferson

Money, not morality, is the principle of commerce and commercial nations

Patricia Lewis

Usually it's just a concert, but we've had extensive celebrations recently. Four to five restaurants have donated in the past, and we've been able to sample the food and have contests, too.

Whoopi Goldberg

If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of 20 million full-time volunteers.

Natalie Cole

I'm just really, really thankful. I'm thankful to the doctors; I'm thankful to the family that donated the kidney.

E. Hurley

We are seeing in 2005 about a 40% drop in vehicles being donated to Goodwill. And as I understand it, that's pretty typical around the country.

Alex Pareene

FreedomWorks, which is funded primarily by very rich people, solicits donations from non-rich conservative people. More than 80,000 people donated money to FreedomWorks in 2012, and it seems likely that only a small minority of those people were hedge fund millionaires.

Roger Landry

We've found the old Muller's marquee signs that will be put back up. A person donated a 1960 General Electric stove that we will set up. And the old floors will be used.

Vito Galati

Two Men and a Truck just donated pallets to put the food on and are also looking into arrangements to ship the food down there.

Sharon Rainey

We need more money to pay for postage so we can mail them. We have used up all the money that has been donated this year for mailing packages.

Stephanie Hill

Marriott has donated full meals in the past,

Lynsey Addario

The possibility to mobilize the international community to act on human suffering is what drives me every day as a photojournalist.

David Jones

The point about labor market weakening suggests the Fed's ... worried about that. That drives home the point they're going to keep these rates unchanged for a long period of time.

Castor Pang

The plunge yesterday was driven by panic selling, the rebound today is a strong signal for buying.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The only driver stronger than an economic argument to do something is the war argument, the I-don't-want-to-die argument.

Kevin Malone

We've actually had to pull out the stops and have supervisors working the windows and pull in everyone who can give a drive exam and try to accommodate them.

Sal Basilone

We are looking to identify that driver and piece together exactly what happened.

Donald Selkin

Where's the motivation to drive stocks higher?. I thought that we could have done better, but there was no real motivation to move things higher or lower.

Paul Lundberg

When you took away the 3 they drove right by you and you took away the drive they hit the 3.

Martin Freeman

I think people just like seeing friendship. I think people like seeing people who just drive each other up the wall, but at same time, can't live without each other.

William Faulkner

Why that's a hundred miles away. That's a long way to go just to eat.

David Ricardo

Whether a bank lent one million, ten million, or a hundred millions, they would not permanently alter the market rate of interest; they would alter only the value of the money they issued.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

YEAR, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.

Isla Fisher

Women one hundred percent support each other in the movie industry.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

And for well over a hundred years our politicians, statesmen, and people remembered that this was a republic, not a democracy, and knew what they meant when they made that distinction.

Michael Kors

In the '80s, it got to the point where we'd have shows with a hundred looks. You'd want to order a pizza before it was over!

Stephen Colbert

I heard that after you throw away a 'New York Times,' it takes over a hundred years for the lies to biodegrade.

Warren Ellis

I was originally going to train as a journalist, passing a series of exams that winnowed ten thousand applicants down to one hundred places on a National Union of Journalists course.

John Shedd

When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes.

Eddie Izzard

Peace, peace, peace. Peace is organized.

Clare Short

We have reports of systematic and organized use of rape,

Robert Myers

Many people want to restrict your access. They are well organized and very vocal.

Lonnie Donegan

The shows weren't organized at all. They just happened.

Calvin Klein

People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry, but I can't talk about that. I'm looking to stay alive.

Vicente Fox

On that side and this side there is organized crime. On that side and this side there is drug consumption.

Jann Wenner

I'm a neat freak... It seems to me that an orderly desk is reflective of an orderly and organized mind, you know?

John Marshall

Because Ray was so organized anyway, we just kind of plugged things in and we go.

Dolores Huerta

Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth.

Charles Stanley

In times of defeat, we never know how close we are to victory. In every event of failure, God has planted a seed of success.

Charles Spurgeon

Victory needs conflict as its preface.

David Millar

The manner in which one loses the battle can sometimes outshine the victory.

David Mitchell

Once any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, its victory is assured.

William Shakespeare

I came, saw, and overcame.

Elizabeth May

You should never even ask if a campaign is winnable, because the question is not answerable. No-one can predict the course of the future. Time and time again I have seen completely unforeseeable shifts in the tide of events that result in campaign victory.

Beth Moore

Our victory rests not on faith in our spirituality. Our victory rests on faith in our God.

Bob Marley

The hotter the battle the sweeter the victory.

Bill Walsh

Victory is produced by and belongs to all.