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

Italo Calvino

I am more and more convinced that literature is made up of works, genres, schools, discussions, problems, collective work in order to solve certain problems.

Italo Calvino

For the critic, the author does not exist; only a certain number of writings exist.

Isabella Rossellini

I live my everyday life as a person, and I react to my photos from a certain distance. When I look at a photo, I detach myself and look at it as a product - not as me, Isabella.

Rick Perlstein

In the rest of the industrialized world, your boss can't fire you unless he or she can give a good reason. In America, with certain exceptions, your boss can fire you for any reason at all or for no reason at all.

Robert Kazinsky

Being a 'hunk' is going to do great things for my love life, and I'll get a lot more offers. But I'll certainly never see myself as one.

Robert Mankoff

There's public humor, and there's private humor, and they're all appropriate in their own way, and you shouldn't - just as you wouldn't have a megaphone and say certain things that you would say around your friends - things that are perfectly all right within your close social group with whom you share a certain context.

Roger von Oech

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

Kevin Mitnick

I don't know the capabilities of our enemies. But I found it quite easy to circumvent security at certain phone companies throughout the United States. So if an inquisitive kid can do it, why can't a cyberterrorist do it?

Mallory Ortberg

It certainly was unusual growing up with two fairly well-known pastors as my parents.

Mark Twain

If they had not landed there would be some reason for celebrating the fact.

Bonnie Tyler

I started singing when I was 18 and landed my first record deal with RCA when I was 26 after a lot of grafting singing in pubs and clubs.

Dennis Kuhl

We were some of the first Americans who landed in Vietnam without weapons in our hands, you might say.

Zhang Xin

Quickly, after I landed in England, I found out ways to get scholarships. England turned out to be a very encouraging place for me.

Johnny Whitaker

the only way he could have landed where he landed was if he jumped.

Russell Johnson

We really feel we landed the right one.

Lalah Hathaway

I wrote that song as sort of a prayer, listing all of the things I would do once the plane landed safely on the ground,

David Allan

We then resorted to watching them through a telescope and marked the places where they landed to pick up sample droppings for viral tests,

Cindy Morgan

I landed the role in 'Caddyshack' auditioning, like everybody else. It wasn't a role I thought I'd get, so I had nothing to lose.

Ann Boeckman

When a product reaches the point of spoilage, there will be other signs that will be evidenced - for example, odor, slime formation and a bulging package - so the product will not smell or look right.

James Allen

We are reaffirming what is our policy. This is a standard package of incentives.

Al Jarreau

I want to give the audience the whole package, and for me, the whole package is to give them something fresh as well. It's not as much fun resting on your laurels.

Ronnie Spector

Today, they're just up there for the money, just packaged and be gone.

Mario Martinez

Where are my packages because I want to know, I got the receipts, and I can prove to them that I haven't received my packages.

Chad Reed

We're just not putting it together. The speed is decent, and the package is there. We've just got to put it together for the weekend.

Robert Genuario

We've got a lot of work to do. Frankly, I think you have to scrap the appropriations package if you're going to do tax cuts. ... It just doesn't work.

John Pike

I think we're going to see a package deal.

Tony Smith

I think we've only scratched the surface. I think she's just so unique. She's the whole package when it comes to her ability.

Bubba Tyer

Luckily, there were no problems with his shoulder at all.

Gia Coppola

Making a movie is a lot of problem solving.

Mark Richt

Leonard has got a very strong upside. He's a mismatch problem for a lot of people.

Alan Culpepper

Look, we have that problem solved, because there are only three of them in the Olympics. We got 187 of them out of the way for you.

Pete Egan

So fouls were a real problem for us, obviously.

Barbara Johnson

Never let a problem to be solved become more important than the person to be loved.

Dennis Weaver

Business must be the solution, not the problem.

Denis Healey

Unless you understand the history of a situation, you can't ever hope to solve problems.

Dean Kamen

What really makes it an invention is that someone decides not to change the solution to a known problem, but to change the question.

Tom Mueller

From the very beginning, we said we wanted to know the truth about this terrible incident, ... Now we do

Ronda Rousey

I'm a terrible singer, but I'm not shy about it. I'm shy about dancing.

Andy Weir

I don't even date; I'm terrible with women.

William O'Neill

It's kind of a terrible irony, in a way, that the solution to America's problems was World War II.

Pat Barker

Being a writer is a poverty trap. I mean, it's a terrible profession.

Charles Caleb Colton

In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation; but there are many roads to death, and some of them justly formidable, even to the bravest.

Alan Ball

Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and it's not necessarily a terrible thing.

Bobby Valentine

Unique, ... That wasn't that terrible of a team, I guess.

Elizabeth Kostova

It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.

Cary Fukunaga

I'm terrible at making titles. I never like the titles of my films.

David Icke

I am a channel for the Christ spirit. The title was given to me very recently by the Godhead.

Blaise Pascal

The whole title by which you possess your property, is not a title of nature but of a human institution.

Bong Joon-ho

I love the Japanese director Shohei Imamura. His masterpiece in 1979 called, the English title was 'Vengeance is Mine.

Adelaide Kane

You can be born with a title, but not respect. You have to earn that.

Alison Krauss

The grand old lady of bluegrass? Well, wouldn't that be a wonderful title to have? I hope I do enough to earn it some day

Cory Booker

Leadership is not a position or a title, it is action and example.

Adam Lambert

I've always been fond of the glam-rocker title.

Anne Sweeney

I never looked at a title and said, I want that.

Eddie Van Halen

Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.

Elizabeth Bowen

one should discuss one's difficulties only when they are over.

Dizzy Gillespie

Where there's no mutual respect, there's trouble!

Letitia Baldrige

She's not going to have any trouble at all,

Linda Killian

She's never been in trouble with the law, not ever.

William Shakespeare

The love that follows us sometime is our trouble, which still we thank as love.

Tom Davis

We were having trouble getting out on the shooters. They just drilled us.

Charles Spurgeon

These heavy troubles are heralds of weighty mercies.

David Tang

If you are a friend of somebody and that friend is in trouble, you don't just drop them.

Coolio

Let me tell you the truth: I'm 45 years old. I never thought that I would live to see a black president.

Donald Tusk

A word of truth can mobilise two peoples looking for the road to reconciliation.

Twyla Tharp

The only way to know the truth of a movement is to do it on your own body.

Deng Xiaoping

Seek truth from facts.

Democritus

Nature . . . has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.

Denis Diderot

I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.

Edgar Allan Poe

The greater amount of truth is impulsively uttered; thus the greater amount is spoken, not written.

Edgar Allan Poe

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Edgar Allan Poe

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.