Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexandra Fuller

Until I read Anne Frank's diary, I had found books a literal escape from what could be the harsh reality around me. After I read the diary, I had a fresh way of viewing the both literature and the world. From then on, I found I was impatient with books that were not honest or that were trivial and frivolous.

Alexandra Fuller

I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really wonderful book, written by someone I've never heard of before.

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.

Oprah Winfrey

Like Dr. King I have a dream of my own, too, that the powerful message of this little book would be engraved on every human heart and will never be forgotten again. That you who read this book will feel as I do that these 120 pages ... should be required reading for all humanity.

Johann Kaspar

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

Eytan Rockaway

Life is a book and you are the author. But the ending someone else writes so makes every page count.

Jean Bruyere

Making books is a skilled trade, like making clocks.

Mick Foley

Love wrestling? On October 1st, Spike TV gives you more of what you love! Total Nonstop Action.

Lawrie McKinna

Losing Nick is a big blow, but it gives other players in the squad an opportunity to show us what they can do.

Dani Caron

Moving it back has really helped because it gives me more time. Because the strong pitchers just throw fastballs. I can put more movement on it now.

Granth Sahib

Meditate on that Lord, our True Lord and Master, who gives sustenance to all.

William Cowper

Nature, exerting an unwearied power,Forms, opens, and gives scent to every flower.

William Cowper

Nature, exerting an unwearied power, Forms, opens, and gives scent to every flower.

Sam Rockwell

Money is power and power gives you choice.

Lisa Abron

Now we've got to pray and hope somebody gives us a wildcard.

Pat Gillick

Nunez gives us some versatility in that he can play three infield positions and is a switch-hitter.

Marcelo Porto

Many are saying that it is the end of their liquidity. But I think they will stay for a while, because there are too many derivatives linked to the receipts.

Shyla Nelson

So in that sense, it's a story that really is vitally linked to a staged situation.

Gen. Hermogenes

It is presumed that they have already linked up.

Mike Williams

I think we're always going to be linked together,

John McGahern

I think it's linked to the realisation that we're not going to live forever and that the way of saying and the language become more important than the story.

Bret Harte

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Charles Clark

I think it would be very, very surprising if they weren't linked in some way,

Jason Miller

1 out of every 3 professionals on the planet is on LinkedIn.

Eddie Jones

There may be one or two others that we may rest and they may also be medically linked as well.

Joe Barton

Let's wait and see how this all turns out. I don't think we are quite ready to say what Net neutrality is.

Mark E. Smith

Seventy-five percent of our networks are storage related.

Mick Jagger

Network television. They're always worried about how many times you're going to say f--- on the air.

Gail Evans

Networking is not about you -- it's about putting people together.

David Strom

Netscape has been very unsuccessful at interacting with the trades, ... They don't understand how to do PR.

Ivan Misner

Online networking is a phenomenon that really has just started to reach its stride.

Todd Rethemeier

I would have thought somewhere between $10.50 and $11 a share would have been a better price before I saw the 4,000 net (customer) adds.

Sailesh Jha

On a net basis, it is still quite positive.

Chris Gratton

Olli is doing everything for us. He's a big, physical guy, and he's getting to the net for us. He's playing with a lot of confidence.

Rachel Sklar

I find the term 'workaholic' to be distasteful because it reminds me of the harried-looking lawyers I recall chained to their desks through nights and weekends during my lawyer days years ago.

Nate McMillan

Some nights you just get beat. You do the right thing most of the time, but you just get beat. I think this is one of those nights.

Jarret Stoll

Some nights you feel like you can't lose. Luckily, it was one of those nights.

David Dinkins

I don't find myself sitting up nights saying, whom should I support?

Yogi Berra

I always got nervous the nights we played in the World Series. First pitch, I was nervous. Then after that, forget it; I'd start playing.

Tom Renney

We'll have better nights than we had. We'll win again.

Heather Watts

There are nights when you are lucky enough to tap into something about yourself that you are unaware of and can't possibly control, and somehow, at that moment, other people can view it or sense it or feel it.

Ed Sheeran

I've done some really weird gigs. The ones where no one turned up - they're probably not the interesting ones to talk about. I played some pretty random ones in L.A. I signed to play all-R&B nights or an all-comedy night where I'd be the only white person there. They were fun.

Jim Boeheim

This was one of those nights when we weren't going to be denied.

John Humphreys

Now they have a pretty strong portfolio. This is a powerful tech story for the company, and they need that.

Charles Spurgeon

Lower the Law and you dim the light by which man perceives his guilt; this is a very serious loss to the sinner rather than a gain; for it lessens the likelihood of his conviction and conversion. I say you have deprived the gospel of its ablest auxiliary [its most powerful weapon] when you have set aside the Law. You have taken away from it the schoolmaster that is to bring men to Christ . . . They will never accept grace till they tremble before a just and holy Law. Therefore the Law serves a most necessary purpose, and it must not be removed from its place.

Diane Lane

I would say chemistry between two people is very powerful. You have to fight to keep it, but if you don't have it, you can't manufacture it.

Dennis Prager

The words 'I'm sorry' are so powerful that it's almost difficult to overstate

Dennis Prager

Complaining is never powerful because at the root of a complaint is powerlessness

Democritus

Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.

Deborah Tannen

any criticism heard secondhand sounds worse than it would face to face. Words spoken out of our presence strike us as more powerful, just as people we know only by reputation seem larger than life.

Dee Dee Myers

During my years as a press secretary, I developed a powerful internal filter, which worked to strip all things 'off message' from my thoughts before they came out of my mouth. It didn't always work, of course, and I said more than a few things I regretted.

Dee Dee Myers

Obama has made America cool again - and more than that, he's made his own brand arguably the most powerful the world has ever known.

Andrew Benelli

We won't be able to do much until spring, when the rains subside.

Fred Hill

Every time it rains we get a real mess. It's very disheartening.

Steve Smith

When it rains it pours. That about sums it up.

Daljit Singh

The weather has suddenly changed. If it rains tonight (Tuesday) as well, we would have to see how much sweating is there on the track.

Alexandra Adornetto

If you're worried about safety, you might like to follow my example and put on that seat belt." "The what?" Xavier shook his head in disbelief. "You worry me," he muttered.

Rep. Gunderson

Let's get them out there and see if they're interested. If they are, they can go through hunter's safety when they turn 12.

Demosthenes

Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There is no way to peace along the way to safety. For peace must be dared. It is the great venture.

Eliot Spitzer

Imagine if investors in Wal-Mart really cared about bribery at that company's overseas operations or safety standards at its overseas manufacturing plants. If investors pulled their capital, corporate leaders would have to respond.

David Neeleman

Value will always be on top of everyone's lists now, right along with safety.

David Neeleman

Nobody ever thought about having to protect the passengers from the pilots.

English Proverbs

It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.

Jane Garvey

We want to make sure safety is not compromised in any way whatsoever.

Chris Frantz

When I was a kid growing up in Kentucky, on lucky summer nights, my cousin would pick me up in his Chevy Super Sport and drive me down along the Ohio River to Cincinnati to hear some rock 'n' roll. Those were exciting times, and the bands would play late into the night, rocking soaked in sweat. When I hear the Ready Stance, these memories come back to me and I remember that Cincinnati has produced so many wonderful musicians. The Ready Stance is among that number. You will be hearing a lot about them in the future.

Charles Spurgeon

None of us can come to the highest maturity without enduring the summer heat of trials.

Charles Morgan

There are moments, above all on June evenings, when the lakes that hold our moons are sucked into the earth, and nothing is left but wine and the touch of a hand.

Dennis Quaid

In my early teen years, I wanted to become a vet. That was my plan. I worked as a veterinarian's assistant for a couple of summers.

Deborah Smith

Possibly the best thing about the whole experience is that Kang and I are now really good friends. It's as much of a pleasure and privilege to know her as a person as it is to translate her work. She's been over for two UK publicity tours, which means lots of time to chat on trains etc., and she was hear all last summer for a writer's residency in Norwich, where I got to meet her son too.

Deborah Smith

I teach Korean translation at the British Centre for Literary Translation summer school, so I see an emerging generation too, who are around my age. I'm hoping to find time to mentor, and to help emerging translators to a first contract through Tilted Axis.

Dean Smith

The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

Edgar Allan Poe

Sound loves to revel in a summer night.

Edgar Allan Poe

To him, who still would gaze upon the glory of the summer sun, there comes, when that sun will from him part, a sullen hopelessness of heart.

Edsger Dijkstra

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes, biology is about microscopes or chemistry is about beakers and test tubes. Science is not about tools. It is about how we use them, and what we find out when we do.

Hon Ip

There are tools we can use. It is not true that nothing can be done once H5N1 is back into wild birds.

Banksy

Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.

Steve Sobolewski

We have all the right tools on this team. No one can touch us.

Carlos Slim

All times are good time for those who know how to work and have the tools to do so.

David Brenner

Digital brand integration is part of the evolution of product placement. It's simply another tool marketers use to get products integrated into shows. If you can put it in a package, we can put it in a show.

Dee Hock

Only fools worship their tools

Charles Edwards

The budget evolved from a management tool into an obstacle to management.

Charles Lyell

No tools have yet been met with in any of the gravels occurring at the higher levels of the valley of the Seine; but no importance can be attached to this negative fact, as so little search has yet been made for them.