Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lois Lowry

Many of the books I loved as a kid, that even my mother read as a child, are very slow going. Today's children are not as patient. The best example of this is 'The Secret Garden,' which I adored as a child.

Henrik Larsson

I have adored every minute I have been here. I love the fans, I love the club. But I have already made my decision with my family and nothing will change that.

Bruce Coville

My writing works best when I remember that bookish child who adored reading and gear the work toward him.

Felicity Kendal

My father was my trainer, my teacher. He was closer to my sister in the sense that she adored him and he adored her. He was more like my pal. Because of the 13-year gap, I think by the time I came along, it wasn't a big deal. I wasn't spoilt or cherished, I was just put to work.

Lynn Schusterman

Our family was the most important part of Charlie's life. He loved us very much, and we adored him.

Lauren Bacall

I adored 'Breaking The Waves,' so when Lars von Trier wanted me in 'Dogville,' I was beside myself with joy. He works in a way that nobody I've ever worked with works.

Samantha Fox

All my life, it's been the same with men. Being a woman who is famous and adored by men is very hard for any boyfriend to handle. All my boyfriends end up insecure.

Sathya Baba

WOMEN preserve the culture of this country with greater tenacity and faith. They keep men on the moral path and inspire them to follow spiritual discipline. Their hearts are tender and full of compassion for the hungry and the distressed. That is why in this land, women are adored and revered.

Edward Fitzgerald

I would say that she was an intelligent woman who had a great personality and a great sense of humor. She was an outstanding nurse when she was still practicing. She adored her nieces and nephews.

Hindu Proverb

When an elephant is in trouble, even a frog will kick him

Carol Buckley

We are pleased that the USDA enforced their regulations. We are also pleased that the elephants were released to the sanctuary where they can live out the remainder of their lives in a more natural setting.

Donald Johanson

If you were to go to the National Museum in Addis Ababa, you would walk into a huge room filled with literally tens of tons of fossils, and most of them would be elephants and rhinos and hippopotamus and monkeys and giraffes and antelopes and so on. Hominids are very rare in the landscape, and it's very rare to find them.

Danish Proverb

Though your enemy is the size of an ant, regard him as an elephant

African Proverb

Though the elephant's tail is short, it can nevertheless keep flies off the elephant

Charlie Chaplin

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.

Catherynne M. Valente

I've always had enough, even if my enough and your enough are as different as an elephant and a minaret.

David Brin

We already live a very long time for mammals, getting three times as many heartbeats as a mouse or elephant. It never seems enough though, does it?

Arthur Mutambara

It is better to own 10% of an elephant than 100% of a rat.

Rupam Das

Software is a type of seduction, it's addictive, it's better when it's free.

Bill Gates

Software empowerment can be used here as well.

Yajur Veda

May the 'Lord of the speech' makes our voice sweet and soft. We should always be soft spoken.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odors, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken

Chris Evert

Single-mindedness. I hate to say it because I don't think it's the best thing for developing a person, but the single-mindedness - just concentrating in the one area - that's what it takes to be a champion.

Vincent Cannistraro

If anything is a soft target, it's that.

Michael Wolff

When the source is a story. That's a softball question.

Dave Evans

If they think Napster's bad, I can tell you there's a lot worse coming. ...The software that is untraceable is just around the corner.

Vint Cerf

Writing software is a very intense, very personal thing. You have to have time to work your way through it, to understand it. Then debug it.

Lonnie Bunch

My first task for tomorrow is to stop smiling.

Alastair Reynolds

One of the big breakthroughs I had as a writer was when I stopped agonising over every word.

Charles R. Swindoll

Learning more truth is a poor and cheap substitute for stopping and putting into action the truth already learned

Dave Wood

I feel that I got stopped (because I'm black),

Ed Pastor

Stopping Vieques bombing range good; sooner is better.

G. H. Hardy

Basically, it's been wars that have stopped Mardi Gras.

Warren Rensehausen

I have been able to make arrangements for him to stop by. It will be a first because we haven't been able get him here before.

Barbara Warren

She wouldn't be around if she hadn't stopped smoking,

James Rubin

I don't know who talked first. Let's just stop it, okay?