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.

Judy Ramage

Seventy-one percent of home buyers start their search on the Internet.

Chris Avery

Second-home buyers should go into this with their eyes very wide open.

Yao Bin

Motivated by a hundred thousand yuan they could save on the tax before the new rule takes effect, those luxury car buyers who are eager to get a license to drive, largely raise their bidding price, which resulted in the new highest price.

Fred Ketchen

On extremely light volume, we've got a half decent jump on the TSE 300 here. Obviously the buyers all came to work and the sellers all decided to take a hike,

Leena Singh

My expectations are really great this time because the buyers list is extremely promising. So I think the graph, as usual, will go higher and will go this time also.

Timothy Ghriskey

Maybe there aren't a lot of sellers left and buyers are starting to put money into the market,

Joe Strohm

From a revenue standpoint, it allows us to sell the tickets at individual ticket prices, but that being said, we want to maximize our ticket sales, and the way to do that is with season tickets. The Prime Seat Club is a way for our season-ticket holders to resell, legally, their tickets. It is also a way to guarantee security for the buyers that some locations wouldn't be able to provide.

Mark Templin

Since the launch of Scion three years ago, designers have learned a great deal about what inspires and motivates Scion buyers through its unique vehicle lineup and instilled them into the FUSE.

George Shiffler

The quest for growth is forcing vendors to test the limits of PC price elasticity. The whole dynamic is compounded by the fact that buyers have increasingly come to expect sharp price declines.

Dawn Anderson

Life is full of choices. They could have called for help. They could have stopped and walked away. They made their choice that day, now they must pay the consequences.

Albert Camus

Life is a sum of all your choices.

Nicolle Devenish

make it clear he's now energized and ready to talk about the choice people have next November.

Chris Simpson

Mainly they'll talk about with them the importance of education the importance of the choices they make,

George Bernard Shaw

Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.

Bill Young

Let there be no doubt, our choice -- the choice of President Bush, the choice of the United States Congress, and the choice of the great people of a great nation -- is to fight back. The world will be impressed by our response and we mobilize for this fight.

Wim Kok

Let's be realistic. The voters gave us a huge thrashing. The people of the Netherlands have made a different choice.

Jack Lamb

Many parents, you could offer all types of choices, and they're going to choose what is most convenient.

Luis Derbez

Severing diplomatic relations is an extreme choice and the Mexican government does not intend to do so for now,

Denise Hakim

Life is not about getting the easy in. Things happen in life for a reason. What makes you confident is knowledge and getting an education.

Julie Matheny

Mac and Kelsey, they can stroke it pretty well. They're very confident shooters, as any good shooter should be.

Cory Lidle

Look, they just went ahead. The math showed we have to win our final four, and they have to go 2-3 in their last five. We're confident that we can do our part. But we're depending on another team to step up.

Rosabeth Kanter

Leaders deliver confidence, that's what they do. They make decisions, they set strategy, they do all the technical stuff, but they also have to make people feel confident that their efforts will pay off.

Brad Stuart

Leetch was trying to do a slap pass to me and it kind of got away from him, but sometimes you get those lucky breaks. I knew I hadn't made a kicking motion. The only thing I tried to do was I tried to move my leg and get my stick on it. But I was pretty confident that they would realize that it wasn't a kicking motion.

Peter Taylor

Leroy is very, very dangerous in the penalty area, and he knows how to take a goal. He is a confident boy.

Brian Finneran

Matt's been confident since he showed up here, he's had control of the huddle, in practice, in training camp. In the games he's played in, he's always been confident in his ability.

Matt Hasselbeck

No disrespect at all, ... but we expected to win this game. I've been on teams and gone in places where I'm not sure everyone felt that way. We're more confident than we've ever been.

Dorothy Moore

No one can guarantee me anything. I am much older and much sicker than I was when I had the first transplant, but I am confident in my doctors and confident that I will find a donor.

Lionel Anderson

Madison's height took us out early in the game but we never quit. We continued to play our game. It is what we do. We play basketball.

Dan Popowics

Lowe's has had a lot of momentum as it expands into the Northeast and other areas. Americans continued to spend on their homes, with the kicker here being the warmer January that drove more traffic into stores.

Nancy Connelly

Losing those players really hurt us. In the second half, we continued to play on, but couldn't score. It was a good team effort, and a very disappointing loss. I felt as if we could have come out on top if not for the injuries.

Ralph Connor

Last year she ran 16:59 here. She ran faster here than last year and last week. It's a good time on this course and she continued to show that she is one of the better runners in southwestern Indiana.

Ralph Connor

Last year she ran 16:59 here, ... She ran faster here than last year and last week. It's a good time on this course and she continued to show that she is one of the better runners in southwestern Indiana.

Naomi Wolf

Let's dare to release our immature fantasies of a magically faultless U.S. system and a magically protected election process. We have been lucky as a nation, but sometimes continued luck depends on action.

Castor Pang

Many investors and funds continued selling... as the market lacks fresh good news. Interest-rate worries continued to dampen sentiment.

Masayoshi Yano

Share prices gained as New York stocks continued to rise overnight.

Stanley Chou

Mobile phone stocks primarily contributed to the main board's rise given hopes continued strong demand will help Taiwanese handset makers report solid revenue growth in the next few months.

Kurt Barnard

Sears is now giving evidence that its new marketing strategy and new slogan work very effectively.

Pip Coburn

So far there's very little evidence of excess inventory and 1Q 04 expectations seem reasonable to us relative to historical norms.

Jack Straw

So far there is no evidence of any transfer of the virus to human beings.

P. J. O'Rourke

Medical researchers don't know much about head lice because they don't much care. The reason that they don't much care is, paradoxically, that they know a lot. That is, they know one important thing: there is no evidence that head lice transmit disease.

Alexandra Sanders

My heart goes out to the other five families. But we just didn't have enough evidence in those cases.

Michael McGrath

No one was there to say anything for him. If we're just to take him at his word when all the evidence points to the contrary, that's not very much to go on.

John Sherman Cooper

Now, people have said that somebody told them that they saw somebody on the railroad bank or saw somebody going over the bank, but no one has ever been able to show any cartridges, any rifle, any pistol, no one has ever found anything other than the evidence about Oswald.

H. Hunt

I feel we have sufficient evidence to prosecute the case.

Nicholas Kristof

Sex and gender are such befuddling mysteries even for those of us who are in the mainstream that you'd think we'd be wary of being judgmental. Yet much of society clings to a view that gender is completely binary, when, in fact, there's overwhelming evidence of a continuum.

Don Cooper

Mac needs to come into spring ready to get a lot of innings. I'm not going to say he's our long guy or our seventh-inning guy or a spot starter, but he is a reliever right now until further notice.

Bruce Springsteen

Let's take the good times as they go, and I'll meet you further on up the road...

Milan Khatri

Low interest rates have really been powering these markets. The ECB is worried it is signaling inflation further down the line, but in the U.K. you have had very strong house-price rises, and no real pickup in general price inflation.

Jia Qinglin

Last year, President Hu Jintao and President Jacques Chirac exchanged visits successfully, which further boosted the development of bilateral ties,

John Edward

So long as he leaves open the prospect of even further rate increases, however, he won't get it.

Paul Tracy

Obviously we've had some run-ins this year and I've come out on the short end of the stick but that only motivates me further for next year,

Mark Regev

No one on the Israeli side has ever said that disengagement goes further than Gaza. Let's be very clear, this was a unilateral Israeli step.

Brian Nelson

More money should come in to the sector in anticipation of further consolidation.

Sam Stovall

We might have a little further to go on the downside,

Adlai E. Stevenson

Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.

Hiroyuki Nakai

Share prices rose on the back of the gains on Wall Street overnight.

Toshihiko Matsuno

Share prices rose as technology shares here benefited from gains in the Nasdaq index.

Pasquale Pistorio

Sequential and year-over-year gains were recorded in all major product groups and applications, reflecting primarily increases in unit volumes.

Stuart Morris

McDonald's, Taco Bell, KFC, Popeye's and Sonic have produced same-store sales gains of 4 percent or higher.

Mariana Fulger

Meaningless is everything, until it gains sense in someone's life...

Vojislav Kostunica

one of those compromises in which everyone gains something and no one gains everything.

Charles Spurgeon

Lord, let me find my life in thee, and not in the mire of this world's favour or gain.

Qian Qichen

We won't haggle with the U.S. over a day or two's worth of gains or losses.

Pam Dixon

Making money on identity theft is a growth industry and it's just not pretty.

David Hilal

Licensing is the story. All that other growth from services and maintenance comes from having new software business.

Glenn Tilton

much stronger position to seize growth opportunities as we move forward.

Jeff Schuster

Moving forward, most growth in the SUV segment will come from car-based vehicles.

Heather Dougherty

Online sales are poised to well outperform the growth in retail overall as more shoppers turn to the Web for convenience and values.

Elbert Hubbard

Growth is often a painful process.

John Silvia

Growth looks solid. The problem is prices paid were up again, suggesting inflation pressures remain a concern.

John Goulter

Growth like that shows we're heading in the right direction.

Gary Thayer

Growth is still at a healthy level. There is no major slowdown.

Masayoshi Yano

Share prices here rebounded ... after the market succumbed to profit-taking for a second straight day (on Wednesday).

Michael Carty

Sentiment, generally, is the big problem now. Even as market fundamentals are starting to improve, people are reluctant to buy,

John Yap

Sentiment around IPO stock reflects market sentiment, especially on the first day.

Corey Ostman

Semiconductors are not what the market wants to see right now.

Loren Loverde

Maybe we can't keep up the pace, but the market is healthy.

Mark Mahaney

Maybe the market wants to pay that, but I wouldn't want to do that,

Hideyuki Suzuki

Now, the market is in panic but we will see it settle down after a while.

Jeffrey Hirschkorn

Next week's market is going to be big for tech companies. As long as the Nasdaq powers ahead, we're going to see more and more filings.

Timothy Noah

Markets can do many wonderful things, which is why I'm glad to live in a capitalist country.

Rebecca Ryan

many times, online is the first way a young professional sees the area.

Mark Logan

Scott's been out there from the get-go on how to make the online space profitable.

Jeffrey Grau

Online sales still represent about 2 percent of total retails sales. So there's a lot more room to grow,

Geoff Johns

The truth is, we're all cyborgs with cell phones and online identities.

Trent Reznor

I watch people, friends of mine, and see how they portray themselves online and I find interesting that it's kind of a hyper-real version of yourself, how you'd like to be seen, in a way.

Steve Breen

I read the 'New York Times,' 'USA Today,' the 'Union-Tribune,' then go online to Drudge, CNN, Fox News, blogs.

Gina Bellman

I think there was a petition online to get me involved in 'Doctor Who.' I'm not a 'Doctor Who' fanatic, but I am a Steven Moffat fanatic.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

Sometimes I'll be reading something online and just get so frustrated because of what people are saying.

Nev Schulman

The idea of finding your soul mate, whether it's online or not, is what people want.

Boone Pickens

Mr. Pickens is pleased to have some skin in the Barnett Shale game.

Bob Easton

Obviously, we are very pleased with (Clinton's visit).

Dominik Hasek

I can't say I'm disappointed or pleased with the process. I'd like it to go faster, but unfortunately it isn't. I suffered an injury, and it is a serious injury.

Thomas Miller

From a durability standpoint, I don't know that there's much more you can do. We're real pleased with its reliability.

Mike Hargrove

I was real pleased with how he threw the ball. He was down in the strike zone and threw well.

Rick Francis

I was really pleased with the way we played.

Nick Saban

I was pleased with the way Sage played,

Craig Faire

I was pleased with the way everyone played. We were able to get out and run.

Bob Souliere

I was pleased with the team's effort. They worked hard, unfortunately we had a poor shooting night.

Chuck Morris

Ticket sales are very solid, to say the least.

Peter Reynolds

When we have a special event, our sales triple,

Brian Tracy

Resolve to be among the top 20% of salespeople who make 80% of the sales.

Linda Thomas

Our sales are expanding. We've had to turn down stores for milk.

Keith Pearson

Overall, sales have been good. Things have been going smooth.

Jon Hanson

Token sales have spiked, ... Token use has spiked.

Tom McMillan

There has never been a three-week stretch of season ticket sales like this. Ever.

Richard Foreman

We really won't see the story until we get into the spring and see the spring sales activity.

Catherine Lee

It's not an appraisal, it's more of a sales tool.

Albert Schweitzer

Happiness is the only thing that multiplies when you share it.

Arlen Specter

Should (the information) have been shared if it could have prevented (the) 9/11 (attacks)?

Frank Robinson

If we can do that more often, we're going to win our share of games.

Scott Wilson

You make something from nothing, you want to share it.

Dick Franti

We still had our share of mistakes, but we made our way through it. We didn't let them get us down.

Becky G

I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.

Alan Watts

...[W]ords can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

I don't feel I have to share everything.

Bertolt Brecht

Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.