Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Robinson

Record-breaking sales of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince drove significantly higher results in children's book publishing and distribution and for the company overall,

Robert Molleda

Relative to most of the country, it's still rather mild, but when people book Florida vacations, they're not expecting temperatures in the 40s.

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Or have We given them a book before it so that they hold fast to it? / Nay! they say: We found our fathers on a course, and surely we are guided by their footsteps.

Wayne Dellinger

Part of the reason I wrote the book was that so many people were leaving their jobs (to invest in foreclosed homes), and they had no idea of what they are doing.

Oprah Winfrey

passports to new and exciting worlds... and I know that I would not be the person I am today had it not been for my love of reading.

Malorie Blackman

Part of my job as Children's Laureate is to visit schools and talk about my love of books and stories and encourage them all to do it as well - to read, to write, to never be afraid of their own voice. Because we all have something to say.

Gunter Thielen

Our major acquisitions and joint ventures ... will be shown on the books for the second half of the year,

Martin Luther

Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.

Andreas Scheuerle

Order books are full and people are operating closer to capacity, so that companies are building up employment again.

Sara Barwinski

Our problem is too many empty gates, not a congestion problem.

Debbie Wang

I think there's always going to be a group of people who are willing to do that, especially as you get more empty nesters. In those households, the pet takes on incredible importance as a member of the family and people are willing to shell out incredible amounts of money to keep them healthy.

Jeff Dungan

I think there are going to be a lot of empty nester types who don't want their 5,000-square-foot house anymore, don't have their kids in the house and are ready to travel.

Allen Ginsberg

I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs -- when I was 17 -- that I realized I was talking through an empty skull, ... I wasn't thinking my own thoughts or saying my own thoughts.

Sarah Parsons

I think we are going to come out flying and smoke them and prove to everyone how good our team actually is. We didn't sacrifice this much and work so hard to come home empty handed.

John Jay

It feels empty because it was an opportunity wasted for us.

Goeran Persson

There are so many names that will be shouted today. It is so empty where someone is missing.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

Empty threats are often worse than saying nothing at all. It's like leading from behind. Eventually, no one thinks you're leading at all. And after a while, no one is even listening.

Tom Watson

If I said yes, it would be an empty promise.

Jeffrey Brown

I was always most interested in drawing - most of my childhood drawings are black-and-white line work. And when I kind of abandoned comics, through college and art school, I was doing a lot of painting. But once I started doing comics again, everything else just fell by the wayside.

Mary Malone

Jenna was abandoned at the gate of the orphanage when she was 11 days old, and she was never in danger because she was found immediately.

Larry Silverstein

It is inexcusable that the Port Authority abruptly abandoned the talks (Tuesday) night without a plan to move forward. We are not sure where this leaves us now.

Charles Dickens

. . . I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul. In my degradation I have not been so degraded but that the sight of you with your father, and of this home made such a home by you, has stirred old shadows that I thought had died out of me. Since I knew you, I have been troubled by a remorse that I thought would never reproach me again, and have heard whispers from old voices impelling me upward, that I thought were silent for ever. I have had unformed ideas of striving afresh, beginning anew, shaking off sloth and sensuality, and fighting out the abandoned fight. A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.

Clinton Portis

I don't know what the deal was, but we abandoned the run. We abandoned the run -- I don't know what it was. I can't sit here and tell you it was because of the fumbles or it wasn't, but for whatever reason it was, we abandoned the run. I think when we get to go out there and execute our game plan it's hard to beat us. Every time we become one-dimensional we end up losing.

David Dye

There are tens of thousands of abandoned mines and quarries scattered across the American landscape, and some are more visible than others.

H. Hunt

There are so many stray and abandoned cats,

Michael Moschen

I was learning things in school rather than learning how to teach myself, which is what you have to do in life, so I just abandoned it and did ceramics for a year and a half.

Hale Irwin

(Friday), the putter abandoned me early, and I never got it back. I went to a little different putting style. And I did roll the ball much better. I had more opportunities. I tried to be a little more patient and continue to hit good shots. Eventually, you're going to make a couple even if you don't putt well. That's what I did the last couple of holes.