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.

Marc Faber

The entire political elite has mismanaged the Indian economy for the last 50 years. You cannot solve a crisis that is borne as a symptom of mismanagement in just five minutes or in a week. It will involve significant sacrifices and pain, and I doubt that in India there is the political will to face the music.

Danny Peitz

We're not born to be wild, but we want him to take us on a magic carpet ride.

Bubba Sparxxx

Man, I'll tell you as far as creatively speaking man, there is stuff that is unique and different about every person that is born into this world.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man is not born to solve the problems of the universe, but to find out what he has to do... within the limits of his comprehension.

Matthew Arnold

Light half-believers of our casual creeds, who never deeply felt, nor clearly will d, whose insight never has borne fruit in deeds, whose vague resolves never have been fulfilled.

Jose Lagos

Let's not forget who these immigrants are. They work hard, they pay taxes, and many have U.S. born children. It gives them the peace of mind that they can continue to work legally.

Homer Simpson

Let's just say that on this day, a million years ago, a dude was born who most of us think was magic. But others don't, and that's cool. But we're probably right. Amen." - Homer Simpson

Andrew Kreisberg

So many heroes are driven by destiny. Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, they were all chosen and born to heroism. Even with Batman, it doesn't feel like Bruce could do anything else. His whole life was leading him to become the Dark Knight.

Charles Caleb Colton

Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

Patrick Reilly

Lynn is a Mount Mercy girl. Her husband, Tom, who is also here tonight, and I are Timon guys. Incidentally, Kevin and Tom grew up together in South Buffalo. They haven't seen each other in 25 years since they were at Holy Family on Tifft Street together.

Jon Corzine

let his family down and he'll probably let New Jersey down, too.

Camille Moute

Leaving my hometown and my family was very hard.

Matt Doherty

Leaving Florida was hard. At first I didn't want to leave, at first I didn't want to look at another job because we have a lot of work to do there yet...but this was an opportunity here for me professionally and for my family was that was just a great fit. It had 'Matt Doherty' written all over it.

Deborah Chernoff

Many teenagers are supplementing the family income. Connecticut has a high standard of living, and people need more money to live on.

Ben Bernanke

Many savers are also homeowners; indeed, a family's home may be its most important financial asset. Many savers are working, or would like to be.

Gene Nudo

Selfishly, I wanted my family to see our team play and let them know we are doing a good job out here. We put a good show on tonight.

John Boehner

Mitt Romney comes from a family of builders.

John Kierstead

Mountain Pointe always seems to come out and fool people. We make it a family and put it together.

Johnny Griffin

Much of what was said was initially said by the cooperating witness, ... It was leading questions.

Vince Carter

I wouldn't mind it. Initially it would be like.

Jarno Trulli

We can sell initially because of my image. But, if the wines aren't good, we won't sell any more. We've got to keep pushing quality to the limit.

Ken Bacon

We don't know whether it'll be twice as large or three times as large or 50 percent as large as we initially planned.

Jay Wright

It actually looked a lot worse than it was. It's much, much better than they initially anticipated.

Clint Hurdle

I think initially we need for him just to go out there and get outs, then we'll find a job a for him.

Tim Nance

I think it's much better than what I initially thought. We were very, very fortunate.

Joel Slotnikoff

Very sad to me that he would come up at least initially as unidentified.

Steve Niles

There's one or two people who are friends of mine who passed initially that I like to remind everyone once in a while. But that's just because I'm trying to get something else going on over there.

Alexandra Adornetto

Sometimes you meet a person and you just click-you're comfortable with them, like you've known them your whole life, and you don't have to pretend to be anyone or anything.

Italo Calvino

I'm afraid I don't think I really have a life on which something can be written.

Roger von Oech

Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up and do them.

Kurt Andersen

I think we tend to be kind of ahistorical, and think that life as we are living it in the moment is all we know.

Marcy Kaptur

I view myself as someone who is always trying to make life better in practical ways and putting the pieces together to do that.

Malorie Blackman

A film of my life would never happen!

Mamata Banerjee

I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.

Albert Schweitzer

Late upon the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset . . . there flashed upon my mind, unforseen and unsought, the phrase 'Reverence for Life'.

Albert Schweitzer

Reverence for life . . . does not allow the scholar to live for his science alone, even if he is very useful . . . the artist to exist only for his art, even if he gives inspiration to many. . . . It refuses to let the business man imagine that he fulfills all legitimate demands in the course of his business activities. It demands from all that they should sacrifice a portion of their own lives for others.

Donald Trump

Let's see how Buchanan does and then maybe we'll step in,

Michael Schaffer

Maybe you need to look at your student evaluations.

George H. W. Bush

Maybe you know something I don't know. I've been working,

Larry Brown

Maybe when you play Miami, you need 36 fouls in the middle; I don't know,

Chris Shelton

Maybe when the season is over, I can realize what I did to start the season and that I did something special. Right now, it's about getting some wins.

Evan Needham

Maybe when I'm not playing well I can get sick of golf. But then I get back into it again.

Donald Lowe

Maybe what we'll find is that you really need a combination of two tests, again, because not one test does everything for everybody.

Sam Singer

Maybe we should trade in our supervisor for somebody up in Seattle.

Brian Urlacher

Maybe we shouldn't get a bye week anymore.

Alexandra Fuller

I love my mother so much, because I see the whole of her.

Alexandra Fuller

One of the things about being raised British in Africa is that you get this double whammy of toughness. The continent in place itself made you quite tough. And then you've got this British mother whose entire being rejects 'coddling' in case it makes you too soft. So there's absolutely nothing standing between you and a fairly rough experience.

Alexandra Adornetto

I believe it stands for 'mother I'd like to...befriend,

Amy Milliron

Mothers risk prosecution every time they go out in public and nurse their children.

David Lucas

Mother nature really stuck with us on this,

Joe Wooden

Mother nature is not cooperating. Things will get worse as the day progresses.

John Humphreys

Mother Nature didn't make slate for the purpose of putting it on a roof. We did. We've taken out all of the vulnerabilities and disadvantages of the natural material.

Anna Lee

Mother, ... if you could stop time, when would you stop it?

Jennifer Johnson

McCauley called his mother and said he had killed someone.

John Day

On the Mississippi coast, the water went in and went out - in New Orleans, it went in and sat there,

Jini Reynolds

On Saturday afternoons today, you'll find women spending time with their families, traveling or at the gym.

Fred Siget

I was scared and sat in the snow - I couldn't go down.

Mike Cope

If we're staying within the footprint, to me that's Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. With that being the footprint, why did we designate Saturday only? I don't understand that.

Ed Warner

I had sat around campfires all my life, since I was 10 years old. I wanted the sound of water.

Lynn Kimbrough

She wanted everyone to know she's satisfied with (the outcome).

Alan Cranston

I don't feel any need for redemption. I'm satisfied with what I did in the Senate. I don't look back. I look forward.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

I've sat through boring speeches; didn't get up and leave.

Erno Rubik

It was tremendously satisfying to watch this color parade.

Joe Keller

Now we won't be sitting on each other's laps. This will be nice.

Dean Smith

There is a point in every contest when sitting on the sidelines is not an option.

Eric Takamura

From where I am sitting now, 2008 is not realistic.

Bulgarian Proverb

From walking - something; from sitting - nothing

Eddie Van Halen

Everything comes to me while I'm sitting on the pot.

Jim Butler

We want to make sure the vessel was not compromised when it was sitting on the beach.

Anne Donovan

I was stunned. I was sitting over here (on the sideline) stunned that it was happening.

Michelle Johnston

I was sitting there thinking how to give her condolences if she lost. All of a sudden, like wham, she won.

Scott Young

I was sitting over there and all of a sudden bam, bam, bam.

Unknown

May the most you wish for be the least you get.

Goran Ivanisevic

Of course, I really wish I was out there playing,

Mick Cronin

Obviously, I wish we could have had him. Things happen. What are you going to do?

Edsger Dijkstra

If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as 'lines produced' but as 'lines spent.'

Eddie Vedder

You feel that no matter what's said in the music or how pointed it may get, the most you can wish for is that it plants a few seeds.

Eddie Vedder

I wish I was the verb 'to trust' and never let you down....

Deepak Chopra

You can wish for things in the future to be different, but in this moment you have to accept things as they are.

Deepak Chopra

Love takes many forms - it is up to you to choose which you wish to express.

Dave Mustaine

One of my first records that I heard was 'Wish You Were Here' by Pink Floyd.

Max Hastings

I would be miserable if I went to bed without having written 1,000 words about something.

James Gray

I had written 'Two Lovers' before we started shooting 'We Own the Night.'

Van Morrison

I put out records to this day that are not necessarily in a sequence of anything. Some could be written a while back, some not. There is no set pattern.

Victoria Justice

I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.

Wole Soyinka

I've always written plays for the purpose of getting something out of my system.

F. Sionil Jose

I regret that I have not written more, shouted louder, and acted out my beliefs.

Errol Morris

I've been writing a lot more, I believe, because of the Internet. I've been posting stuff that I've written and I've just been writing.

Ferran Adria

I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages.

Lyle Lovett

I've just always written songs in a style that appeal to me personally.

Levance Fields

Of course, I'll be ready. I think I could have done it this year if Carl hadn't come back.

Cory Sarich

One year I had about 14 different returns. That's a lot of signatures when it comes time.

Jose Theodore

Obviously, this year I didn't play up to my level, but the year's not over yet.

Chris Evans

If you want to be around in 10 years you've got to do something to differentiate yourself from the pack.

Charles Spurgeon

If we had to preach to thousands year after year, and never rescued but one soul, that one soul would be a full reward for all our labour, for a soul is of countless price.

Charles Spurgeon

In all of my years of service to my Lord, I have discovered a truth that has never failed and has never been compromised. That truth is that it is beyond the realm of possibilities that one has the ability to out-give God. Even if I give the whole of my worth to Him, He will find a way to give back to me much more than I gave.

Charles Spurgeon

Ten minutes praying is better than a year's murmuring.

Dick Van Dyke

All of us involved say 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' was the best five years of our lives. We were like otters at play.

Dick Van Dyke

I wanted to be Stan Laurel, then I wanted to be Fred Astaire and then Captain Kangaroo. I actually started out as a radio announcer when I was 17 and never left the business, so that's literally 70 years.