Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Johann Kaspar

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

Jean Bruyere

Making books is a skilled trade, like making clocks.

Emily Johnson

Let?s just say you?re not going to see these books at the public library.

Mary Kaufman

Libraries and books have always been a part of my life and have made a difference in my life. I have always had a passion for books, both reading and collecting.

William Shakespeare

Love goes toward love, as schoolboys from their books;But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.

Maureen Corrigan

Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books

Allard Baird

Losses bother me. Jokes do not. The losses were tough.

Ned Yost

Left-handers don't bother him. He has faced them all his life.

Michael Harrison

(SDSU) did a good job doubling our post players and bothering us offensively. They made some tough shots. They executed.

Damon Evans

Moving up doesn't bother me, ... but the only thing I'd be concerned about is the football staff has their plans together, and it is difficult to have to make changes this late in the game.

Julius Peppers

Nobody expects more out of me than me, so it doesn't bother me at all to hear people complain that 'He's not making plays' or 'He's not getting sacks,'

Oscar Hoya

One of the things that bothers me most, ... is that very few people really understand what it means to be a fighter. I hate it when I hear someone say, 'That fighter doesn't have guts.' I hate that; it really ticks me off. I don't care if you're a world champion six times over or a four-round fighter who just got knocked out in thirty seconds of your first professional fight. To step inside that ring, you have to have guts.

Jacobe Kendrick

Of course I've noticed it, but it doesn't bother me at all. I don't think there's any racial tension. I'm from West Texas, so I've seen that before. That's never crossed my mind. It's worse back home than it is here.

Allen Doyle

No one said a word to me, no one thought I had a chance, ... That's the way it's been for me from Day 1. It doesn't bother me one bit. ... It happens. You just have to put a low score up and make it happen.

Dakota Fanning

No, no. Never, ... Not at all. I enjoy what I'm doing so much that that doesn't even bother me at all, because I feel like I wouldn't be as happy.

Isabella Rossellini

I think I was always interested in animals. If a man likes a woman, you know, he might discuss business, but there's a part of his brain that is looking at the girl coming in and checking the girls. I do the same with animals.

Isabella Rossellini

It's a new business for me to be a filmmaker.

Rick Perlstein

Social conservatism, business conservatism: the one side constitutes the other, like some infernal Mobius strip.

Robert Osborne

In a business like the movie business, you're going to have a lot of people competing. Somebody is always coming behind them who wants their job. Being an actor is like being in quicksand: whatever you do, it disappears very quickly. You have to keep reminding people.

Robert Osborne

I grew up in a small town where I went to the movies a lot and fell in love with all these people. I also fell in love with the movie business. So all I saw were actors on the screen so I thought, well, that's what I have to be if I want to be a part of the movie business.

Ronald Kessler

Hiking taxes on the so-called wealthy would help send us into a recession because so many small businesses report their income on individual tax returns. If taxes are raised, they will be less likely to be able to hire new workers and make new capital investments.

Kevin Mitnick

What happens with smaller businesses is that they give in to the misconception that their site is secure because the system administrator deployed standard security products - firewalls, intrusion detection systems, or stronger authentication devices such as time-based tokens or biometric smart cards. But those things can be exploited.

Marc Morial

The mayor has got to work closely with a wide variety of people, his city council, state legislature, governor, business community, labor community, president and the congress in order to be able to do this.

Daniel Callahan

Like business and journalism, these are unregulated professions in an uncredentialed field,

William Roth

Life is not getting any cheaper for millions of American families, ... It's only fair to let them keep more of their hard-earned money.

Nazmeera Moola

Macro reforms have become entrenched and made it cheaper and easier to run a business, and are no longer questioned.

Jim Moore

Left to their own devices, people will choose the mode that's cheapest to them not just in out-of-pocket costs but in time costs.

Michael Bastian

Men's wear is a game of millimeters. You can find really cheap stuff out there, but you'll never wear it.

Ben Ross

My initial reaction was that they were putting us in the cheap seats, so they could give the good seats to the people who make big donations.

Bob Brusca

New homes sales sprang back to life like a zombie in a cheap horror flick. And like that zombie, housing really is dead. Don't let all that twitching fool you.

Timothy Noah

It never fails to astonish me how cheaply a politician can be bought.

Jan C. Ting

If cheap immigrant labor is made unavailable, employers can hire Americans at a higher wage, or replace low-wage immigrant workers with technology and automation, which will create a smaller number of skilled jobs for Americans.

Tom Parsons

Friday afternoons, Saturday mornings and Sunday afternoons, those are really tight days for the cheap stuff, ... You may find the cheaper fares Tuesday through Thursday. But if you're not willing to do that, then you'll pay a premium -- maybe double the cheapest airfare on some of these routes.

Mike Watkins

Like any recruit, when we talk to them individually, we explain where they're going to fit in so they understand exactly what it is we expect of them, ... And when I recruit kids, the main thing is if they'll be a good fit to the program, and with these two that was an easy decision.

Stephanie Coontz

Life is filled with trade-offs, and I worry that it's so easy to slip from descriptions of problems to one-size-fits-all prescription,

Rick Hartzell

Mac is more of a laid-back, easygoing guy. Pat is the opposite. He's fiery, and pretty excitable. Where they're similar is that they're great people, good family guys. They have gone back to their alma mater and have really enjoyed being there.

Doug TenNapel

Making modern games funny would be easy as pie if it was anybody's goal to actually make a funny game.

Ariel Sharon

Look, the Jews are not easy people. Maybe that's the reason they managed to exist, I would say, for thousands of years.

Eric Schmidt

Let's face it programmers want to program, they don't want to do their laundry. We make it easy for them to do both.

Werner Herzog

Many of my films have not been easy work,

Rob Sumner

Scott Jackson's an easy gut to take for granted when things are going good because he does everything well. He logs a lot of ice time and he's such a key part of any of our successes.

Jeff Bagwell

Second guess all you want. I think that's easy to do in that situation, but I think it's a little unfair, too. I feel like I can help the team, I really do. I feel like I'm going to give a good at-bat. I'm a lot stronger now.

May Sarton

No partner in a love relationship...should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.

Tom Wolfe

Everyone is taught the essentials of writing for at least 13 years, maybe more if they go to college. Nobody is taught music or tap dancing that way.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Only what is essential must be said.

Jacques Chirac

France and the United States have been called upon to play an essential role,

Mary Heininger

Friends of history will help you preserve essential material that is often times not visible.

Jason Epstein

The primary goal of publishing general fiction and non-fiction was never profit - though profit was essential to stay in the game. Publishing is a vocation in which the work is its own reward, an insufficient goal for today's conglomerates.

Larry Fitzgerald

I work legs, upper body, everything. Legs are very important. I do hang cleans and squats - I do primary exercises. Squats work over 60 percent of your muscle mass in your body. The hang cleans work on my explosive movement, which is essential for success.

Chris Mooney

Shooting is a pretty essential thing in basketball, and when you make shots, it's so much easier. There's so much less tension and less pressure on you.

Ben Okri

At the heart of 'The Famished Road' is a philosophical conundrum - for me, an essential one: what is reality? Everybody's reality is subjective; it's conditioned by upbringing, ideas, temperament, religion, what's happened to you.

Marvin Hamlisch

learned about listening to yourself. You know the punch line but it has to seem as if you're going to find it.

Mark Walter

One of the things I've learned is that baseball is something that happens over time.

John Connell

Obviously, we're playing a high-quality team. It's not something you can practice for. We learned a lot today.

Rachel Platten

Music truly heals, and I am so grateful to have learned that through Musicians on Call.

Twyla Tharp

I've read probably 25 or 30 books by Balzac, all of Tolstoy - the novels and letters - and all of Dickens. I learned my craft from these guys.

Gordon Johnson

I feel like I'm in my 50s and I've learned to pace myself.

Kirby Smart

I feel like I learned more this year than I ever have any year I've been coaching.

Marie Underwood

I was speechless when I learned of the award.

David Beatson

I would do it again. I learned a lot about myself, and I would do it again. It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

Albert Schweitzer

Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water.

David Circle

Let them know that you support music programs.

Dan Hill

Let's face it: pop music in its myriad permutations will always be sexually presumptuous, racially controversial and, frequently, politically charged.

Janice Stockigt

Several of its themes and musical motifs are strikingly similar to those present in other Vivaldi works.

Grimes

My image seems to be so infantilized, and I don't really know why. It belittles the music.

Laura Mvula

One of the things I haven't been ready for is how male-dominated the music industry is. I just didn't have a clue.

H. Hart

Music is feeling. Once you start thinking about it then you overdevelop it. It should come from the heart, the soul, and the subconscious. Music is all about the moment, and if you think about it then you're already in the next moment.

Rutina Wesley

Music is definitely influential on how I approach my scenes.

Daron Malakian

Music is an emotion, and I put it out there.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

Emma Thompson

Piracy is our only option.

Zhang Yimou

Piracy has destroyed the domestic market.

Robert Dudley

Let me be very clear: We have not made any such decision, and nothing yet has been ruled out,

Daniel Pearl

now rule out the possibility that he has been killed by the kidnappers.

Jim Gallagher

give everyone a sense of equilibrium and ... of where the rule is going to wind up.

Lawrence Dallaglio

I wouldn't want to rule out the possibility of a return. It is something that has to be thought about very seriously.

Rachael Ray

She said the first rule is to be myself.

Jay Zygmunt

Sit around and wait. At least it's the same rules for everybody.

Craig Brown

As a rough rule of thumb, I would say the smaller the pond, the more belligerent the fish.

Ali Babacan

Turkey shares Europe's fundamental values of democracy and the rule of law.

John Milton

With thy long levelled rule of streaming light.

Anton Chekhov

It's immoral to steal, but you can take things.

Barbara Corcoran

You steal the limelight, you steal the market share

Brad Meltzer

All writers steal from their own lives.

Janice Dickinson

Everyone steals from something or someone.

Creed Bratton

Honestly, I love stealing things.

Aaron Sorkin

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

Bob Beasley

We do take this seriously. It's like stealing taxpayer dollars.

Michael Ramsey

If you're stealing from the house, you don't tell the boss.

Samuel Liles

They're not stealing from us, they're stealing from God. This is God's house.