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.

P. J. Harvey

So it's really doing the necessary groundwork for flying an orbiting space station.

Josh Sharpless

My front shoulder was flying open, so I knew I was rushing my delivery.

Sage Marie

Fuel prices played a role. It's been flying off the trucks.

David Neeleman

When you do consolidation, you get rid of flying and you get rid of routes.

David Neeleman

If it's torture flying one airline and [yours] is a pleasant experience, it certainly helps your revenue.

E. Hurley

She's flying back and forth to Iraq and I don't like it,

Beckie Rolbiecki

She has one more move and she was off the bars. It's one of those things that happens. It's just if and when. I'm sure it scared her. She'd never been flying like that before.

Whoopi Goldberg

You look at the 'Wizard of Oz' and you see things flying up in the airthis is where everything goes that didn't land.

Stuart Symington

Sure, you would lose more bombers without fighters, but, flying in formation, you could get the job done.

Ben Jackson

Last year we were focused on going to states and this year we're more taking it one game at a time,

Barry Alvarez

Many times it's the teams that stay the most focused that win the games. There's a lot of potential to be distracted.

J. Lewis

Scott is a great leader and teammate. He is focused and hard-working, but also genuinely nice and fun to be around.

Ronnie Peacock

Several schools are calling. They're just now getting around it. They're still focused on next week. After that, they'll jump on the juniors.

Lee Williams

My job is to grow this business. We've got programs with great opportunities and that's what I want workers to keep focused on.

Robert Esche

My first thought? You can't write it. I'm focused on seven games. I'm focused on leaving this one behind.

Peter Rohde

Obviously we're focused on not getting players rubbed out, but at the same time we don't want to make them too gun-shy.

Don Blandin

More Americans are focused on saving for retirement, but are they putting away enough? It's not grounded in a plan and they're saving blindly. They really don't know if they're saving enough.

Amy Ellis

My girls are only focused on (today's) game.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

For me no good food is illuminated without acidity.

Isabella Rossellini

I would like to be forgotten. What's so good about being remembered?

Rick Perlstein

Whatever you think about his intelligence, what's unquestionable is that Reagan had extraordinary emotional intelligence. He could sense the temperature of a room, and tell them a story and make them feel good. And that's more fun, right? It's more fun to feel good than feel bad. That's part of our human state.

Robert Kazinsky

There is nothing harder than working 50 pages a day, working 16 hours a day, trying to be good with only shooting rehearsals.

Robert Klein

What makes a good nanny? A good nanny is someone who really wants to do the job. Someone who loves children, who really values what she does and, of course, is valued by her employer.

Malorie Blackman

A good book is a good book. End of story.

Chuck Reed

We're not doing as good a job recycling as we want to.

Darin Strauss

Like all writing rules, the injunction to start with the trouble can be broken, and it should be sometimes - if there's good reason.

Phillip Bloch

Like any guy, he needs a great jacket, good shoes, and good jeans.

John Carter

Looters are still hanging about. There are people still living in the tunnels.

Tom Renney

Get your nose dirtier. There is a price to be paid for hanging in there and getting opportunities.

Zydrunas Ilgauskas

From what I've seen, he loves being here. I don't know what's going to happen in the future. But all of us would like to see No. 23 hanging in the rafters, and I think we'll see that.

Mattias Norstrom

When things are not going right, we have to still come to the rink and love it. That's not a time to be hanging our heads.

Retief Goosen

On the back nine I was just sort of hanging on but it's never over till it's over. I think on 15 was a big turning-point, when I chipped in for par and I think then the tournament was over.

Javier Garcia

I was hanging around with the rough kids who would steal motorbikes and smoke hash.

Rebecca Jaffe

I got to take a lot of pictures of them hanging out and being themselves.

Rebecca Jaffe

I got to spend a summer while in medical school not doing research, hanging out with kids and taking pictures -- something I didn't get to do while I was studying.

DJ Garrity

Basically, I'm self-taught. It's a matter of hanging in there.

Alice Lowe

For years, I didn't give interviews because I was scared of people judging me or thinking I was arrogant.

Karen Nelson

She said, 'After going through Rodeo Queen, job interviews are a breeze,'

Toby Keith

It's like pulling teeth to get me to do photo shoots. And I don't mind doing interviews if they're by phone, but I hate to go sit down and have to meet somebody somewhere, you know what I mean.

Vivek Wadhwa

You will find that every successful entrepreneur has suffered many setbacks. These entrepreneurs just forget to mention these when they are doing interviews with the 'Wall Street Journal' or Bloomberg TV.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Reporters tend to launch on what seems to be the clearest, most stark aspects of someone's life in terms of an interview.

China Mieville

The Weaver is a really godlike power. It's not even a blind idiot god, a sort of Lovecraft thing, it's just a purely capricious god. It's an intelligence you can't understand, so you can't trust it." -Amazon.com interview

Bob Ross

I never turn down requests for interviews. I'm just rarely asked.

Charlie Rose

The person I've always wanted to interview but never met was Richard Burton.

Diana Vreeland

I have always felt that the only great thing about an interview is the questions that are asked.

John Philbrook

Man-hours, especially in the last two quarters, have jumped dramatically. Our position has always been to have enough work here so we don't have to travel to find work. Well, we are in that situation now.

Rabindranath Tagore

Let this be my last word, that I trust in your love.

Steve Reinprecht

Making the run that we made, we're going into the season with a different attitude. We want to win our last game, that's the mindset here.

Steve Hadley

made that request last week in his public statements very clearly.

Bobby Bowden

Leon's got a chance, ... Last week, he couldn't have done it.

Jim Bolla

(Losing on senior night) last year was kind of a bummer. But as least we got a win tonight and we've got a lot of people out there supporting them.

William Jefferson

Louisiana is last on the things that we ought to be first on, and first on the things we ought to be last on. We can do better than this,

Ron Zook

Lou turned up the wick considerably this year from last year.

Sullivan Sykes

Last year we had the potential, but we could never get over that hurdle. This year we play more as a team.

Gail Davidson

One of the two main things we had going for us was that we had no money, so we couldn't just launch into making the mould because, if we had, we would have wasted a lot of time and money,

Paula McLain

I get suggestions all the time. People feel quite free at events or even on the street to tell me what they think I should be writing. What I've learned, though, is that this thing, this connection, has to be in place for me to be able to kind of launch into a world imaginatively.

Kevin Kay

We want to launch one big reality show a quarter.

Michael Kostelnik

We have scheduled the 15th of May as our targeted launch date,

Liu Jingmin

We are preparing to launch the booking system of the tickets for the Games.

Bill Gerstenmaier

I think it's wrong to take the (May) launch period and speculate whether we will make it or not. That puts schedule pressure on the teams.

Michael Mosley

A lot of producers and creative types want to see you be you. Throw something else out there and show them where you would take this part. A lot of them are launching shows for the first time, so they've got a lot riding on this, too, and they want you to be their flight.

Pierre Beaudoin

Without launch orders, we could not make a launch decision.

Christopher Hickey

We've had 14-year-olds launch rocket-propelled grenades at us,

Deke Thompson

Senior night is great, but I want to go dancing.

Unknown

May you live each day like your last, and live each night like your first.

Patricia Smith

One night she went to the restroom, and when I woke up she was walking into the wall. She couldn't find her place on the floor.

Barbara Turner

Obviously, we need her a lot. Obviously, if we had her the other night we would have won. That's just the reality of it. There's no other way to say. Obviously, we need her a lot.

Lynne Sipiora

Of course, on a night like tonight, in this situation, we won't turn away anyone, especially if they are able or a family. But things like being drug-free are still a must.

Alan Trammel

(Oakland) got back on track and we just couldn't stop them. It was just a night the Tigers got pounded.

Charles Portis

Listen, here's what I'd like to do: I'd like to live in a trailer and play records all night.

Charles Olson

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Charles R. Swindoll

In the wilderness, God's covenant people struggled with a choice between feeding their bellies and nourishing their souls. God provided manna-a breadlike food that fell to the ground during the night-to sustain the wandering Israelites and to teach them how to value His Word more than physical fulfillment.

Ben Jonson

Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.

Rebecca Stead

On Sunday, I think the most important thing for me is to just turn my brain off. The idea of not trying is the key, because that's where you're relaxed enough to let your brain make new connections.

Jamie Silverstein

I feel cool. I was surprised how relaxed I was.

Nik Wallenda

I'm often very relaxed when I'm on the wire. There may be some tears because this is a dream of mine.

Alan Cohen

There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.

Alan Cohen

You need not wrestle for your good. Your good flows to you most easily when you are relaxed, open, and trusting.

Flip Saunders

We'll run our offense. We'll run our plays. That'll be the most relaxing time that I'll have at the All-Star Game, when they're on the floor.

Alexander Siddig

The future of Arab films is absolutely up to Arabs and no one else. They've got the equipment, they've got the will, they've got the talent, now they just need a little bit of history behind them and a bit of cultural relaxation.

Dogen

To what shall I liken the world? Moonlight, reflected In dewdrops, Shaken from a crane's bill.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

I used to sleep with the phone right by my pillow but I'm getting better. Now it sits on the table a few feet away.

Charles Spurgeon

Every hour of every day, God is richly blessing us; both when we sleep and when we wake His mercy waits upon us.

Charles Spurgeon

God gave us sleep to remind us we are not him.

Charles Olson

Forgive me if I sleep until I wake up.

Dennis Rodman

I'm very particular about who I sleep with.

Denis Diderot

Tous les jours on couche avec des femmes qu'on n'aime pas, et l'on ne couche pas avec des femmes qu'on aime. Every day we sleep with women we do not love and don't sleep with the women we do love.

Debra Winger

I just want to sleep, and eat, and learn about what's going on in the world.

Dean Rusk

While we are sleeping, two-thirds of the world is plotting to do us in.

Dean Young

I was satisfied with haiku until I met you, but now I want a Russian novel, a 50-page description of you sleeping.

Chris Graves

Obviously, we're disappointed, but we've got to keep working. It's always tough to go on the road, but we'll be prepared. That's all you can do.

Dennis Prager

Those who are compassionate when they should be tough will be tough when they should be compassionate.

Richard Shelby

I can tell you that at the end of the day, we're going to have to make some tough decisions.

Michael Spencer

From one to nine, they're all tough outs.

Ernie Goss

If we'd had a typical winter, it would have been a little tough for the retailers.

Sherlyn Lattimer

She was a tenacious, tough and strong-willed woman.

Ann Richards

She's always going to take on whatever is the toughest challenge.

Jeff Long

To us, Bo was just this lovable, great, hard-nosed tough coach,

Fred Couples

Tough day, long day. Teed off at 7 p.m. (6:45, actually). I don't think I've ever done that before.

Jeffrey Benjamin

More important than what you did yesterday is what you do today.

Charles Spurgeon

Sin is a thing of time, but mercy is from everlasting. Transgression is but of yesterday, but mercy was ever of old. Before you and I sought the Lord, the Lord sought us.

Charles Spurgeon

Before you go out into the world, wash your face in the clear crystal of praise. Bury each yesterday in the fine linen and spices of thankfulness.

Deniece Schofield

Preventive Maintenance: Don't start today by doing yesterday's work.

Edward Abbey

Nothing could be older than the daily news, nothing deader than yesterday's newspaper.

Elizabeth Edwards

Either you push forward with the things that you were doing yesterday or you start dying.

Dionne Warwick

A fool will lose tomorrow reaching back for yesterday

Dave Mustaine

Yesterday's answers has nothing to do with today's questions.

Dear Abbey

So yesterday you fell off the wagon? Or maybe you blew your diet? Or lost your temper and shot off your mouth? Well, that was yesterday. Today is a brand-new day with a clean slate, so forget yesterday!