Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Lewis

Regardless of its geographic origin, people quickly began to notice that the pox traveled from one person to another. They sometimes blamed transmission on common and morally innocuous practices - drinking from a common cup, kissing friends in church, following a syphilitic comrade on the latrine.

Diana Aviv

Our past research shows that adults are twice as likely to volunteer if they began participating when they were teens.

Steve Snyder

Our operations benefited from good but not great market conditions. Electricity prices and spark spreads, particularly in Alberta and the (U.S.) Pacific Northwest were reasonably strong in January and February but began to trend downward in March.

Ralph Friedgen

Our defense was on the field too long, and they began to wear down as the game went on.

Yang Yang

Starting in 1999, I began to join some of the international meetings. Through these activities, I have broadened my horizon to a large extent.

Courtney Pratt

Our results reflect the softening in North American demand and pricing that began in the third quarter of last year and that has continued well into 2005.

Ross Miller

Ours began in 1938 in the Methodist church for the Boy Scouts.

Chris Riddell

Roald Dahl worked with other illustrators, but it was only when he teamed up with Quentin Blake that the chemistry began to fizz. Quentin Blake is Britain's greatest living illustrator and has that special talent all the great illustrators have, of unobtrusive brilliance.

Kate Christensen

Reminded of what a diet really is, I began eating more slowly, being more conscious of when I was full. I started to enjoy my buckwheat bread with goat cheese and pureed butternut-squash soup as a response to real hunger.

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.

Ravi Singh

Such categories of books are not economically viable for mass production. So POD is a great solution which serves the purpose of both the niche readers as well as publishers.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

'Success' is a seductive word. Thousands of books have been written on the subject. They promise money, freedom, leisure, and luxury.

Carl Hiaasen

Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.

Paul Di Filippo

Stephen King consummately honors several traditions with his rare paperback original, 'Joyland.' He addresses the novel of carny life and sideshows, where the midway serves as microcosm, such as in those famous books by Ray Bradbury, Charles Finney and William Lindsay Gresham.

Charles Dickens

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.

Josh Pool

Our line did a lot of work this week. We ran the plays over and over again. (David) English had a really good game. Our linemen really stepped it up.

Rachel Ward

People in Hollywood, they're looking for pretty girls, and if you take it seriously enough and work hard enough, you get the Guernsey.

Martin Fleischmann

Stan and I funded the first phase of the work ourselves. It was secret.

Jimmy Vasser

Outside of the car, she's English and very proper, ... But inside the car, she's forceful. She doesn't sit and wait. She goes after it.

Ahmet Necdet Sezner

Resorting to violence and the use of force at holy sites is unacceptable, whatever the reason might be.

Matthew Arnold

Resolve to find thyself; and to know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

Matthew Arnold

Resolve to be thyself; and know that who finds himself, loses his misery.

Roy Harper

Remember, this was a world that was still ethnically separated. I was thirteen and ignorant of the social situation in America, but I felt these records were better than what my own culture was turning out.

Howard Davidowitz

Steve is very familiar with taking properties like that and making them profitable.

Randy Haugen

I was just going too fast for the conditions. I was familiar with the area, but there wasn't much snow. There was a hole where there usually isn't.

Tyson Thompson

Just go in there and be focused and go all out. Don't be worried about the little things and just play hard out there. I got reps in practice, so I was familiar with the situations.

Michael Sheen

I think it's quite tough for people like Tom Cruise where you can never really get away from being Tom Cruise in something. You're so familiar to people and people know so much about your life.

S. Walker

It got really familiar. It's not something you want to be familiar with.

John Challenger

It is far smarter to maximize productivity by paying overtime wages rather than hiring new workers, who will be slow until they become familiar with the new job.

Utada Hikaru

I'd been familiar with the recording process since I was little, but I felt that this is what it's like to actually do it myself.

Pat Buchanan

For years, my friends, we have all heard that familiar taunt, 'Don't worry about them; they have nowhere else to go.' Well, guess what? We have somewhere else to go. At long last, we have a home of our own,

Susan Morrison

Found sounds are sounds like pots and pans, rice in milk jugs - things you can come up with to make music around the house with familiar objects.

Ray Staver

Our kids worked real hard in the second half on defense. I thought where they really hurt us was with screens. They are a very physical team. They play physical.

Peter Henning

or a very short sentence in a halfway house.

Charles Phillips

Oracle is halfway to Fusion. One year later, half the job is done and it's the toughest half.

Fran Drescher

Surgery is half the race, but you have to go for the follow-up or do yourself a major disservice.

Larry Harris

Starting off the second half of the season, we knew that this was going to be a big week for us and now we're 0-2.

Natasha Burton

Overall, 2005 saw higher numbers of shoppers on the High Street than in 2004, though this camouflages what was a challenging second half of the year for most retailers.

Donald Brownlee

Our capsule is half the size and one-fourth the mass of Genesis,

Brent Cox

Many African-American students are half American Indian as well.

Chris Landsea

Most seasons we are going to get a hurricane hit the U.S. and probably more than half the time we will have a major hurricane hitting the U.S. as well.

Penny Monahan

Remember, the day of the parade and March 17, everybody's Irish -- or wish they were.

Lao Tzu

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Robert Burns

He turn'd him right and round about / Upon the Irish shore; / And gae his bridle-reins a shake, / With adieu for evermore, / My dear,/ Adieu for evermore.

John Millington Synge

A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, he said, for he will be going out on a day he shouldn't. But we do be afraid of the sea, and we do only be drownded now and again.

Andrea Corr

She used to play every weekend in pubs with Daddy, and she'd written all these Irish songs out in a book. They're songs we've loved over the years, and because our parents played them in their band, they're very special to us.

Oscar Wilde

Life is too important to be taken seriously.

Lao Tzu

Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.

Lao Tzu

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

Lao Tzu

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Tami McLaughlin

Our name has been around for quite a while now.

Dirk Koetter

Other than the running back, a lot of those are just names on a paper.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Stop crying. You're giving archangels everywhere a bad name." Patch to Pepper

Becca Fitzpatrick

..."Good, because I need your help." "Help is my middle name." I was pretty sure she'd already told me bad was her middle name, but I kept my opinion to myself.

Azzedine Alaia

I have been offered the highest paid contracts in the world. I refused them all. It's not my thing. I don't want to cheat people. And there are certain people I am allergic to. I even intervene when I don't like a customer; I rush in and check all the names. If I don't like them, I don't take them.

B. R. Ambedkar

Justice has always evoked ideas of Equality, of proportion of compensation. In short, Justice is another name of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity.

B. R. Ambedkar

The Hindu civilisation is a diabolical contrivance to enslave humanity. Its proper name would be infamy.

B. B. King

The crowds treat me like my last name. When I go onstage people usually stand up, I never ask them to, but they do. They stand up and they don't know how much I appreciate it.

Bill Simmons

Anytime someone calls you and identifies themselves with their full name, odds are it isn't someone you want to talk to under any circumstances.

Jojo Moyes

Rejection is part of the process, so you can't let it crush you. My first three novels never made it into publication, but my fourth, 'Sheltering Rain,' was translated into 11 languages.

Brian Moore

Research is usually a policeman stopping a novel from progressing.

Matthew Stover

It'd be impossible to capture the feel of 'All Quiet on the Western Front' in a novel starring Mace Windu; 'All Quiet' is a tragic coming-of-age story.

Edmund White

I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.

Sarah Pinborough

I wrote my first five horror novels while I was teaching.

Robin Hobb

I actually think that short stories transfer to film much better than novels do.

Billy Bob Thornton

I'm more influenced by novelists than I am by filmmakers.

Deborah Moggach

My first novel, 'You Must be Sisters,' was started in Pakistan. I've wrote several novels and a TV drama set or partly-set there.

Edward Norton

A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience.

Philip Gonsalves

Some of the showers could be a little heavy, but only for short periods of time.

Andrew Ference

Our second period was awful. We started to play too much of their style.

Edmund Phelps

I think the 19th century is an extraordinary period with a welling up of creativity and all kinds of experimentation and exploration going on at least until 1940.

Gwen Stefani

I was ... writing that song (with) tears streaming down my face. To me it'sa snapshot of (a) time period of my life, and ... that's the song that kind of took us around the world.

Kofi Annan

Guatemala is going through the most promising period of its recent history,

Keira Knightley

I find more interesting roles for women in period pieces. I do personally like watching period films; I think you can really get lost in the fantasy of them.

Michael Garnett

Getting thrown in like that is a tough way to make your debut. In between periods I talked to Dunham, and he said to go out there and relax. After that I played as I always played.

George Gwozdecky

I thought he did well. We didn't put a lot of pressure on him after the first period but he made some big saves.

Rick Vernon

Going back to the '60's, we're one of the only schools that plays them year in and year out. When you play somebody for that period of time you're going to have that rivalry.

Denise Mina

There are a lot of bottlenecks to getting published. Publishers are only one of them. Having the time is another one. Feeling entitled is another one.

Peter Brimelow

Textbook publishers don't even bother to advertise at their conventions.

Kate Thompson

Writers want publicity all the time, and they are always nagging their agents and publishers to give them more publicity, but, when you get it, it's kind of soul-destroying.

J. A. Konrath

Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.

Johnny Rivers

Alan's publishing company was in the Brill Building, and of course, the Brill Building was where all the songwriters hung out because that's where all the publishers were.

Paul Di Filippo

The impossibility of a sequel ever recapturing everything - or anything - about its ancestor never stopped legions of writers from trying, or hordes of readers and publishers from demanding more of what they previously enjoyed.

C. S. Lewis

I wish we didn't live in a world where buying and selling things seems to have become almost more important than either producing or using them.

Keith Hampton

He didn't sell any stock. He went down with the ship.

Jackie Spaulding

going to make me sell the motel and make me go with him.

Don DePalma

For me this is just one of the fundamentals of doing business: If I can't understand what you're selling me, I'm not buying.

Merle Olberding

For the state tournaments, some of them were in here Tuesday wanting their tickets and we didn't start selling until Wednesday.

Johnny Rivers

He was signing everyone else up, ... He just didn't think I could sell any records.

Tod Kowalczyk

I was surprised it didn't sell out in September.

John Roberts

If they want to sell and get out, if they have enough land, it's OK, they can downsize and do that.

Ed McIntosh

If this situation isn't fixed, they won't be able to sell their house.

Jason Garey

I think it turned out pretty well for me.

Heath Sager

I think so. I thought we were much better than an 0-3 team. Now we've kind of turned the corner.

Dudley Etheridge

He kind of turned it around for us.

Tom Lochner

Has it turned the world upside down? Probably not.

Huston Street

Ginter and Elly, they turned it so quick. Off the bat, I thought they had no chance. That right there is the game. It's another run.

Sheldon Danziger

I was surprised. I thought things would have turned around by now.

Madeline Albright

He has to be turned over. We want to see him in The Hague,

Maj. Nester

More or less, residents just turned their neighborhood over to us.

Monty Python

-She turned me into a newt! -A newt?-I got better...

Elizabeth Wurtzel

I don't want any more vicissitudes, I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I've had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted.

Hal Lindsey

Twenty years ago, I said there was going to be something that would stop the Soviet Union from taking over the world. And now we see that the Soviet Union has been stopped, through its own disintegration.

Jane D. Hull

In twenty years, the Lottery has raised over $1.4 billion. It has been run successfully and efficiently.

Gordon Strachan

Twenty years. They've crept up on us. They've gone, just like that.

Bob Dylan

Twenty years of schoolin' / And they put you on the day shift.

Benjamin Franklin

At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wife; and at forty, the judgment.

Mark Kotsay

I'm not the one who writes the lineup.