Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marc Magliarditi

Our mind-set is to win (tonight) and to win Saturday night. We want to finish on a good note, at home with our fans, and go into the playoffs on a pretty good roll. We don't think about Alaska and what's going on with them. Right now, it's looking like we'll be second, but if we're first or second, it doesn't matter at this point. We're looking pretty good, and playing together.

Jim Cole

I wrote one of my songs completely out in the field. Another one I started in Alaska and finished in Yellowstone. Even though my books are out, I still consider myself an educator first. I want to give people a better understanding of grizzly bears.

Joe Miller

But again, you know, the views that we've expressed are transferring power back from the federal government to the states, giving Alaska an incredible opportunity to expand its economy, especially at a time when our federal government is coming close to bankruptcy. So that is a broad-based appeal. It's not an extreme view.

Peter Galbraith

Forming a new ministry is an arrangement that will help increase oil production. If oil production increases in Alaska, it may be that the Alaskans get a major part of the benefits, but Alaska is still part of the US.

Dana Stabenow

My stories are Alaska stories, and they need to be told in Alaska. Evergreen Films is located in Alaska; the company does amazing work, and I am thrilled at the prospect of working together.

Dana Stabenow

I would be ecstatic if the very first writer to step foot in a Storyknife cabin was an Alaska Native woman writer.

Brian Major

Most people go to the Caribbean, but Alaska is also a prime summer market. Europe also attracts some families, but the Caribbean is the biggest.

Lisa Murkowski

We've been helping you out in Alaska in considerable ways, and you're walking away from the responsibility, and we're not going to allow that.

Aldo Leopold

Relegating grizzlies to Alaska is about like relegating happiness heaven; one may never get there.

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.

Todd Cheney

Our regional was so tough. We had a 103-pounder who took seventh in state and another state qualifier from a year ago who did not win a match. All things considered we did okay.

Seabo Gaeganelwe

Parliament considered national interest and in as much as people raise their objections, no one will intimidate or deny the people in the town the right to vote.

Ruth Comer

Part of (the demand for higher-cost products) has been fueled by the Food Network and cooking shows that use more exotic ingredients. A lot of items that were once considered specialty are now considered mainstream. Many are now staples in our produce section.

Jodi Picoult

Part of our job as a writer is to consider how we tell stories, ... This is one way of looking at multiple versions of storytelling. What is also fun about it is all fiction used to be illustrated, so in a way this very revolutionary form of novel is really going back to basics.

Marvin Emerson

People need to remember that Herb is just 16 years old. I don't know if people always consider that. There is a lot of pressure on him, and I think he handles it as well as could be expected for someone his age.

Fritz Elmendorf

People have to think realistically, and I think the economy is pretty sobering right now, and people should consider their financial moves very soberly. Part of that is getting in less debt.

Adam Adelman

People might be delaying some purchasing decisions and in the short-term, that's considered a negative.

James Balsillie

People may have paused to consider but we haven't heard of any competitive shift.

Eddie Jordan

People may consider that. But there is a respect for the game.

Mark Gertler

He was an educator for most of his life. ... That's the way he approached being a Fed governor.

Richard Lamm

He was the embodiment of a master educator who loved kids and had a passion for teaching.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

If you only think of me during Black History Month, I must be failing as an educator and as an astrophysicist.

Randy Pausch

Educators shouldn't be afraid of cliches. You know why? Because kids don't know most of them! They're a new audience. And they're inspired by cliches.

Susan Stewart

We're told by educators that if we don't reach out at the younger grades, we've lost them. So the urgency is to reach them when they're young.

Anita Hill

I see myself as an educator.

Bill Gates

I'm not an educator ... I'm a learner.

Mary Coleman

Today we welcome the world to our library. As educators we are inspired by the possibility of sharing these important works with people around the globe.

Donna Johnson

In my work as an educator in the past 15 years, what I see is a trend: At one point, we were really focused on girls, and they were making strides. What I see now is that there is very little focus on girls.

Matt Cressman

Paul worked his butt off tonight. I thought he had waited too long to pass it, but he timed it just right and Mike finished it for us.

Paul Keyes

I think this team has good potential. We finished up strong last year, and I think that bodes good for the kids' confidence.

Muffet McGraw

I was a little disappointed with the way we finished the game. We have become a team lacking a killer instinct.

F. Schumacher

I was lucky with the safety car. With all the back markers we went through and finished third. It was great. We're strong people and we're looking forward to the next races.

Terry Nelson

Krause finished with two birdies, that says a lot. It means you can hold it together, don't panic.

Joe Godinho

That was the third time he had to wrestle his kid in the last three weeks. It was a tighter match, but Kevin finished strong.

Peter Jacobsen

I was on the 15th tee. I just eagled 13 and birdied 14. Nicklaus birdied 10. I thought 'This is cool, Jack and I are now tied.' As I hit the water on 15, I looked over at the scoreboard and just as one guy was finished putting up the 'S-E-N' (in Jacobsen), the other guy was taking down the 'J-A-C.'

LaVerne Knox

I think we are ready. We want to take one game at a time. We are playing a pretty good team. They finished fourth in the region, but could have finished second.

Corry Irvin

I think we all sat in our hotel rooms (after the semifinal) and sulked. Once we got in the locker room, we let it go. Wherever we finished is better than people thought we'd do.

Jim Lord

Reasonable people have to find that reasonable line.

Stephanie Laurens

Real people are never central characters in my works.

Tom Tremont

Really, what people want is more simplicity in their life. They want a sanctuary.

Jyoti Amge

Regular people should not underestimate people who are small. In every aspect, they can do the things that normal people can.

Robert Hamilton

Our policy is to let our people know first.

Alex Halavais

Part of it is it's a really safe place for people to talk about this.

Hanya Yanagihara

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

Joel Edgerton

Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?

Jack Horn

Part of the problem, ... is there are so many more things that can be done for people - drug therapies are better, but more expensive. And there are more and better scanning technologies, which are also more expensive.

Dan Hill

Songs sometimes are so connected to the sociology of the time.

AJ Case

I got a team of songwriters I used to work with, and we wrote songs day and night.

Nick Cave

I would hate to think my songs were giving advice to people.

Vince Neil

If the songs aren't there and you throw a TV set out of the window, who cares?

Todd Rundgren

I don't know what the inspiration for most of songs really mean until I finish them. For the most part, I'm going for a visceral impression, and I write the words last.

Lucinda Williams

My approach to recording and all that is pretty organic. It just has to do with all the songs I wrote; go in and record them.

Gene Ween

I wrote most of these songs right before the end. A lot of these songs are about that. Even if it's not direct, you can feel the beginning of the end of the breakup in these songs.

Valerie June

I just let the songs tell me what to do - they are my guides, and they are the boss. So I am subservient to the songs, and I let them tell me what to do. I don't judge them; I just write whatever comes to me.

Neil Innes

But mostly, I wrote songs and Viv wrote songs.

Carl Sagan

Accommodation to change, the thoughtful pursuit of alternative futures are keys to the survival of civilization and perhaps of the human species.

Terry Pendleton

I think their thoughts and my thoughts are on the same page.

Margaret Beckett

I accept, though it is with hindsight, that this is so,

George Fotenos

He doesn't weigh but 96 pounds. Even though he went 4-4 he didn't give up in any match.

Al Gore

Judge Roberts is a brilliant lawyer, a brilliant judge. He is a very careful judge, a thoughtful judge. I would agree with what the President said earlier. He is a decent man. I think everybody who knows him likes him.

Blaise Pascal

Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. And the order of thought is to begin with ourselves, and with our Author and our end.

Blaise Pascal

Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of a portrait.

C. S. Lewis

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

Carson Kressley

We came, we saw, we bedazzled! You know, and it's hard to be serious and thoughtful when you're dressed like a Skittle.

Andy Fisher

Our understanding is that it is not yet in place.

Arthur Young

Resellers will need an understanding of messaging systems.

Carl Sagan

We go about our daily lives understanding almost nothing of the world.

Bill Buford

The most important knowledge is understanding what you can't do.

Cervantes Saavedra

It is not the hand, but the understanding of a man, that may be said to write

Emma Stone

I was very lucky with the parents I was blessed with. I don't think it could have worked out any better. They've always been so understanding of me and understanding of what I want to do.

Teller

Magic's about understanding - and then manipulating - how viewers digest the sensory information.

Susanna Moore

The task of understanding the past is neverending.

John Sweeney

I have a very understanding wife, and she understands this is part of the job.

Jami Attenberg

I wrote a novel. It's called 'The Middlesteins.' It's fiction. It's not a memoir. I'm not a spokesperson.

Harold King

That's what I thought when I wrote it,

James Frey

I think most of what they wrote was pretty accurate, absolutely.

Jennifer McMahon

I wrote my first short story in third grade.

Randy Alcorn

I wrote my first novel, 'Deadline,' in 1994 as an experiment.

Carlos Fuentes

I wrote it to show that not all mother-in-laws are bad.

John Prine

I wrote it just to get my father's attention,

Joseph Biden

He said he was 35 when he wrote that.

Kent Haruf

I write in a journal first, briefly. Then read something I've read many times before, for about half an hour, then rework what I wrote the day before.