Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Coville

In terms of age, I think I've covered about as wide a range as is possible, having written everything from picture books to early chapter books to middle grade novels to YA to one adult novel - and having been editor and lead writer for a magazine for retired people!

Bill Hader

If I get a chance to write a comic book or do a voice in an Adult Swim show, I do it. It's much more fulfilling to me and I get to work with people who I'm a fan of.

John Boyne

I move between the two: I write an adult novel, and then I write a children's book. I quite enjoy that. It's a nice change of pace each time.

Erin Morgenstern

When I was growing up, if there was a Young Adult section of my town's library, I missed it. I wandered right from 'The Babysitter's Club' over to Stephen King. His books were big and fat and they seemed important. I eventually worked my way through most of the shelf, but 'It' is the one that stuck with me.

Tahj Mowry

When it comes to acting, I've always had a passion for entertaining and for making people laugh. On the music side, I really want to come out as an artist because I want people to see who I really am... artistically, I tend to be drawn to the darker things. What the music will be able to do is show people that I am an adult now.

Susan Isaacs

Being a novelist is the adult version of a kid creating a make-believe world. But unlike a child, a writer of fiction has to come up with a structured story, one that has as much meaning for others as it has for her.

Caroline Knapp

I saw my parents as model grown-ups, and their manner, their silence, informed my sense of what adulthood looked and felt like. Grown-ups behaved rationally and calmly. Grown-ups worked during the day and came home at night and sat down for drinks and passed the evening quietly.

Victor LaValle

If you want to learn the true nature of a child you have to watch how she plays. If you want to learn the true nature of an adult you have to watch how she does her job.

David Blunkett

Children whose parents return to study do much better at school. Offenders who persist with studies are much less likely to reoffend. The national mental health strategy recognises the important role adult learning can play for people recovering from mental illness.

Zac Efron

A lot of people ask: 'Will you play a psycho to really change your image and prove you can act?' But that's not what I'm about.

Willie Aames

Everything can change. You can always have hope.

William Shatner

I don't know how I got to this point but it must be as a result of everything that has come before so if I were to change something, I might not be at this point now.

Wendy Kopp

Research confirms that great teachers change lives. Students with one highly effective elementary school teacher are more likely to go to college, less likely to become pregnant as teens, and earn tens of thousands more over their lifetimes.

Virginia Postrel

Like John Kennedy in 1960, Obama combines youth, vigor, and good looks with the promise of political change. Like Kennedy, he grew up in unusual circumstances that distance him from ordinary American life.

Vanilla Ice

I turn my negatives into my positives because one of my mottos is, 'Yesterday's history, tomorrow's a mystery,' meaning that you can't go back and change anything in the past.

Billy Graham

Only the supernatural love of God through changed lives can solve the problems that we face in our world.

Zubin Mehta

One learns how to change gears within a concert repertoire.

Wynton Marsalis

When you create change with your point of view, you have to be ready for what comes with that.

Werner Klemperer

But when they offered this little situation for me to do this voice in this special segment, I found it so incredibly humorous that I said yes, and I enjoyed it. It was fun.

Vanilla Ice

It's about enjoying your life. If you have no family, no friends to enjoy it with, it don't matter how much you have, how much success you have, how much fame you have, how much money you have, it doesn't matter.

Brian K. Vaughan

As much as I'm enjoying stuff out here in Hollywood, I will always think of myself as a comic-book writer who does film and television, not a film and TV writer who occasionally does comics.

Benmont Tench

I did enjoy Nashville a lot of the time, because I made really good friends who were really good songwriters, and they would be a joy to hang out with.

Bikram Choudhury

I have so many choices in America; it's home to so many good things. I'm smart enough to enjoy all the good things that are offered.

Vladimir Potanin

For a rich and reasonably successful guy, it is impossible not to enjoy your job; otherwise, why would you spend so much time and effort doing it? I am a great fan of Norilsk, and I like this kind of challenge.

Frank Lowy

What is it to enjoy life? Sit at the beach? No. What it is is that you have to do something, you have be productive, make a contribution to the society, to the family, to yourself.

Buck Owens

I enjoyed the Hee Haw people, but from 1980 on I didn't enjoy it and thought about leavin', and thought, hell, it's an easy job and pays wonderful. I kinda just prostituted myself for their money.

Brooke Shields

As I'm getting older, I'm enjoying my vices so much more because I feel like I've deserved them.

Chet Faker

I think you can move to everything, but with some music, you just want to sit still. That's me, anyway.

Joseph Grundfest

The pig may have moved through the python.

Corey Johnson

Whatever happens, happens. Accept things and move on.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

Our political system needs changing. It needs to move away from personalities and patronage to a system of party programs and consultation with the people.

Peter Nivio Zarlenga

Divide your movements into easy-to-do sections. If you fail, divide again.

Matt Anderson

We played well for our first game. We're still trying to move them around and get them comfortable with each other.

Stephen Bell

We played a little better today, but still not as well as we can. We were able to move up one spot today and still have a shot to win with a solid round on Wednesday.

Manuel Hernandez

We plan on doing whatever we need to do to move forward. But it's been a struggle.

Mary Tyler Moore

I live in New York simply because I don't know any better. I moved there when the show went off the air a couple of years after that.

Cheryl Cole

I still am very street - I just have nicer clothes. I'm not ashamed of that.

Sara Rue

Working on 'Malibu Country' with Reba McEntire is truly a gift. She is one of the nicest people that I have ever had a the pleasure to be around. She is so professional and always on time and has it together. It really is a joy to be around her.

Arthur Hiller

I thought we were making a nice little movie. That's how it was regarded by everyone else, too.

Fisher Stevens

But I'm trying to play into this role as much as possible and be a nicer person in real life.

Deb Smith

We had a nice pitching performance from Katie.

Paul Aznarez

We had a nice little run and kind of turned the tide a little bit. That's what you look for in your press.

Amy Ray

We did some planning with them. It was nice to get involved.

Don Meyers

We did some nice things to get back into the game.

Walter Benjamin

There's something nice about being able to go to sleep at night saying "You know, tomorrow I'm gonna get up and I'm gonna do this and I'm gonna do that...." I think that being an activist on this planet is a privilege and a pleasure.

Jacques Rogge

We are pleased by the pace of progress now,

Sean Smith

We started picking up the pace and that's the type of team we are.

Edwin Way Teale

For observing nature, the best pace is a snail's pace.

Arthur Golden

of course the pace of change never slows, even when we've convinced ourselves it will.

Bil Keane

Time goes by at such a pace,it's funny how it's easy to forget her face

Doug Tumen

If you run every day at race pace you're going to get hurt.

Shaul Mofaz

The evacuation was conducted honorably and within a shorter timetable than anticipated. We planned three weeks. But 50 to 60 percent (of settlers) had already left. This accelerated the pace of evacuations from the outset,

Paula Radcliffe

The idea was just to go out at a pace that was comfortable and decent,

Troy Murphy

You can't think of a worse team to play on a back-to-back than Phoenix, especially when it's away. Just their style of play, it's tough. You don't feel it so much in the first quarter, but you can feel the pace in the third.

Ben Chaplin

I care about all the characters I play, and I get quite defensive about them.

Ben Barnes

I went to a very academically competitive high school. So I was always quite studious and quiet, just to keep up with the other geniuses who were in my school.

Nick Jonas

I've always been quite driven. I take after my father.

Charlton Heston

It's been quite a ride. I loved every minute of it.

Damien Chazelle

As a drummer, you're always fighting for a level that you never quite attain.

Laurence Housman

That was luck: I should not then have been a conscientious objector; but I am quite sure that the abominations of war would have made me one, as soon as I got to the front.

David Buckley

When the universe was very young it was smooth and had a uniform distribution but now it is quite clumpy,

Vikram Chatwal

My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.

Ken Dixon

We're kind of blase about 'just ride the bus,' but you don't realize how tough it is. It's quite a trip, especially if you have kids.

Vivienne Westwood

I am in my own head most of the time.

Zubin Mehta

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

Zubin Mehta

I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

Yakov Smirnoff

When you like something, you find time to do it.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.

Donatella Versace

At that time of the supermodels, celebrities didn't want to be in fashion; they thought they were more intellectual and interesting than anyone in fashion.

David Bailey

I could develop a picture by the time I was 12.

David Byrne

I've got nothing to say most of the time.

Brittany Howard

The first time I learned how to play, my guitar was out of tune. I didn't know it; I just started writing songs.