Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Osler

To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

I've got a bunch of books... I rely on funny books and movies to cheer me up. Oh, but I must say, I do have the world's most perfect husband, so a cuddle from him always cheers me up. He's a good guy.

Chuck Palahniuk

I think Chris Brown gets kind of dismissed as a gay writer, and I think Chris's books are really, really smart. I wish his books sold a little more widely.

Chuck Palahniuk

My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are easy to carry as you travel.

Yann Martel

It's true, too, that I'm tired of using books as political bullets and grenades. Books are too precious and wonderful to be used for long in such a fashion.

Chris Bohjalian

I think the most important lesson isn't necessarily to try and write a different book every time, or to try and brand yourself and write one specific kind of book, but to write the kind of books you love to read.

Bruce Feiler

'Walking the Bible' describes the year that I spent retracing the five books of Moses through the desert, and I was actually working on a follow-up, which would look at the rest of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament.

Debbie Macomber

In my books and in romance as a genre, there is a positive, uplifting feeling that leaves the reader with a sense of encouragement and hope for a brighter future - or a brighter present.

David Crosby

I'm an inveterate bookstore wanderer. I read constantly, so I love a good bookstore. I can't help it.

Colleen Hoover

I'm very passionate about music and was excited to see that the majority of readers loved the inclusion of lyrics.

Emmanuel Jal

I'm kind of weird - I don't get excited. Sometimes I fake that I'm excited just to make people happy.

Tony Romo

I think as a player there's a sense of urgency every single year that this is the year we're going to have success and do the things we're excited about.

Virat Kohli

Probably because I'm from a middle class family, I have that nature in me that I don't get too excited with big things.

Tim Howard

My faith helped me stay grounded in defeat and victory, to not get too excited about the successes and too low about the failures.

Kevin Kleckler

We did well. I'm excited about the kids doing well. It's a young team.

Mike Nichols

American society to me and my brother was thrilling because, first of all, the food made noise. We were so excited about Rice Krispies and Coca-Cola. We had only silent food in our country, and we loved listening to our lunch and breakfast.

Imtiaz Ali

I enjoy looking beyond the obvious and look at the stories happening all around me - you kind of formulate things in your mind and get excited about them.

Bobby Moynihan

I think I'm a big kid at heart, so I get very excited around the holidays.

Wendy Kopp

It gets to whether we're a teacher-education model or a movement for social justice. I would say we're about the latter.

Bonnie Tyler

The international travelling gets harder as I get older, but when I'm performing on stage, it makes it all worth while.

David Carson

Just because something's legible doesn't means it communicates. More importantly, it doesn't mean it communicates the right thing. So, what is the message sent before somebody actually gets into the material? And I think that's sometimes an overlooked area.

Nile Rodgers

My career has been wacky and not at all normal. I've never had a manager, nobody gets jobs for me. I wind up working with artists that I meet.

Nas

I don't want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it, man. I'm not perfect, and I'm just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time, you know?

Steve Buscemi

When I get cast, I always flip to the end of the script to see if my character gets beaten up or killed.

Charles Manson

When I go on the mountain and I say "Do it!", it gets done. And if it doesn't get done, then I move on it. And that's the last thing in the world you want from me!

Vincent Simeone

When a tree gets transplanted, its growth slows down because it's in shock.

Matt Winkler

When a team gets into a slump, it seems everyone does. Fortunately, Jake and Jordan stepped up.

Jean Baker

We need to have these kinds of perhaps unpopular views of a major American icon presented to the public.

Hendrik Poinar

I'm not sure the Russians would be happy that their iconic wooly mammoth has North American origins.

Benedict Cumberbatch

There are things that are a given, that you've already established, and obviously, visually, certain iconic things that can't be completely removed, like a certain hat or a certain coat in my case.

Aaron Stanford

Wes Craven is obviously a horror film icon so I was definitely very interested in bringing something back to life that Wes had created.

Patricia Ireland

Most of us see Justice O'Connor as something of an icon, although we do not agree with all of her decisions.

Paul Weller

Our campaigns have always been based on what we consider music icons that transcend generations and they're not of the moment - they continue to evolve.

Charles Jencks

It's a mark of any icon that it should be open to iconoclasm.

Britney Spears

I don't see myself as an icon, because I just wear whatever I want to wear.

Ashley Benson

My beauty icon is Angelina Jolie.

Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange

One has to divide attention between having kids and a full workload.

William H. Macy

I'm not against watching myself, but I miss a lot of it. I've got two little kids who we don't let watch TV.

William Joyce

I like stirring things up. I'm on the side of the kids more than I am on the adults. And occasionally I find some adults that have that same mischievous streak, so I don't get in too much trouble.

Wendelin Van Draanen

You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.

Vanessa Hudgens

My advice to kids is give it your all! Give it 110 percent and don't give up!

Wyclef Jean

As a producer, I always want to know what makes the kids tick.

Bronson Pinchot

I think I'm going to pull a Charlie Chaplin and have kids when I'm 60.

Brendon Urie

Since I was a kid - youngest of five kids - I've always been starved for attention, like 'Look at me! Look at me! Look what I can do!'

Chris Colfer

My life is an awkward visit from the kids table.

Ivo Daalder

The overt message is that preventing nuclear proliferation is important.

Thalia

I always focus on myself in what I want, where I want to go, who I want to reach, which message I want to put out, how I want to dress.

Takashi Murakami

In Japan, I focus mostly on sending messages through Twitter, trying to spread my minority way of thinking.

Tamora Pierce

I'm of the Samuel Goldwyn school of writing: If you need to send a message, call Western Union. Any messages people take away from my books are the ones they see in them.

Walid Jumblatt

We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?

Din Syamsuddin

The reaction has been sufficient...in getting the message across.

Jeb Bush

Today's message is really to prepare and stay aware, ... I understand it can be really frustrating.

Boris Tadic

Unfortunately, today we are getting messages from the tribunal that they are not responsible. I think they are responsible for what happened.

Isamu Akasaki

I was overwhelmed by so many interviewers and then messages of congratulations. So many congratulation messages. I feel this shows the authority and the greatness of the Nobel Prize.

Chris Abani

Like most writers, I find the Web is a wonderful distraction. Who doesn't need that last minute research before writing?

Cilla Black

'Blind Date' was my lifeline. It was 90 minutes when I could forget about everything, forget about the world.

John Doe

We play music that doesn't suck. And the minute we start sucking, we'll quit.

Folarin Campbell

We play for 40 minutes. We didn't take any minute off.

will.i.am

I was born and raised in the ghetto, on welfare, two minutes from homeless.

Mark Ploger

Wheat is resilient. The wheat plant does everything it can to survive. It hangs on to every minute drop. Wheat is a survivor.

Kayla Ewell

I'm sort of a gym buff. It's a stress relief for me. But I only go for 20 minutes at a time.

Camille Paglia

I remember turning 'The Sopranos' on once and within two minutes nearly throwing a brick through the screen.

Steve Nash

I usually settle into a routine during the season where I shoot for about 15 or 20 minutes before and after practice, and then do the whole practice.

Samuel Butler

The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

Dick Cheney

When we get people who are more concerned about reading the rights to an Al Qaeda terrorist than they are with protecting the United States against people who are absolutely committed to do anything they can to kill Americans, then I worry,

Alan Tudyk

Reading is a heady thing. You can be into the action of someone's thoughts and take a whole trip down someone's ruminations while seconds tick by in the world that they're in, but you can't really do that in film. Some films can, but not too much.

Charlotte Bronte

For I too liked reading, thought of a frivolous and childish kind; I could not digest or comprehend the serious or substantial.

Charles Dudley Warner

Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind.

Charles de Gaulle

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

Charles Dickens

Mr. Pickwick took a seat and the paper, but instead of reading the latter, peeped over the top of it, and took a survey of the man of business, who was an elderly, pimply-faced, vegetable-diet sort of man, in a black coat, dark mixture trousers, and small black gaiters; a kind of being who seemed to be an essential part of the desk at which he was writing, and to have as much thought or sentiment.

Charles Dickens

I have nothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I were to confess that no one can ever believe this narrative, in the reading, more than I have believed it in the writing.

Charles Stross

Speech recognition is utterly crap for writing fiction. If you try reading a novel aloud you'll soon figure out why - written prose style is utterly unlike the spoken word.

Ralph Carter

When I got into Irving's, ... everyone was talking about it.

Ken Lucas

We're kind of low-key. We don't like a lot of attention. Keep talking about the other teams, and we'll just come out and do our job.

Karen Finney

We're doing the work, we're not just talking about it.

Kyle Brown

Typically speaking, we're probably talking about around $100,000 for everything.

Joe Torre

You know we're capable. It's always talking about the thumpers and all of the big things we can do.

J. J. Johnson

We got to talking, and he got talking about his case.

Zulima Farber

We're not talking years -- we're talking weeks or months, not years.

Bob Duncan

We're not talking about tens of thousands, but it's significant.

Mack Brown

We're not talking about starters, because we're going to need all of those guys.

P. C. Cast

Vampires and teens have a lot in common. Teens have surging hormones, vampires have surging blood lust. Teenagers think they're immortal.

Sean Covey

That's important, apologizing, listening, you know, I think the teens I speak with, most of them don't feel understood. They feel like they're being lectured to all the time.

Maya Angelou

Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity.

Chris Crutcher

I am for anything that makes teens visible in an honest way... in other words, anything that represents them the way they are, positively or negatively.

Kathy Gallant

I was used to teens who had everything they needed.

Gaspard Ulliel

I've been an amateur photographer since my teens.

Eva Mendes

Maybe something that's acceptable in your teens or 20s is unacceptable in your 30s or 40s

Jennifer Garner

In my teens, I was never part of the cool crowd.

Amy Heckerling

Teens are the target demographic for everything in pop culture.

Tubby Smith

We're not the same team. We're totally different. Whatever it is, we've got to keep it up.

Larry Coker

We were totally inept, to put it bluntly.

Nik Rapelje

(Interstate) 70 is usually worse, so (U.S. Highway) 6 is standard. But if 6 is totally clogged you can always go Colfax.

David Schultz

The real breakthroughs will be in a totally different category.

Jordi Molla

When I'm playing as an actor, I don't want to interfere at all with the director. I'm just an actor. I'm totally respectful.

John Howard

She was very distressed. She was very angry, she was very upset, and all of that is totally understandable.

Parris Chang

We won't be totally disappointed because there will be other goodies in the package,

Eugene Levy

At the end of the day, the numbers that we're hearing are not going to be totally correct or not correct at all.

Stefano Gabbana

My mum is totally crazy for fashion still.

Ban Ki-moon

We have all heard of the web of life. The way we live threatens to trap us in a web of death.

Dhani Harrison

Websites are kind of useless. There's so much great web content and design out there, but the ways in which they are being experienced are not being maximized.

Serena Williams

With my website, I'm really interactive. I've written a lot of things about me.

Scott Sanders

Every thread you discover in the local web of life leads beyond your place to life elsewhere.

Chief Seattle

To harm the earth is to heap contempt on its creator.

Chief Seattle

All creation is one. What we do to one, we do to the entire web of life.

Noam Chomsky

But on the contrary Wikileaks is under heavy attack by the government and corporations are participating in that by closing down their websites.

Keith Teare

Mobile will probably disrupt much of what we know of web 2.0.

Paul Thurrott

IE isn't secure and isn't standards-compliant, which makes it unworkable both for end users and Web content creators.