Famous Quotes & Sayings

Miley Cyrus

The reason I never want a book to end is that I start to feel like the characters are my friends. I'll miss them when they're gone.

Thomas Carlyle

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.

Bobby Fischer

I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, '84-'85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that.

Rosecrans Baldwin

Bookstores don't exactly dot the American highway in the grand manner of Sbarros.

Alexander McCall Smith

I write four books a year. I'm very fortunate that I write quickly; around 3,500 words a day. Being strict about delineating my writing time and personal life, as well as keeping distractions at bay, is the only way I can accomplish this.

Alexander McQueen

If you're an open book, there's no allure.

Alexander McQueen

When a woman gets dressed up to go out at night, she wants to give 50% away, and hold the rest back. If you're an open book, there's no allure.

Alexander Pope

To buy books as some do who make no use of them, only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because they were made by some famous tailor.

Alexander Pope

Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below?

Bobby Collins

Is that all? That seemed like a 25-turnover night to me.

Andy Goldsworthy

Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures.

Michael Jackson

Look at how many great actors or entertainers have been lost to the world because they did a performance one night and that was it. With film, you capture that, it's shown all over the world and it's there forever.

Paula Poundstone

I did auditions at a club called the Comedy Connection. They wanted nothing to do with me. But one night they were doing a night of all women comics, and they invited me to do that.

Paula Poundstone

I have jokes I've told before and will tell again, but my favorite part of the night is talking to the crowd.

Paula Poundstone

It is the best part of the night. The classic interactive lines are 'Where are you from? What do you do for a living?' I almost always get something interesting.

Terry Southern

I like to work at night.

Neil Patrick Harris

The discipline of live theater - doing the same perfect thing night after night, eight times a week - never ceases to amaze me

Phyllis Diller

When I go to bed at night, I've got so much grease on my body I wear snow chains to hold up my gown.

Andy Serkis

I love acting and certainly won't give it up, but it's part of a bigger canvas for me now.

Andy Rooney

I've learned... that we should be glad God doesn't give us everything we ask for.

Andy Rooney

Most of the people in the world are good and decent if you give them a chance to be ...

Andy Stanley

The value of a life is determined by what we give away.

Andy Stanley

What you fear most will determine whether you merely save for the future or give for the future.

Andy Stanley

Lord, give me the wisdom to know what's right and the courage to do what's right-even when it's hard.

Andy Stanley

...often, stepping outside your comfort zone is not careless irresponsibility, but a necessary act of obedience.

Andy Stanley

Any fear associated with giving to God's kingdom is irrational. It's on par with a farmer who, out of fear of losing his seed, refuses to plant his fields.

Andy Warhol

I used to drink Coke all the time. It was so good. It gives you a lot of energy.