Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Rosecrans Baldwin

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

Molly Harper

I think my books are lighter and funnier than some of the big series out there. You may not walk away from my books having learned a life-altering lesson, but you will feel better for having laughed for a few hours. It's just a different style of writing.

Ashley Johnson

I will not plan on buying any kind of electronic textbook. If you pay for it, it should be yours. That's information open to you, especially if you're buying books for your major.

Gunter Thielen

Our major acquisitions and joint ventures ... will be shown on the books for the second half of the year,

Joseph Bruchac

I often find myself unsatisfied with books 'about' Indians because they are written from the viewpoint of non-Indians.

Mark Smith

If you want to sell T-shirts and mountain books and volcano burgers in the existing spots, that's great.

Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

I had a happy childhood, with many stimulations and support from my parents who, in postwar times, when it was difficult to buy things, made children's books and toys for us. We had much freedom and were encouraged by our parents to do interesting things.

Matthew Scully

In the summer or fall of 1974, I read some books about factory farming, and decided that I wanted no part of it.

Rita Ora

I dyed my hair blonde when I was 14. My mom was not happy. But I love being blonde.

Rita Ora

Everyone thinks their mom is a superhero, and l feel like I want to be just like my mom. A superhero. She’s a very strong lady.

Rita Mae Brown

One thing Mom taught me, "You're going to be dead a long time, so do it now!"

Thomas Ian Nicholas

I moved with my mom to Los Angeles for her to pursue her acting career, and she got a job casting atmosphere in some independent films.

Thomas S. Monson

May each of us remember this truth; 'one cannot forget mother and remember God. One cannot remember mother and forget God.' Why? Because these two sacred persons, God and mother, partners in creation, in love, in sacrifice, in service, are as one.

Robert Griffin III

My dad served 21 years and my mom did 13, so through that process, they taught me that I always have to give back.

Robert Griffin III

I'm a military kid, both parents in the military - Mom did 12 years, Dad did 21, served in two wars. So discipline is something that was huge.

Robert Greene

Being the free woman who is sexy and out there is a performance in a way, and being the stay-at-home mom and wife is a performance in itself. All of those performances are living and force you to make decisions about who you really are. Women have to put those performances ahead of things sometimes. Men aren't perceived in the same way.

Robert Greene

The big difference is, as a man, I can go to a bar at two in the morning and people will be like "He's just a fun guy! That's cool that he can balance all these things." But if you see a person that you know who has two young kids and is a mom, there's no way those perceptions are the same. It's like "Oh, there must be a problem." That's usually what women face.

Annie Dillard

We wake, if ever at all, to mystery.

Garth Nix

Death and what came after death was no great mystery to Sabriel. She just wished it was.

Willie Smith

Everything you can think of, he was there taking people's pictures and he was just an outstanding person.

Bella Thorne

I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well.

Ray Bradbury

Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization.

Ray Bradbury

..holding a book but reading the empty spaces.

Neil Gaiman

I like reading. I prefer not reading on my computer, because that makes whatever I am reading feel like work. I do not mind reading on my iPad.

Marcus Garvey

A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.

John Taylor Gatto

Close reading of tough-minded writing is still the best, cheapest, and quickest method known for learning to think for yourself... Reading, and rigorous discussion of that reading in a way that obliges you to formulate a position and support it against objections, is an operational definition of education... reading, analysis, and discussion is the way we develop reliable judgment, the principle way we come to penetrate covert movements behind the facade of public appearances.

John Selden

Patience is the chiefest fruit of study; a man that strives to make himself different from other men by much reading gains this chiefest good, that in all fortunes he hath something to entertain and comfort himself withal.

Penn Jillette

I believe the fast track to atheism is reading the Bible. I've read it three times all the way through. It's a big part of our culture, a big part of our history. I don't just read things I agree with.

Nora Ephron

... when I finish reading People, I always feel that I have just spent four days in Los Angeles. Women's Wear Daily at least makes me feel dirty; People makes me feel that I haven't read or learned or seen anything at all.

Marion Cotillard

Every Story is different, Every Movie is different, Every Director is different.

Margaret Atwood

Kafka thought his stories were hilarious. We don't necessarily have that reaction to them, but he certainly laughed his head off every time he read them out loud.

Bruce Springsteen

The story I have told throughout my work life I could not have told as well without Clarence.

Mona Simpson

We all — in the end — die in medias res. In the middle of a story. Of many stories.

Mira Nair

If we don't tell our own stories, no one else will.

Miranda Cosgrove

Some of my favorite movies are just movies that are just good stories, and aren't necessarily big budget movies or anything.

Teresa Nielsen Hayden

Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature.

Ted Naifeh

A story really isnt truly a story until it reaches its climax and conclusion.

Randall Munroe

But I’ve never seen the Icarus story as a lesson about the limitations of humans. I see it as a lesson about the limitations of wax as an adhesive.