Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sharon Chang

People call each other when they see new books on the shelves. New books are usually checked out in two days, DVDs in (only) hours.

Michael Lewis

There are enough books in the world. You want to write the ones that are good. The minute you write books because you need the income not because you think you have a good subject, you should just stop. There are sixty thousand books published in this country every year, and most of them are crap.

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.

William Shakespeare

And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

Rosecrans Baldwin

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

Alan Milstein

Besides, there are privacy laws on the books, both state and federal, so there's no way they'd win. It makes you wonder what they're really worried about.

Christina Greenberg

My grandmother is a Russian immigrant and, as a child, I always dreamed of going to Russia and opening a nonprofit there. I learned Russian as a teenager through studying books in the hopes of moving there.

Gary Kemp

My father had inklings of my cultural aspirations. He would take me to the library, things like that. But he wasn't one of those dads who had read George Orwell and was a member of the Communist party. We had no books at home.

James Burrows

My father was weaned on books. I'm halfway between being weaned on books and weaned on television. And if you're weaned on television, you're not as good a writer as if you were weaned on books.

Josie Bissett

I've sort of mellowed out. It used to be: I want to be a star, do big movies. Now, being married, it's like the reasons I wanted to do that seem the wrong reasons. I want to have kids.

Eugene Levy

tons of movies are shot in Toronto, but Toronto is never Toronto.

Jennifer Grey

Give yourself pleasure; see your friends; go to the movies.

Jacki Weaver

Well, I've been acting for 50 years now, professionally. I've been acting a lot longer. My mother reckons I was acting when I got out of the womb. But because I've been working in the theater, I've probably only done about 25 movies but I've done more than 100 plays.

John Fithian

Here's what we know about 2005: The movies are not as good,

Chris Evans

I'm not trying to steal the show. I tend to shy away from - I don't want to say the spotlight - how about responsibility? It's just very daunting. These movies are very intimidating. 'Captain America.' This is the stuff I struggle with.

Gellert

It's something out of a movie, ... It's so pleasant.

Tim O'Brien

Why do fairy tales exist, and why do movies exist? Why do novels exist? There has to be a reason for it; otherwise, none of these things would be there.

Henry Lewis

The music, the dress, the color, the stage settings ? there's nothing in the world like it. The whole of Massachusetts should rush here, honestly.

Jeff Tweedy

I've been buying instruments and musical gear for a long time.

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

I can spend the day without writing or reading, but I can't spend a day without listening to music. I listen to music on a Walkman; it's from the 19th century, I know.

Billie Holiday

I've been told that nobody sings the word 'hunger' like I do.

Adam Lambert

I try not to get trapped in any one musical or visual style at all.

Ani Difranco

I don't like my language watered down, I don't like my edges rounded off.

Andrew Marvell

Music, the mosaic of the air.

Amy Winehouse

I would love to study guitar or trumpet.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.

Alice Cooper

There was a period of time when I thought I had to be Alice Cooper all the time.

Cameron Diaz

If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey's records on.

Rita Ora

When I record music I like to be in one place and kind of have a base to keep going back to.

Gwen Stefani

Every record that I've ever made, I listen to it so much before it comes out. As soon as it comes out, I never listen to it again. It's, like, over.

Bill Bryson

Most of what has lived on Earth has left behind no record at all.

Christian Marclay

You can get so many sounds out of one record. Every record can be used in some way.

Glenn Danzig

Whether I'm doing music or I'm walking down the street or I'm in a record store buying a record or I walk into a comic store and I'm buying comics or having a drink with my friends, it's the same me.

Shelby Lynne

Well, I had a record deal since I was 18, and it got me where I am.

Sheila Jackson Lee

By virtually any measure, the record of the Republican Majority is an appalling failure.

Link Wray

Money don't rule me, record companies don't rule me.