Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ian Frazier

I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would not be superficial. Siberian-travel writing is its own genre.

Gail Carriger

Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to leave my books smiling.

Zadie Smith

One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.

Zadie Smith

When I think of the books I love, there's always a little laughter in the dark.

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.

Vincent Bugliosi

I am more excited about 'Divinity of Doubt: The God Question' than any other book in my entire career, and I've had seven New York Times bestsellers, three of them reaching number one.

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.

Gordon Woods

I think reconstructing his library would be fantastic. That would be a real contribution to scholarship.

Diane Setterfield

What better place to kill time than a library?

David McCullough

Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.

David Strathairn

Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries.

Beverly Cleary

I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.

Thomas Jefferson

A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry.

Bud Schmidt

We're going to get a new library here.

Bill Moyers

When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.

Bill Watterson

County library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition. Well, that's the problem. I don't know how to spell it and I'm not allowed to say it. Could you just rattle off all the swear words you know and I'll stop you when...Hello?

Donna Nelson

I say that, you know, it's a lifetime goal trying to teach organic chemistry, to make it easy, and I'm starting to wonder if I'm ever going to achieve it in my lifetime.

Oscar Wilde

To love yourself is the start of a lifetime romance.

Philippe Petit

It's very easy to walk on a wire if you spend a whole lifetime practicing for it.

Charlize Theron

I know what I'm capable of wearing in one lifetime and what I really need.

Bess Myerson

I've lived through a lifetime of crises and survived.

Bob Marley

One lifetime is not enough to live

Al Franken

I'm sure I've devoted enough thought to Rush Limbaugh for one lifetime.

Brian Lumley

And I have to consider myself fortunate, because there are plenty of writers who spend most of a lifetime looking for that certain something without ever finding it.

bell hooks

All my life I have longed to have a loving relationship that would last a lifetime.