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.

Marquis de Lafayette

Do not let us despair of the cause of liberty: it is still dear to the hearts of Frenchmen, and we shall one day have the felicity of seeing it established in our beloved country.

Jane Yolen

My beloved husband goes through radiation, and a book of sonnets is my passionate response. And then after he dies, I write another book of poems as a farewell. The two keywords here are passion and joy. I simply have a passion for writing, and I do it with joy.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

My beloved Elisa, my companion and wife, whom I love and revere, is one of the most noble of our Heavenly Father's handmaidens.

Katie Lee

My beloved Africa, the fauna, flora, sounds, and smells which you will hold in your memory for years to come.

Pope Benedict

We can be sure our beloved pope is standing today at the window of the father's house, that he sees us and blesses us.

Hamish Bowles

Singing for me has always been a joyous but private pleasure that connects me in a lyric thread to my beloved grandmother Alice.

Edward Flynn

We are disappointed in the official announcement to close our beloved St. Augustine church.

Simone Elkeles

I lost my dad when I was younger, and I know what it's like to lose a beloved parent.

Jackson Katz

For millions of women and men around the world, the playwright Eve Ensler is a beloved figure. She represents the epitome of the politically engaged artist, someone who uses her creative brilliance to illuminate injustice and give voice to the voiceless.

Yotam Ottolenghi

I always preferred my father's pasta the next day, when he'd put it in a hot oven with heaps of extra cheese. It would emerge slightly burned and very crisp on top.

Gilbert Hernandez

It wasn't until I started to do 'Poison River' that the readership started falling. 'Poison River' started out very slowly and simply, but then it got really dense and complicated. I don't know, I think the readers just got fed up or burned out. They started dropping off.

Mike Dunleavy

We could never get it straight to what we were trying to get to. It was a combination. Our guards were getting hung up on the pick. They definitely burned us on it.

Edward Callahan

We have two dozers work on a line from the top, the fire is spotty, ... There's a lot of spots where it has not burned yet.

Menachem Begin

There are those who say we must rescind the Golan Heights law that was passed in the Knesset. To rescind is a concept from the days of the Inquisition. Our forefathers were burned at the stake and would not rescind their faith.

Brandon Bruce

We have to keep it monotone. We don't want to get burned out on Friday.

Dave Hall

Most of the material actually burned up. Propylene will burn fairly quickly, without a lot of residue,

John Gartland

Maybe she wouldn't be as good now, ... She transitioned well into our program. Sometimes kids get burned out doing too much. That's been the difference, being able to train like a runner.

Robert Kiyosaki

One of the reasons so many people get burned in the market is because they start buying as they see prices going up.