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.

Jilly Cooper

When I started writing, I thought the only way to write books that were set in the country was to go and look at the primroses on Putney Common.

John Ortberg

Far more books get written about how to get more people in your church than how to get the people already in your church to have more humility and sincere love.

Deb Beisell

We are hoping that people will return the books and/or money. We are willing to work with the customer to restore our relationship and be flexible with payment options.

E. Hicks

No substantive change was made to the process,

Lanny Wadkins

The thing that put the question mark in a lot of people's minds was the swing change. I, like a lot of other people, questioned it just for the fact that if you think back to all the great players from Hogan to Snead to Nicklaus, Palmer, Watson and Trevino . . . none of those guys ever changed their swing to get better.

Jim Haslett

The one thing I did learn this year is that things change fast. You've got to be able to adapt. I guess that's the way life is. You just don't know what things are going to change.

Greg Olson

Spam' is the number-one issue for ISP's. It's killing them, ... This is definitely going to change the Internet.

Joe Zappala

Now is as good a time as any to change it.

Marianne Williamson

Now if you know what makes one person's life change, then you know what makes a nation change - because a nation is simply a large group of individuals.

Jehane Noujaim

Now, I don't know whether a film can change the world, but I know that it starts - I know the power of it - I know that it starts people thinking about how to change the world.

Kym Whitley

Sometimes you have to change the mold. If people keep following the same Hollywood mold, you're going to get the same thing. And as a Black actress, there's not a whole lot out there for us, unless we're creating it.

J. B. Smoove

Sometimes you can make friends, and sometimes you can take friends. Sometimes people want to be friends with you, and you gotta be like, 'Okay, I can deal with this person's personality and be their friend, but not necessarily do I have to change who I am. I'm not gonna change myself to be their friend.'

Babe Ruth

You just can't beat the person who never gives up.

Ashley Smith

Live life messy and love every moment of it.

Barbara Sher

Isolation is a dream killer.

Arthur Miller

I am bewildered by the death of love. And my responsibility for it.

Arthur Miller

I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.

Ayn Rand

She smiled. She knew she was dying. But it did not matter any longer. She had known something which no human words could ever tell and she knew it now. She had been awaiting it and she felt it, as if it had been, as if she had lived it. Life had been, if only because she had known it could be, and she felt it now as a hymn without sound, deep under the little whole that dripped red drops into the snow, deeper than that from which the red drops came. A moment or an eternity- did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist. She smiled, her last smile, to so much that had been possible.

Ayn Rand

I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.

Laurie Halse Anderson

The feedback I get is that my books are honest. I don't sugar-coat anything. Life is really hard.

Kim Mathers

I am trying to move forward with my life.

Jeffrey Sachs

Russia increasingly lived on short-term borrowing. Now, this was an extraordinary merry-go-round.

Jan Jones

He was young and naive. We lived in a different world in 1993.

Al Sevier

He was just a little bitty toddler when he lived here.

Andrew Marvell

Had it lived long, it would have been / Lilies without, roses within.

John Kraft

They were the first people that lived here in your town.

Sherwin B. Nuland

The dignity we seek in dying must be found in the dignity with which we have lived our lives.

Oscar Wilde

I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.

Jack Smith

When someone has the wit to coin a useful phrase, it ought to be acclaimed and broadcast or it will perish.

Jane Austen

An annuity is a very serious business.

Eminem

It's not a contest, and I ain't on no conquest for no mate.

Buddy Bell

I don't know how serious it is. Hopefully, it is not the kind that will keep him out two or three weeks. We have to be careful.

Bill Cosby

I didn't know how serious it is to a female that you lift the lid.

Berkeley Breathed

If nothing is serious anymore, then there's nothing to satirize.

Horace

Joking apart, now let us be serious.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Preserving the serious health condition is usually painful.

J. M. Coetzee

Was it serious? I don't know. It certainly had serious consequences.

Melissa Sue Anderson

I don't want what Shaun Cassidy gets. I am a serious actress.

Ted White

The suspects had no idea who they were trying to rob.

Tom Perkins

We'll have to find some way around it. There probably is a way...I suspect something will come up.

Allen Tate

What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.

Mark Johnson

It's been unbelievable. We couldn't have written a better script.

John Drinkwater

The written word is everything.

John Lydon

Every single lyric I've ever written I meant.

Van Morrison

I put out records to this day that are not necessarily in a sequence of anything. Some could be written a while back, some not. There is no set pattern.

Janis Joplin

I would trade all my tomorrow's for one single yesterday.

Amy Grant

Life is a process, and you just take it a day at a time, and you can't live in tomorrow, and you can't reach back and be in yesterday. No matter how much you want to, you just have what's right there in front of you.

Andy Rooney

The third rule of life is this: Everything you buy today is smaller, more expensive, and not as good as it was yesterday.

Matthew McConaughey

Some things, you just like what you like and you stick to it. Other things, you like what you like, but the things that come with celebrity or success comes more options. There's was nine, all of the sudden there's ninety-nine things to say "yes" to, which you didn't have the option to say "yes" to yesterday.

Howard Zinn

If you don't know history, it is as if you were born yesterday.

Ellen DeGeneres

Above all, I strive to be the best I can - to be better than I was yesterday and better tomorrow.

Carl Jung

Today's worries are yesterday's fears and tomorrow's stories.

John C. Maxwell

Everyone has the power to impact the outcome of his life. The way to do it is to focus on today. . . It is too late for yesterday. And you can't depend on tomorrow.

James Howell

All we can do is be better prepared today than yesterday and better prepared tomorrow than today.