Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Smith

I self-published the first edition, hardcover, in June 2003. The book is now in its third printing.

Miley Cyrus

The reason I never want a book to end is that I start to feel like the characters are my friends. I'll miss them when they're gone.

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.

Bobby Fischer

I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, '84-'85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that.

Rosecrans Baldwin

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

Stephen Jay Gould

I love to read the dedications of old books written in monarchies for they invariably honor some (usually insignificant) knight or duke with fulsome words of sycophantic insincerity, praising him as the light of the universe (in hopes, no doubt, for a few ducats to support future work); this old practice makes me feel like such an honest and upright man, by comparison, when I put a positive spin, perhaps ever so slightly exaggerated, on a grant proposal.

Stephen Jay Gould

Throughout his last half-dozen books, for example, Arthur Koestler has been conducting a campaign against his own misunderstanding of Darwinism. He hopes to find some ordering force, constraining evolution to certain directions and overriding the influence of natural selection. [...] Darwinism is not the theory of capricious change that Koestler imagines. Random variation may be the raw material of change, but natural selection builds good design by rejecting most variants while accepting and accumulating the few that improve adaptation to local environments.

Brad Herndon

The reason I wrote the book is that I have made many mistakes (in my deer hunting experiences). I want to save people from making all of those mistakes I did.

Mark Bridges

The other day in the garage, I found a book report from the seventh grade that I did about silent movie stars. It's funny to look at now, because it really foretold what my future would be.

Bobby Vinton

I had a big troupe, a big army and it was a lot of fun. And, after 10 years of that, I just decided that I wanted to travel and do special dates. I go to Las Vegas these days.

Don Rickles

My style is my personality. It's always been that way. Being a wiseguy and having fun. It's always been that way for me, when I was in high school, and in the Navy. It's not something I rehearse.

Don Rickles

An insult comic is the title I was given. What I do is exaggeration. I make fun of people, at life, of myself and my surroundings.

Cris Collinsworth

Get your calculators out, this will be fun!

Creed Bratton

I’ve been involved in a number of cults both as a leader and a follower. You have more fun as a follower but you make more money as a leader.

Criss Angel

We are thrilled to work with Fun and share the same sentiment that we want do some really exciting and innovative things for the magic community.

Craig Thompson

Edward Said talks about Orientalism in very negative terms because it reflects the prejudices of the west towards the exotic east. But I was also having fun thinking of Orientalism as a genre like Cowboys and Indians is a genre – they’re not an accurate representation of the American west, they’re like a fairy tale genre.

Constance Jablonski

Many models do yoga, but I find it boring. Id rather be outdoors having fun.

Corbin Bleu

I am a very open, social, friendly person, and when it comes to people approaching me and asking for an autograph, I am totally cool with doing any of that. It's a lot of fun.

Chad Cruthis

We talked about it and for our team right now, we had a lack of intelligence. We have a zone offense we've worked on for a month and a half and you saw that whole first half, we couldn't get people to get in the right spots.

Kirby Moses

Ten of our 14 wrestlers scored points which helped us today. There were 15 teams and we didn't know what to expect. We were the smallest school there.

Deon Grant

We didn't play bad, ... But we sure didn't do a lot to help ourselves.

Pavel Nedved

I am ready for the return leg. I will give everything I have to help my team win, hoping that it will be sufficient.

John Davenport

Certainly, losing any services that provide help for the juvenile problem in the state is not good,

John McKinley

But when the market got dicey, we knew investors would need help in making decisions.

Ken Giebel

But as interest rates start to go up the lower payments can help some people qualify especially in a high-cost state like California.

Quincy Douby

I'm a lot more than a scorer now. If it's not going down I'm going to find other ways to help the team out.

Michael Allen

None of these people are lazy, ... Why wouldn't you want to help somebody like that? All they needed was a jump-start.

Kevin Lynch

Muscles do two things. They help us move and they protect us.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our heart upon the black horse of affliction.

Bill Vaughan

Any manwhose love of horses isstronger thanhis fear of being an absurdity is all right with me.

Zara Phillips

The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some might take a bit longer.

Zach Braff

It turns out Superman is weak to Kryptonite and horses.

Zhuangzi

Either in conflict with others or in harmony with them, we go through life like a runaway horse, unable to stop.

Zhuangzi

Horses have hoofs to carry them over frost and snow; hair, to protect them from wind and cold. They eat grass and drink water, and fling up their heels.... Such is the real nature of horses.

Twiggy

I ate like a horse when I was younger, and not very sensibly, though no one ever believes that.

William Golding

Couldn't a fire outrun a galloping horse?

William Goldman

The Queen's Pride was his ship, and he loved her. (That was the way his sentences always went: It is raining today and I love you. My cold is better and I love you. Say hello to Horse and I love you. Like that.)

R. Robinson

I wasn't really looking to score more (in the second half), but I was looking to be more aggressive.

Pat Murphy

They're always looking to throw it downfield. We've got to get them to punt and get some turnovers.

Sgt. Phillips

We're really wide open in terms of looking at some things.

Ed Johnson

We need to be looking at some of this. We know we can't make things go away immediately.

Jim Manning

There are many senior union members who will stay with grocery, but the younger ones (employees) are looking at different careers.

Francis Chan

Our culture is all about shallow relationships. But that doesn't mean we should stop looking each other in the eye and having deep conversations.

Kari Koch

We only needed a two, so I wasn't really looking for the 3. I just did the wrong thing.

Mary Freeman

We planned it for people who are looking for something special to do with their loved ones.

Adam Green

With AHP we'll be looking at everything, just like Pfizer.

Isaac Asimov

What would I do if I knew I only had six months to live? Type faster.

Mark Holmes

It was a culmination of several weeks of work and several months of research.

Jacob DiPietre

They've already been in the process of doing that for several months now.

John Wilhelm

We've become persuaded that, after two years of trying to reform the national AFL-CIO, it is unwilling to change,

John McGahern

I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor.

Claire Danes

I don't know any celebrated people that register in a big way who aren't unique.

Chris Martin

A band's only unique thing is its chemistry, especially if none of you are prodigious players or particularly handsome. The one thing you have is your uniqueness, so we hold on to that.