Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. A. Konrath

Authors need to decide if they want to keep forever to themselves, or share forever with a publisher who takes over half the cover price.

Neil Gaiman

Authors know that you should never really write a funny book because funny books do not get awards. Comic novels will not get awards.

Mal Peet

Teen authors love to flirt with taboo, to grapple - sensitively - with dark and frightening issues, and there is nothing darker and more frightening than cancer.

Gayle Lynds

Pulp paperbacks have always provided a training ground for men, Some of them went on to become respected authors - Dean Koontz, Nelson DeMille and Martin Cruz Smith, for example. Why couldn't a woman?

Judy Kirkpatrick

We count on a combination of user reviews and the author-provided summary and bio to give the browsing customer information to make a decision. But in the future, we want to provide a way for users to preview the books and implement a forum where consumers can query the authors and debate.

Jonathan Galassi

I deal with the authors I work with, agents, and other departments of the company, talking about both the books that I'm working on and everyone else's. Then there's dealing with foreign publishers: foreigners visit all the time. People want to bounce things off the publisher, and a lot of it is encouragement.

Bob Reed

It's sort of like an unlimited buffet but you have to limit yourself. What the trade show allows you to do is compress meeting with sales reps and authors into a couple of days.

M. J. Rose

Smart authors, faced with storms, chose to create umbrellas. That's why a diverse group of authors banded together to create The Fiction Writer's Co-op, which will work to find innovative ways to promote each other's work and cheer each other on in a very competitive field.

Jessica Dyer

With book publishing, when I say Fulcrum, you might know that we publish books, but you would be hard-pressed to pick titles or authors from our list. It's tricky from the marketing side to think about building a brand, and we do so by picking authors and titles that we believe will be successful.

Brian Quinn

The business must be based on the success of our football team,

William Frey

Back 30 or 40 years ago when people thought about where they'd move it was based on jobs. Now housing is as much of a factor.

Jason Mraz

A rescue mission doesn't involve going in and just taking a child and leaving. You can't just choose any child at random. Every kid has a case that is based on that child's original family. So, we made it over to a village, found the child; we were interacting with the child.

Carolyn Johnson

The students are selected based on recommendations that come from their instructors and who have demonstrated a record of high achievement.

Joe Case

Rates are based on computer modeling that predicts future risk, not about recouping past losses.

Diane Siri

The Santa Cruz County Office of Education, in partnership with the Local Childcare Planning Council and First 5 Santa Cruz County, is developing a model plan for a voluntary preschool system that would create opportunity for every 4-year-old in Santa Cruz County. This vision is based on the understanding that quality preschool programs are the foundation for success in school and, therefore, in life.

Peter Dolan

I've put together a proposal, based on negotiations with Metro-North, that I'll present at our next Town Board meeting for raising our fees and bringing them in line.

Justin Cronin

I've never written a movie, I'm not in the movie business. I go out to L.A. and I'm like everyone else wandering around in a daze hoping I see movie stars. I write the novels that the movies are based on, and that feels like enough of a job for me.

Martin Cohn

It was thought collagen was a relatively recent invention in vertebrate evolution that unites us with reptiles, amphibians, sharks and bony fishes, while the lamprey skeleton was based on quite different proteins. Knowing that lampreys also use collagen to build their skeletons makes sense. Lampreys and jawed vertebrates inherited the same genetic program for skeletal development from our common ancestor.

Kris Alexander

As far as track meets, it's by far the best meet in the state.

Charles Bofferding

As engineers, we have a different perspective. If a company really wants to get its product to be the best in all areas, then it must listen to all sides. A union is the best vehicle to carry the engineers' perspective.

Jeff Bingaman

As best as I can determine, the process is going to be fair, ... explained in some detail the various steps that they were taking to ensure that the bids were appropriately considered and the factors that needed to be given the greatest importance were in fact going to be given the greatest importance.

Gerald Grinstein

As Delta continues its transformation to become a more customer-focused airline, we are incorporating the best of Song into the best of Delta, ... Our new Song service will set the standard in transcontinental travel, making Delta the first choice for customers on these routes.

Steve Fleming

As a father, I did a poor job at dealing with my son. The Special Olympics taught me how to deal with my son, and now he is my best friend. We do everything together.

J. M. G. Le Clezio

A writer is not a prophet, is not a philosopher; he's just someone who is witness to what is around him. And so writing is a way to... it's the best way to testify, to be a witness.

Russell Baker

A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems than you have to.

Chris Huppenthal

As I told the kids, survive and advance, and that's what we did. We're excited about playing (tonight) and hopefully we'll bring our best game.

William Penn

As Love ought to bring them together, so it is the best Way to keep them well together.

John Johnson

As for going on the show, I would not have minded one bit to meet him face to face and look him in the eye, ... But I feel the deck is stacked on that one and the show is Dr. Phil, not Jerry Springer. The title is ?Falsely Accused,? not?Guilty as Sin.?

Rand Paul

As a doctor, I will take it and make it my mission to heal the nation, reverse the course of Obamacare, and repeal every last bit of it.

Jim Furyk

Our team tends to be a little more loose, ... We have a little bit more fun during the Presidents Cup.

Sean Dillon

Our defense kind of locked them down a little bit during that run.

Jools Oliver

People pick up on some bits of the book in particular, like the bit about Jamie's sperm,

Michael A. Stackpole

People downloading my stories from the bit torrent sites were never going to buy them anyway. It's no money out of my pocket.

David Harman

After yesterday's sharp rally it's not surprising we are seeing a bit of consolidation but it doesn't look as if it will be too prolonged.

Chris Campbell

Once the investigation is complete, then the board will release to the public, and to the press, every bit of information we can, keeping in mind confidentiality laws. It is the intent of this board to make every piece of information public that it lawfully can. We want this to be a very open conclusion.

Brian Leggett

Actually, guard is a little bit easier. There's less stuff to worry about, less stuff to evaluate. At guard you're concentrating more on just moving the person, rather than directing everybody else.

Mark Fratrik

Radio has been incredibly disappointing. Satellite radio has had an impact on the traditional industry, but the big reason is the drop-off in younger people listening to radio.

Dave Kolpak

Are they doing what he wanted? Not nearly, to the letter. But is he having a positive impact on shareholder value and wealth? Yes.

David Fassler

The study we requested would look at increased expenditures related to direct-to-consumer advertising, as well as the impact on patient safety and the overall quality of care,

Nick Rose

The terrible hurricanes in the US have had an impact on our performance in the south-eastern states,

Bob Riley

These sites can have a large impact really quickly,

Gary Vickers

The rising, moving water impact is something we can't mitigate.

Amy Ziff

That tells me Katrina is having a minimal impact on Labor Day travel.

Mike Jackson

That's not going to have an impact so much this year, but going forward, it will help.

Al Gore

Consider what kind of car you get. Buy cars and other products that have the least impact environmentally.

Terry Tamminen

It would be much stronger if it was a law.

Kathy Emerson

The work is very exciting. In fact, we've remarked how much stronger the work is now than what it used to be.

Baruch Spinoza

Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.

Azar Nafisi

The more we die, the stronger we will become

Brenda Strong

Balance for me now means seeing myself as a tree, being strong enough in my roots and trunk to not be a pushover, but being flexible enough in every circumstance not to break. I am continuing to expand, but not any faster than my roots can support me.

Jane Byrne

But I am committed to keeping this city a strong and viable center for commerce and industry, for continuing to make it a place of opportunity for its citizens.

Jane Fonda

So much is made of good, strong roles for women. Actually, it's really interesting playing vul­nerable people as well.

Jane Fonda

Most of us want to be strong, but we are not.

Jan Schakowsky

Well, I was a very strong opponent of the war, in fact, one of those who went door to door to my colleagues and thus achieved 60 percent of the Democrats voting no against this war.