Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Andrea Dworkin

I have spent 20 years writing these books. Had I wanted to say men are beasts and scream, that takes 30 seconds.

Andrea Dworkin

If pornography releases sexual tension, why don't we send recipe books to the starving?

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

You're sincere, but in order not to upset your views you avoid talking with people who think differently. You pick your thoughts from conversations with people like yourself, from books written by people like yourself. In physics they call it resonance. You start out with modest opinions, but they match and build each other up to a scale ...

Alberto Manguel

Our books will bear witness for or against us, our books reflect who we are and who we have been, our books hold the share of pages granted to us from the Book of Life. By the books we call ours we will be judged

Alberto Manguel

From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its story.

Chris Abani

We are hunting the demons that haunt others. We get a smell and off we go. And you know why, Sunil? You know why we are so good at hunting the demons of others? Because we are so good, gifted even, at stalking and evading our own. But all demons hunters think that they are really heroes, and you know what all heroes need?

Adam Baldwin

The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach.

David Lee Roth

You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He's just famous for his sound.

David Eddings

Heroes aren't allowed to be nervous." "Who made up that rule?" "It's a known fact...

David Benioff

Perhaps a hero is someone who doesn’t register his own vulnerability. Is it courage, then, if you’re too daft to know you’re mortal?

David Benioff

Once you realise that heroes die, everything becomes that much more terrifying.

David Baldacci

But protagonists are protagonists and heroes are heroes.

Dave Grohl

Neil Young is my hero. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That's what that guy does.

Dave Grohl

You look up to your heroes and you shouldn't be intimidated by them, you should be inspired by them.

Amy Sedaris

I've been to some funerals where there's a lot of laughing - it's about celebrating their new journey. I can't think of anything. There's humor in everything. There's gotta be humor in everything.

Maria Mitchell

A young sailor boy came to see me to-day. It pleases me to have these lads seek me on their return from their first voyage, and tell me how much they have learned about navigation.

Paul Theroux

The conversation, like many others I had with people on trains, derived an easy candour from the shared journey, the comfort of the dining car, and the certain knowledge that neither of us would see each other again.

Ovid

A wealthy traveller fears an ambush, while one with empty pockets journeys on in safety.

Patti Stanger

In the end, it's all about taking your time and enjoying the journey without worrying too much about the destination.

Jimmy Fallon

Thank you, hard taco shells, for surviving the long journey from factory, to supermarket, to my plate and then breaking the moment I put something inside you. Thank you.

Louise Bogan

The Initial Mystery that attends any journey is: how did the traveler reach his starting point in the first place?

John Foley

When I think of all the things that tossed my journey off its track, I realize something incredibly important: Life's setbacks only changed my path and the timing of my arrival. They never changed my destination.

Judith Hill

I would tell people to enjoy the present moment and the journey rather than the outcome.