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.

Allen Ginsberg

The actual materials are important... A book at the nightstand is important-a light you can get at-or a flashlight as Kerouac had a brakeman's latern.

Allen Ginsberg

My books piled up before me for my use waiting in space where I placed them, they haven't disappeared, time's left its remnants and qualities for me to use -- my words piled up, my texts, my manuscripts, my loves.

Alison Weir

I prefer to be left alone with my books.

Allan Bloom

The substance of my being has been informed by the books I learned to care for.

Alison McGhee

We certainly have a lot of ideas, and we both love what Tony [Fucile] did with the book [Bink & Gollie]. If we could all pull it off, I think all three of us would like to do another.

Bobby Scott

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

Tom Piazza

The past in New Orleans cohabits with the present to an extent not even approximated in any other North American city.

Tom Petty

I should have known right then it was too good to last, God, it's such a drag when you're livin' in the past

Simone Elkeles

God take care of him, because he's my past and my future

Simone Elkeles

We need to look back sometimes and realize the past taught us to appreciate our future.

Simone de Beauvoir

from one minute to the next the present is merely an honorary past. It must be filled unceasingly anew to dissemble the curse it carries within itself; that is why Americans like speed, alcohol, thriller films and any sensational news: the demand for new things, and ever newer things, is feverish since nowhere will they rest.

Simone de Beauvoir

We must not confuse the present with the past. With regard to the past, no further action is possible.

Simone Weil

Death. An instantaneous state, without past or future. Indispensable for entering eternity.

Simone Weil

If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.

Bobby Womack

I started with Sam Cooke when I was 6 or 7 years old.

Bobby Scott

Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.

Bobby Sherman

In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR.

Bobby Knight

At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven't called walking for 20 years, now you don't know what it is. When you call walking, you're about half right.

Alec Baldwin

One generation might like you, then 15 years later the next is responding to somebody else.

Aldous Huxley

It is delightful to read on the spot the impressions and opinions of tourists who visited a hundred years ago, in the vehicles and with the aesthetic prejudices of the period, the places which you are visiting now. The voyage ceases to be a mere tour through space; you travel through time and thought as well.

Aldous Huxley

A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.

Albert Einstein

I learned many years ago never to waste time trying to convince my colleagues.

Albert Einstein

The rest of my life (as a 39 year old) I want to reflect on what life is.