Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ian Frazier

I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would not be superficial. Siberian-travel writing is its own genre.

Gail Carriger

Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to leave my books smiling.

Zadie Smith

One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.

Zadie Smith

When I think of the books I love, there's always a little laughter in the dark.

William Osler

To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

I've got a bunch of books... I rely on funny books and movies to cheer me up. Oh, but I must say, I do have the world's most perfect husband, so a cuddle from him always cheers me up. He's a good guy.

Vincent Bugliosi

I am more excited about 'Divinity of Doubt: The God Question' than any other book in my entire career, and I've had seven New York Times bestsellers, three of them reaching number one.

Chuck Palahniuk

I think Chris Brown gets kind of dismissed as a gay writer, and I think Chris's books are really, really smart. I wish his books sold a little more widely.

Chuck Palahniuk

My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are easy to carry as you travel.

Eddie Huang

I don’t do coupons or Reeboks. Life is too short to half-step.

Charles M. Schulz

Life is too short not to live it up a little!

Charles M. Schulz

Every night it's the same... I have supper in my red dish and drinking water in my yellow dish... Tonight I think I'll have my supper in the yellow dish and my drinking water in the red dish. Life is too short not to live it up a little!

Charlyne Yi

Life is too short to be wondering, 'What if?'

Charles Kingsley

Life is too short for mean anxieties.

Barbara Johnson

Life is too short to spend it being angry, bored, or dull.

Bruce Lee

Remember my friend to enjoy your planning as well as your accomplishment, for life is too short for negative energy.

Denis Leary

What I've learned is that life is too short and movies are too long.

Benjamin Disraeli

Life is too short to be little. You must enlarge your imagination and then act on it.

Carrie Brownstein

I really don't know what to do when my life is not chaotic.

Carrie Fisher

My life is like a lone, forgotten Q-Tip in the second-to-last drawer.

Bethenny Frankel

Truthfully, my life is always lunacy.

Arsene Wenger

Private life is private life. Off the pitch, there is private life, and the rest is social life, where of course you have to behave responsibly.

Djuna Barnes

Life is not to be told, call it as loud as you like, it will not tell itself.

David Rubenstein

My work life is intense. But I love what I do.

Aaron Swartz

Life is short ... so why waste it doing something dumb?

Charlie Chaplin

Nothing in life is permanent, not even one's troubles.

Alan Alda

life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; ... it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it's as though you aren't there.