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.

Arturo Sarukhan

Vicente was the sort of comic book hero, the guy who was going to bring down the regime. There was a certain mythical aura.

Joe Ryan

There's nothing to match curling up with a good book when there's a repair job to be done around the house.

Jeff Lemire

I started off doing indie comics that I wrote and drew myself. I was doing those for ten years before I started to work for DC. The first book that I wrote for DC was for another artist. I did some backups in 'Adventure Comics' years ago starring The Atom. That's the first time that I ever wrote for another artist.

Dan Radcliffe

When I was reading book six, there were parts I was reading and going, 'Oh, I would love to do that.'

Nicole Hosp

Last season was very difficult with a lot of injuries. This season started very good, but my skiing was not at 100% until now.

Chetan Ahya

I see difficulties in India overtaking China. It's difficult to see what time it will overtake China,

Lawrence Yun

People have been saying that for 20 years. But in San Francisco, it's very difficult to build, so there's a supply constraint. Seattle is also encountering a supply-constraint situation.

Mike Halpert

Spring is oftentimes very difficult to forecast. Tomorrow it might snow and a weekend ago, it was 85.

Jude Walsh

Some of these people are going to be in really difficult spots. I think they're going to be going without medication again.

Marc Racicot

Some of the fires are so hot, so challenging, that it's difficult for us to make any progress,

Josh Beckett

That can become a distraction, ... If you don't get it out of the way, it's difficult to concentrate on what you need to concentrate on. I know it's been hard for him.

Jay Haas

My putter just went south toward the end of the round. I just had no touch, no feel. I couldn't hit it well enough to get away with anything. I'm not going to hang myself. It was a difficult day.

Sammy Sosa

My problem has been my feet and that's difficult for any hitter to overcome.  I've played with a lot of pain this year but I haven't told anybody. It's not an excuse. But it has hurt. I have to talk now because it's been troubling me.

Mike White

As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I feel that I don't have to wait around for good scripts anymore, that I can get things moving more quickly. I can ring up directors I like and say I'm keen to work with them, which is pretty great.

Zhang Yimou

I'm very honored to become executive director of the ceremonies.

Mark Indelicato

My friends actually found a fansite of mine, and they all registered to be in it.

Gordon Parks

I have been born again and again and each time, I have found something to love.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

The young Wolf was one of those people who would recite a poem to themselves a hundred times, until they had found the music that goes with it.

Maarty Leunen

They got messed up on the switches and left me open. Luckily, Malik found me.

Fred Powell

They found two Louisiana Swamp Tour Vans that were charging $40 apiece,

Bob Bauman

They had so much speed but we found ways to get it done.

Peggy Gish

They had hints. They thought they had overheard on the TV about Tom (but) they weren't sure. They found out for sure (Thursday) morning.

Brad Soderberg

They had every reason to lose tonight and they found a way to win and that's the sign of a good team.

S. Hughes

They were looking for trouble and found it.

Nicole Krauss

No, what I felt was the torment of waiting, stuck between the end of one sentence and the beginning of the next which might or might not bring a hail storm, plane crash, poetic justice, or a miraculous reversal.

Mark Twain

To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.

Marian Wright Edelman

Justice is not cheap. Justice is not quick. It is not ever finally achieved.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

In terms of 'Saving Face,' I was inspired by the stories of survivors who didn't let their attacks stop them from pursuing justice and seeking treatment.

Thomas a Kempis

Have therefore zeal to better thyself and then mayst thou have zeal to thy neighbor.

Natalie Portman

It's quite a stark contrast between the candidates, in how they will change things for women. Hillary Clinton wants to appoint Supreme Court Justices who will protect Roe v Wade. [Donald] Trump wants to punish women for getting abortions and defund Planned Parenthood.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Justice is the infrastructure of proprietorship.

Tayari Jones

I don't mind expressing my opinions and speaking out against injustice. I would be doing this even if I wasn't a writer. I grew up in a household that believed in social justice. I have always understood myself as having an obligation to stand on the side of the silenced, the oppressed, and the mistreated.

Joseph Glanvill

Justice is but the distributing to everything according to the requirements of its nature.