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.

Benjamin Franklin

Take time for all things.

Stephen King

I understand from my own work that haste makes waste. But I also understand that ... the creative spark dims, and then death puts it out. William Shakespeare, for instance, hasn’t produced a new play for 400 years. That, my friends, is a long dry spell.

C. S. Lewis

Only the skilled can judge the skillfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result.

Bill Bryson

My first rule of travel is never to go to a place that sounds like a medical condition and Critz is clearly an incurable disease involving flaking skin.

Arnon Goldfinger

My grandfather had been a well-known judge in Berlin.

Maurice Maeterlinck

I have never for one instant seen clearly within myself. How then would you have me judge the deeds of others?

Fabio Lara

Judging by the sharp fall, you could say there was a moment of panic, but we didn't stay at minimum levels for long. It just looked like some wanted to square their positions at any cost.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It's hard luck always having to be a judge.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.

William Shakespeare

Thieves for their robbery have authority When judges steal themselves.

Dexter Scott King

People will judge you according to your own convictions.