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.

Carrie Snow

I'd like to get married because I like the idea of a man being required by law to sleep with me every night.

Carrie Vaughn

Apparently it was unethical for lawyers to sleep with their clients. This from a man who offered legal representation to assassins.

Carrie Underwood

I sleep with a light on in the bathroom so I can see where I'm at, because I wake up and have no clue!

Carrie Underwood

When I'm with my parents, that's the place I can unplug. That's the place I can shut down and not worry about work or what's going on. I go home and hang out with them. I sleep more there than any place else ever.

Bill Burr

Let's go to Brunch. What a great idea! Why would you want to sleep in on a Sunday when you can go pay $18 for eggs? Now, you're thinking.

Bill Bryson

I wanted to quit and to do this forever, sleep in a bed and in a tent, see what was over the next hill and never see a hill again. All of this all at once, every moment, on the trail or off.

Beth Riesgraf

That lifestyle wears you down fast, so I started to take better care of myself. I exercise, sleep eight hours a night, take vitamins, eat organic foods, skip foods that aren't good for me, and I surround myself with amazing artists and friends.

Bethenny Frankel

Sleep. It's like giving yourself a massage.

Arsene Wenger

No matter how much money you earn, you can only eat three meals a day and sleep in one bed.

Cecelia Ahern

She couldn't remember the last time she hugged someone, really hugged someone.

Bertrand Russell

The saviors of the world, society's last hope.

William Shakespeare

Assure thee, if I do vow a friendship, I'll perform it to the last article." --Othello, Act III, Scene iii

Becca Fitzpatrick

How warm I feel. How icredibly alive and vibrant and heedless every last inch of me feels next to you.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Hello,Pepper. It´s been a while," I said. "The last time we met up, you tried to kidnap me, isn´t that right?" Nora (p.303)

Peter Murray

If we can show this lasts weeks ... we've just tapped into probably a billion-dollar market. It's enormous.

Diane von Furstenberg

Don't talk about your diet. It's just boring, and the last thing you need when dieting is to be considered boring.

Dhani Jones

I like to keep things classic, not lavish or blinged out. I don't even say that word. The last thing I want to be is over the top.

David Mitchell

We looked at each other for the last time; nothing is as eloquent as nothing.