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book june third
I self-published the first edition, hardcover, in June 2003. The book is now in its third printing. George Smith
book character missing
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. Miley Cyrus
books-and-reading collection depends finished greatest professors university
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. Thomas Carlyle
book firsts stolen
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. Bobby Fischer
bookstores exactly manner
Bookstores don't exactly dot the American highway in the grand manner of Sbarros. Rosecrans Baldwin
book men dedication
I love to read the dedications of old books written in monarchies for they invariably honor some (usually insignificant) knight or duke with fulsome words of sycophantic insincerity, praising him as the light of the universe (in hopes, no doubt, for a few ducats to support future work); this old practice makes me feel like such an honest and upright man, by comparison, when I put a positive spin, perhaps ever so slightly exaggerated, on a grant proposal. Stephen Jay Gould
book design raw-materials
Throughout his last half-dozen books, for example, Arthur Koestler has been conducting a campaign against his own misunderstanding of Darwinism. He hopes to find some ordering force, constraining evolution to certain directions and overriding the influence of natural selection. [...] Darwinism is not the theory of capricious change that Koestler imagines. Random variation may be the raw material of change, but natural selection builds good design by rejecting most variants while accepting and accumulating the few that improve adaptation to local environments.
book bucks cut degree fuel helping large offset people percent revenue talking
To a large degree it (the cut in commissions) is helping offset the fuel prices. You're talking about some big bucks there. That's 3 percent of revenue to people who book 80 percent of your flights. Ray Neidl
book books-and-reading bring certain comic guy mythical sort
Vicente was the sort of comic book hero, the guy who was going to bring down the regime. There was a certain mythical aura.
years sam-cooke
I started with Sam Cooke when I was 6 or 7 years old. Bobby Womack
years issues adequate
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 Scott
years cpr police
In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR. Bobby Sherman
years guy half
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. Bobby Knight
years long answers
I decided a long time ago but sometimes it takes you 40 years to get around to doing something - and that's the truthful answer. Dustin Hoffman
years mankind thousand
Every year a thousand kilometers of motor-roads will be opened until the greatest work in the history of mankind is completed. Adolf Hitler
years europe germany
Thus one of Europe's most serious crises will be ended, and all of us, not only in Germany but those far beyond our frontiers, will then in this year for the first time really rejoice at the Christmas festival. It should for us all be a true Festival of Peace.
years two eight
In the course of carrying through our program for which we have calculated four years, two and one-quarter million out of six million unemployed have already received employment again within a period of eight short months.
years actors might
As an actor, often you're stuck with these scenes in which a great period of time is in between them - for example, if you do a biopic, it might be a year, it might be a decade, you never know. Aden Young
people realistic year
Some people would say we're being overly-conservative. But I say we're being realistic for our first year planning.
people quiet rather wrong
Some people would rather be wrong than quiet for a minute.
people tolerant
Some people will not be tolerant about this.
people types
Some people will always think they know how to make other people's marriages better, and, after a while, they'll get to cudgeling you or selling you something; the really entrepreneurial types will sell you the cudgel.
people ran
Some people were frightened, ran to their basement, or ran out of doors.
people watched
Some people watched the show just because of the wardrobe, ... That's exciting. Michelle Lombardo
people
Some people use just one condom, right? But we use tons. Tracey Emin
people save threatened
Some people think that because it's a threatened species, that every one we save is good. But not if they never get to live in the wild.
people political
Some people think 'Lord of War' is a political film, Andrew Niccol