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.

C. S. Lewis

Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask.

Benjamin Rush

Now if the study of the Scriptures be necessary to our happiness at any time in our life, the sooner we begin to read them, the more we shall be attached to them...

Bible Bible

For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.

Charles Spurgeon

You need not bring life to the scripture. You should draw life from the scripture.

Charles Spurgeon

The worst forms of depression are cured when Holy Scripture is believed.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The scriptures are in print what Christ is in person.

Blaise Pascal

All that tends not to charity is figurative. The sole aim of the Scripture is charity.

Richard G. Scott

A memorized scripture becomes an enduring friend that does not weaken with the passage of time.

Austin Farrer

The crucial revelatory images that express 'the thought of Christ' are present in scripture and reinforced in worship.

Isaac Mayer Wise

In the same proportion Russia is the misfortune of Europe and the Israelites.

Austin O'Malley

There is likely to be beauty wherever proportion exists.

Alice James

What one reads, or rather all that comes to us, is surely only of interest and value in proportion as we find ourselves therein, -- form given to what was vague, what slumbered stirred to life.

Jay Anderson

The volume of traffic has reached a proportion that?s scary.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Society can only be happy and free in proportion as it is virtuous.

Leonardo da Vinci

Many will be busied in taking away from a thing, which will grow in proportion as it is diminished.

Mike Dunlap

Your success will be in direct proportion to how you spend your ‘free’ time.

Henry Fielding

Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller. . .who always proportions his stay in any place.

Khalil Gibran

A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.