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.

Ray Adams

I think it's a waste of more time.

Frank Hippel

If they get the high-level waste back, what do they gain?

Dexter Scott King

Life too is precious to waste - to spend on anything but the best.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

It's up to you how you waste your time and money. I'm staying here to read: life's too short.

Chaim Potok

If a person has a contribution to make, he must make it in public. If learning is not made public, it is a waste.

Betty White

I didn't know what Facebook was, and now that I do know what it is, I have to say, it sounds like a huge waste of time.

Barbara de Angelis

when your field is architecture, you go visit the great cathedrals of the world. My field was relationships. I got married many times. I was practicing. I didn't date much; I just would get married. I thought, why waste time?

Brad Lidge

It doesn't make a whole of sense to me to waste pitches.

Benjamin Franklin

The only time not wasted is wasted time.

Ron Wilson

We made a poor play on the power play and they took advantage. We could have quit, but we didn't.

Gary Parlin

(Barker) threw very poorly in practice on Tuesday.

Gerry Byrne

For the record, this is a poor decision.

Japanese Proverb

He is poor who does not feel content.

Andy Robinson

We were awful, we started poorly and never got in the game. At no stage did we put any pressure on the French.

Alan Kay

I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher.

August Wilson

Suffice it to say, I'm not poor.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What have they done to you, my poor child?

Carol Vorderman

If you're from a poor background, you have to work even harder. But that's what makes you who you are.