Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sharon Chang

People call each other when they see new books on the shelves. New books are usually checked out in two days, DVDs in (only) hours.

Michael Lewis

There are enough books in the world. You want to write the ones that are good. The minute you write books because you need the income not because you think you have a good subject, you should just stop. There are sixty thousand books published in this country every year, and most of them are crap.

Thomas Carlyle

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.

William Shakespeare

And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

Rosecrans Baldwin

Bookstores don't exactly dot the American highway in the grand manner of Sbarros.

Alan Milstein

Besides, there are privacy laws on the books, both state and federal, so there's no way they'd win. It makes you wonder what they're really worried about.

Christina Greenberg

My grandmother is a Russian immigrant and, as a child, I always dreamed of going to Russia and opening a nonprofit there. I learned Russian as a teenager through studying books in the hopes of moving there.

Gary Kemp

My father had inklings of my cultural aspirations. He would take me to the library, things like that. But he wasn't one of those dads who had read George Orwell and was a member of the Communist party. We had no books at home.

James Burrows

My father was weaned on books. I'm halfway between being weaned on books and weaned on television. And if you're weaned on television, you're not as good a writer as if you were weaned on books.

Edgar Watson

You may easily play a joke on a man who likes to argue--agree with him.

Dries van Noten

One of the big luxuries of being in Antwerp is that I can easily walk in the city. In Paris and New York, I am more recognized.

Anne White

I was terrified and could easily have flipped the car,

James Morris

I wish the problems of this region could be easily solved, but the reality is that many millions of people will face extreme difficulties even if there are better harvests this year.

Billy Donovan

I can't live their lives for them. They could just as easily get hurt doing something on the court.

Bruce Steinberg

October job loss could easily be worse. The unemployment rate is headed for 6 percent, in our view.

P. Herbert

Some of us are like wheelbarrows, only useful when pushed and easily upset.

Bobby Bowden

Well, if you saw all three games, you know we could very easily be 1-2 right now,

Jeremy Mayfield

If everything would have played out right, we would have had a top-five finish or maybe even a win the way it was looking toward the end of the race, ... It easily could have been a great day for us, but we're going to take 16th and not look back.

Michael Davis

The money has just been piling up and isn't being allocated.

Howard Rogers

The money can then be used only for road resurfacing,

Ross Perot

Once you pay the bills, money is the most overrated thing in the world

Joan Laporta

Samuel is not for sale, not even for all the money in the world.

Jack Ablin

You needed to be a meteorologist to make money in this market.

Burt Reynolds

Money doesn't buy happiness. It buys great hookers - but not happiness.

Justin Flom

Don't spend money on extravagant things like cars and big vacations. Spend it on things that are really fun.

Daawna Moeller

We're going to walk and raise money for research.

Sydney J. Harris

Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.

Robert Reich

We don't have to sit by and watch our meritocracy be replaced by a permanent aristocracy, and our democracy be undermined by dynastic wealth.

Linda Scatena

You can replace the rings but you can't replace what they represent.

Jane Jacobs

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

Blaise Pascal

All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.

Sandi Gibbons

This was the sentence that was allowable under the law.

Anatole France

The best sentence? The shortest.

James Joyce

Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

Kathy Ireland

I was 40 before I learned that 'No' was a complete sentence.

Matt Mullenweg

I spend a lot of time on forums, and they drive me crazy.

Brian Tracy

You cannot save time, but you can spend time differently.

Keanu Reeves

On his new motorbike: I wanted to spend some time with it and get to know it.

Brad Smith

If we need to spend more money, we will spend more money.

Jakob Nielsen

Users spend most of their time on other websites.

Carmen Busquets

I was always into fashion, and used to go on spending sprees when I was a university student in Miami. My father would be furious, but I would always say, 'It was an emergency! I had a party to go to!'