Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Rosecrans Baldwin

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

Ruth Rendell

My favourite book - 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford, which I have read about 20 times - is different from my favourite author, who is Iris Murdoch. I find her books exciting and unputdownable. Her characters are so carefully studied and in-depth; I love that.

Jennifer Deer

My four-year-old daughter is soon going to be old enough to look at the children's books upstairs. I don't want her to accidentally read something she's not supposed to.

Jeffrey Zeldman

My first typewriter cost me $75. I can't tell you how many hours it took me to earn that money, or how proud I was of that object. I wrote my first books on it. They will never be published, but that's all right.

Christian Lacroix

My first time in England, in the '60s, the interiors were somehow familiar to me, probably because of the books I'd read and the images I'd seen.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

My first three novels were all the subjects of intensely exciting flurries of calls from producers and even stars' production companies, and once someone actually hired a screenwriter to adapt one of my books - but it all came to nothing, so I tried not to get too excited when a Hollywood suitor came calling for 'Admission,' my fourth novel.

Margot Kidder

None of us were famous, we were broke. We didn't think they'd be writing books about us in 30 years. We were just kids doing the right thing.

Terence McElroy

I don't think passing on the suppression costs would be done just as a deterrent. The fact of the matter is many people have lost their property and homes and someone has to pay for that. Under the law, someone is liable for it.

Todd Jenkins

I would love to have a team for every middle school. I wish the school system would take a look at it and try to do it, but I know that they are limited on field availability and cost issue.

John Catsimatidis

When the commodities go up and the cost of transportation is going up, and the value of the dollar is going down, it's all going to translate to an 8 to 10 percent rise in food prices.

Rex Geveden

We can't dial the cost here, in this case. So we've had to focus on affordability.

Jim Nussle

I don't want to go back. Would I want to do that at the cost of our military ... and not defend the country? Would I not want to fund homeland security and protect the country?

Jim Sullivan

I don't think the holiday season will be as good as last year. Right now people are facing higher gasoline prices. As winter arrives, the higher cost of natural gas will push up utility bills.

Mark Rebholz

He shared in the cost for the privilege of being the pilot, ... It worked out well for all of us -- we finished our project and he was part of a grand adventure.

Virender Sehwag

It didn't happen and that cost us the match.

Steve Swift

Lacey is probably doing the same math, because the more customers they have, the cost per customer goes down and your revenue goes up.

Juergen Lukasser

What we need right now is earnings growth, and some sort of weakness in the retail sector is a threat to that.

Phil Lumpkin

We just tried not to lose him. We just tried to make him work, make him earn everything that he got, and try not to let him get into any kind of rhythm.

Ben Horowitz

Some libertarians say, 'Well, if people work harder, they can make more money.' But, you know, my mother is a nurse and I am a venture capitalist. I think no matter how great a nurse she is, she wouldn't earn a one-thousandth of what I can make, if that.

Zoe Kazan

I think film writing, you're thinking in pictures, and stage writing, you're thinking in dialogue. In film writing, it's also, you only get so many words, so everything has to earn its place in a really economical way. I think for stage writing, you have more leeway.

Atharva Veda

Those, who are successful and prosperous earn respect of the people. One should therefore strive tirelessly to earn wealth so that success and good status follows up naturally.

Jean Johnson

Lots of people aren't academically inclined and there are still lots of ways to earn a living. But what you see in these young people is it's a very hit-or-miss road they're on.

Rose George

Seafaring can be lucrative - the elite, such as gas-tanker captains, can earn $100,000 for six months' work - but the isolation is a heavy price to pay.

Bill Coleman

Security guards for celebrities can earn six figures.

Troy Percival

I feel very fortunate for everything I've had. I worked hard to get it. I feel I earned it. I just wish it would have ended a little differently. I don't have any negative feelings about it at all at this point.

Eric Johnson

We're down to hours from maybe getting out of here without a budget.

Alan Moore

Since I am me, I find it very difficult to judge how fascinating listening to my nasal, heavily-accented drone for two hours would be to somebody who wasn't me.

Charlie Rose

I could spend several hours on YouTube every night. It's all there. I just don't have enough time.

Cathy Rigby

I've been able to play a kid up to this point and pretend that I'm not a grown-up - well, at least for two hours a night!

Jason Green

Well, really it was a huge waste of time, when we got here we just sat around for two hours doing nothing.

Tom Kennedy

We want to keep the schools comfortable while the students are there, but that's only nine or 10 hours of the day.

Craig Buzea

Three-and-a-half hours Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. We really picked it up in practice. I said it last week, we have to get more physical.

Halston Sage

Making a movie is like an accelerated version of growing up with someone. You spend so many hours a day with each other, and you're putting your heart into this same effort.

William Shakespeare

We strut and fret our hour upon the stage and then are no more.

Burt Reynolds

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

Brad Gomez

You have to show you have money before you can get money.

Dustin Hoffman

Look at the studio filled with glamorous merchandise. Fabulous and exciting bonus prizes. Thousands of dollars in cash. Over $150,000 just waiting to be won as we present our big bonanza of cash on Wheel Of Fortune.

Donald Trump

Not teaching your kids about money is like not caring whether they eat. If they enter the world without financial knowledge, they will have a much harder go of it.

Alfred Marshall

The love for money is only one among many.

Don Ameche

She meant it as a compliment.

Don Marquis

We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.

Andy Warhol

I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money.

Thomas Sowell

I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.

Britney Spears

Yes I'm a virgin and proud of it.

Richard Nugent

He was Daystar. That was a proud day for Frank.

Todd Davidson

He was very proud. We were all very proud of him.

Chrissey Cruz

I was so proud of her. She really stepped up.

Marco Sullivan

She skied like a rock star. I'm proud she represented Squaw like that.

Martin Bain

I feel very proud . . . this is a day I'll remember for a long time,

Hillary Clinton

I have stood up and I have represented my constituents to the best of my abilities, and I'm very proud of that.

Garth Brooks

Stand straight, walk proud, have a little faith.

Peter Boulware

I tell you, to get out there on my first play and get the quarterback, I was awfully excited. I am proud to be here. I feel pretty good, but I still feel a little rusty.