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.

Thomas Friedman

When I wrote 'The World Is Flat,' I said the world is flat. Yeah, we're all connected. Facebook didn't exist; Twitter was a sound; the cloud was in the sky; 4G was a parking place; LinkedIn was a prison; applications were what you sent to college; and Skype, for most people, was a typo.

Brian Wildsmith

I get depressed when the sun is clouded over. It affects me.

Carrie Mae Weems

It's fair to say that black folks operate under a cloud of invisibility - this too is part of the work, is indeed central to [my photographs]... This invisibility - this erasure out of the complex history of our life and time - is the greatest source of my longing.

Janine Shepherd

We can think so much about life and take ourselves so seriously; I mean, I like to tell people, 'Don't take life too seriously' because you'll cloud the experience. That's what the meaning of life is to me - being able to enjoy the moment.

Mikko Hypponen

The United States has an unfair advantage, as most of the popular cloud services, search engines, computer and mobile operating systems or web browsers are made by U.S. companies. When the rest of the world uses the net, they are effectively using U.S.-based services, making them a legal target for U.S. intelligence.

Graeme Stephens

We haven't seen Earth before like this, and we're going to discover new things about Earth and clouds that we've not experienced before.

Kathleen Mills

It hasn't sunk in yet. I'm going to be on cloud nine the rest of the week and probably longer. This is amazing.

Richard Hirschhaut

It is essential the commission be a place of the utmost integrity and there be no question as to whether it's tainted by the presence of one member or another. I fear we are now at a point where there is a cloud over this body.

William Shakespeare

Every cloud engenders not a storm.

William Stone

There are plenty of people on Earth. It's not like the human race is going to disappear if a few people don't come back. Exploration is dangerous.

Barbara Rosenblat

I'm always telling students when I do a master class on audiobooks: 'Watch Meryl Streep. Watch her disappear into a role; watch what she does.'

David Quammen

Viruses have to live somewhere. They can only replicate in living creatures. So, when the Ebola virus disappears between outbreaks, it has to be living in some reservoir host, presumably some species of animal.

H. Hunt

On the day that James disappeared I had to disappear too. Because I wasn't seen, a big part of James' life also wasn't seen.

Amanda Plummer

I had a strong propensity, which I still have, to be invisible. In grade school, I'd try to disappear and become formless. I lived in a very imaginary world. I loved poetry and wrote my first novel when I was 9. It was about a little girl and the people she met in the woods.

Jason Alexander

What you find with singers, no matter where they're from, if they have any kind of an accent, the accent tends to disappear when they sing.

Mark Morial

Half a million hardworking Americans, through no fault of their own, have been thrown out of work and, in many cases, have seen their jobs disappear altogether. We owe it to these workers to help them get back on their feet.

Steve Jenkins

He's come to the realization that he has to be more assertive. ... In the past he's had a tendency to disappear on offense at times. He's a great shooter, and for him to shoot (only) three or four times in a game is a sin.

Camille Claudel

Send me one hundred francs on our future deals, otherwise I will disappear in a cataclysm.

Gabriel Mann

But TV has changed completely. It's not until you come into people's homes that everyone says, 'You're a success now.'

Zaha Hadid

Society has not been set up in a way that allows women to go back to work after taking time off. Many women now have to work as well as do everything at home and no one can do everything. Society needs to find a way of relieving women.

Zach Braff

That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.

Zac Efron

I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Polenta is one of those ingredients that in many homes spends its days at the back of the kitchen cupboard, on the 'no one knows quite what to do with it' shelf.

Yotam Ottolenghi

I just don't tend to cook eggplant at home.

William E. Conway, Jr.

Until a person has a home, they are always going to be dependent upon the system.

William Stone

If you don't come home with data, you've done nothing.

Zubin Mehta

I'm a pucca Indian. Bombay is my home.

Bob Brenly

He sees everything. With his experience, these young pitchers would have to be idiots not to sit next to him every day and see what he sees.

Darren Shan

What are you doing?" "Looking for my fangs." "We don't grow fangs you idiot!

Charles Stross

Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again.

Bill Maher

It's very hard not to be condescending when you're explaining something to an idiot.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I'm an idiot anyway, but sometimes you feel like an idiot times ten when you're stoned.

Billie Joe Armstrong

We do have American Idiot picked up by HBO and I wrote the record and concept to it. [We have] the writer Rolin Jones and [director] Michael Mayer [who also directed the Broadway production], so we'll see what happens.

Brad Williams

It takes a surprisingly large amount of intelligence to be a professional idiot.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Even idiots ocasionally speak the truth accidentally.

Andrei Codrescu

There is no ´Complete Idiots Guide to Creationism,´ but perhaps one is not needed.

Zedd

I will not promote other people's songs big time. I will just mention that I produced the song to get the credit I think I deserve.

Mamata Banerjee

We have talked about the infiltration problem but not mentioned any community.

John Panciocco

I was shocked. I didn't know anything about the cyst. He never mentioned it and I never really noticed it.

Pat Summitt

I don't think I've mentioned it to the players one time,

Chris Phillips

He's a big part of our team, not to mention that I'll have to play with a different guy.

Father Thomas

I already have plans, Stephen, ... but thanks for the offer. Are you sure you have time for pizza, Mark? I thought you mentioned a project you had to work on tonight.

Joe Gibbs

I couldn't see them overturning that, ... They called it, they reviewed it, and they reversed it. The way their team reacted, I thought it was a done deal. They didn't mention anything to me. They just reversed it.

Source Unknown

If others have sinned you need not mention it

Tom Connelly

What he had in mind was something in the government, but he never mentioned FEMA.

David Boreanaz

I seem to get recognized more in London and Europe than over here in the States.

Gordon B. Hinckley

I've tried to recognize my wife's individuality, her personality, her desires, her background, her ambitions.

Woody Johnson

We all recognize that there are similarities here. We will be searching out the possibility that we have a serial bomber.

Domhnall Gleeson

I was in 'Harry Potter,' and nobody on the street recognizes me from that. Nobody on the street has ever stopped me from 'Harry Potter!'

Larina Kase

To become successful is to recognize every tiny step towards successand then take more of them.

Tariq Aziz

We don't have any relationship with the Taliban, ... We didn't recognize the Taliban.

Bobby Gonzalez

I don't know what it was with Jason. I didn't really recognize him today.

Gail Goestenkors

We've watched enough tapes of them to recognize they are scrappy.

Lauren Lee Smith

The only place I really get recognized is at Ralphs. Whenever I'm in L.A., I go to Ralphs, and for some reason, everyone there recognizes me.

Tom Dougherty

We'll have a little warm spell for the weekend. And it should be dry.

J. M. Roberts

Yeah. That's the right way to spell it.

Winnie Pooh

Piglet: "Pooh, how do you spell love?" Pooh: "You don't spell it, you feel it.

Alexandra Robbins

If someone doesn't spell 'you' out in an e-mail,

Jeff Blauser

We're just going through a spell right now where things aren't going our way.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

Somehow, a scrubbed house spells a fresh start.

Mark Twain

Simplified spelling is all right, but, like chastity, you can carry it too far.

Michael Gambon

There were certainly no spells at my school. More like a smack in the mouth.

Anthony Marra

I didn't know a single person who had ever been there. I wasn't even sure how to spell Chechnya.

Bill Burr

I'm not easy to live with. My wife is a saint.

Ashton Kutcher

When your wife calls, you have to take it, no matter what you're doing.

Ray Liotta

My wife read Narc as well and was really into it.

Troy McMahan

We were going to go this October, but my wife got pregnant.

Baz Luhrmann

My wife is the fact-checker, I'm in the story telling business.

Bill Harris

We didn't see it happen, but my wife did see a young man... before this happened... but he was on my property.

William Shakespeare

I am your wife if you will marry me. If not, I'll die your maid. To be your fellow You may deny me, but I'll be your servant Whether you will or no.

Douglas Adams

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher...or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

Don Adams

I was married awfully young and I felt trapped. My wife had been divorced and all the time we were married we were out of the Church. It wasn't until we were divorced that we became good Catholics again.

Bill Burr

Do you know how many times a week people ask me why I'm yelling?

Johnny Hott

I was the first person on the scene. I didn't know they were in there. I was just yelling their names.

David Cross

It probably does make it more difficult to enjoy a good laugh at someone who's onstage, seemingly yelling at you. But I'm not yelling at the audience, I'm yelling at the world. It genuinely sucks if people are taking it that way. But I'm not talking to individuals.

David Icke

Stop yelling at the movie, you ain’t never gonna change it like that. Go change the movie in the projector. You are the projector.

Bernard Malamud

It was all those biographies in me yelling, 'We want out. We want to tell you what we've done to you.'

Anthony Weiner

Twitter is a kind of verbalization of people yelling at their television sets or gnashing their teeth at the newspaper.

Ben Roethlisberger

Leadership is something you earn, something you're chosen for. You can't come in yelling, 'I'm your leader!' If it happens, it's because the other guys respect you.

Diana Wynne Jones

Mr. Stock came out of the competition tent carrying his zeppelin marrow on one shoulder and demanding to know what was going on. When he saw the hordes advancing on Aidan, he charged off that way, whirling the great vegetable. The Puck, who was rushing behind the horde, yelling at them to grab Aidan and kill Rolf, was Mr. Stock's first victim. The marrow caught him THOCK! on the side of the head. It laid the Puck out cold on the grass, but the mighty vegetable remained intact, mottled and glossy

Art Spiegelman

Instead of yelling at a TV set, I get to talk.