Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Mark Morris

It has been up to parents to hit the Web and hit the books and find information on both sides about K-8.

Chelsea Cain

I like signing books for a living; I do. But you have no idea the panic that sets in. I am not a very good speller. Put me in a stresser situation, and I lose all capacity to recall how to spell the most simple names.

Johnny Damon

I know all of us enjoyed it, ... There were tons of books and DVDs that made it seem it was easy to accomplish. It wasn't.

Alice Hyde

I like the books because the heroines don't do what others want them to, they do what they want.

Peter Malkin

I keep painting on newspapers, maps, and books spending days in bookstores to look for old paintings and young painters.

Mallory Ortberg

I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more secular, and I love reading books by just really smart people of religious faith. It's always a really cool perspective.

Mary Pope Osborne

I love reading all kinds of books. I usually have about ten books going at any one time - books about the past, the present, novels, non-fiction, poetry, mythology, religion, etc. Reading is my favorite thing to do.

Jose Bove

Firstly consumers refused to buy these frozen chickens and producers reacted by producing more local chicken.

Hiroaki Kuramochi

There's so much gloom out there it's hard to find any reason to buy right now.

Bruce Lanni

There's significant upside for the entire sector. The earnings potential will be huge going into next year. They'll be able to pay down a significant part of debt, buy back stock.

Dennis Moore

We tell people purchasing items online to buy from reputable companies.

Joyce Johnson

We were prepared to buy her clothes and make sure she had all her supplies for school, but her guardians said they didn't need anything, ... She seems to be quite happy.

Milton Friedman

When a man spends his own money to buy something for himself,he is very careful about how much he spends and how he spends it.When a man spends his own money to buy something for someone else,he is still very careful about how much he spends, but somewhatless what he spends it on. When a man spends someone else's moneyto buy something for himself, he is very careful about what hebuys, but doesn't care at all how much he spends. And when a manspends someone else's money on someone else, he doesn't care howmuch he spends or what he spends it on. And that's governmentfor you.

David Goad

We will seek to buy the land but only from willing owners. We're not going to condemn any property.

Dean McFadden

We went down there and we couldn't buy a bucket, and they couldn't miss a bucket.

Mitch Dorger

We had the tickets available, and it was a way to increase revenues for the game. It was also an opportunity ... to give people who would not ordinarily have a chance to buy a ticket that opportunity.

Todd McFarlane

About 85 percent of what you see is just because I get on the phone and [say], 'Let's go do this'. I don't do any market research or test groups or focus [groups]. I just go, 'It's my company; would I buy it, personally?'