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.

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.

Suzanne Somers

'Get Skinny' is my sixth book. I look over the books that I've written, and my subject matters are varied, and I write books pertaining to that which I'm dealing with at the moment.

Josephine Fidler

Four of us work year-round sorting books, pricing them and getting them organized. And most of the books are on shelves. It's easy to locate the kinds of things you're looking for.

Frank Capra

One of these books isn't, by any chance, called 'Filibusters I Have Known,' is it?

Jill and

I was really proud of our daughters, ... My youngest, who is 3, donated her two favorite books and said she wanted a little one to have them.

Scott Meyers

User generated content is already an important part of our site, so I think now extending that interaction to video is a great opportunity.

John Whiting

Now we're starting to take a more holistic view and ... creating a more centralized strategy to negotiate your content with the vendor.

Chris Wooding

Don't confuse contentment with happiness...

William Shakespeare

He that is well paid is well satisfied.

Steve Arnold

You can try to trick Web sites by embedding tag spam. It can work when the robot comes to the page, but it's misleading. Why not just put the content up and let the content speak for itself?

Robert Iger

it's rare that there are content issues for our product.

Josh Billings

Show me a thoroughly contented person, and I will show you a useless one.

William Shakespeare

Our content Is our best having.

Albert Cheng

We'll be looking at a lot of factors in this test--especially cost--but I think by the fall we can do much more. And I'd like to think we can work with some of our other content partners to do that.

Carson McCullers

Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.

Daniel Handler

It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.

Winston Churchill

When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.

Arthur Schopenhauer

There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annhilation of his being.

Benjamin Franklin

Fear not Death; for the sooner we die, the longer shall we be immortal.

Sam Page

The time of death was less than a year, probably early this summer,

Dave Odom

What that really did was open the door for us to go to the smaller lineup, which was death for (S.C. State).

John Urquhart

What is unnerving are the leaps in infant deaths following the leap in radioactive fallout.

Adam Mansbach

The publishing industry stopped having new ideas out of respect for the untimely death of Ernest Hemingway in 1961 and has been doing everything the same way ever since.

Donald Rumsfeld

It has to have forces which are not paper forces,

George Casey

The development of the Iraqi security forces is very much on track,

Anthony Sims

It's a lot better than a loss. Van Buren is a great team, even better than last year. But we played solid all-around. I think the forces were with us tonight.

Author unknown

Some people hear voices.. Some see invisible people.. Others have no imagination whatsoever.

John Fossum

I've never heard of a situation like this before,

Sylvia Rhue

I sent out an olive branch. I didn't hear from them.

Brad Paisley

Anytime you do something from the heart, people just know it.

Jane Hirshfield

How silently the heart pivots on its hinge.

Carroll O'Connor

Nothing but the heart can change the heart.

Bella Thorne

You always just have to be the best that you can be. And if you know that in your heart, then that's all that matters.

Diana Wynne Jones

A fickle heart is the only constant in this world

Bill Hybels

Leadership is not for the faint of heart

Humberto Moreira

The 65 trapped people remain inside the mine.

Scott Pruett

He just dived on the inside and used me to stop.

Randy Moore

I thought we executed in every aspect, inside and out. We had a total package and made this happen.

Mark Calcavecchia

But only because I had to go inside and register,

John Milton

Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv'st, Live well, how long or short permit to heav'n

Nathaniel Rateliff

I've always loved soul, R&B, doo-wop and blues, and I've wanted to make a record like that for years.

Reed Kroloff

Sow a seed and let it grow, you never know where love will grow.

Jenna Bush

One day I would love to have a couple children.

O. Singh

Perform the tasks of Truth, wear Truth, and take the Support of the True Name. Associating with Truth, obtain Truth, and love the True Name.

Robin Dunne

That town, when you're hot, people love you.

Arthur Laurents

That's what this play really is about, ... It's about love and how we live on in memory.

Rebecca Ferguson

That's what I've tried to do: I've tried to make music that I really love.

Brian Jordan

That's my time of the year, ... I love the pressure. So I want to be there.

Sue Parks

Right now we just want to get a meet under our belts. This will give us some output upon what we need to work on, as well as realize where we are at this point of the season.

David Calhoun

We had the same reaction -- Is this feasible? But realize that whatever we do, it's not going to meet everyone's problems.

Mark Routt

Supply is meeting demand. The real question is at what price.

Larry Gregory

Having these meetings was more important than taking part on that panel,

Fred Phillips

It shows what we are doing is working. We are meeting our goals, which is very exciting.

The Eagles

It's been a total headache, ... We had trouble getting officials because the state (LHSAA) ruled New Orleans officials were unacceptable this season because they have not been going to their weekly meetings and they are supposed to be working for other associations in Thibodaux and Hammond.

Chris Young

Do not vote on this proposal tonight. It does not meet the standard for my fourth-grade daughter.

Jonathan Burman

It's important for parents to meet this deadline.

Donna Hayes

It was our understanding that they wanted to meet with us.

Aravind Adiga

Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.

Dave Pelzer

There's a lot of Dave mania when I speak.

Taron Egerton

All my friends are Welsh, I speak Welsh, and I feel very Welsh.

Harold Pinter

I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.

Gloria Estefan

Those of you who speak only English, applaud [audience applause]. Those of you who speak only Spanish, applaud [audience applause]. [In mock incredulity] Then how do you know what I just said?

Glenn Beck

Question with boldness, hold to the truth, and speak without fear,

Isak Dinesen

It is difficult to restrain admirers of Shakespeare once they have begun to speak of him.

Isaac Asimov

If there is a category of human being for whom his work ought to speak for itself, it is the writer.

Jason Katims

Any show I'm working on, I want the stories to always be about something, and to have the potential to be emotional. That's the kind of story that I like.

Burt Reynolds

All you really have in the end are your stories.

Stephen King

Stories are artifacts, not really made things which we create and can take credit for, but pre-existing objects which we dig up.

Stephen King

Politics always change. Stories never do.

Stephen King

You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it's going to happen.

Stephen King

Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story.

Stephen King

Stories are relics, part of an undiscovered pre-existing world.

Stephen King

...my basic belief about the making of stories is that they pretty much make themselves.

Stephen King

I never have a thematic intention at the outset. The story informs the theme for me rather than the other way around. But as it happens, this is, at least to a degree, about getting old and the rapid passage of our lives.

Jim Veltman

After you win, you think to yourself, 'Is it time to get out?' But I don't feel like I want to.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Rob Allison

Now it's time to really find out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

Curtis Sliwa

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Douglas Adams

Time doesn't necessarily happen in chronological order.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

B.J. Upton

We haven't had a lot of time yet,

Ann Beattie

Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with.

Stanley Tucci

What's great is when you're working with somebody with whom you have a connection, it's exciting because there's a shorthand and you trust each other and you have a good time together on the set and so you can go a little farther than you might normally because you're with somebody that you trust.

Michael Robotham

One of the strange things about friendship is that time together isn't cancelled out by time apart. One doesn't erase the other or balance it on some invisible scale. You can spend a few hours with someone and they will change your life, or you can spend a lifetime with a person and remain unchanged.

Chris Crocker

No. No, no, no. We thought we were good. We just wanted to put it all together. Put it together and play together as a team.

Patrick Sheehan

Now we'll have to get together and work out what to do,

Philip Wohl

If they don't get together (with other companies), they're going to be in trouble.

Jeff Lynne

It all comes down to what you truly love doing, and what I love doing is overdubbing and making new sounds out of things that are sometimes quite ordinary on their own, but when you put them together, they make something new--or something that sounds new. Just discovering things like that musically is a pleasure.

Hilary Swank

Making a movie is you're really only as good as your weakest link, so when everyone's working at their best and it actually comes together, it's an extraordinary thing because it doesn't always.

Hillary Clinton

What [Barack Obama] and I did was to say clearly what we're doing, all the bluster, all of the sanctions, that are just imposed by the American government haven't had much impact.Let's see if we can put together an international coalition to really cripple Iran, and then maybe we can begin a negotiation, and that's what I did. It was difficult. We had to get China and Russia on board, and not just get them on board by signing a piece of paper.