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.

James Dimon

Several of our trading books were on the wrong side of interest rates. It was a bunch of positions that didn't work out.

Daniel Tammet

One of the lines from my books is about having respect for different minds, and if I had to have an epitaph at this point in my life, that would be it.

Martha Payne

I bring in books that are interesting to the students but I also try to challenge them a little bit. I love this program because my grandchildren are too little to read to me yet.

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.

Rob Enderle

Online TV is going to make inroads into traditional forms. That can be a threat to the traditional providers of content or it can be an opportunity as well.

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.

Lloyd Braun

If we execute this the right way, it is a great first step to show people how we can present content in a different kind of way than television,

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.

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.

Jack Chick

Yes, we get death threats every week... from the Muslims.

Atharva Veda

To death do I hand them over, with the fetters of death they have been bound. To the evil messengers of death do I lead them captive.

James Jones

Today will be a day long remembered. It has seen the death of Kenobi, and will soon see the end of the Rebellion.

Dan Haren

Every game is a must-win. This time of year, it's life or death right now.

Ovid

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.

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,

Muqtada al Sadr

The U.S.-led forces have the money, weapons and huge numbers, but these things are not going to weaken our will because God is with us.

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.

Tasha Alexander

When you have a child, it forces you to take stock of what you're doing with your life.

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

A tree lives on its roots. If you change the root, you change the tree. Culture lives in human beings. If you change the human heart the culture will follow.

Jane Hirshfield

How silently the heart pivots on its hinge.

Jane Goodall

Without the heart to ground it and open it to who we really can be as human beings, the brain is a very dangerous machine. A machine that is saying: we've got to have economic growth; we've got to have unending economic growth, otherwise societies will collapse. And yet there should be something saying: wait a minute, this isn't going to work.

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.

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.

Olusegun Obasanjo

I am a black man inside and outside and you are white men on the outside, but inside, you are Africans like me.

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.

Vanessa Bayer

I've been watching a lot of A&E's 'Intervention.' I know that's sort of depressing, but I love watching it.

John Oates

I used to love assemblies because it got me out of class.

Juicy J

I used to love listening to Jazzy Jeff.

Kenneth Lee

I used to come here when I was homeless. You get a lot of love here.

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.

Paul Hewitt

The product and service we require meets with our customers' and our expectations.

Jennifer Baker

The reason she stopped by the congressman's office was because I interned there and she would come to meet me for lunch.

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.

Javier Solana

It does not make much sense to have another meeting if there is nothing new to put on the table.

Larry Gregory

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

Madeline Albright

I meet with a lot of people, ... Stay tuned.

Tara Reid

I just want her to meet a guy,

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.

Gene Robinson

I will always speak out when someone says that a principle or a rule or a tradition trumps people.

J. C. Ryle

If you love Christ, never be ashamed to let others see it and know it. Speak for Him. Witness for Him. Live for Him.

George Whitefield

See that you feel the truths that you speak.

Friedrich Nietzsche

[Heraclitus speaks as if] in entrancement ... but [also] truthfully.

Friedrich Nietzsche

...one can speak with the utmost clearness, and yet not be heard by anyone.

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.

Charles Colson

The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.

Eduardo Galeano

So many stories, and to choose which ones to tell and how to tell them. The words, they will tap me on the shoulder and they will speak to me: Tell me! Tell me! The stories choose me.

Tom T. Hall

I never fixed a story. I didn't make judgments, I let the listener make judgments. When I got to the end of the story, if it had a moral, I let the listener find it.

Tibor Kalman

I'm not as good a writer as I'd like to be; therefore, I like to use images to tell stories.

S. Robson Walton

I went to Vortex and Vortex is a whole 'nother story.

Stephen Chbosky

Not everyone has a sob story, Charlie, and even if they do, it's no excuse.

Stephen Chbosky

The inside jokes weren't jokes anymore. they had become stories

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,

Jane Hamilton

Our mission in life is not to discover our fate as we go along, or even to procreate, but rather to fill up the endless gray void that is time.

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.

Donald Rumsfeld

Control your own time. Don't let it be done for you. If you are working off the in-box that is fed you, you are probably working on the priority of others.

Brendan Behan

Prostitutes, more than any other profession, help keep American marriages together.

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.

Starhawk

We cannot change the world alone. To heal ourselves, to restore the earth to life, to create the situations in which freedom can flourish, we must work together in groups.

Stephenie Meyer

Don't be afraid," i murmured. "We belong together.

Tana French

When we can't see a pattern, we fit pieces together until one takes shape, because we have to.

Rumi

It is Love that holds everything together, and it is the everything also.

Tom Lehrer

Oh we will all fry together when we fry. We'll be french fried potatoes by and by. There will be no more misery When the world is our rotisserie, Yes, we will all fry together when we fry.

Stephen Covey

Trust is the glue that holds everything together.