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book june third
I self-published the first edition, hardcover, in June 2003. The book is now in its third printing. George Smith
book character missing
The reason I never want a book to end is that I start to feel like the characters are my friends. I'll miss them when they're gone. Miley Cyrus
books-and-reading collection depends finished greatest professors university
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. Thomas Carlyle
book firsts stolen
I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, '84-'85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that. Bobby Fischer
bookstores exactly manner
Bookstores don't exactly dot the American highway in the grand manner of Sbarros. Rosecrans Baldwin
book men dedication
I love to read the dedications of old books written in monarchies for they invariably honor some (usually insignificant) knight or duke with fulsome words of sycophantic insincerity, praising him as the light of the universe (in hopes, no doubt, for a few ducats to support future work); this old practice makes me feel like such an honest and upright man, by comparison, when I put a positive spin, perhaps ever so slightly exaggerated, on a grant proposal. Stephen Jay Gould
book design raw-materials
Throughout his last half-dozen books, for example, Arthur Koestler has been conducting a campaign against his own misunderstanding of Darwinism. He hopes to find some ordering force, constraining evolution to certain directions and overriding the influence of natural selection. [...] Darwinism is not the theory of capricious change that Koestler imagines. Random variation may be the raw material of change, but natural selection builds good design by rejecting most variants while accepting and accumulating the few that improve adaptation to local environments.
book bucks cut degree fuel helping large offset people percent revenue talking
To a large degree it (the cut in commissions) is helping offset the fuel prices. You're talking about some big bucks there. That's 3 percent of revenue to people who book 80 percent of your flights. Ray Neidl
book books-and-reading bring certain comic guy mythical sort
Vicente was the sort of comic book hero, the guy who was going to bring down the regime. There was a certain mythical aura.
writing needs gypsy
I need to keep traveling, being a gypsy, having experiences and writing about them. Delta Goodrem
writing publish
Write the unpublishable.. .and then publish it. Denis Johnson
writing challenges paper
Writing is very difficult. You have 120 pages of blank paper and it's like, "Go fill that up with some funny stuff," and that's challenging. Bobby Farrelly
writing sunday years
I had a financial page to write in the Mail on Sunday where Id give tips on shares. I worked there for two and a half years. Nothing compares to the burst of energy felt on a newsroom floor when a big story breaks.
writing thinking
I think I'd been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time. Adam Duritz
writing stuff way
You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
writing how-you-feel feels
You aren't really writing about what you did; you're writing about how you feel.
writing fundamentals paper
Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one? Abraham Pais
writing cutting medicine
In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina. Abraham Verghese
done draco-malfoy knows
You don't know what I'm capable of, you don't know what I've done! J. K. Rowling
done
Wee leave more to do when wee dye, then wee have done. George Herbert
done deeds opiates
Many deeds are done so as to forget another deed: there are also opiate activities. I exist so that another will be forgotten. Friedrich Nietzsche
done film stranger
I have always done films with friends rather than strangers. Sanjay Dutt
done migration stories
The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot. Salman Rushdie
done duty
For duty, duty must be done; The rule applies to everyone. W. S. Gilbert
done ifs
If it can be dreamed, it can be done. Walt Disney
done path looks
Look forward. Turn what has been done into a better path. Wilma Mankiller
done unions addresses
When the problems in Libya started, the African Union set up a committee to address the situation. We urgently advised the Europeans not to intervene. You have done so anyway. Now we are seeing absolute chaos there. Yoweri Museveni