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.

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.

Jesse Jackson

He does not want to eat in fact on the table of those who would kill him,

Al Visconti

These kids could all grow up and be rich and eat lobster the rest of their lives. And nothing will taste better than those french fries.

Bill Clarke

You don't have to pack and unpack and pay a lot of money to stay in hotels or eat out, and you are surrounded by nature instead of a hot, sterile parking lot.

Steve Davies

You don't have to be a millionaire to eat like a millionaire, thanks to our new Buttered Lobster Bites. What better person to share that message than America's newest everyday-citizen-turned-millionaire?

Chris Kenny

It's not exactly what you want to eat before practice, but we figured we'd do that, then practice, then go back to the hotel.

Linda Cardellini

Oh, no, no. In fact, the show is so funny because... last season I had had the flu and I got really skinny and the producers told me to eat. I think it's probably one of the only shows in Hollywood where the producers encourage you to eat as a young woman.

Bretta Perkins

It's good soap. It'll get poison ivy off and ring around the collar. And it won't eat up your hands, no matter what you've heard people say.

Kimora Lee Simmons

I don't eat too much. I don't have a lot of time, but I can get in a little treadmill. I eat healthily just because it's good for me, and running after my three kids takes a lot of energy.

Michael Woods

We had an intervention the other day at lunch. Someone tried to eat a doughnut.

Meghan Coward

Sometimes Molly will fly out to L.A. for a few days, raid the gallery scene there, and come back with a list of names and try to lure them down here.

Olin Browne

I guess there are a few more people who recognize who I am,

Greg Rose

I just don't recall seeing them much until the last few years.

Shane Sweet

I personally think that this is going to settle out over the next few days.

Tina Shipp

Hey, could you just move a few miles down the coast?

Nicholas DiNubile

Can he be relied on week after week for the next few years as the No. 1 guy? That will be the challenge.

Joel Fuhrman

Cancer is caused by what you do for many, many years, not what you do for a few weeks or months.

Joshua Michael Stern

I'm working on a few different films and I'm just searching for the right new story to tell. As a director, you just have to kind of like just get through the first project before starting on the next one.

B. R. Hayden

I needed a few more runs to get a world record myself - unfortunately these things happen,

Reggie Miller

No matter how good you are, there's a lot of luck involved.

John Noble

I was a very lucky actor.

Mariah Carey

I'm really fortunate. I'm really happy, and I'm really really lucky to be where I am.

James Altucher

Luck is created by the prepared.

Peter Shilton

The main factor in a penalty shootout is luck again. You need to stay calm and focussed but the biggest thing you need is luck.

Juvenal

Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.

Kami Garcia

Sharpie? A mischievous smile spread across her face. I thought you said you couldn't control your powers. Beginner's luck.

Katharine Hepburn

I was born lucky, and I have lived lucky. What I had was used. What I still have is being used. Lucky.

George Kennedy

I had the good fortune of speaking with Orson Wells many decades ago and he said 'Success is primarily luck anyway.' And I have been very lucky. Of course, Orson Wells was enormously talented and brilliant - so who am I to argue with him!

Bella Thorne

I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well.

John Taylor Gatto

Close reading of tough-minded writing is still the best, cheapest, and quickest method known for learning to think for yourself... Reading, and rigorous discussion of that reading in a way that obliges you to formulate a position and support it against objections, is an operational definition of education... reading, analysis, and discussion is the way we develop reliable judgment, the principle way we come to penetrate covert movements behind the facade of public appearances.

Margaret Mahy

Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act.

Jeanette Winterson

Reading is a rendezvous with your soul.

Jeaniene Frost

You know, in addition to your mind-reading abilities, I may have absorbed some sluttiness from your blood,

J. K. Rowling

Oh, there you are, Albus,' he said. 'You've been a very long time. Upset stomach?' 'No, I was merely reading the Muggle magazines,' said Dumbledore. 'I do love knitting patterns.

Grace Paley

I do lots of reading and speaking at many universities about literature and also about politics, which is as much a part of my life as the literature.

Sara Shepard

I really like reading about how families work together.

Samuel West

I did start reading quite young but I was always read to by my parents, who are both actors. Bedtime stories from when I was about two/three to when I was about 15. In fact they didn't stop until I eventually kind of kicked them out of my bedroom.