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.

Rosecrans Baldwin

Bookstores don't exactly dot the American highway in the grand manner of Sbarros.

Ruth Rendell

My favourite book - 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford, which I have read about 20 times - is different from my favourite author, who is Iris Murdoch. I find her books exciting and unputdownable. Her characters are so carefully studied and in-depth; I love that.

Jennifer Deer

My four-year-old daughter is soon going to be old enough to look at the children's books upstairs. I don't want her to accidentally read something she's not supposed to.

Jeffrey Zeldman

My first typewriter cost me $75. I can't tell you how many hours it took me to earn that money, or how proud I was of that object. I wrote my first books on it. They will never be published, but that's all right.

Christian Lacroix

My first time in England, in the '60s, the interiors were somehow familiar to me, probably because of the books I'd read and the images I'd seen.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

My first three novels were all the subjects of intensely exciting flurries of calls from producers and even stars' production companies, and once someone actually hired a screenwriter to adapt one of my books - but it all came to nothing, so I tried not to get too excited when a Hollywood suitor came calling for 'Admission,' my fourth novel.

Margot Kidder

None of us were famous, we were broke. We didn't think they'd be writing books about us in 30 years. We were just kids doing the right thing.

Demi Lovato

As a kid I'd play with homemade recipes, like putting pineapple on my face to exfoliate my skin and doing facial steams with lavender or peppermint oils. I just loved doing stuff like that. It's what motivated me to launch my skin care line.

Dominic Monaghan

If you look at little kids and wild animals, these are two groups of things that whenever I'm with them forces me to be in the moment.

Shane Sisco

During a timeout, I told our kids it was do-or-die now.

Charlie Stewart

Essentially, I played six kids in a 44-minute game. Three of my kids played all 44 minutes and one other kid played about 42 minutes.

Walter Beck

First you have to actually teach the kids how to swim. Second, you need to show them what a meet is and third, they need to learn how to be a team. I think that they did pretty well with all three.

Peggy Brown

We lived in Port Coquitlam and the kids went to the same school as Terry Fox,

Jeff Lebo

We do not score 64 points in games. We have had maybe 10 games, maybe, where we have not scored 64 points. Our kids battled, but Tennessee was too good.

John Cohen

Better players. We have more talent and kids who have been around the league.

Pat Gabriel

Everything that's going on now has to do with what the kids have done to make themselves better over time.