Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Smith

I self-published the first edition, hardcover, in June 2003. The book is now in its third printing.

Miley Cyrus

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.

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.

Bobby Fischer

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.

Rosecrans Baldwin

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

Stephen Jay Gould

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

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.

Brad Herndon

The reason I wrote the book is that I have made many mistakes (in my deer hunting experiences). I want to save people from making all of those mistakes I did.

Mark Bridges

The other day in the garage, I found a book report from the seventh grade that I did about silent movie stars. It's funny to look at now, because it really foretold what my future would be.

Chad Brown

That's when the harshness of the business in this sport comes into play,

David Osgood

That usually takes nine months to a year from the time of the suspension, and by that time the business is gone.

Glen Gulutzan

That one, they gave to us for free. This time, they came in here to play a three-game series for first place. They're here for business right now. They're not going to give us anything for free now.

Harry S Truman

A leader has to lead, or otherwise he has no business in politics.

Michael Maddox

You're talking about a lot of pet stores that primarily sell dogs that would be out of business overnight.

Deirdre O'Kane

Yves Saint Laurent will never go out of business so long as I'm buying mountains of Touche Eclat.

Camille Lavington

You've Only Got 3 Seconds: How to Make the Right Impression in Your Business and Social Life.

Ken Stein

You shouldn't be broadcasting what you see in an e-mail unless you have really legitimate business reasons for doing it.

Martin Bashir

You say he's childish, but he's very professional about business transactions.

Tony Domenech

So you no longer have an absentee landlord - easy solution.

Steven Soderbergh

When things go right it's hard to figure out why, but when things go wrong it's really easy.

John Maxey

I'm proud of our guys and the effort they gave. We might not have won a sectional championship but I told them in the locker room after the game they played like champions. They never quit. It would have been easy to pack it in when we got down by 10 points, but they kept fighting.

Allen Iverson

I kind of was frustrated with myself in the sense that I was missing easy shots,

Tony Chapman

I learned that I had to take it easy a little bit. Now, if I'm watching tape and I'm getting tired, I turn it off and I go to bed.

Uli Hoeness

I hope the manager and the team can overcome all of this. It is not easy to go into a game after spending so much time with legal prosecutors.

Marc Bulger

I'm 100 percent. That's the easy way to say it, ... The rest of the year I'll be 100 percent as long as I'm playing.

Kevin McDermott

I love to come to work, ... The guys who are here make the job easy to do.

Tony Granato

I'm surprised a lot of the guys didn't make it. But it's not an easy team to make and we already had three representatives, so I'm sure that played into it. If they were on different teams and they were having the years they are having, I'm sure they'd be on it. I'm sure they would love to be on it, but in the big picture I know what they are worried about and that's helping our team win.

Ayatollah Khomeini

must be wiped out from the map of the world.

Pat Hill

That's the way the road map is for a school like ours, ... That's what we've got to do to have the kind of program we want.

Sonakshi Sinha

I enjoy my work, no matter who I am working with. Even if you give me a solo silent film, I will enjoy it.

Erinn Smart

Being one point ahead at the end - that's all that matters.

Angelina Jolie

We'll be on our way to Pakistan in a matter of days.

Arlen Specter

I think it's more a matter for them than us because we've got ... a lot of matters which take precedence over this for our own time,

Robert Cormier

It doesn't matter how big the body, it's what you do with it.

Rick Gonzalez

If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it - no matter what.

Robin Williams

It doesn't matter who you are, if you've got the legs, you can hang with them.

Wangari Maathai

No matter who or where we are, or what our capabilities, we are called to do the best we can.

Tiger Woods

I need to make more on the back side. I feel very good. I know I'm in condition. That's not a problem. It's a matter of execution.

Bella Thorne

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

Ray Bradbury

Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization.

Ray Bradbury

..holding a book but reading the empty spaces.

Neil Gaiman

I like reading. I prefer not reading on my computer, because that makes whatever I am reading feel like work. I do not mind reading on my iPad.

Marcus Garvey

A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.

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.

John Selden

Patience is the chiefest fruit of study; a man that strives to make himself different from other men by much reading gains this chiefest good, that in all fortunes he hath something to entertain and comfort himself withal.

Penn Jillette

I believe the fast track to atheism is reading the Bible. I've read it three times all the way through. It's a big part of our culture, a big part of our history. I don't just read things I agree with.

Nora Ephron

... when I finish reading People, I always feel that I have just spent four days in Los Angeles. Women's Wear Daily at least makes me feel dirty; People makes me feel that I haven't read or learned or seen anything at all.

Jim Jarmusch

The beauty of life is in small details, not in big events.

James May

It's a small step in the right direction.