Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Camus

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

Carrie Underwood

My cell phone is my best friend. It's my lifeline to the outside world.

Plutarch

A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?" holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added he, "none of you can tell where it pinches me.''

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We must be our own before we can be another's.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used.

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.

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.

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.

Ben Schott

I spend a lot of time looking at rococo books. And almanacs used to be huge sellers - they were pretty much part of the fabric of life. I thought, this is bizarre, I'd love to buy a book like this, and there isn't one. So I thought, all right then, this could be fun. I'll write an almanac.

Jim Gaffigan

Ever read a book that changed your life? Me neither.

Benjamin Chavis

Everybody take out your book on financial empowerment. That's why we're here.

Charles Spurgeon

Every generation needs regeneration

Anson Mount

You don't need to like your protagonists.

Anson Mount

I feel there’s no need to overstate.

Andy Stanley

I've talked to many individuals who want to discuss their problems. But they don't really have problems. They have chosen to live in the wrong direction. They don't need a solution. They need a new direction.

Andy Stanley

Uncertainty is not an indication of poor leadership; it underscores the need for leadership.

Andy Warhol

Everyone needs a fantasy.

Ann Romney

We all have burdens and we need to learn to carry each other's burdens, lighten each other's load.

Ang Lee

You have to know the rules, otherwise you have no tools to communicate to the audience, but to keep it fresh you have to break some. I don't choose genres as the element, but the material itself is the element, then I'll decide what genre I need. That's just how I work.

Anatoly Chubais

You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it.