Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jesmyn Ward

It infuriates me that the work of white American writers can be universal and lay claim to classic texts, while black and female authors are ghetto-ized as 'other.'

William Channing

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the communion with superior minds. In the best books, authors talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books.

William Channing

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the communion with superior minds... In the best books, authors talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books.

Stephen Carter

I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.

Lynn Coady

I think authors like me are always struggling with the idea that they should have a brand and a Facebook author page and they should get Twitter accounts. I don't know what to do with them.

Rebecca Makkai

I did teach elementary school for quite a while, and so I didn't have to reach too far back for the titles and authors that populate the early chapters 'of The Borrower.'

Jonathan Galassi

I deal with the authors I work with, agents, and other departments of the company, talking about both the books that I'm working on and everyone else's. Then there's dealing with foreign publishers: foreigners visit all the time. People want to bounce things off the publisher, and a lot of it is encouragement.

Rebecca Stead

I am hoping to work with writers publishing books for first time, since I of course remember what that experience is like. It's all a bit of a mystery for new authors who don't know what to expect.

Samuel Johnson

Who left nothing of authorship untouched, and touched nothing which he did not adorn. [Lat., Qui nullum fere scribendi genus non tetigit; nullum quod tetigit non ornavit.]

Kazuo Ishiguro

I don't hang out with the glitteringly successful people; I hang out with people who've been friends for many years, and to some extent I feel my worldly success is a bit uncomfortable for them.

Mike Cameron

I was kind of using it as a joke. But I wanted a team with a little bit of character to it, some diversity. I wanted (the Padres) to get some young, talented athletes.

Chad Reitz

I was looking forward to the 2005 season when things fell apart. I ended up in a dispute with my sister (Chanda) and father (Les) about our race team, and we parted ways. It was a bitter ending and there are still a lot of hard feelings.

Jack Rew

Kevin knew quite a bit and he got me into more and more. I liked it and I got to be pretty decent.

John Beilein

Kevin came in here on a mission. I thought we were a little bit out of character at Pitt. We probably tried to do a little bit too much and probably didn't realize what good defense Pitt plays. We took shots we thought were good and they weren't because Pitt guards you.

Shawn Reynolds

Kent pitched a good game. His pitch count started to get high and I didn't want to kill the kid. We talked a little bit before and he was getting a little tired. We can rely on (Weaver) to close it out.

Brad Clanton

Kenny played a little bit of middle school football. He's fairly quick and changes directions pretty well. He has to learn our system.

Nicole Sullivan

kick in a little bit of money for the house.

Diane Swonk

kick back, put up his feet for a bit and not have to carry the burden of keeping the economy going alone.

Jeff Kinney

Kids and adults have a difference of opinion when it comes to what constitutes legitimate reading. Adults often push books that they loved as children, which, ironically, were often books that their parents weren't particularly keen on.

Stephen Jones

Kid books can get cute and a-d-o-r-a-b-l-e. Garfield says cute rots the intellect. Don't forget the name of the cat! You pick up cats the wrong way and they stop being adorable...they become Scratch.

James Patterson

Kids say the No. 1 reason they don't read more is that they can't find books they like. Freedom of choice is a key to getting them motivated and excited.

Japanese Proverb

Knowledge without wisdom is a load of books on the back an ass

Spike Jonze

Kids are so fiercely opinionated, that if they love the Harry Potter books and they go see the movie, they'll be the first to say, 'That was wrong! They didn't get that right!' They're storytellers themselves. They're critics. They're going to have the critical opinion.

Jan Nash

Just look at the shelves of any bookstore in any airport, and you see how much people love crime and mysteries, how much they love solving puzzles.

Graham Joyce

Our literary culture is marinated in deep traditions of the fantastic and the supernatural, and we export those rich qualities in films and books on a spectacular industrial scale.

Graham Elliot

I have two bookcases that used to be filled with cookbooks, but now it's mostly books about politics and government. I might just give this all up and run for office.

Tony Buzan

I used to think that when I finished a book, I was finished with it. But it's like a wonderful Hydra. Every time a head disappears, more heads appear, so I will be writing for the rest of my life. The more books I write, the more books I find that I still have to write about. I use it like an inspiration, and that's wonderful.

John Mackey

I was looking for the meaning of life when I was in college. And my deal with my dad was as long as I was taking a full course load, then he would pay. And the times that I wasn't taking a full course load, then I was off the dole and I was working.

Jeff Allen

I would say it would come down to Reggie or myself of Johnny Crumpler or Daryl (Baysden), just for the experience. All of us have played the courses right much.

Michael Chertoff

Katrina was a crash course in things that worked well and didn't work well.

Dan Reeves

Keith Brooking of course is the worst injury. He does have some chipped vertebrates in his back. How long that will be I don't know, a lot of it depends on when the soreness goes away,

John Sunderland

I suspect in due course they will reach a fruitful conclusion.

Leisel Jones

I think it's a good start for my short course swimming and it is even better for the longer distance games.

Helen Alfredsson

I think it's a fabulous golf course. It's a great golf course to play match play on, and it's so easy for the fans to walk around and see other holes. It's a great venue for this event.

Willie Schlarman

I think it'll be very gratifying for our players to see over the course of two years we've gone from being unranked to people giving us the nod (for No. 1) as a result of our improvement.

Alastair Reynolds

I think I set myself on a course to become a scientist around about the time that Carl Sagan's 'Cosmos' series was on television, and there really was no going back for me at that point, and then I went on to study space science and then get my Ph.D., then go aboard and work in the European Space Agency.

Mike Piazza

kind of fun, especially in New York. I've seen it on smaller levels in other cities, but it's fun to get into the rivalry thing and experience it.

James Kirkman

just very humbled, and appreciative, and amazed; it was a very happy experience.

J. C. Chandor

Just making a movie the way 'All is Lost' had to be made was a great experience, because it was structured differently than any other film I will make for the rest of my life.

Karen McCaffrey

Just this experience of getting to this point for next year will help us. The more situations we're in, the less we'll panic. With youth you'll get that. As soon as our skills improve, I think our panic will improve and we have a whole year to work on that now.

Lucas Glover

Just the experience is going to be great, just being there and walking around.

Chris Traulsen

I think it's a good long-term investment. They've got a ton of experience between Mason Hawkins and Stanley Cates, and the managers have significant portions of their own net worth in the Longleaf funds. They have every incentive to do right by their shareholders.

Willie Anderson

I think it's a different feel for our fans. In years past we have been packing it up at this time of the season. I think our fans have been caving it in, too. It's a new experience for everybody.

Rachel Dretzin

I think it fuels her. The fact that she can see the work she's done make an impactmost journalists don't experience that.

Mike McGlynn

I think it is good that we got some experience because all of it helps. I don't know if I'll ever take a snap in a game, but it is good to be ready and the more positions on the line you play, the better it helps you.

John Herrera

He knew the structure. I knew him, and I was hoping he would come up and provide a kind of moral support, and I would teach him the personnel side.

Ron Gardenhire

He likes to play and he'll play through anything, so when he has to sit out, you know he's hurting. That's a little scary. I'm just hoping it's not a lingering thing.

Jon Gruden

He's distraught, he's nervous, he's uptight about this, as he should be. ... He's put a lot into this. We're just hoping he can come through this better than maybe we anticipate.

Dennis Ruedinger

He seems to be doing all right. We're hoping by (today) he'll be able to do some light workouts and get some shooting in. It looks like he'll be on pace to do that. We'll be able to go pretty solid on Wednesday and Thursday with him.

Peter Davenport

I thought we played very well, a big improvement and I'm hoping that things are starting to click,

Ann Strother

I think we were still hoping for something to have happened, something to maybe give us another chance.

Greg Valliere

I think what we all are hoping for is resolution sooner rather than later,

Susan Kennedy

Last year I was hoping for 40 people and I had over 200.

Eugenie Scott

Lawsuits, from my standpoint, are a sign of failure. We're hoping the lessons of Dover can be communicated throughout the rest of the country.

Dave Taylor

He is probably the premiere mystery writer today. He's our generation's Dashiell Hammett.

William Butler Yeats

The uncontrollable mystery on the bestial floor.

Walter Scott

Mystery has great charms for womanhood.

Veronica Roth

Life's something we already understand. Death is a mystery.

Vladimir Nabokov

Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.

Jorge Luis Borges

I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.

Eric Bana

I like the unknown. I like mystery.

Napoleon Bonaparte

We are born, we live, we die among supernatural.

Kevin Furtado

It's part of the mystery of the grape. I thought there would be more of a formula, but there isn't. I have a lot of respect for the winegrowers in the Russian River Valley.

John Van Hamersveld

I'm working on my own work, my own publishing company.

Laura Hillenbrand

I spoke to my agent and learned that a Hollywood scout had seen my proposal in one of the publishing houses, and had faxed it to Hollywood, where it was generating a lot of interest

Katherine Paterson

Since my first novel was rescued from a slush pile, it makes me sad that most publishing houses no longer accept unsolicited manuscripts. Nor are many willing to take chances on novels that are not deemed immediately "marketable."

Otis Blackwell

I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it.

John Mutter

They're worried about publishing and retailing like everyone else in the business, and this may be a way for them to stay on top of this.

J. Tillman

I've never taken the steps to be 'successful': I've never had a manager or signed to a publishing house.

Theodore Pappas

These are the sorts of fundamental publishing vices of the most serious kind.

Andrew Wright

This is not about publishing to the world.

Daniel Berrigan

I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped.

Steven Saunders

He wanted to know why he couldn't remember things.

Walter Price

He remembers I took him to Carmichael two years ago. I don't remember.

Rosaleen Tallon

It is all wrong in its symbolism. I look up to the sky to remember him. I will never go down.

Lofa Tatupu

What do I remember about that play? That it was long.

Rick Moore

We've got to remember who got us here.

Rekalin Sims

He was rubbing it in our faces. We remember that. We've got something for him.

S. Truett Cathy

I'd like to be remembered as one who kept my priorities in the right order.

Denise Moore

He never remembers us together. This is the only time he remembers me is in prison.

Rob Zombie

Things like that become a blur - shot at some soundstage, somewhere - that's as much as I can remember.

Ken Starr

I also know that there's a time and a season, and I think that time, had there been one, has long since passed.

Michael Hayes

He's crazy. He's always been like that, since we were 13, he's been the same way.

Mike Donato

He's a thoroughbred. We have worked out together since our first year here.

Roy Harper

I was determined if I was going to become a superstar it would be on my terms. I've had that ethic since the beginning.

Shane Valdez

I think that's the first time since I've been here that we had everyone qualify.

Robert Greene

I will say it's been a while since we've been this healthy,

Sue Thompson

He's been doing this since he was 14 - he's such a talented kid.

Vince Carter

He's been doing this since Day 1. When he doesn't do it, then we'll be surprised.

Asaf Shariv

I don't know about anything since then that is new.

Emily Lyons

I was in the right place, just at the wrong time that day.

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Denny Green

J.J. is the starter. I said that a long time ago.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Leslie Cohen

I think it'll be time at the end of this year for them to go off and try something new, ... It'll be torture. It'll be torture.

Mary Lambert

I think I streaked one time when I was 16, which was scary.

Greg Martin

It can be time consuming. It took off a lot of pressure.

Iain Dowie

He did brilliantly for us in the time he was here,

Cynthia Johnson

He didn't get the time that we may feel he deserved, and he may not get it in this lifetime. But before it's all over with, he will get it.

Bob Greenly

Justus is very much a work in progress, ... but he's getting better all the time.

Mads Mikkelsen

I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right.

Dan Kane

It can happen. We just all have to work together.

Eric Kristenson

It can be as much of a workout as you want it to be.

Tory Burch

I think you can have it all. You just have to know it's going to work.

Peter Gardner

I think it's going to be used a lot now. We just have to work out some of the kinks, some of the logistical stuff.

Glenn Storch

I think it's going to work out fine.

Alan Siegel

I think the law should be comprehensible not only to those who work with it but also to those who are governed by it.

Michael Osterholm

I think that potentially neuraminidase inhibitors may work if you are already on them as prophylaxis (prevention),

John Dos Passos

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Chevy Stevens

Unfortunately, there's still a lot of beginning writers who think you can just write your first draft and hand it in.

Robert Klein

In some articles written about me, writers have said I'm a link between the old and the new, and I think, in a certain sense, that's legitimate.

Scott Adsit

'Monty Python' and 'The Simpsons' have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives.

Aminatta Forna

Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.

Claire Tomalin

Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.

Brian K. Vaughan

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

Charlaine Harris

Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.

Sara Sheridan

Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre.