Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gail Carriger

Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to leave my books smiling.

Zadie Smith

One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.

Zadie Smith

When I think of the books I love, there's always a little laughter in the dark.

William Osler

To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

I've got a bunch of books... I rely on funny books and movies to cheer me up. Oh, but I must say, I do have the world's most perfect husband, so a cuddle from him always cheers me up. He's a good guy.

Chuck Palahniuk

I think Chris Brown gets kind of dismissed as a gay writer, and I think Chris's books are really, really smart. I wish his books sold a little more widely.

Chuck Palahniuk

My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are easy to carry as you travel.

Yann Martel

It's true, too, that I'm tired of using books as political bullets and grenades. Books are too precious and wonderful to be used for long in such a fashion.

Chris Bohjalian

I think the most important lesson isn't necessarily to try and write a different book every time, or to try and brand yourself and write one specific kind of book, but to write the kind of books you love to read.

William Blum

Freeing the World to Death: Essays on the American Empire.

Sharon Olds

There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its writers - encouraging them to die.

Francis Bacon

My essays . . . come home, to men's business, and bosoms.

Diane Davis

We were very pleased with all the entries, but the top essays really seemed to have an outstanding quality to them.

Stanley Hauerwas

Theological writing is usually done in essays or books, but I hope to show that if we concentrate on sentences, we may well learn something we might otherwise miss.

Sebastian Coe

At university level, I had an economics lecturer who used to joke that I was the only student who handed in essays on British Airways notepaper.

Steven Heighton

I had a book of essays out in 1997 in which I talked about the increasing virtuality of our lives. I've always been afraid of that in my own life.

Charles M. Blow

I had an insanely long commute - New York to D.C. - when I worked at 'National Geographic.' I hate to waste time, so I spent my time by writing about my life on the premise that I might be able to pitch those as short essays to magazines. It wasn't until later that I realized that I was writing a book.

Elizabeth Meriwether

Every show is unique, some shows have the master plan and have everything figured out and that's just the way they do things. It's like high school. Some people write their papers the second they get their assignments, and some people write it the day after it's due. I am the latter.

Gregg Popovich

The pieces have to fit around him. The fortunate thing for us is that it seems that, given enough talent, all pieces fit around Timmy. He figures it out.

Rene Locher

The overall figures are lower-than-expected, not only because of the catastrophe claims, but also because of the reserve additions.

Annie Lennox

Having children, they're not your property. They need to figure out their own views. I think my daughters have a pretty healthy self-awareness, but I can't speak on their behalf.

Chuck Schumer

You have to walk in the other guy's moccasins. You have to think what they think. If you want to bring somebody onto your side, you have to figure out what motivates them. What do they need?

Mike Dunleavy

That would be nice. But I've come to realize that might not happen. I'm just going to be ready. You've got to be ready for the ball, you've got to make cuts, you've got to find other ways to score, put points on the board, make the team better. If I don't get plays called for me, I'll figure something else out.

Jerry Sloan

That will figure itself out at the end of the year.

Avery Cutshaw

We could move the football; we've just got to figure out a way to get it in the end zone. We had opportunity after opportunity. We just didn't capitalize.

Scott Peterson

We just didn't come out tonight and have it. I thought we figured it out this week, but we still have a lot ... to work on.

Wendy Liebmann

Here's an interesting thought about what might result: a good-better-best approach, with Macy's the 'good', Bloomingdales the 'better' and Marshall Field's the 'best,'

Kate Christensen

Chan Marshall has one of the most haunting, wrenching voices of any current singer, male or female.

Jim Graham

Marshall has a really strong team. We didn't play badly, they were just that much better.

George Small

It's so close, ... That's a pretty tight race between Marshall and Rico.

Jeremy Durham

They play really well together as a team. It really reminded me of us playing Marshall or Jacksonville.

Buzz Peterson

I've very disappointed Gregg Marshall didn't do more than he did. If I had been in the same position, I would have done anything I could.

Mack Brown

The Marshall story touched all of our hearts. It's something you can't even imagine.

Emma Bunton

We've kind of been out of the public eye, even though we haven't stopped working.

Pete Rodda

We are not putting anything out that is not public record.

Kathy Nelson

Those are the things that reporters do for the public on a regular basis.

Amanda Martin

If anything, we are going to see more and more things shielded from public view rather than fewer; that's been the trend.

Pat Gillick

He's a blue-collar guy. And he's somebody that the public will like.

Charles Ray

Her public service announcement for us went out all over the nation,

Larry Nixon

He's always done things no one's surprised at, whether it's for publicity or by accident.

Mike Mower

We've been very public in our support of this.

Robert Lopez

If they're here illegally, they shouldn't be accessing public services.

Bob Graham

We need to make is to strengthen the position of the director of the CIA.

Hosni Mubarak

What is wrong with strengthening the opposition? You lose nothing, ... But let them abide by the rules.

Jerry A. Webman

The rise in equities helped strengthen the economy.

Vladimir Putin

The strengthening of our statehood is, at times, deliberately interpreted as authoritarianism.

Bill Bryson

It was an especially wonderful time to be a noisy moron.

Tino Martinez

The '98 Yankees never won 11 in a row.

Mike Fox

We've made a lot of advances. We won our first game, which was a big step.

John Spiak

You kind of wonder what's going on in the state.

Robert Redford

Julie, it's wonderful to see you. This is Lena.

Paul Terry

We have not won the Championship for more than 30 years and it is something we really want to do.

Jason Taylor

We haven't done anything yet. We won one game. Big deal.

Gregory Peck

I won one of these in 1947 and it was very encouraging, and it's very encouraging now,

Krystal McKenzie

I think if we had set it up a little differently we would have won it.