Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ian Frazier

I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would not be superficial. Siberian-travel writing is its own genre.

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.

Vincent Bugliosi

I am more excited about 'Divinity of Doubt: The God Question' than any other book in my entire career, and I've had seven New York Times bestsellers, three of them reaching number one.

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.

Barack Obama

Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.

Carrie Snodgress

I was never really a career woman. My life always came first.

Bette Davis

One can be respected with the truth in Hollywood just as much as anywhere else you know or else I wouldn't have had a career.

Bernadette Peters

I've been fortunate in my career to have performed in revivals of great musicals and to have originated roles in musicals that have in turn been revived. And I'm not dead!

Bill Burr

There is a very difficult period in a comedian's career - it's that window of time where you're good enough to draw tickets but nobody knows you yet.

Jack Lind

That would be great. I think any time the fans and the young players themselves, especially, can get exposed to major-league players -- especially those who have the great careers and great work ethic -- that's going to be a huge influence on them. I would think that would be great exposure for everybody involved.

Michael Myers

We have talked a lot about getting a new beginning, ... We don't ever want to be apart. We want to end our careers here.

Peter Hughes

We have careers advisers who say to youngsters 'you need to go to university'. That is arrant nonsense.

Tim Curry

My career has evolved at its own peculiar pace. American careers are supposed to have a much more singular direction than I've been able to... stomach.

Chuck Palahniuk

When I was little, my grandma used to get romance novels, and she would get hundreds of these, and she'd read a dozen a month.

Bonnie Tyler

I lost dozens of pairs of expensive glasses because I'd put them down and then not be able to find them again.

Rick Perlstein

I've summarized dozens of books in my literary career; it's become rather second nature.

Gore Vidal

World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic - with many a wink - in the people's name.

Jim Clarke

We could have up to a dozen participants in the contest.

Patrick Carman

I remember all the way back in high school thinking about writing books. And, in fact, I've written a lot of stories. I've got dozens of stories I've written that no one's ever seen.

Richard MacDonald

I've had over a dozen models come in and pose fro me live for these new Cirque pieces. Cirque is a world-wide phenomenon and they are just incredible athletes. I've been to all the performances and am really fascinated by all of their productions.

John Bacon

We have a key list of two dozen tenants we want to get this in front of and get their feedback, because they are integral to how the project may take shape.

Linda Warren

We've made 9,600 dozen over the years, (through 2004), ... and we really have fun spending the money.