Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Rosecrans Baldwin

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

Ruth Rendell

My favourite book - 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford, which I have read about 20 times - is different from my favourite author, who is Iris Murdoch. I find her books exciting and unputdownable. Her characters are so carefully studied and in-depth; I love that.

Jennifer Deer

My four-year-old daughter is soon going to be old enough to look at the children's books upstairs. I don't want her to accidentally read something she's not supposed to.

Jeffrey Zeldman

My first typewriter cost me $75. I can't tell you how many hours it took me to earn that money, or how proud I was of that object. I wrote my first books on it. They will never be published, but that's all right.

Christian Lacroix

My first time in England, in the '60s, the interiors were somehow familiar to me, probably because of the books I'd read and the images I'd seen.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

My first three novels were all the subjects of intensely exciting flurries of calls from producers and even stars' production companies, and once someone actually hired a screenwriter to adapt one of my books - but it all came to nothing, so I tried not to get too excited when a Hollywood suitor came calling for 'Admission,' my fourth novel.

Margot Kidder

None of us were famous, we were broke. We didn't think they'd be writing books about us in 30 years. We were just kids doing the right thing.

Eric Kraus

We are carefully reviewing every product category whose performance has lagged expectations. All options, including pruning, divesting or discontinuing, are being considered.

Sir Woodward

We are going to need big characters out there who can dig deep and show real fight and courage. Gareth is just such a character.

Joel Edgerton

I think the great thing about characters is the ways that they can be surprising. I mean, sometimes you think you've got a lock on a personality, even just in life, and then they'll shock you by their behavior.

Denny Green

It was a collaboration of two unexpected companies -- Disney with their rich heritage of characters and Hysteric because of their strong fashion and trend-setting reputation.

Linda Walling

It's very stressful because there is such a short period for rehearsals. It allows us to become a very close-knit group very quickly, and that shows with the characters on stage. It's a real ensemble.

Scott Seomin

It's vital for teens to see gay characters on television, ... When a gay teen in Iowa sees Jack on 'Dawson's Creek' portrayed as loved, talented and accepted, it sends a strong message that he can be those things, as well.

Chuck Palahniuk

I want my characters to really overuse their coping mechanisms to the point where they break down within 300 pages.

Art Alexakis

I try to talk about things I know about. But my characters are more of a combination of people or how I imagine people would feel.

Christopher Sharrett

The vast majority of these characters are portrayed as stolid, stalwart men who face various crises with a great deal of fortitude and courage. I think that will play a role: Can the woman do it, or is she compensating for some kind of emotional or sexual drive?

Tony Marino

They are just so much fun, and you can do a lot with them. The characters are funny as they are written anyway, and with this enthusiastic young cast, they become these charming, lively entities that are telling the story quite beautifully.

Sophie Kinsella

There is something exciting about saving up for a special treat. Bring back the piggy bank!

Kristin Kreuk

I wanted to be a forensic scientist for a long time...It's like putting the pieces of a puzzle together. Solving mysteries seemed like it would be fun, scary and exciting all at the same time.

Scott Davis

It's always exciting every four years having the four rings flashed around the TV and papers.

Bill Tavares

It's a pretty exciting time going into these games. We were strong in 2002 and we're just as strong -- or stronger -- now.

Samuel Barnett

It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language.

Jim Taylor

It's going to be an exciting year because for the first time fans are going to have the opportunity to see every team in the USL play here at least once this season.

Lauryn Williams

It's going to be an exciting race. I know she's training hard. That's the sort of person she is.

Colleen Hartman

It's going to be a very exciting year.

Brenda Frese

it's going to be a fast-paced exciting game.

Scott Ellis

The smartest thing a director can do is surround himself with really good people.

Yutaka Miura

The slide in U.S. stocks looks non-stop. This is not a good sign for Tokyo, especially for high-tech exporters,

Kevin Lyons

The slices are thin, and the sauce is delicious. It is a very good place for lunch.

Shawn Green

The stuff he was throwing tonight was as good as you're going to see in this league.

Jeff Shaw

The students are helping their high school, they work hard, and it's a good product.

Jim Cole

The student population is at a relatively good time of life in terms of health, strength and vitality,

Liz McColgan

The standard is so high and the Ethiopians are so good that I think she would be stupid to do both," ()

Ian Foster

The squad has had a good rest this week after our trip. While we have had a short preparation this week, it has been a concentrated one.

Margaret Whelan

The spring selling season is off to a good start. It's not as strong as last year, but it's not weak by any means.

Nathaniel Rateliff

I've always loved soul, R&B, doo-wop and blues, and I've wanted to make a record like that for years.

E. L. James

I think women love a passionate love story.

John Cassavetes

The idea of love as a mysterious, undiscovered world has come to have no place in our innermost imagination.

Cesar Millan

Love is leading. People think it has to be two different roles but it is the same.

Carl von Clausewitz

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

Kid Rock

Every day I feel different about music, but what never changes is my love for it.

Kate Thompson

You know yourself, once you've had the excitement of riding thoroughbreds, it's not very interesting riding anything else. But I still love horses; I just don't have one any more.

Jamie Martin

It's complicated - love. It's so unique every time, with every person. And when the real thing comes along, I guess we just have to hope we see it.

Dan Barker

I do understand what love is, and that is one of the reasons I can never again be a Christian. Love is not self denial. Love is not blood and suffering. Love is not murdering your son to appease your own vanity. Love is not hatred or wrath, consigning billions of people to eternal torture because they have offended your ego or disobeyed your rules. Love is not obedience, conformity, or submission. It is a counterfeit love that is contingent upon authority, punishment, or reward. True love is respect and admiration, compassion and kindness, freely given by a healthy, unafraid human being.