Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lisa Jackson

I hate that bookstores are closing. Hate it! What's better than hanging out a bookstore, be it independent or chain, and talking books with people who love books?

Stacie Orrico

It's one thing for the people in the industry to know who you are, because they've heard about you earlier. I have friends calling me from the Christian bookstore because there's a poster on the wall. It's just weird.

Annalee Newitz

Radio Shack is meeting the fate of many other stores that were wildly popular in the twentieth century, including record stores, comic book stores, bookstores and video stores.

Andrew Ross

The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have beenpresented in the entire history of television."Andrew Ross

Andrew Ross

The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television.

Julia Glass

Somewhat sadly, the survival of many bookstores now depends on selling merchandise other than books.

M. J. Rose

PR and marketing doesn't sell books. It gets attention for them. It sends readers to bookstores and websites to read a few pages.

David Armstrong

This is the first time I've been to a bookstore that I actually had to search for.

Barbara Bradford

Bookstores see a book by a woman and they put it in the romance section. I write mainstream fiction about women.

Nick Flynn

I'm not sure why working at a homeless shelter made sense to me, except that I needed to immerse myself in some sort of larger real-life situation to get me out of the cage of my mind, in some ways.

William Dickens

There is no mandate for corporations except for the minimum wage, which is set at $5.15 an hour. After that, the issue's up to the ethicists.

William Dickens

There is no mandate for corporations except for the minimum wage, (which is set at $5.15 an hour). After that, the issue's up to the ethicists.

Jaime Winstone

When I was a child, I wanted to be... a fairy. I still do, really, except that now I've now graduated to wanting to be a pixie.

Paul Rodio

We're getting there. I thought our players did everything they had to do (Saturday) except win.

Mark Snyder

We're still learning how to practice, like everyone except the NFL,

Charles Krauthammer

In science, modesty and genius do not coexist well together. (In Washington, modesty and cleverness don't.) Einstein is perhaps the most famous exception to the rule.

Molly Quinn

With voice-over, you have to pretend like you're three, except you can talk and read.

Joe Jurevicius

As much running as I have been doing, nothing is going to get me in shape except playing the game of football,

Kevin Quinn

We started the program nine years ago with kids that were just learning to play hockey, so this is a fulfilling day for me and a lot of original parents who helped for the organization. We're extremely proud of these kids, particularly, and for all the people who laid the groundwork.

Robbie Stancil

We started out in a match-up zone. But we've worked and worked and worked on our man defense, and we did an outstanding job with it after the first quarter. I think we got Murdock extremely frustrated, and we kept (Marietta's guards) pretty contained.

Sam Allardyce

Where our finishing was very, very good last weekend it let us down tonight. We really should have put the game away in the first 90 minutes and we haven't done that and have paid a heavy price for it. We are extremely disappointed.

Don Flanagan

We want people to come support us, and I think they're going to see a great game. They are an extremely quick team that plays hard. It should be fun to watch.

Gene Kimmelman

We'll be extremely disappointed if antitrust officials do not require more substantial divestment of assets.

Kevin Norrish

US product markets remain extremely weak at present, with most of that weakness focused in gasoline markets.

Jan Nash

We're doing extremely well ... it's so exciting.

Jim Sweeney

We're extremely glad to get the win, ... but we're still making too many mistakes.

Scott Shockley

We're extremely disappointed that the governor vetoed an important property rights piece of legislation, and we'll work to override the veto.

H. Hart

We are pleased to finally restore a more competitive schedule into and out of Yuma.

Carlos Beltran

When he finally learns to exhale, and let the game come to him.

Sidney Crosby

When we finally got going, we had them back on their heels.

Stew Morrill

We've got good shooters. That's finally starting to pay off for us at the line. Our percentages have steadily gone up as the year has gone on.

Michael Levy

We've wanted to be in Napa for a very long time. We finally got a great location.

Jim Lites

We've waited years and years for this announcement to come. It's finally here. It's been years in the making, really starting in 1993 when we got here.

Andy Fox

We're finally starting to come together as a team. I'm so proud of these girls.

James Denney

We're finally seeing dividend payers starting to outperform. That's a healthy long-awaited sign that people are seeking out quality.

Eric Nicoli

We're finally seeing a raft of new initiatives from really big players. This stuff is happening all day, every day now.

Chris Brown

There's never a right time to say goodbye.

Chris Brown

There's never a right time to say goodbye. But I gotta make the first move 'cause if I don't you're gonna start hating me.

Chinua Achebe

I don't want to be the one to tell somebody, You will not make it, even though I know that the majority of those who come to me with their manuscripts are not really good enough.

China Mieville

In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this. I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away. I can't say goodbye.

Edith Wharton

There is someone I must say goodbye to. Oh, not you - we are sure to see each other again - but the Lily Bart you knew. I have kept her with me all this time, but now we are going to part, and I have brought her back to you - I am going to leave her here. When I go out presently she will not go with me. I shall like to think that she has stayed with you.

Daymond John

Poor people put a low value on themselves and their efforts.

David Hyde Pierce

We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

David Icke

Terms like 'good' and 'bad' are extremely simplistic in what is a far more complex situation.

Ben Whishaw

I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.

Charles Stross

I was Computer Shopper's linux columnist for more than half a decade, from the late 90s onwards. Yes, I know about Linux. (My first review of a Linux distro in the press was published in late 1996.)

Aiden Wilson Tozer

If I empty out half of my life, God can only fill half...God will fill as much of us as we allow Him to fill.

David Duchovny

I'm half Jewish, half Scottish. It's hard for me to buy anything.

August Wilson

I've never seen 'Seinfeld', never seen 'The Cosby Show'; I just don't watch it. I saw half of 'Oprah' one time. I'd rather read.

Antony Beevor

I just love the days when you come out of the archives with half a dozen excellent descriptions or poignant accounts of personal experiences.

Linda Flohr

We started slow today. In the second half we played with better intensity than we did in the first half.

Jim Mott

We struggled a little and they made it very hard to penetrate the middle. We made some adjustments at halftime and played better.

Dean Montzingo

We started each half missing a wide-open lay-up, and that kind of set the tone. My top three scorers couldn't find the basket.

Jeff Carter

We spent the whole second period in the box. It wears half the team down. We can't be doing that. It kills us.

John Burton

I think about that case. I still have a picture of her in my work file; it kind of haunts you knowing it's still there.

Gray Swoope

It ranges from housing interest to retail development interest to warehouse and manufacturing interest.

David Fields

a full-range of housing for all incomes and all people who wish to live in the neighborhood.

Judy Burkett

The statistics show that 30 percent of the housing inventory is spoken for, but that's not accurate. There's not that much inventory.

Kevin Logan

The uptrend seen for the past year or so in housing seems to be intact.

Christopher Thornberg

There are some signs that the housing party is ending.

Lin Laing

We've had a 98 percent success rate with people remaining in permanent housing for more than two years.

Douglas Duncan

We see housing as being strong over the next three years within a strong economy.

Robert Simmons

The residents who live in this kind of housing are homeowners of the mobile homes.

Dave Cooper

We specialize in low-income housing projects. We have similar housing projects all over Indiana, and one in Columbus, Ohio.

Alan Ball

If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason.

Charlie Munger

As I continued through Cicero's pages, I found much more material celebrating my way of life ...

Edward Snowden

I went to a website the other day and right at the top of the page it showed me my ip address. It was the most disturbing moment I have ever experienced. This website even told me what internet browser I was using, and what day it was. Computers can do anything.

Eazy-E

Another murder I committed made the front page.

Paul Di Filippo

It is truly bracing and instructive to contemplate the End Times - at least at safe remove, in the pages of fiction - especially as the world beyond our hearths churns and convulses unknowably, yet perhaps just short of ultimate disaster.

Don Winslow

So I thought I should write five pages a day. And that's what I did. Eventually I had a book.

Sergio Aragones

For every issue, I send four pages of finished marginals and they select the ones they need.

C. Wright Mills

[O]ne could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive.

Jon Krakauer

As I point out in the very first pages of 'Into the Wild,' I approached this book not as a normal, you know, unbiased journalist.

Joanna Rose

We're not going to reward the union for striking.

Irma Gomez

We want for San Antonio to help! If you see my sister, if you see her, let us know! There is a reward out there for her.

Ricky Craven

It's a sport that will reward you for being selfish.

Seth Tobias

No one was being rewarded for taking risk.

John Buckingham

You ride out the downturn and you're usually rewarded in the end,

Brian Tracy

Your rewards in life will be determined by what you do, how well you do it, and the difficulty of replacing you.

C. S. Lewis

if you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one.

Carroll O'Connor

In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.

Daniel H. Pink

When the reward is the activity itself--deepening learning, delighting customers, doing one's best--there are no shortcuts.

Dan Ryan

It (mousetrap car) always works better at home.

Chris Squire

The way Yes works is when we have a new member come in, as in Jon Davison, it's appropriate that we see what differences we can get out of a new contributing member in order to keep Yes interesting.

Frank Thomas

If I'm in a cast, I can't do it. We'll see how it works out, but I'll be around.

Jim Hodges

My latest works are these things with light bulbs.

Romesh Gunesekera

Sri Lanka is a part of my background: it's not where I live, but it's what I want to explore. And I find it works very well to explore through fiction.

Shane McAnally

When something works on a huge level, everybody does it.

Robert Chapman

He plots, he plans, he works in secret,

Andrea Giancoli

For some people, it works very well. For others, it can be very frustrating and too much work.

David Nash

If it works for you, then that's great. It's what makes you feel safe.