Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andre Breton

It is hard not to see into the future, faced with today's blind architecture - a thousand times more stupid and more revolting than that of other ages. How bored we shall be inside!

Andre Gide

The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.

Andre Gide

Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.

Andy Williams

There's no doubt in my mind that people on the West Coast - L.A. particularly - and the East Coast have no clue at all about what's happening outside their own little bailiwick. And they think everybody is stupid because they are not sophisticated.

Anatole France

Unhappiness does make people look stupid.

Amanda Peet

If you're not willing to sound stupid you don't deserve to be in love.

Anne Frank

Then I fall asleep with a stupid feeling of wishing to be different from what I am or from what I want to be; perhaps to behave differently from the way I want to behave or do behave.

Ann Aguirre

Men can be very stupid. We cease to value what we have until it's gone, and only then do we realize the gold we glimpsed in distant hills pales as dross compared to treasure we had in hand.

Ann Aguirre

I so enjoy it when people assume I'm stupid." "Not that, just very focused on killing.

George Smith

I self-published the first edition, hardcover, in June 2003. The book is now in its third printing.

Miley Cyrus

The reason I never want a book to end is that I start to feel like the characters are my friends. I'll miss them when they're gone.

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.

Bobby Fischer

I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, '84-'85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that.

Rosecrans Baldwin

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

Richard Stallman

British book publishers plan to put a microchip into every book to record who owns it - an unprecedented surveillance measure.

Dan Veru

Everything used to be complex about Thermo. But they experienced every problem in the book before the restructuring -- nothing is going to bother them now.

Michael Parker

Even making a phone call involved booking it ahead. It was a trunk call and at busy times, such as Christmas, you had to book three weeks in advance.

Brian Aldiss

A writer should say to himself, not, How can I get more money?, but How can I reach more readers (without lowering standards)?

Delta Goodrem

I need to keep traveling, being a gypsy, having experiences and writing about them.

Denis Johnson

Write the unpublishable.. .and then publish it.

Bobby Farrelly

Writing is very difficult. You have 120 pages of blank paper and it's like, "Go fill that up with some funny stuff," and that's challenging.

Donna Tartt

I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write.

Donna Tartt

Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel.

Donna Tartt

It's hard for me to show work while I'm writing, because other people's comments will influence what happens.

Donna Tartt

I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much.

Donald Hall

Of course newspaper sportswriting is mostly terrible - and of course it is usually the best writing in the paper.