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.

Richard Burton

They lard their lean books with the fat of others work.

Mats Sundin

It definitely deserves something. That shot goes into the history books.

Nicholas Sparks

I'm here to love you, to hold you in my arms, to protect you. I am here to learn from you and to receive your love in return. I am here because there is no other place to be.

Nicolas Cage

I wish I had learned more about it in high school, but they didn't put it in the history books, ... I have great respect for the Navajo Code Talkers and their heroic acts.

Paul Gray

It even looks exactly like a real book, with pages and print and dust jacket and everything. This disguise is extremely clever, considering the contents: the longest lounge act never performed in the history of the Catskills.

Calvin Baker

We're not trying to eliminate books. We love books.

Chris Rankin

I'm also a fan of the books, long before I got into the movie.

Mark Twain

I have studied it often, but I never could discover the plot

Larry Hackett

He has a small 13-inch TV, eight CDs, six books.

Ramon Magsaysay

The PIATCO contract was not entered into by the administration, it was in fact nullified by it. The North Rail, and other government projects and charges of diversion allegations of public funds for campaign activities, are also not borne out by facts.

Peter Kalikow

That was his opinion, ... It wasn't borne out by the marketplace.

Richard Hough

We were slightly surprised by the level of controversy that made its way into the press and the workplace. The controversy was borne more from the target side than from the nature of our client as a US investor - there are plenty of those around.

Michael Chertoff

Well, I said in July before Katrina that we had a lot more work to do in preparedness. And I think that was borne out, obviously, a month later.

Herman Gorter

The revolution in Russia was victorious with the help of the poor peasants. This should always be borne in mind here in Western Europe and all the world over. But the workers in Western Europe stand alone: this should never be forgotten in Russia.

Emily Dickinson

Had I not seen the Sun, I could have borne the shade, But Light a newer Wilderness, My Wilderness has made

David Bull

Whatever kinds of hatreds and guilt may be borne by the people on both sides of the conflict, it's not the fault of the children.

Johannes Kepler

I demonstrate by means of philosophy that the earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides; that it is insignificantly small, and is borne through the stars.

Sam Harris

While liberals are leery of religious fundamentalism in general, they consistently imagine that all religions at their core teach the same thing and teach it equally well. This is one of the many delusions borne of political correctness.

Nancy Grace

You see, some lawyers have the talent, have the charisma, but no discipline. They come into court unprepared, without having done their research.

Robert Gerard

The allegations printed in the report are just that. They are not facts and they were never admitted, nor tested in any court, nor found by any court to be true.

Elliott Abrams

The Arab monarchies, especially Jordan and Morocco, are more legitimate than the false republics, with their stolen elections, regime-dominated courts and rubber-stamp parliaments.

Joe Solmonese

The American people deserve justice, not prejudice. With judges like Pryor on the courts of appeal, the Supreme Court is more important than ever.

Charles Haynes

That was when the court decided to weaken the Tinker standard. The school really does have to show it would be a serious disruption.

Mathew Staver

We could have kept Michael completely out of the children's lives, but it would have kept it in court for another year and a half and would have dragged the kids through another trial.

Mike Bryan

We could have been off that court in 11/2 hours, ... Well, next time.

Dave Lipe

We just did that because we have more courts here than they do at Granite.

Patrick Kavanagh

In its truest manifestation, where it gives judgments, poetry is super-luxury. It would be interesting to see what would happen to a High Court judge if he were forced to follow the true poetic formula, doing the job for love, being forced into pubs for relief.

Vivek Wadhwa

You will find that every successful entrepreneur has suffered many setbacks. These entrepreneurs just forget to mention these when they are doing interviews with the 'Wall Street Journal' or Bloomberg TV.

Bill Burr

You wanna know how you know you're informed as a protestor? They don't show your interview on TV.

John Rose

We filmed every recording session and did interviews on what each song represented to the artist, so we've amassed a world of footage.

Cyrus Mehri

We have some things to point to that we think are successful. We had a record number of interviews this year, over 25. . . We also had for the first time a trade for an African-American coach.

Alice Lowe

For years, I didn't give interviews because I was scared of people judging me or thinking I was arrogant.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Reporters tend to launch on what seems to be the clearest, most stark aspects of someone's life in terms of an interview.

China Mieville

The Weaver is a really godlike power. It's not even a blind idiot god, a sort of Lovecraft thing, it's just a purely capricious god. It's an intelligence you can't understand, so you can't trust it." -Amazon.com interview

Bob Ross

I never turn down requests for interviews. I'm just rarely asked.

Charlie Rose

The person I've always wanted to interview but never met was Richard Burton.

Bridget Kelly

For me, the majority of my music is really dark and to the point.

Tony Benn

The anti-war movement now represents a majority in the country.

Bob Davis

I think Seattle is going to become a laughingstock. ... We are going to look like the Moral Majority up here,

Mike Browning

We are running train services on all lines. The vast majority of our stations are all open.

Alex Jones

The majority of world stock markets are now owned by the Arabs.

Jim Owen

I would say the majority of those are opposed at this point in time,

Joe Biden

He doesn't speak for me with that kind of rhetoric, and I don't think he speaks for the majority of Democrats, ... This Week.

Chick Hearn

You can't please everybody all the time, but you can please a majority.

Robert A. Heinlein

Was there ever a time when the majority was right? Notebooks of Lazarus Long, Robert A

Dave Freudenthal

The safest course for public officials is simply to throw all of the money in a sack.

Ann Coulter

The tolerant liberal suddenly becomes very intolerant when their official religion is challenged.

Jesus Dureza

Our panel of 22 officials are here for the meeting. I think we are on the right track.

Tom LaBonge

I don't like to see public officials attacked,

Mark Spitz

The officials I was with, I don't know if they were unaware, but they didn't say anything to me. The whole thing turned into what did I see and what did I know.

Scott Bardall

We wanted to make the shots tougher for Grant. She's not Ms. Ohio for nothing.

Dave Foley

If you live in Ohio and you don't wear scarlet and gray now, you're an oddball. And it used to be that you could go around town even in Columbus and see a bunch of people in Michigan shirts ... And that's horrible, isn't it?.

Chris Christie

As governor of Ohio, I have an obligation to keep the 11.5 million people in Ohio safe. And we have been very effective with our Joint Terrorism Task Force, being able to make busts.

Chester Himes

I grew to manhood in the Ohio State Penitentiary.

Dawn Powell

All Americans come from Ohio originally, if only briefly.

Carol Moseley Braun

The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their right to vote.

Bill Kurtis

The most frightening interview I've ever done was with Dr. Lonnie Thompson of The Ohio State University on the subject of global warming.

Argus Hamilton

Ohio went on alert Tuesday when a train with hazardous chemicals ran wild through the state. A brave engineer leaped aboard and brought the runaway train under control. Sounds like we've found our next FBI Director.

Demetri Martin

Statistics indicate that the average American is a guy named Brian who lives in Ohio.

Anthony Chan

The overall trend is that we're making progress,

Peter Morgan

The overall trend is still that the recovery is weak. I wouldn't say that this is a turnaround yet.

Greg Aiello

We're very pleased with the overall state of our officiating.

David Cohen

Manufacturing is picking up in the second half. Pharmaceuticals can be enormously volatile, but overall they are on an uptrend.

Pat Summitt

I think overall Candace had a solid game, ... I was pleased with her defense.

Austin Eguavoen

I was satisfied with my team's overall performance.

John Collins

I think in some ways those conversations, as well as our overall conversations of the organization and how to make it better, may have spun some rumors out that essentially were tagged to the GM.

Jan Dijkwel

I think it's an overall educational experience. We are now in a society where everything is communicated on a two-dimensional platform, like the big screen, television and even reading.

Chere' Moore

We swam some very smart races Thursday and overall I'm pleased with the whole team effort.

Stewart Davis

The police can't do anything unless they (catch them in the act).

John Blair

The police are trying to make or rewrite the law.

Rene Lavigne

That was a thankful sight, when we saw the police helicopter.

Ann Robertson

That was where we could be safe. Police could see us and we could see them.

John Hamm

That was the way it was presented to me and to my (police) chief,

Paul Michael Glaser

Secondly, I thought it was ridiculous to have two undercover policemen driving around in a striped tomato.

Nancy Bray

We got tired of watching him, and we called police.

Kathy Valentine

I think if they don't have enough police, they need to get some from other places. They need some radical cops.

Bob Harris

We rely on police to keep their prisoners secure.

Bill Bryson

Most of what has lived on Earth has left behind no record at all.

Barry Mann

One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.

Dick Pound

I think one is right to say some of these records are pretty suspect,

Martin Nissenbaum

Have your records tied up as neatly as possible, so you're not shuffling through records,

Wayne Patterson

From all of our records and correspondence with EPD, they have done that.

David Sanborn

I just kinda like playing. I don't necessarily go on tour to promote my albums. I'm on the road all the time. The fact that I have a new record is out is a coincidence.

Bryan Ferry

Get down with your old Allman Bros. records!

Agnetha Faltskog

When I was 15 I became a full-time singer in a band. At 18 I made my first record.

Chantal Kreviazuk

I listened to my record and hear lots of influences. And it's very rich... it's got a wide spectrum.