Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jesmyn Ward

It infuriates me that the work of white American writers can be universal and lay claim to classic texts, while black and female authors are ghetto-ized as 'other.'

William Channing

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the communion with superior minds. In the best books, authors talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books.

William Channing

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the communion with superior minds... In the best books, authors talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books.

Stephen Carter

I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.

Lynn Coady

I think authors like me are always struggling with the idea that they should have a brand and a Facebook author page and they should get Twitter accounts. I don't know what to do with them.

Rebecca Makkai

I did teach elementary school for quite a while, and so I didn't have to reach too far back for the titles and authors that populate the early chapters 'of The Borrower.'

Jonathan Galassi

I deal with the authors I work with, agents, and other departments of the company, talking about both the books that I'm working on and everyone else's. Then there's dealing with foreign publishers: foreigners visit all the time. People want to bounce things off the publisher, and a lot of it is encouragement.

Rebecca Stead

I am hoping to work with writers publishing books for first time, since I of course remember what that experience is like. It's all a bit of a mystery for new authors who don't know what to expect.

Samuel Johnson

Who left nothing of authorship untouched, and touched nothing which he did not adorn. [Lat., Qui nullum fere scribendi genus non tetigit; nullum quod tetigit non ornavit.]

Keke Palmer

I don't wish for anything. Wishing for a million dollars feels greedy. I just wish for the best for me.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

Krispy Kreme claims the 'batter is the best part.' Same with an Obama speech. It's all about what's on the outside, not what's inside.

Katherine Paterson

The best thing about being a writer is it gives you readers who understand your deepest feelings and fears.

Larry Hughes

I was just dealing with it, playing through it, but I knew something was wrong. This was the best time to do it. If it was later in the year, I would've kept playing.

Evgeni Nabokov

Kipper is a confident guy right now back there and, defensively, they're one of the best teams in the league. Their identity is they're not going to score four or five goals, they're going to score two or three, but it's going to be enough to win.

Mike Gansey

Kevin is one of the best all-around players in the conference. He's obviously one of the best shooters and his inside play has improved this season. Kevin is a big part of our team.

Ron Prince

Kevin has expressed an interest in returning to the West Coast to continue his education closer to home. We wish him nothing but the best of luck.

Bill Schneider

Kerry's line is, 'If this is the best we can do, we're in trouble,'

Blaine Boyer

Kent Willis is the best; he taught me how to pitch. He was unbelievable, the best I've ever been around.

Jeff Kinney

Kids and adults have a difference of opinion when it comes to what constitutes legitimate reading. Adults often push books that they loved as children, which, ironically, were often books that their parents weren't particularly keen on.

Stephen Jones

Kid books can get cute and a-d-o-r-a-b-l-e. Garfield says cute rots the intellect. Don't forget the name of the cat! You pick up cats the wrong way and they stop being adorable...they become Scratch.

James Patterson

Kids say the No. 1 reason they don't read more is that they can't find books they like. Freedom of choice is a key to getting them motivated and excited.

Japanese Proverb

Knowledge without wisdom is a load of books on the back an ass

Spike Jonze

Kids are so fiercely opinionated, that if they love the Harry Potter books and they go see the movie, they'll be the first to say, 'That was wrong! They didn't get that right!' They're storytellers themselves. They're critics. They're going to have the critical opinion.

Jan Nash

Just look at the shelves of any bookstore in any airport, and you see how much people love crime and mysteries, how much they love solving puzzles.

Graham Joyce

Our literary culture is marinated in deep traditions of the fantastic and the supernatural, and we export those rich qualities in films and books on a spectacular industrial scale.

Graham Elliot

I have two bookcases that used to be filled with cookbooks, but now it's mostly books about politics and government. I might just give this all up and run for office.

Tony Buzan

I used to think that when I finished a book, I was finished with it. But it's like a wonderful Hydra. Every time a head disappears, more heads appear, so I will be writing for the rest of my life. The more books I write, the more books I find that I still have to write about. I use it like an inspiration, and that's wonderful.

Charles Bowen

The rain it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella, But chiefly on the just, because The unjust steals the just's umbrella

Socrates

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

Bible Bible

All the saints salute you, chiefly they that are of Caesar's household.

John Woolman

We sought out and visited all the Indians hereabouts that we could meet with, in number about twenty. They were chiefly in one place, about a mile from where we lodged.

Sathya Baba

Love must flow not from the tongue or from the head only, but chiefly from the heart.

G. H. Hardy

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in a language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

Neil Strauss

Since I was 18, I've been under orders from magazines and newspapers - chiefly The New York Times and Rolling Stone - to step into the lives of musicians, actors, and artists, and somehow find out who they really are underneath the mask they present to the public. But I didn't always succeed.

William Bartram

First I shall name the eagle, of which there are three species: the great grey eagle is the largest, of great strength and high flight; he chiefly preys on fawns and other young quadrupeds.

George Gilder

This is what sexual liberation chiefly accomplishes - it liberates young women to pursue married men.

Lynsey Addario

I'm not very religious at all - I was raised Catholic, but probably haven't gone to church since my Holy Communion when I was about 6 or 7.

Paul Weller

Music is the most natural thing in the world. When we go to a gig and we all like it and we share that experience, it's the same sense of communion as a sacred rite in Borneo or wherever it may be; it just gets dressed up different. Its good for the soul.

William Wordsworth

Rapt into still communion that transcends/ The imperfect offices of prayer and praise.

Carlton Cuse

When you're a storyteller, part of the process of storytelling is the kind of communion you form with the audience to whom you're telling your story. If some segment of the audience doesn't like that story, it doesn't feel good.

Jones Very

Do we wonder then, that, as this momentary petrifaction of the heart goes on, we are every day more and more strangers in this world of love, holding no communion with the Universal Parent, and hoarding up instead of distributing His general gifts?

Ben Lovett

I can talk openly about my support for the artists on Communion because I'm not promoting myself.

Jean-Bertrand Aristide

Far from home, I am living here, but always in deep communion with my people.

Thomas Hardy

We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.

Blaise Pascal

If we would say that man is too insignificant to deserve communion with God, we must indeed be very great to judge of it.

Li Peng

King Sihanouk is loved and esteemed by the Cambodian people and enjoys high prestige abroad, so respecting the role and influence of King Sihanouk will serve the interests of the Cambodian people,

Greg Beals

I talked to the guys about giving them the game back and getting them into a frame of mind where they're having fun playing. The only way we're going to get the most of ourselves is if we do enjoy playing and learn to enjoy the game again.

Dusty Baker

I talked to him last night and this is the first time he's been in a playoff situation. I just told him to go enjoy it.

Joel Quenneville

I think it's a good opportunity (to rest), but we don't want them doing nothing. We want them to maintain what the conditioning levels are at this stage of the game. But it's a good time to get away from the game a little bit, too, and enjoy your family.

Pat Burrell

I think it comes with getting older. I live downtown, and I like to walk around and do things. I enjoy it.

Sean McManus

I always enjoy watching the machinations of the television sports industry. But I do it with a feeling of relaxation because we have gotten our guys lined up for the next six years. We went through the same process NBC and FOX are still going through, only we did it six months to a year ago.

Dirk Benedict

I ALWAYS enjoy myself. And if I didn't enjoy myself in this experience, I should be locked away for lack of gratitude.

Eric Patterson

He wanted to enjoy the ride back to school with the team.

Damon Hill

He didn't enjoy (Bahrain), it was patently obvious.

Lauren Conrad

I was like, 'Oh, my God! Ashlee Simpson's here!

David Piercy

I was like, gosh, because knowing my luck this would happen. I guess God works in mysterious ways, and we'll see where he takes me.

Bible Bible

Judge me, O Lord; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the Lord; therefore I shall not slide. (Psalms 26:1)

Tomas Kaberle

I talked to Jeff right away between periods. Thank God it got his helmet first.

Maxwell Anderson

He was a god, such as men might be, if men were gods.

Terry Gilliam

He didn't do anything to become president!, ... Well, thank God for Karl and Dick.

Gary Sheffield

I thought I knew there was a God. I always acknowledged that, but at the same time, I didn't live by those laws.

Saint Ambrose

Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's.

Saint Ignatius

What St. Francis and St. Dominic have done, that, by God's grace, I will do.

Ring Lardner

He give her a look that you could of poured on a waffle

Wayne Coyne

I'm pouring my guts out so they can feel like your guts at the same time.

Alexandra Picavet

They'll pour fertilizer right into a stream, then irrigate out of it,

Tony Winnicker

Think of it like a funnel -- you pour too much into it and it'll clog up.

Steve Elkington

It was a romp from the start. We poured it on and poured it on.

Don Bluth

You just can't keep pouring money down an endless hole and never recoup any of it. It's got to be a business.

Edouard Manet

Insults are pouring down on me as thick as hail.

Marcia Gay Harden

Everyone thinks offers are always pouring in. Offers have never poured in. Never. I was auditioning a lot, but I didn't get the jobs.

Dale Carnegie

Every minister, lecturer and public speaker know the discouragement of pouring himself of herself out to an audience and not receiving a single ripple of appreciative comment.

John Gotti

I ain't seen her in seven years, but she's a doll, a precious little kid.

Rob Sheffield

Celebrity despicability is a precious thing.

William Gilmore Simms

What we call vice in our neighbor may be nothing less than a crude virtue. To him who knows nothing more of precious stones than he can learn from a daily contemplation of his breastpin, a diamond in the mine must be a very uncompromising sort of stone.

Deepak Chopra

I stick them in my wallet. They're more precious than the money.

Mark Twain

Genius, like gold and precious stones, is chiefly prized because of its rarity.

Judith Martin

It is wrong to wear diamonds before luncheon, except on one’s marriage rings. Before, after, and during breakfast, luncheon and dinner, it is vulgar to wear a mixture of colored precious stones. It is always a comfort to know that so many things one can’t afford to do anyway are vulgar.

Herodotus

Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.

David Duval

Confidence is such a fragile and precious thing.

Denis Waitley

Time is the most precious element of human existence.

Baltasar Gracian

Superiority is always detested.

Scott Faieta

I talked with the contractor, who is still optimistic.

Mario Theissen

I talked to him (Ralf) on Friday, he was very positive, he wants to get back in the car.

Curtis Martin

I talked to him a lot. I showed him around. I showed him where he would probably want to live. I told him he could have my place if he wanted it. I told him I'd do whatever it took to get him here.

Ginalyn Ofamin

I talked to her yesterday, and she is doing better.

Tom Oswald

I talked to her about things like how to take notes. We weren't flirting, though. At the time, I didn't know she was going through a divorce.

William Farmer

I think it'll be ok; I think by the end of this year, we won't be talking about PeopleSoft at all.

Beth Combs

It can't be about wins and losses. We've talked about it's not where you start, it's where you finish.

Willie Randolph

He wants to be the best. We've talked a lot about his approach.

Larry Rothschild

He didn't talk me into it. We'll go at least one more time with what we're doing.