Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ron Chernow

If you go back to the time of J.P. Morgan, the world of high finance was completely wholesale. The prestigious investment banks on Wall Street appealed exclusively to large corporations, governments, and to extremely wealthy individuals.

Gertrude Stein

In the United States there is more space where nobody is is than where anybody is.

Sam Levenson

Insanity is hereditary; you can get it from your children.

Kevin Williamson

I just try to write what I want to see. I tried to do that with 'Scream' and with 'Summer.' I just try to tell a compelling story.

Dan Simmons

I really appreciated his theme of life evolving from one race of gods to another, with one power having to give way to another, as Hyperion must.

Kurt Vonnegut

Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.

Dick Bruna

Before he went to sleep, I told him a little story about a rabbit we saw run around the beach house we rented.

Beverly Cleary

Children want to do what the grownups do. Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.

Tavis Smiley

I'm trying to get to a point here of how much progress we've made in this business. Were you able to find that diverse crew that you wanted?

I'm a simple man. All I want is enough sleep for two normal men, enough whiskey for three, and enough women for four.

Marguerite Young

I had a book, which was stolen, the art of the life of the character, in which you present a whole life in three of four pages. I used that method.

Clarence Day

If you don't go to other men funerals they won't go to yours.

William Greider

If US per capita income continues to grow at a rate of 1.5 percent a year, the country will have plenty of money to finance comfortable retirements and high-quality healthcare for all citizens, including those at the bottom of the wage ladder.

Rose Kennedy

If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Bruce Barton

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Nora Roberts

I'll usually work until about four or five - take a short break mid day to run through the email that's come in or read and post on the boards.

Robert McCloskey

I lived with them in my studio in New York. And of course if I were doing that book today or even ten years, fifteen years later, I would have gone to where the wild ducks were and where I could study them - I would have gone to the country somewhere.

Harry Mathews

I have to say my initial attraction to France, which happened on my first visit when I was a student at eighteen, was inexplicable.

Sara Paretsky

I had spent a summer in Chicago doing community service work and loved the city, so when I finished my undergraduate degree I moved there permanently.

I had an opportunity to meet some members of the public, which I have been doing in Rangoon, too. It was very educational for me.

Beverly Cleary

I'm very surprised at the high number of boys who have written to say that reading my books was hard work but worth it. I have many loyal boy readers.

Jack Vance

I never made lots of money at it, but I sold enough.

Ted Nelson

I never saw a computer during that course, I merely looked at the catalogues and the magazines and here was a picture showing a map on a screen.

Michael Chabon

I like giving readers an opportunity to get a hold of me in that way and to read things I've written which might disappear otherwise.

Tavis Smiley

I'm delighted. I don't know if he is, but I'm delighted to welcome him back to the show, this time here in person in our studios in L.A.

Henry David Thoreau

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

Henry David Thoreau

The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.

William Greider

The far more threatening problem is elsewhere - shrinking pensions, collapsed personal savings and soaring costs for health insurance.

Each of my characters comes from somewhere, and where they come from, good or bad, has a large part in forming who they are, and who they can become.

Paul Auster

The book is your book. You have been responsible for every single thing on every page, every comma, every syllable is your work.

Robert Asprin

The basic story for the opener is that word came through the bar that someone got knifed and killed up on the Moon Walk. It turns out to be one of the quarter regulars that everybody knows, including Maestro and Bone.

Helen Keller

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

Peter Sellers

There used to be a me behind the mask, but I had it surgically removed.