Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Hornby

English authors are very content to write for a very small audience, and I think that shows.

David Rakoff

Unless one is planning to go shopping - basically begging to be smothered by the ravening throngs of returners and bargain hunters; an embrace as constricting as that hugging machine designed by autistic author Temple Grandin - then Boxing Day feels like a bar after last call when the lights have been turned up.

Ben Goldacre

Science isn't about authority or white coats; it's about following a method. That method is built on core principles: precision and transparency; being clear about your methods; being honest about your results; and drawing a clear line between the results, on the one hand, and your judgment calls about how those results support a hypothesis.

We count on a combination of user reviews and the author-provided summary and bio to give the browsing customer information to make a decision. But in the future, we want to provide a way for users to preview the books and implement a forum where consumers can query the authors and debate.

Malorie Blackman

Book sales and teens reading is always a fantastic thing, but we should also be celebrating and consuming the huge wealth of U.K. and U.K.-based writing and illustrating talent. Authors such as Charlie Higson, Darren Shan, Holly Smale, Tanya Byrne, Catherine Johnson, Sophie Mckenzie, to name but a few.

Books that are out of print frequently come back in print. A university press or a smaller house may bring it back, or it may come back when the author publishes a new book with a major publisher.

Broad claims of authority and broad claims of illegality are equally suspect.

Best Buy's authority in consumer electronics, our deep product assortments and outstanding store experience continue to make the difference with customers.

Robert A. Heinlein

Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.

Jerry Spinelli

Even including myself, my favorite author is Eileen Spinelli, who I happen to live with. She's a terrific writer and has written several of my all-time favorites.

Benjamin had like a quiet presence, but a presence that gave you a sense of authority and of being in control,

Cory Doctorow

Blogs encourage their authors to publish in small, partially formed chunks,

Arthur Smith

The book may be garbage, but if it weighs in at a kilo or more, I stand before its author in awe.

John Shelby Spong

There is no way that the Fourth Gospel was written by John Zebedee or by any of the disciples of Jesus. The author of this book is not a single individual, but is at least three different writers/editors, who did their layered work over a period of 25 to 30 years.

David Crane

We wanted to create an environment where if a game player enjoyed the 'writing style' of a particular game designer, he or she could look for the next game by that same author and not be disappointed.

Sophie Kinsella

To some extent, all authors are a little schizophrenic. We lead most of our lives in solitary confinement, living and breathing the books that we're writing.

Every Liquor License Authority item, I have to step down.

Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.

Every festival is new, and everyone has gotten better. We've been able to do a better job of connecting students with wonderful authors from all over.

Mark Twain

Conformity-the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority

Arlen Specter

Contrary to press accounts, I did not warn the president about anything and was very respectful of his Constitutional authority on the appointment of federal judges,

In open-source in general, the power lies in connecting the author of the software directly to users, eliminating the middleman.

Pankaj Mishra

As the spiritual leader of six million people, the Dalai Lama can be credited with a significant renunciation of the authority of tradition - of the conventional politics of national self-interest as well as of religion.

Paul Schneider

If I ever stop acting, I'd like to be the author of that decision.

Paul Broun

I think the federal government should be doing only what the Constitution says it should be. We don't have authority under the federal Constitution to have a big federal criminal justice system.

This sounds like the way to go. If there is a new way to extract value from a book, then the author and the publisher should share in this income.

Sathya Baba

Those who have faith in the Veda and its authority can personally experience this.

Adam Smith

We think most publishers and authors will choose to participate in the publisher program in order to introduce their work to countless readers around the world. But we know that not everyone agrees, and we want to do our best to respect their views too. So now, any and all copyright holders . . . can tell us which books they'd prefer that we not scan if we find them in a library.

We had received complaints that the inspector was intimidating Northwest replacement workers, was unprofessional in his conduct and exceeded his authority so we are also investigating those charges.

Marc Rotenberg

We had raised some of the antitrust issues in our complaint, but the FTC's position was that they really did not have antitrust authority in this matter, so they were focusing solely on the privacy and security questions.

We have every expectation that they will seek the permission of the property owner, but by this action, we've authorized them to be able to do that.

Richard Flanagan

What is missed when people talk about books is the moment of grace when the reader creates the book, lends it the authority of their life and soul. The books I love are me, have become me.

What I want from authorities -- from Mr. Nicolas Sarkozy, the prime minister and senior officials -- are words of peace.