Famous Quotes & Sayings

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is neither the best nor the worst things in a book that defy translation.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them.

Friedrich Nietzsche

So far no one had had enough courage and intelligence to reveal me to my dear Germans. My problems are new, my psychological horizon frighteningly comprehensive, my language bold and clear; there may well be no books written in German which are richer in ideas and more independent than mine.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home swiftly out of the rays of some insight that suddenly dawned on him, while another thinker offers us nothing but shadows - images in black and grey of what had built up in his soul the day before.

Jessica Valenti

I certainly wouldn't be writing books if it hadn't been for the feminist blogosphere, and I think that's a really amazing thing.

Jessica Simpson

I am the first person to go to Barnes & Noble and buy the new self-help book. I like to fill out the surveys, then I get my friends' opinions on how I answered to see if I was being honest with myself or not.

Jessica Simpson

Even though I have so many things to figure out, I'm very much at peace. I don't feel like I'm closing the chapter on this phase of life - I feel like I'm closing the book and starting a new one.

Jerry B. Jenkins

I put off writing the first Left Behind book for a year because I got invited to assist Billy Graham in his memoirs, and had we known what we were putting off for a year, we might not have put it off.

Jerry B. Jenkins

Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.

Jerry B. Jenkins

Books that do a tenth of what Left Behind has done are smashing successes.

Jerry Bruckheimer

Sophie [Kinsella]'s writing just captivated me. We bought this eight years ago, before it became an international success and was only one book. Now there's five. So, we were very fortunate to latch onto a character who has since become an international success both as a novel and hopefully now as a movie.

Jerry Bruckheimer

Well, I feel that we're kind of fortunate that this book gives the whole world a lesson in economics and how to get out of the mess that we're all in. It's basic message is to try and stop spending as much and try to release some of your assets to pay off your debt.

Jerry Bruckheimer

We hope that audiences around the world embrace the picture in the same way they have the books and that hopefully Disney will allow us make another one.

Jerry Bruckheimer

I think it's the source material. 27 Dresses was a famous book, and Devil Wears Prada was also a wonderful book, so it's coming out of the novelists who are really creating these wonderful female characters that we want to see on the big screen.

Jerry Coleman

Gaylord Perry and Willie McCovey should know each other like a book. They've been ex-teammates for years now.

Jennifer Armstrong

Why do I write historical fiction? Johnny Tremain, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Island of the Blue Dolphins-that's why. I'll never forget how it felt to read those books. I want to write books with the same power to transport readers into another time and place.

Joe McCarthy

If I have a laptop open in a cafe, I'm less approachable than if I had a book or a newspaper open. I'm not trying to stop that practice. I'm just trying to counterbalance it.

Ashley Smith

I did a book signing Saturday, actually, in Augusta and people were just coming up to me in tears saying, 'Thank you, for what you've done. You've helped me change my life'.

Dave Eggers

I don't think there's a neighborhood where more writers live. There is no neighborhood in the world - and I've looked - with more independent bookstores in such a small area.

Don Piper

I am very honored and humbled to be doing a book signing right here in my own hometown, ... Out of all the book signings I've done, this is one of the ones I'll certainly remember.

Bruce Feiler

'Walking the Bible' describes the year that I spent retracing the five books of Moses through the desert, and I was actually working on a follow-up, which would look at the rest of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament.

Corey Taylor

I have several books I can read over and over. With fiction, it's 'The Stand' by Stephen King, which is my favorite all time. I read that at least once a year, the version which has 100,000 extra words, which is like the director's cut and unabridged. I love the story. I love the social connotation to it.

Melissa Rosenberg

Well, the medium of film is so different than a book that just by bringing it into visual storytelling is to change it up. I think in a book, in any book, you can have a reactive character. Some of the great novels of all time have had that, but in a film you can't do that.

When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and courageous feelings, seek for no other rule to judge the event by; it is good and made by a good workman

Ace Frehley

I've learned a lot of tricks from working with a lot of great producers over the years, and I think I should write a book about it!

Charles Lamb

I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.

Larry King

I've got a nice car. I love my job. I've got a bagel store, and I have breakfast every morning with friends I grew up with. I've been in movies, I've written books - I don't know how that all happened.

Trading here today was very volatile, as it was in New York. It was the last session of the month and quarter, when many companies close their fiscal year books doing corresponding buying or selling.

Maria Shriver

I made the mistake of thinking that external accomplishments would bring me peace. I thought it was about the job or a book or making a name for myself.

Benny Green

We have different personalities, but in a harmonious way, I'd say. Anyway, we were booked to play at the festival as a duo; and we decided we wouldn't have any rehearsal.

Alexander Smith

Books are a finer world within the world. (1863)

Helen Dunmore

Children will not pretend to be enjoying books, and they will not read books because they have been told that these books are good. They are looking for delight.