Famous Quotes & Sayings

Conan O'Brien

Texas Senator Ted Cruz said if elected president he would abolish the Department of Education. But not to worry. He promised to replace it with the less expensive Bureau of Book Learning.

Conan O'Brien

A comic book publisher says he's trying to increase voter turnout in the presidential election by publishing comic books about John McCain and Barack Obama. Yeah, the publisher said that the election comic books are targeted at first-time voters and long-time virgins.

E. W. Howe

When I get hold of a book I particularly admire, I am so enthusiastic that I loan it to someone who never brings it back.

Dwight Yoakam

I hope that books don't go the way of albums and CD, large format albums, and physical product.

Coventry Patmore

Books are influential in proportion to their obscurity, provided that the obscurity be that of inexpressible Realities. The Bible is the most obscure book in the world. He must be a great fool who thinks he understands the plainest chapter of it.

Courtney Love

These are my wakeup cupcakes, some anti-depressants, and a cell phone book

Colin Morgan

I think there seems to be a need for escapism at the moment. maybe that's the type of world we're living in. it's a sanctuary, in a way, where you can immerse yourself in something that doesn't exist, whether that's tv shows or comic books or novels. it's not solely down to magic and vampires - that's in at the moment. but escapism, being a part of other worlds, is very good for you.

Colin Meloy

I was in school for literature, and read so many 19th century and early 20th century novels that it was hard to break out of that and read an average Jeanette Winterson book or something.

Colin Mochrie

I was a bookworm. Every week I'd go to the library and get seven books. Remember libraries? I wonder if people still go. And I learned about everything from the library. I came from a Scottish family. Old school.

Colin Quinn

A weird sort of awareness set in, like, 'Wow. My stand-up isn't just separate from everything else I do anymore.' With Twitter and Face book, everything is universal that everything everybody says gets seen.

George R. R. Martin

Sleep is good, he said, And books are better.

Carol P. Christ

In my book I specifically discussed the structural nature of injustice and offered Nine Touchstones of Goddess ethics as an alternative to the Ten Commandments of Biblical religion.

Buzz Osborne

I can't go into Oklahoma without thinking about Larry Clark's photography book 'Tulsa.' It's a great book about how life works.

Ariel Pink

Do you know I used to pride myself on the fact that I'd never booked a show in my life, but that I'd played so many because I'd been invited?

This series captured Austen's interest in showing the feelings of desire between Elizabeth and Darcy. The director managed to communicate that this is a book about what constitutes a good marriage, and that is love.

Iqbal Sacranie

There is no resolution of the problem as long as this very abusive and profane book is in publication and circulation.

Ezra Pound

There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and forty-eight.

The phone system has been going nonstop, and I'm waiting for the initial online report. Some of our cabins may be booked solid by the end of the day.

Jack Donovan

There are already a lot of regulations in the books that I think are already pretty good. I don't think you necessarily have to go to the reinvention of that wheel.

John Brady

When you have seasons like we're having, you have to win a couple of games like that. You don't win them all by the book, and this one wasn't certainly by the book that we would've liked. It certainly goes down in the record book as a win. That's the important thing.

Asa Butterfield

When you have a book as material as it is, it's a lot easier to create a character because you have so many resources to draw upon when acting.

When you go to get credit, they often look to see if you have a phone number in your name. If you don't, even if you are listed in the phone book at that number, it can be problematic.

Charlie Trotter

We said, 'We've got to write his book for him,'

We think you should be able to search through every word of every book ever written, and come away with a list of relevant books to buy or find at your local library,

Jeff Bezos

We think this is a big deal, ... If we can bring the world of books to customers, wherever they happen to be, that's a worthwhile thing to work on.

Ricky Gervais

Why by a book when you can join a library.

To be in the history books of anything is fantastic,

Orson Scott Card

Ender's Game is set more than a century in the future and has nothing to do with political issues that did not exist when the book was written in 1984... It will be interesting to see whether the victorious proponents of gay marriage will show tolerance toward those who disagreed with them when the issue was still in dispute.

Orson Scott Card

Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write their names in the lives of others, and hold the hearts of others as the treasure most dear.

Paul Simon

I have my books and my poetry to protect me

Paul Simon

I have my books And my poetry to protect me; I am shielded in my armor, Hiding in my room, safe within my womb. I touch no one and no one touches me. I am a rock, I am an island.

Robert Morgan

The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged.

Robert Morgan

In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out.