Famous Quotes & Sayings

I am delighted that I can do my part to put quality books to the shelves of our local school libraries, ... Often times, school libraries are not provided with enough funding to renew book selections, so the Library of Congress program provides a real boost for these libraries, and helpes keep kids interested in reading.

David Drake

He will be intensely involved in the book writing process.

Benjamin Franklin

He that can compose himself, is wiser than he that composes books

He has always completely opened up his books to the government. He unequivocally maintains his innocence.

Greyhound has a terrific safety record. The union insists that drivers who are fatigued have a right to book off. And the company has a policy: If a driver says he or she is fatigued, then Greyhound doesn't use them.

He himself ought to make a statement and come to the forefront and talk to you in person or with any of the media and say here's our books, they're open, they're on the table. You guys can peruse the books and examine them for whatever you think there is there. There's nothing to hide. Here they are.

James Atlas

He himself has said you can follow the patterns and real events in his life by reading his books, which doesn't mean you can figure out his life by reading his books. Simply that the events in his life are the starting points for the books that he writes. But that's just the beginning.

He has the idea on the shakiest of evidence that there is a man on the other side of the state who's his father, ... And this book tells about his journey to find this man, and find out who he is, try to find his place in the world.

Rose Macaulay

He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays -- cynical but hopeful.

He gave me a book and said he was going to give me a quiz on the first 24 pages,

Jane Asher

Having done lifestyle books and being an actress, I suppose it made sense to bring the two together. I think that's what happened.

Fran Lebowitz

Having been unpopular in high school is not a just cause for book publication

He made investing make sense, ... His books are as good a read as you can find on investing.

John Chaney

He managed a lot of big plantations before he worked for us. As for turkey hunting, he lives it. He could write books about it.

Siri Hustvedt

Henry Miller is a famous writer whose work has fallen out of fashion, but I strongly recommend that readers who don't know his work pick up a book and experience this writer's zealous, crazy, inventive, funny, sexy, often delirious prose.

Robert Hall

He might be a very clever man by nature for aught I know, but he laid so many books upon his head that his brains could not move

Robert Cormier

He was intrigued by the power of words, not the literary words that filled the books in the library but the sharp, staccato words that went into the writing of news stories. Words that went for the jugular. Active verbs that danced and raced on the page.

Robert Cormier

I have lived a thousand lives lost within the pages of a book.

Robert Cormier

There are no taboos. Every topic is open, however shocking. It is the way that the topics are handled that's important, and that applies whether it is a 15-year-old who is reading your book or someone who is 55.

Robert Crais

My books come to me in images, and sometimes the image is at the beginning of the book, and sometimes it's simply a flash somewhere in the middle.

Robert Crais

I love the fact that you collaborate with your readers when you write a book.

Robbie Coltraine

I knew it was going to be enormous because of the number of people who bought the books, but, to be honest, I never thought it would be bigger than Bond. Never in a million years.

Rob Reiner

Whether it's films or painting or music or writing a book, the greatest experience is being able to express yourself and what you've gone through, trying to figure out a way to make it into something that's artistic that people can connect with.

Rob Brown

I know Im not going to book everything I go in on, and thats just the nature of the business. You have to keep hustling and not get down on it. You have to keep at it and find your way in. Everybodys story is different.

Richard Paul Evans

I am a believer in angels, though not the picture-book kind with wings and harps. Such angelic accoutrements seem as nonsensical to me as devils sporting horns and carrying pitchforks. To me, angel wings are merely symbolic of their role as divine messengers.

Richard Paul Evans

Rarely do we invest the time to open the book of another's life. When we do, we are usually surprised to find its cover so misleading and its reviews so flawed.

Richard Paul Evans

Books are the most tolerant of friends.

Richard Paul Evans

People are like books, unknown until they are opened.

Richard Paul Evans

People are looking for inspiration, and my books are sometimes the vehicles of what people are looking for.

Richard Paul Evans

There are far too many people for us to think about each of them during our short stay on earth—like the thousands of books in a library we haven’t time to read in an afternoon. But this is no excuse to cease browsing. For every now and then, we find that one book that reaches us deep inside and introduces us to ourselves. And, in someone else’s story, we come to understand our own.

Richard P. Feynman

The Quantum Universe has a quotation from me in every chapter - but it's a damn good book anyway.

Richard P. Feynman

(Joan,1941) She wrote me a letter asking,"How can I read it?,Its so hard." I told her to start at the beginning and read as far as you can get until you're lost. Then start again at the beginning and keep working through until you can understand the whole book. And thats what she did

Richard P. Feynman

Everybody who reasons carefully about anything is making a contribution ... and if you abstract it away and send it to the Department of Mathematics they put it in books.