Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mats Sundin

It definitely deserves something. That shot goes into the history books.

I think knowing that the image will go down in the history books is the greatest prize.

You can have a great law, but if public officials don't want to comply, you're not going to get access. You have the law on the books and the reality on the ground, and sometimes they're not the same thing.

Heinrich Heine

Wherever they burn books they will also end up burning people.

Hillary Clinton

When I traveled as secretary of state, I was deluged with thick briefing books full of information about the politics, economy, and culture of each destination, so those took up most of my reading time.

We published six books in our first year, we're publishing nine this year, and we're scheduled to publish 12 in 2006,

Chris Riddell

Go out and find a copy of 'The Shrinking Of Treehorn' and its sequel, 'Treehorn's Treasure.' Written by Florence Parry Heide and illustrated by the great Edward Gorey, master of the gothic and the macabre, these books are small masterpieces.

Mark Twain

Great books are weighed and measured by their style and matter and not by the trimmings and shadings of their grammer

For that purpose alone, we need to find out what's on the books and see what kind of input the public has for this.

For someone who does as many things as he does -- edits, writes columns, writes books, lectures -- he is calm and very relaxed with a great wry sense of humor about things.

David Allen

If I don't know how a title will sell, I do a small run and scale up quickly if demand appears. Because I can now print as few as 100 books and turn a small profit I tend to keep all my titles in print.

If ever I were to read a comic book, it might be this one.

Bruce Feiler

I definitely subscribe to the idea that 9/11, to use an overused phrase, was a wake-up call. There was a year-long national teach-in on Islam - everyone read books and suddenly talked about Islam, and that was very productive. But there's no doubt that moment has passed.

Iris Chang

I certainly didn't have a three-book plan or a 10-year plan when I worked on the first book.

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.

Michael Chabon

I do think his books would reward reading by people who think they don't like fantasy.

Julia Glass

I don't see how you can write well if you're not reading well at the same time. I think the only risk is reading too many books of one 'type' in a row.

I am no expert on tax; I'm a film producer. I read books and think about which ones would make good movies, and then I work with directors in order to make them.

Will Shortz

I don't think these books will stay on the best-seller list forever, but I think this puzzle is here to stay like the crossword.

I don't think the magic will wear off. This is a real classic that has all the ingredients as a C.S. Lewis or Roald Dahl that sells as many books as they did 50 years ago,

Peter Davison

However, in 1950 there might have been 150 books of poetry published in a year. In 1997, there are probably about 1,500.

Nick Hornby

I came away with the idea that I'd like to write books the way people write screenplays. I think I'm not going to let another line go through unexamined.

Avi

I don't like the idea of a book being a test or being used for a test. The way - in my opinion - to make good readers is to let kids choose their own books and not test them.

Salman Rushdie

I don't like books that seem to want to teach me things. Which is not to say that one doesn't learn from books - but you do your own learning in your own way.

Stan Lee

Comic books would probably be the last thing on the list of what we'll do at this point. But wherever a comic book is warranted, we're more than capable of doing them.

Marie Lu

I remember my favorite books when I was a kid: 'The Redwall Adventure' series, 'Ender's Game,' things like that.

John Searles

People are often surprised that I am so upbeat. I'm always hearing, 'You're so light and funny, and your books are so dark and twisted.' There's a dichotomy. I like books that are dark and creepy. I don't control it - it's just what I gravitate toward.

Our hope is to somehow take King off the pages of history books and somehow bring him to life in a way that people will find compelling.

Paul Davis

Our scouting reports are longer than some of the books I have to read in school.

Our first store, in 1990, was in the shopping center where the movie theater is now. We bought selected books from a bookseller in DeLand and we had already developed a good business core in the selling and trading side of the business.

Our training for Melbourne depends so much on the documents and the training log books, so please return it.

Francis Bacon

Out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of books, and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time

Jon Lewis

Our writing process is different. We storyboard it first. We're so visual, and we didn't want to lose that. We want our books to be very cinematic. We want to create awe-inspiring sequences.