Famous Quotes & Sayings

The incentive for CEOs who focus on improving their quarterly reports is short term, at the expense of long-term, sustained growth. And so you see things, as we have seen in recent years, where CEOs are more willing to play with the books or make acquisitions that look good in the interim but may detract from the long-term mission.

Horace Mann

A house without books is like room without windows

Christopher Paolini

a great compliment, but I don't write books like hers.

You will be the same person in five as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read.

Gene Nelson

The libraries of old -- passive organizations that just sat around waiting for people to come in and take the books off the shelves -- those days are over, ... We have competition out there.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

The initial research will be very indiscriminate. I do a lot of reading, buy a stack of books and read and digest them, and then I start doing phone interviews and archival research and then the travelling.

Glenn Miller

The trouble is discernment. How do you know what's reliable and real and what's not? And who can help teach you that? That's one of the roles librarians have faced and embraced. Before, it was discernment about books in collections. Now, it's online databases and resources.

Mark Millar

These are pretty much the most critically-acclaimed books I've ever written and the sales have been literally twice what we were all expecting.

These are laws on the books that are effective and that are enforceable.

These are both excellent books for developing systems in your home and office, with many resources to help you manage your time.

Robert Hunter

And nobody ever picked up on it, and, of course, they wouldn't, So maybe these books do serve some purpose.

The Gainesville Chamber of Commerce organized a drive to collect books to be donated to the Gainesville Victory ship. Two hundred books were collected.

The fourth graders raised more than $3,500 that was earmarked to purchase books for the Bay-Waveland School District. We want to raise more money to purchase the remaining books that are needed.

Paul Auster

The funny thing is, as a young person I was trying to write prose, and I wrote a lot of it, but I was never satisfied with the results. Two of the novels I wound up finishing and publishing later I started very early on, in my early 20's, In The Country Of Last Things and Moon Palace. Both of those books I worked a great deal on but never quite got a grip on either one.

These guys can look at our books just as we can look at their books.

Jan Karon

This is a gift that God has given me. I'm not smart enough to write for everybody, but it's the love in these books that comes from Him and goes out to my reading audience. I'm forever grateful for that. It's a privilege.

John Banville

This is a great surprise and a great pleasure. Any one of these books could have won. To my colleagues I say just hang around and it will come. I have hung around for many years.

All false: I like gambling, the system was not cheating, and it was simple. But you're getting my side of the story here. It's my book; let those guys write their own books if they like. ... The cheaters stacked the deck, but cheaters are always the easiest people to beat.

Tom Lehrer

All books can be indecent books, though recent books are bolder.For filth, I'm glad to say, is in the mind of the beholder. When correctly viewed, everything is lewd. I could tell you things about Peter Pan,And the Wizard of OZ, there's a dirty old man!

David Weinberger

Because books are written by individuals, it has often made knowledge seem like the product of individuals, even though everybody has always understood that individuals are working within the social network.

We are constantly checking our circulation system database which tells us who the books are issued to and whether they were returned late or damaged.

Thomas Cahill

Every one of these books is going to have one really big surprise in it to make people say, 'I didn't realize that,'

J. M. Coetzee

Everyone seems to see bleakness and despair in my books. I don't read them that way. I see myself as writing comic books, books about ordinary people trying to live ordinary, dull, happy lives while the world is falling to pieces around them.

Oscar Wilde

The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.

Eleanor Catton

The books that really made an impact on me were not set in New Zealand. Some were New Zealand novels, but the New Zealandness of them was not what carried me or excited me.

Theodore Parker

The books that help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

The books are not a straight line to the corner office. But they're going to help you figure out where you want to go.

Rebecca Stead

There's this trouble with books for me because I'm terrible at thinking of titles. The truth is, even with the titles that I've landed on in the end, they always feel wrong. I think it's because of this whole problem of having to package your book in a certain way.

Richard Lewis

The retailers are trying to gain market share by offering good value on their books and they want people to receive a brand image about their shop too,

I want to illustrate children's books and write them. It's very difficult to get into, it's very competitive. I really haven't spent much time doing it, maybe two to three years.

Jim Lee

Once I started down the path of co-founding Image Comics, and even co-publisher, it just seems a lot more like a career path that isn't that atypical for someone with a college degree. Whereas, someone who draws comic books as a freelancer and lives from job to job is a more unusual story.

Adam Smith

Any and all copyright holders ... can tell us which books they'd prefer that we not scan if we find them in a library.

Oprah Winfrey

It's been a secret dream of mine to be part of Broadway, ... I hope to be able to do for this production some of what I've been able to do for books - that is, to open the door to the possibilities for a world of people who have never been or even thought of going to a Broadway show.