Famous Quotes & Sayings

The last chapter hasn't been written in this book.

The intent of Sarbanes-Oxley was to serve the shareholders, to ensure whatever books and records a public company keeps are transparent.

The message of the case is straightforward: Cooking the books is a recipe for disaster.

Their initial reaction was, 'You should burn that book. You should bury it. The last thing you want to do is a documentary about it,

Michael Cunningham

As any student of literature knows, the books that last are often not the books that are most popular when they are written. Both 'Moby Dick' and 'The Great Gatsby' were complete failures, critically and commercially, when they first appeared.

John Bradshaw

Many self-help books give you these neat, tidy formulas that are really illusions. They dupe people into thinking, 'Well if I can just do that, then everything's going to be okay.' My work differs in that I don't offer quick solutions and simple explanations.

Chuck Palahniuk

I think it's more important to write something that brings men back to reading than it is to write for people who already read. There's a reason men don't read, and it's because books don't serve men. It's time we produce books that serve men.

Charles Spurgeon

There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.

Lisa Randall

If you look through the shelves of science books, you'll find row after row of books written by men. This can be terribly off-putting for women.

Michael Lewis

There are enough books in the world. You want to write the ones that are good. The minute you write books because you need the income not because you think you have a good subject, you should just stop. There are sixty thousand books published in this country every year, and most of them are crap.

Study from new books but from old teachers

Ashleigh Brilliant

Some books makes me want to go adventuring, others feel that they have saved me the trouble

Francis Bacon

Some books are to be tasted; others swallowed; and some to be chewed and digested.

Flann O'Brien

Some savage faculty for observation told him that most respectable and estimable people usually had a lot of books in their houses.

Some read books only with a view to find fault, while others read only to be taught; the former are like venomous spiders, extracting a poisonous quality, where the latter, like the bees, sip out a sweet and profitable juice

James Laughlin

Once we've taken on somebody we generally try to stick with them for at least two or three books to see if they will develop, if they will grow.

Bernie Siegel

I decided to become a surgeon named Bernie who writes books and gives seminars to teach people what he has learned and is still learning about how to deal with life's difficulties.

Barry McGee

I read in a weird way. It comes in waves, and then I start, like, five different books at once. It takes me six months to a year to finish them all, since I read mostly on planes.

Gustave Flaubert

Books are made not like children but like pyramids and they're just as useless! And they stay in the desert! Jackals piss at their foot and the bourgeois climb up on them.

Books . . . are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time

Charles Lamb

Borrowers of books --those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.

Sarah Rees Brennan

Books written by boys are given very different treatment to those written by girls: they're even given very different covers. People also expect, in this YA-booming world, girls to be less experimental than boys: girls are achieving a lot of success, but they're confined.

Philip Pullman

Books which satisfy us and feed us and nourish us have to have this substratum of genuine truth in them, ... And I don't see much of that in most fantasy.

Bookstores see a book by a woman and they put it in the romance section. I write mainstream fiction about women.

Rosecrans Baldwin

Bookstores don't exactly dot the American highway in the grand manner of Sbarros.

Abraham Lincoln

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men and women

Books last a really long time if you take care of them.

Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West.

William Godwin

Books have been handed down from generation to generation, as the true teachers of piety and the love of God, that represent him as so merciless and tyrannical a despot, that, if they were considered otherwise than through the medium of prejudice, they could inspire nothing but hatred. It seems that the impression we derive from a book, depends much less on its real contents, than upon the temper of mind and preparation with which we read it.

George Crabbe

Books cannot always please, however good;/ Minds are not ever craving for their food.

Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which othermen have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.