Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Francis

I read a lot of books by well-informed authors.

Danni Ashe

I picked up some software and some books and got online, ... and there were all these Danni Ashe pictures all over the newsgroup. I started striking up conversations with people, saying, 'Hey, you know, hi, I'm Danni. Where'd you get that picture?'

Stuart Smith

I picked up an idea to sell receipt books to doctors and lawyers.

Because most of the schools used the same books, it was readily available. In college, they do books on demand, which could take up to six months or more.

Because making movies is such an expensive endeavor, other media such as books and comics have long been a more feasible way to experiment with truly new ideas.

High oil prices are kind of benefiting Singapore in a way. We're seeing some increase in the order books of all these companies, the oil rig manufacturers.

His first line of business will be to take possession of the books and records of the cemetery, and hopefully reopen the cemetery,

He wrote 16 books and most of them are not about flying and the military.

cannot be erased by children's books or misplaced celebrity.

Alice McDermott

I'm writing all the time. I tend to work on at least two books simultaneously. I'll spend time with one, and then I'll spend time with the other. Finishing takes whatever time it takes.

I never find books that interest me, something that doesn't take a long time to get into.

John Corey Whaley

I'm beyond thrilled to be working with Faber, whose literary history is second to none. And I'm even more excited to bring my books to a wider audience in the U.K.

Jose Gonzalez

I'm a very slow reader - I read maybe three or four books a year - so I listen to podcasts and the occasional audiobook, and I watch TED talks.

Priscilla Presley

I'm a very shy person. My daughter and I don't do a lot of interviews, but we felt there was a whole new generation of people who were discovering Elvis and his music. There are many books and stories that have been written about him, but there are still so many questions that needed to be answered, so we figured it was time to tell our story. We are sharing some very intimate and personal things, but I really wanted to show the definitive Elvis, warts and all.

Jon Favreau

I'm a very lazy person by nature. I have to be really engaged, and then I go straight from lazy to obsessive. I couldn't study chemistry, but I could memorize all the books for Dungeons and Dragons. It was ridiculous. The trick is to find what I like to do.

Cassie Scerbo

I'm a total Twihard. I read all the books and saw every movie on opening night with my mom.

Jacqueline Wilson

I particularly like the fact that there is no set list of books. Whatever books children choose counts towards their tally for rewards. It's all about reading for pleasure.

I recommend tidying by category, not by place. For example, instead of deciding that today you'll tidy a particular room, set goals such as 'clothes today, books tomorrow.'

I recommend they use both shoulder straps, ... I also recommend that parents get a second set of books -- one for home and one for school, so they're not carrying them back and forth.

John Corey Whaley

I remember, for the first time, sitting down and consuming books in a matter of hours. This was such a new experience for me because reading, up until that point, had been such a struggle and source of stress. I think I just needed to find the right kind of stories with which I could identify.

I remember being a kid and reading all the dog books I could come across, both fiction and nonfiction.

Suzan-Lori Parks

I love my lecture tours. I get up onstage. I have my stack of books and a glass of water and a microphone. No podium, no distance between me and the audience, and I just talk to people and get all excited and tell a lot of jokes, and sing some songs, and read from my work and remind people how powerful they are and how beautiful they are.

Chuck Hogan

I love my Kindle, but there are many books that I need to physically own. I think having the choice makes all the difference. Instant gratification - buying a book digitally and owning it sixty seconds later - really is a revolutionary act.

I love picture books - with picture books, you can use words and pictures as a double act, even tell two different versions of a story at the same time.

Darren Shan

I'll never forget a meeting with one publisher where they said, 'We don't publish books for teenage boys; teenage boys don't read.'

I live in north Kenner and everything in the house flooded, ... All her books flooded, school shoes flooded, everything. Should we just show up for the first day of school?

I know at my church a lot of the times we sung from hymn books and as we got older we started to change with time. I can honestly say that I was never influenced to write for the church.

Jean Craighead George

I hope my books empower kids, and that they learn how to work out their problems themselves.

Robertson Davies

I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed - and one of them hadn't even been colored in yet.

Jojo Moyes

I have read books that are so cliched and lazy, my eyes have bled. But I also have read books marketed under the chick-lit umbrella that are so honest, clever and gritty that I've wanted to give up writing and paint walls instead.

Jeffery Deaver

I have to say that there are certain books that exist to tell a particular story and then there are books that exist in the context of character.

I have to tell you, I'm a happy man. I've lived the life I wanted to live. I've written the books I wanted to write. No publisher has ever even suggested that I change so much as a phrase - commas and periods, yes - and I suspect that I have a lot of serious readers; in fact, I know.

I really lost this tournament on day three. I had several fish pull off Friday, and any one of those would have been a $200,000 fish. That's easy to say in hindsight, but going down in the record books for the heaviest one-day weight in history is truly amazing.