Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lauren Bacall

I'm a fan. My grandchildren are fans. I wish I'd written the books.

Mallory Ortberg

I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more secular, and I love reading books by just really smart people of religious faith. It's always a really cool perspective.

Mary Pope Osborne

I love reading all kinds of books. I usually have about ten books going at any one time - books about the past, the present, novels, non-fiction, poetry, mythology, religion, etc. Reading is my favorite thing to do.

Johnny Damon

I know all of us enjoyed it. There were tons of books and DVDs that made it seem it was easy to accomplish. It wasn't.

Johnny Damon

I know all of us enjoyed it, ... There were tons of books and DVDs that made it seem it was easy to accomplish. It wasn't.

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

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.

Pharrell Williams

I like to browse and just hang in bookstores.

Raina Telgemeier

All of the narration in 'Smile' is first-person. Most of the books that I grew up reading had first-person narrators for some reason. My diaries were written in this voice, and since this story is autobiographical, it just felt like a natural extension.

All the figures show that film-makers and publishers go for the safe option. You go for the safest bottom line and as long as Dahl is selling a lot of books you can't go wrong.

Anatole France

All the historical books which contain no lies are extremely tedious

Mandy Patinkin

And all of those things: my religion, my politics, my family, my friends, the books I read, everywhere I travel - that influences everything I do.

Josh Hutcherson

'The Hunger Games' for me is I love the books so much and the character and the story were incredible. That's kind of the game plan is just do really interesting stories with interesting characters.

Albert Einstein

The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It doe

Simon Schama

The Elephantine papyri - written as some of the books of the Bible are being written - is true social and legal documentation, and to historians overwhelmingly powerful and moving, even when ostensibly about trivial things.

Chuck D.

The guides have been combined. They are now one book.

The growth reflects how easy it has become to sell used books and to create inventory in this business.

The great thing is that a lot of their hikes aren't even written up in books, so by going on their hikes you can learn ones that you wouldn't have any other way of knowing about.

The great thing about travel books is that they are written with a voice, but sometimes it's hard to deliver that voice with real personality. With travel advice, you want to feel like you're getting it from a good friend. You know, the inside scoop.

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.

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!

The idea is to keep as many planes as we can in our books.

The independent bookstores that are left have learned how to compete in this marketplace. There are fewer bookstores now, but the ones that are left are not only a good place to buy books, but they are also well-run businesses.

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.

The district then could say 'No' if it reviewed the material and it determined they (the coloring books) were not appropriate.