Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lisa Jackson

I hate that bookstores are closing. Hate it! What's better than hanging out a bookstore, be it independent or chain, and talking books with people who love books?

Jennifer Egan

When I was little, I wanted to be a doctor. I was really interested in gore. My grandfather was an orthopedic surgeon and he had a lot of books in his library that I would just pore over. A lot of them had really horrible pictures of deformities.

We'll be here selling books and, if you support us, we'll be here for another 50 years.

As a writer of both novels and screenplays, I can say that screenwriting is a vastly rewarding creative life - if you fight hard enough to do it on your own terms. Whether I write books or not, my screenwriting life has been creatively rewarding and remains so.

As a librarian, I have seen a lot of books checked out of the library that I didn't think were very good, but people came back to return those same books and said that the book changed their lives.

Stephen Chow

As many people have pointed out, the scene in 'Kung Fu Hustle' where the Landlady was chasing after me resembled the Roadrunner, ... I loved to watch cartoons and read comic books when I was small. In fact, I still watch and read a lot of them now. They give me great ideas.

People call each other when they see new books on the shelves. New books are usually checked out in two days, DVDs in (only) hours.

No relevant data which support hypotheses, laws, models and theories could be found in the papers and books by proponents of intelligent design, only unsubstantiated assumptions. Therefore, it can justifiably be viewed as pseudoscience.

Richard Curtis

Again, we turn down most books that have been self-published unless they have a special track record. We have taken a small number on, however, and sold them to major publishers for a nice sum. But that is an exception to the rule.

Chipper Jones

Any win is important nowadays. Obviously, Philly has been playing well and their score was posted on the scoreboard before we started. They lost and we knew we had a golden opportunity to gain a game. We went out and did it. So it's two more off the magic number, whatever it is. It's probably 100. But nonetheless, it's another day in the books and we gained a game.

The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television.

The Singapore books are good enough, so that when you've been in them a while, you can learn this.

Mariella Frostrup

The sight of parents, children and grandparents all descending on a tented field to enjoy the pleasure of ideas and books renews my faith in humanity.

I've always wanted to eat surrounded by my 'old friends' - books that I've read.

Karin Slaughter

I've always been interested in violence, even as a teenager. I loved 'Helter Skelter' and books like that.

Lisa Loeb

I want children to be glued to interactive books that encourage singing and dancing. I feel when kids work together it brings about a different energy.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

The movies I watch and the music I listen to and the books I read - those are important to me. It's very important to me, and I don't know what I would do without those things.

Samuel Butler

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.

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.

Now I am reading books for the blind.

Mary Randolph

Sometimes it was September or October before we would get the books.

Diego Forlan

Russian literature has a sinister streak, and I think that influence is very evident on this record. I was indulging myself with these books while I was coming up with ideas. Those books are so dark and real and not glam at all.

Christopher Dodd

Rumsfeld is violating the law, ... It's been sitting on the books for over a year. They were opposed to it. It was insulting to them. I'm sorry that's how they felt.

Schools that do not currently meet this standard will be spending more dollars on items like classroom computers and technology, science lab equipment, books and instructional materials or even higher teacher salaries.

James Patterson

Schools and parents can team up to find books that kids will really get excited about - that will make them say, 'That was a great experience. Now I know why people get excited about reading.'

Scholarships are imperative for today's students in higher education. A $1,000 scholarship pays for tuition and books for one student for one semester.

Jane Austen

. . . provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.

Graham Greene

Perhaps it is only in childhood that books have any deep influence on our lives.