Famous Quotes & Sayings

Xavier Chambon

We want to put books in everyone's hands.

Ron Cooper

We have no problem with the audit. Our books are open to everyone.

James Patterson

The fact is that our kids aren't reading books - or frankly, much of anything lately. Schools are under funded, some schools even closing their libraries. Parents have to realize that it's their job, and not the school's job, to get kids into the habit of reading for fun.

Rene Descartes

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.

Joseph Annotti

There is case after case on the books that have upheld the validity of flood exclusion language, exactly the language Mr. Scruggs is contesting.

Joe King

When I'm not playing football, I'm usually studying. I want to go to college, so I got to keep reading books and doing my homework.

A. S. Byatt

You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.

Thomas Carlyle

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.

Mark Frauenfelder

When I was a kid, one of my favorite books was George Gamow's 'One Two Three ... Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science.'

John Banville

When fans of mine meet me, I can see the disappointment in their eyes. Every artist knows of this phenomenon.

Les Kynett

We want racers, former racers, officials, former officials, crews, press, and especially fans to come out for the farewell party.

Aasif Mandvi

I was a fan of "The Daily Show" I watched it,I never imagined being on it, but I figured I would just go down there and do my best Stephen Colbert impression.

Charles Caleb Colton

The young fancy that their follies are mistaken by the old for happiness. The old fancy that their gravity is mistaken by the young for wisdom.

Greg Lowell

We've started well this year in big games. It got our fans into it and got our kids going early.

Jonathan Cain

We've seen a Renaissance in the fans ... a lot of younger 18-to-25 demographics.

Eileen collins

We have had a fantastic mission. We are so glad to come back and be able to say it's a success.

Josh Turner

When I'm up on stage, I'm thinking more about my fans and about myself as a singer and an artist. When I'm at home being a daddy, the last thing I'm thinking about is being an artist. It is two things that I never really put together.

David Mackay

When I was 12, I saw the Apollo moon landings, and I thought that was really fantastic and exciting and thought, 'That's what I want to do.'

Sarah Koenig

I love serialized stories of any kind. I'm a huge sucker for any kind of series.

Uzo Aduba

I used to be a huge fan of 'Lockup' on MSNBC, and that certainly has helped with my understanding of the world.

Kim Yuna

The popularity of figure skating has increased tremendously, and Koreans have a huge interest in figure skaters - not only me, other international skaters as well.

Bram Stoker

There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one word, DRACULA.

Ellen Stofan

There's a huge question of whether you really need water for life.

Joan Cusack

Mum has always been a huge anti-war activist. She would go off to protest and get arrested. I have her passion, but it is not for politics. I am much more interested in psychology. It's more my job and my natural inclination.

Scott Borg

We started seeing huge vulnerabilities. And portions of those systems were extraordinarily secure. But they were Maginot Lines.

Luis Rivera

We still need to win three games. I feel like if we win those three games, there's going to be a huge celebration.

Bill Halbrehder

When you take a player off the ice, even if it is your own team, that opens space and can be a huge advantage, especially when you have a player like Allie. She is just so dynamic... one of those worth-the-price-of-admission kind of players.

Agnes Smedley

I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat. I would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.

Charlie Chaplin

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

Charles Dudley Warner

There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.

Charles de Gaulle

I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money." (On Vietnam War)

Charles Caleb Colton

Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Charles Caleb Colton

To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.

Charles Caleb Colton

Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.

Maribel Lopez

The reality is, this is where the money is at.

Conor McGregor

There is definitely an addiction to money that I have.

Alan Watts

We get such a kick out of looking forward to pleasures and rushing ahead to meet them that we can’t slow down enough to enjoy them when they come.

Camilla Luddington

I'll make a horrible housewife. It's not like I'm disgusting, but I'm pretty bad about having a drink or eating something and then leaving the plate and rushing to go.

Camille Paglia

If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at something that's outside this rushing world of evanescent words.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Better start rushing before the rush begins!

Demosthenes

Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.

Justin Jeffre

We're going to take our time and do what we feel is right. We're not rushing anything.

Ed Begley, Jr.

The environmental crisis is all a result of rushing.

Dawn Powell

Yet better for one of my nature to have it that way than to have life a peaceful, placid flow of quiet contentment. I must have days of rushing excitement.

Brooke Langton

I compare it to being in a car accident. There's so much adrenaline rushing through you that you remember being in the accident but you don't remember any of the details.

Nicolas Cage

I'm not contractually obligated to sequels on anything.

Sarah Dessen

My experience is that sequels are rarely as good as the originals.

John Dos Passos

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Jean Paul

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.

Aminatta Forna

Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.

Claire Tomalin

Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.

Arthur Bryant

Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words.

Robert Klein

In some articles written about me, writers have said I'm a link between the old and the new, and I think, in a certain sense, that's legitimate.

Scott Adsit

'Monty Python' and 'The Simpsons' have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives.

Brian Keene

Everything can be grist for the muse. Sometimes, writers draw on personal experiences. 'Ghoul' was just that.

Marianne Williamson

I'm an author. And writers write books. And writing books is a full-time career.