Famous Quotes & Sayings

Italo Calvino

Every morning I tell myself, 'Today has to be productive' - and then something happens that prevents me from writing.

Robert Osborne

If I didn't have my little schedule book, I wouldn't get out of bed in the morning.

Kirsten Gillibrand

Like all Americans, I will never forget where I was the morning of the 9/11 attacks.

Chris Elliott

That's what keeps me up at three in the morning: Who's looking at reviews of Cabin Boy right now?

Chris Cuomo

You wake up in the morning; what do you want to know? You want to know what happened overnight. You want to know if you're safe. You want to know if you're family's safe.

Chris Frantz

I'm kind of a social person and I enjoy corresponding with people and checking out their Facebook pages. And it really doesn't take much time. Ten minutes in the morning, 10 minutes at night and a little bit during the day. It's just something I really enjoy.

Charles Spurgeon

If you give your soul up to anything earthly, whether it be the wealth, or the honours, or the pleasures of this world, you might as well hunt after the mirage of the desert or try to collect the mists of the morning, or to store up for yourself the clouds of the sky, for all these things are passing away.

Charles Spurgeon

It is a good rule never to look into the face of a man in the morning till you have looked into the face of God.

Charles Spurgeon

The best way to live above all fear of death is to die every morning before you leave your bedroom.

Alexandra Fuller

Until I read Anne Frank's diary, I had found books a literal escape from what could be the harsh reality around me. After I read the diary, I had a fresh way of viewing the both literature and the world. From then on, I found I was impatient with books that were not honest or that were trivial and frivolous.

Alexandra Fuller

I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really wonderful book, written by someone I've never heard of before.

Cory Doctorow

Well, I don't know. It's long, it's longer than both of the other books put together, so it's more ambitious. I think I get under the skin of the people a lot more than in the other books.

Malorie Blackman

I loved reading when I grew up but did feel totally invisible because I couldn't see myself and my life reflected in the books I was reading.

Malorie Blackman

What I wanted to do was use literature and different kinds of stories and poems as a springboard, tapping into the creativity of our teens - I wanted teenagers to come up with their own creative responses to literature - using books themselves as a starting point.

Oprah Winfrey

Like Dr. King I have a dream of my own, too, that the powerful message of this little book would be engraved on every human heart and will never be forgotten again. That you who read this book will feel as I do that these 120 pages ... should be required reading for all humanity.

Johann Kaspar

Let none turn over books or scan the stars in quest of God who see Him not in man

Eytan Rockaway

Life is a book and you are the author. But the ending someone else writes so makes every page count.

Jean Bruyere

Making books is a skilled trade, like making clocks.

Sathya Baba

Let the day dawn for you and others with thought of the Almighty, the Compassionate, and the Omnipresent self-knowing God. What greater service can you do to yourself and others? This will give you health and happiness.

Sarah Polley

So it's conceivable I'll do something insane, or more insane than Dawn of the Dead. If that's possible.

Bible Bible

When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.

David Nicholls

As new dawns go, this one is depressingly like the old dawn.

Michael Leunig

On Anzac Day, coffee and jokes with a Turk might be the most meaningful and fair dinkum dawn service you could possibly have.

John Fazio

Since the dawn of time actually since the early '80s the impacts to energy production for fish and wildlife constraints have always been calculated.

Bobby Sands

The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then we'll see the rising of the moon.

Atharva Veda

When as a swan he rises from the water he does not withdraw his one foot. If in truth he were to withdraw it, there would be neither to-day, nor to-morrow, no night and no day, never would the dawn appear.

Howard Carter

With such evidence, as well as the sealed doorway between the two guardian statues of the King, the mystery gradually dawned upon us. We were but in the anterior portion of a tomb.