Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Robinson

Record-breaking sales of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince drove significantly higher results in children's book publishing and distribution and for the company overall,

Robert Molleda

Relative to most of the country, it's still rather mild, but when people book Florida vacations, they're not expecting temperatures in the 40s.

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Or have We given them a book before it so that they hold fast to it? / Nay! they say: We found our fathers on a course, and surely we are guided by their footsteps.

Wayne Dellinger

Part of the reason I wrote the book was that so many people were leaving their jobs (to invest in foreclosed homes), and they had no idea of what they are doing.

Oprah Winfrey

passports to new and exciting worlds... and I know that I would not be the person I am today had it not been for my love of reading.

Malorie Blackman

Part of my job as Children's Laureate is to visit schools and talk about my love of books and stories and encourage them all to do it as well - to read, to write, to never be afraid of their own voice. Because we all have something to say.

Gunter Thielen

Our major acquisitions and joint ventures ... will be shown on the books for the second half of the year,

Martin Luther

Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.

Andreas Scheuerle

Order books are full and people are operating closer to capacity, so that companies are building up employment again.

Oprah Winfrey

passports to new and exciting worlds... and I know that I would not be the person I am today had it not been for my love of reading.

Malorie Blackman

Part of my job as Children's Laureate is to visit schools and talk about my love of books and stories and encourage them all to do it as well - to read, to write, to never be afraid of their own voice. Because we all have something to say.

Gunter Thielen

Our major acquisitions and joint ventures ... will be shown on the books for the second half of the year,

Martin Luther

Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.

Andreas Scheuerle

Order books are full and people are operating closer to capacity, so that companies are building up employment again.

Ravi Singh

Such categories of books are not economically viable for mass production. So POD is a great solution which serves the purpose of both the niche readers as well as publishers.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

'Success' is a seductive word. Thousands of books have been written on the subject. They promise money, freedom, leisure, and luxury.

Carl Hiaasen

Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.

Paul Di Filippo

Stephen King consummately honors several traditions with his rare paperback original, 'Joyland.' He addresses the novel of carny life and sideshows, where the midway serves as microcosm, such as in those famous books by Ray Bradbury, Charles Finney and William Lindsay Gresham.

Boris Diodorov

I don't go into bookstores because it upsets me,

J. A. Konrath

I love bookstores and booksellers. In my novel 'Dirty Martini,' I thanked over 3,000 booksellers by name in the back matter.

Gabrielle Zevin

A place isn't a place until it has a bookstore.

John Updike

When I went away to college, I marveled at the wealth of bookstores around Harvard Square.

Ricky Jay

Sitting with a deck of cards in your hand all day is an obsession. Visiting print shops and bookstores and libraries is an obsession. And writing about this is an obsession. I think, in general, most collectors are obsessed. I think the only form of a rationalized greed is when you're collecting something you are supposedly serious about.

Gene Nelson

One thing libraries have learned from bookstores in the last decade is marketing. We're trying to entice people to read.

P. C. Cast

Kids definitely go into bookstores after reading 'Twilight' and want something else like it.

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?

Caroline Leavitt

Indie bookstores love writers as much as they love readers, and there is something about a community store, where you walk in, you feel known, and the delight in books is just infectious.

Florentino Perez

Real Madrid needs change and this is the right moment for me to leave the presidency. I am convinced this is the boost the club needs.

Stephen Oliver

Previously, synchronous rectification in resonant half-bridge topologies has not been commercially viable due to the complexity of varying system frequency and low standby power regulations. Here, the IR1167 enables simple SR for a major boost in system efficiency.

Steve O'Hara

Our partnership with Just Marketing is so much more than just a name on the front of the shirts. It is clearly a huge boost to the club at this late stage of the season.

Leslie Ament

Organizations are pressured to grow revenues, reduce costs, and provide higher levels of customer service in a global marketplace where purchasers have more choices and less time than ever before. Selectively investing in high-value customers empowers organizations to boost revenues, reduce operational costs, and to increase customer retention/acquisition rates.

Darmin Nasution

Our objective is to deepen and expand the market, reduce (price) instability, and boost transparency and efficiency.

Tom Sawyer

Our offense has been working well the last few weeks, and I don't expect that to change. The win over Bemidji was a big boost for our defense, too, because we had been having some problems, but we stopped a very good team.

Wang Shichun

Our objective is to help domestic export companies to boost the economies of import nations.

Kevin Huck

Our motivation was way up. This was a confidence boost for us. We had a long talk in the locker room before this match. I'm happy.

Suzanne Somers

Our modern, deadline-a-day lifestyle overtaxes our adrenal glands, which end up overproducing cortisol, which in turn makes it nearly impossible to sleep and can put you at risk for a heart attack. Raised cortisol also boosts your insulin levels, which can cause you to pack on the pounds, especially around the midsection.

Stephen Gallagher

Retailers have no pricing power themselves, as evidenced by all the discounts they had to offer to generate holiday sales. In terms of volume, they succeeded, but not at the level of profitability they would have liked.

Bill Pecoriello

I think Pepsi is in a great situation. Pepsi could get this done at $90 per share now and really generate some shareholder value.

Rhys Ifans

I think Liverpool generates generosity which rubs off - it's a good place to work and to party.

Ellen Embrey

I think it'll help hopefully generate some response and interest. If that's what it takes, then, obviously it's a good thing.

Darrell Davis

I think it's just a way to generate revenue.

Greg Hirsch

I thought we did everything possible to generate offense.

Koyie Hill

More than anything I want to be on a team that I can help win. You want to feel like you're a part of something and feel like you generate some of that team's success by what you do.

Sam Altman

The only way to generate sustained exponential growth is to make whatever you're making sufficiently good.

Cheyenne Jackson

I'd love for people to accept me just as me, but I know that I generate a strong response; I always have - my name, my looks, my size.

Linda Thomas

Our sales are expanding. We've had to turn down stores for milk.

Keith Pearson

Overall, sales have been good. Things have been going smooth.

Tom McMillan

There has never been a three-week stretch of season ticket sales like this. Ever.

Chuck Morris

Ticket sales are very solid, to say the least.

Richard Foreman

We really won't see the story until we get into the spring and see the spring sales activity.

Brian Tracy

Resolve to be among the top 20% of salespeople who make 80% of the sales.

Peter Reynolds

When we have a special event, our sales triple,

Jon Hanson

Token sales have spiked, ... Token use has spiked.

Catherine Lee

It's not an appraisal, it's more of a sales tool.

Rick Drake

I think these stocks will have a pretty good-size correction.

Barry Ritholtz

If tech stocks keep going up with no pause, they will get insanely frothy.

Michael Holland

Merrill Lynch could go down some more, but I like stocks like that. I like Merck, but they got pounded on Friday,

Harry Markowitz

I would never be 100 percent in stocks or 100 percent in bonds or cash.

Steven Patch

I see a lot of stocks on there.

Jim McCamant

The IPO window for biotech stocks is closing.

Harry Eisenberg

If you look at the universe of the 7,000 or so stocks that are priced this way, most of them you wouldn't want to touch,

Steve DeLuca

These stocks come in and out of favor.

Barry Ritholtz

Tech stocks are probably a little pricey. But they're not stupid pricey.

Jim Struzzi

Fortunately, traffic was stopped, so no one was injured.

Aaron Edwards

You have customers, you have traffic in the area, you have familiarity.

Ryan Seacrest

What it allows me to do is . . . be the traffic cop.

John Cobb

We want to impede traffic as little as possible.

Stacy Pak

How do you get traffic in there? What's the plan?

Brad Anderson

I live in Seattle, but I never see this much traffic clustered in one place.

Jim Capaldi

Traffic was very, very free. It was great.

Bob Campbell

(Developers) don't see the traffic because it's not there yet. But it will be.

David Williams

Right now we have to do this for our residents and we have to do something to alleviate these traffic concerns.

Bill Vaughan

Bottom is bottom, even if it is turned upside down.

Bob Hill

His upside is a joke. He could be really special.

Susanne Bier

At some stage in most people's lives, things turn upside down, and nothing is as you expected it to be.

Anna Deavere Smith

I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.

Shawn Gilmer

If there is an upside to this game, it's that we didn't quit.

Paul Leming

There is still substantial upside in AMD's stock,

Georg Baselitz

An object painted upside down is suitable for painting because it is unsuitable as an object.

John Heider

Learn to see things backwards, inside out, and upside down.

Nikita Khrushchev

Historians are dangerous and capable of turning everything upside down. They have to be watched.