Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carole Bouquet

I didn't learn a lot from books. I learned a lot from movies.

Carol Shields

Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.

Carol Shields

Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.

Carol White

What I always tell my clients is to put yourself in your potential customer's shoes - what would you want to hear about this story/book and does this [marketing material] deliver that information?

Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.

Carlos Fuentes

I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.

Carlos Fuentes

For me, life without literature is inconceivable. I think that Don Quixote in a physical sense never existed, but Don Quixote exists more than anybody who existed in 1605. Much more. There's nobody who can compete with Don Quixote or with Hamlet. So in the end we have the reality of the book as the reality of the world and the reality of history.

Carlos Fuentes

Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living.

Carlos Fuentes

Some writers achieve great popularity and then disappear forever. The bestseller lists of the past fifty years are, with a few lively exceptions, a sombre graveyard of dead books.

C. S. Lewis

No thanks," said Digory, "I don't know that I care much about living on and on after everyone I know is dead. I'd rather live an ordinary time and die and go to Heaven.

Charlotte Bronte

Writers cannot choose their own mood: with them it is not always hide-tide, nor --thank Heaven!--always Storm.

Charles Caleb Colton

This world cannot explain its own difficulties without the assistance of another.

Charles Dickens

Hours are golden links--God's tokens reaching heaven.

Charles Dickens

Heaven suits the back to the burden.

Charles Dickens

Some of the craftiest scoundrels that ever walked this earth . . . will gravely jot down in diaries the events of every day, and keep a regular debtor and creditor account with heaven, which shall always show a floating balance in their own favour.

Charles Spurgeon

The joys of heaven will surely compensate for the sorrows of earth.

Charles Spurgeon

Let me revel in this one thought: before God made the heavens and the earth, He set His love upon me.

Charles Spurgeon

One might better try to sail the Atlantic in a paper boat, than try to get to heaven on good works.

William Shakespeare

A right judgment draws us a profit from all things we see .

Barbara Deming

I learned always to trust my own deep sense of what I should do, and not just obediently trust the judgment of others - even others better than I am.

Jane Fonda

I've worked really, really hard on myself to not be judgmental.

Lawrence Eagleburger

Milosevic, who in my judgment is a liar and a thief and a scoundrel,

Michael Chertoff

My judgment was that we had a battlefield commander, ... To go down there, I would have been doing Mike Brown's job.

Ed Durkin

Shareholders will be able to make better judgments about compensation, and that can translate into how you vote for directors.

Baltasar Gracian

Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.

John Brady

Let's be honest, what are we? Twelve and five? We've played 17 games. I think we ought to reserve those kind of judgments and statements to much later down the road.

Barbara Sher

Being judgmental about your own behavior is actually another cop-out because it makes you feel as though you're doing something virtuous.