Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Bezos

We believe that over time this could turn into a significant business for Amazon, significant revenue stream for publishers and authors and a helpful customer service for readers,

Nigel Barker

Everyone gets a pencil as a kid, but it doesn't make them all authors or painters or drawers or anything else.

Nick James

Very few authors manage to keep selling that well. This is an author that clearly caught the imagination of their generation and then managed to keep capturing the imagination of generations.

Nick James

Very few authors manage to keep selling that well,

Lee Child

Male authors always take care to make their heroes at least one inch taller than they are, and considerably more muscular. Just as female authors give their heroines better hair and slimmer thighs.

Robert M. Pirsig

I did not want to write one of those sequels that famous first-book authors get into where everybody says, 'Oh yeah.'

Malorie Blackman

I would like to champion diverse forms like graphic novels and works told in verse and diverse writers and illustrators and diverse authors as well.

Ashwin Sanghi

It is easy to club people together, but there are bound to be influences of authors you've read. I grew up reading fast paced authors such as Sidney Sheldon and Jeffrey Archer, but to say I'm one of them isn't true; my style is intrinsically my own.

Laurie Halse Anderson

I think maybe I might have to do what some other authors do, which is do a variation on my name, just to send readers the message that, 'Yep, this is me, but this is a different part of me. So brace yourself.'

Eddie Vedder

We want them to be heard for the first time when the record comes out.

Tom Renney

When you've heard from the ref once, you've kind of got to suck it up.

Tom Renney

When you've heard from the referee once that you've got to kind of suck it up and quit yapping, you should probably do that.

Charles Kuralt

You never heard anybody ask 'Elvis who?'

Ednita Nazario

It's fascinating to be in a place where no one has ever heard of me

Michelle Evans

We were at a cross-roads last week when we heard the news that Ft. Chaffee was no longer sending hurricane survivors to the area.

Dan Doherty

When we heard the news yesterday, everyone was just devastated. He made a huge impact at Pearl River in a short time 5 1/2 years.

Tom Eagleson

When we heard it was her appendix, we all thought the worst. But then, it turned out to be kidney stones.

Todd Helton

When we heard about (Barmes), we were thinking, 'That's terrible, what are we going to do,' ... Then the skipper leaves and his daughter's having seizures, and it puts it all back in perspective really quick.

Edgar Mitchell

I happen to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet, and the UFO phenomenon is real.

George Magliano

We think the Scion is a phenomenon unto itself.

Drake Johnstone

This tracking stock phenomenon doesn't make sense. I wouldn't be surprised if they went down to $0.

Bill Gates

The live phenomenon is not just about Microsoft. It's partners, it's competitors...the whole space is being transformed.

Jonathan Sacks

Islamophobia is a complex phenomenon.

Steve Bonney

A phenomenon has happened. We've tapped into the trucker network.

Jack Fultz

Running is a new social phenomenon in our country.

Ted Smith

This convergence phenomenon is very real, and it's getting more real.

Craig Fugate

You're in a phenomenon ... it's sort of like a hurricane, you're not going to stop it with what the (existing) resources are.

Charles Dickens

If you can't get to be uncommon through going straight, you'll never get to do it through going crooked. [...] live well and die happy.

Jeremy Rifkin

It is not uncommon to suppose that the free exchange of property in markets and capitalism are one and the same. They are not. While capitalism operates through the free market, free markets don't require capitalism.

Jay Groves

This is not uncommon for this to happen.