Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Niklas Zennstrom

And the VCR did the same thing: the movie industry thought nobody would ever watch movies any more.

P. J. O'Rourke

I suppose I should get a VCR, but the only thing I like about television is its ephemerality.

Joe Kraus

Fair use is important to innovators as well as consumers. It's fair use that allowed the VCR to innovate on top of the television.

Richard Corliss

Today is a time of turbulence and stagnation, of threat and promise from a competitor: the magic, omnivorous videocassette recorder (VCR). In other words, it is business as usual.

The Eagles

New Orleans Saints-New York Giants at Giants Stadium.

Wellington Mara

Giants ownership has left at least $150 million of team net worth on the table.

Kate Forsyth

The ogres and witches and giants of fairytales stand in as metaphors for those obstacles that we all face in our own lives.

Barry Bonds

I feel great. I'm just doing what the Giants tell me right now. I don't want to make any predictions about the future, but I feel like I'm getting closer. The swelling is pretty stable.

Tom Atkins

You know, they just don't make big movie stars the way they used to, maybe because the system has changed, the studio system, but it's sad to see people like Jimmy Stewart go, all the giants of the past.

Al Pacino

[Marlon] Brando's a giant on every level. When he acts it's as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.

Dennis Miller

Even the best psychiatrist is like a blindfolded auto mechanic poking around under your hood with a giant foam "We're #1" finger.

Beth Moore

The giant step in the walk of faith is the one we take when we decide God no longer is a part of our lives. He IS our life.

Bill Murray

You don't have to have all this film stock, you can work faster, and you don't need a giant crew. It's great.