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.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect...geometry should be ranked, not with arithmetic, which is purely aprioristic, but with mechanics.

Bryan Price

We want him completely healthy, and we want his mechanics sound. Until that happens, he won't pitch.

Barry Zito

I hadn't focused on mechanics since I signed professionally.

Riley Wallace

The plane to Boise had some kind of mechanical problem; we were actually on the plane before they sent us back. And then we just sat and waited and there was no other way to get us to Boise, so they sent us to Seattle and put us up for the night.

William Cowper

Made poetry a mere mechanic art; / And every warbler has his tune by heart.

Mark Prior

I don't know what adjustments I could make. My mechanics to me are about as simple as you could get.

Alan Furst

Anthony Powell taught me to write; he has such brilliant control of the mechanics of the novel.

Philipp Meyer

I like mechanical things; my first book was a mechanics guide - that was what my parents couldn't pry away from me; that was the blanket.

Mike Lieberthal

He's going to be a little wild anyway, because he had such movement on his fastball, but today his mechanics were off, so it was really flying.

Eli Whitney

An invention can be so valuable as to be worthless to the inventor,

Edgar Degas

One reproduces only that which is striking; that is to say, the necessary. Thus, one's recollections and inventions are liberated from the tyranny which nature exerts.

Paul Simon

I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent.

Craig McHugh

The patent application was to protect our invention. As you can see . . . the invention is significant.

Brandee Bryant

You can be involved and not have ever thought about science or invention in your life. You can have a lot of fun.

Alfred North Whitehead

The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.

Alexander Graham Bell

Washington is no place in which to carry out inventions

Adolf Hitler

Conscience is a Jewish invention.

Sydney Smith

Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.