Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neel Mukherjee

The bestseller charts, a sure indicator of public taste, tell us with relentless frequency that Marian Keyes or Jeffrey Archer is a better author, by some dizzying six-figure sum, both in numbers of copies and money, than, say, J. M. Coetzee or Patrick White. Are they right?

Tony Ross

You have to go into rehab after doing a David Walliams book. David is such an important man; publishers rate him very, very highly, His books usually go straight to the bestseller number one spot on the day of publication. He is a hugely important writer as far as HarperCollins, his publishers, are concerned.

Stephenie Meyer

When 'Twilight' hit the New York Times bestseller list at number 5, for me that was the pinnacle, that was the moment. I never thought I would be there. And I keep having moments like that where you just stop and say, wait a minute - how is this still going up? I'm waiting for the rug to be pulled out from under me.

Michael Eisner

What I'm pretty sure is, it is not going to be a No. 1 bestseller for 26 weeks, ... And I'm also pretty sure it's not a disaster. So it's somewhere in the middle.

John Cornwell

Peter Breggin, an American psychiatrist, had been criticising SSRIs since the early 1990s. He wrote 'Talking Back to Prozac' (1995) to repudiate psychiatrist Peter Kramer's 'Listening to Prozac' (1993) - a bestseller which claimed that Prozac made patients 'better than well.'

Sara Sheridan

Writers have it easy. If you write a bestseller or have your book made into a movie, you'll never have to work again, or so the myth goes.

Robert Kiyosaki

I've had all six of my books reach the New York Times bestseller list, which is especially rewarding seeing as I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn't write. It just goes to show you that we learn from our mistakes.

Stephanie Laurens

You do not know, and the readers cannot tell you, what they might like until they have it. It is one of those things that particularly if you want to be the next wave, well the next wave is not already on the bestseller lists. The next wave is in somebody's head.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Bookstore operators tell us that the books which head the bestseller list are books on peace and happiness.

Fred Engh

We want them to have clear information about this subject, and resources to call on.

Steve McDonald

We want them to call us. It takes a collaborative effort with our partners.

Chris Bohjalian

The honest answer is more complex. On some level I was sent. Or inspired. Or called. But my calling, such as it was, wasn't a single booming invitation from above (really, is it ever?)...

Bob Enos

We know what he would expect us to do, and it was just a matter of me calling the plays instead of him.

Roberto Benigni

When I was a little boy, I was reading Dante and I was saying to myself 'Bravo, Dante, Bravo.' It's so beautiful, the music, the sound, the meaning. I felt like calling him by phone, like a friend.

Jan Koum

When I was a kid trying to communicate with family in the Soviet Union, it was very difficult. You had to go through the long-distance phone companies like MCI, which were difficult to navigate and expensive to make calls through.

Charlie Smith

wake-up call for every guy going through these houses.

William Ginsburg

Vernon Jordan is an individual who I understand helped Monica get an interview with a public relations firm in New York where she was eventually going to -- and may still -- park herself as an entry-level intern or apprentice, or whatever they call it in that trade.

David Sedaris

I felt uncomfortable calling myself a writer until I started with 'The New Yorker,' and then I was like, 'Okay, now you can call yourself that.

Gary Spear

Vehicle burglary clearly was the category driving the overall property crime increase.

Paul Goggins

We are proposing to strengthen the criminal law in respect of possession of a limited category of extreme material featuring adults. The intention is to reduce the demand for such material and to send a clear message that it has no place in our society.

Candace Corlett

We've actually tracked a percentage decline in that category going back to 1996,

Lili Simmons

I think teen girls will like 'Geek Charming' because they really focus on the 'populars' and nerdy people and people who are in between the nerds and between the populars. So it really hits every category of what girls are going through in high school.

S. Walker

What's missing is an enormously hot category to pull the whole industry ahead.

Ben Nelson

The fact that it could enter the Gulf as a Category 4 is not good news for Florida because, when it was forecast to be a Category 3, the thinking was it would weaken to a Category 2. Now we may have a Category 3, or worse, at landfall. But we have to remember this is the intensity forecast, and it has a lot of uncertainty.

Lisa Harris

There is a registration fee of $125 and each ancillary (chicken, seafood or beef) category costs $30. There isn't a children's contest, but there will be entertainment for the whole family.

James Kilts

Gillette Fusion extends our rich history of innovation. It's a breakthrough platform that will continue to drive our category leadership.

Martin O'Malley

kind of surge that the experts only said would come from a Category 4 or 5 hurricane, direct hit.

Lamont Bryant

We are going to sit down and re-evaluate his recruiting. Will he visit a fifth school? We aren't sure. But the Indiana situation is very unsettling. We don't want any distractions. We don't want any surprises.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I can’t stop traffic on Fifth Avenue, not unless I walk in front of an oncoming cab.

Ken Macha

When we were trying to pick a fifth starter back in camp, it was between Saarloos and Etherton, and we weren't quite sure which way we were leaning. So we went to Kendall, and he was adamant about Saarloos. That's what clinched it.

Mike Miller

When it comes down to it, you can't ever not want to win. So our job right now is to win as many games as possible, and if we're in that fifth spot, that's great, and we if we're in that sixth spot that's great, too.

Jim Grobe

We're just kicking ourselves that we don't have a fifth year for him. We couldn't do it. We had to get him on the field.

Clint Hurdle

Leaving a game in the fifth inning I wouldn't think would make any pitcher happy, ... Sometimes different things will motivate people different ways.

Karen Hesse

From the time I was ten, I thought of myself as 'good with words,' thanks to a perceptive and supportive fifth grade teacher.

Dakota Johnson

I feel like you learn how to do school in second grade through fifth grade. During those years, I was never home.

Manon Perron

From fifth place, there is nothing to lose, everything to gain.

J. Taylor

We've won one game. We won four last year. We've got a ways to go before we match last year. We haven't proved anything.

Ryan Jensen

We knew they were a good team and that we'd have to play four quarters.

Ron Lewis

We knew they had to come out and play us. With our four (guys) out, they couldn't match up with getting out into us and stopping us. If one shot isn't open, another shot is.

Zhao Tiechui

We know where the four missing people are and we're trying very hard to rescue them.

Chad Qualls

We know we've got to win four in a row,

Sasha Cohen

Ultimately, it's only four minutes in one day out of my life.

Sasha Cohen

Ultimately, it's four minutes of one day in my life. I've had such an incredible journey. I'm tougher than I think I am.

David S. Goyer

I did three or four weeks of work on 'Godzilla;' it wasn't a page-one rewrite or anything like that. The term is 'script doctoring,' is what I did on it.

Don Flanagan

UNLV plays four guards. So using four guards was something we were looking at doing anyway.

Charles Stanley

Yieldedness is vital in listening to what He has to say.

Charles Spurgeon

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

Alan Rickman

All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.

Alan Alda

When I started out as an actor, I thought, Here's what I have to say; how shall I say it? I began to understand that what I do in the scene is not as important as what happens between me and the other person. And listening is what lets it happen. It's almost always the other person who causes you to say what you say next. You don't have to figure out how you'll say it. You have to listen so simply, so innocently, that the other person brings about a change in you that makes you say it and informs the way you say it.

David Amram

When you are accompanying someone, you are listening to them the way you listen to a Bach Chorale, where four parts are going on at the same time, all of which are gorgeous melodies, all being played simultaneously.

David Sedaris

I went from having 50 listeners to 50 million listeners.

Buddy Guy

I can't learn nothing from listening to me. That's something I already know.

Ben Mitchell

Why should you listen to any of us?

Marianne Williamson

When you've written 10 books and have six on the New York Times best-seller list - and four have been No. 1 - I think you have a right to be a member of Congress.

Louis Stokes

Firstly, we have personnel records of persons we hired, persons we fired, reasons we fired them and so forth. These records have nothing to do with the assassination of the president and, therefore, ought to remain in the files.

Edward Kennedy

I think the Vice-President ought to re-read the constitution.

Robert Morrison

To do what ought to be done but what would not have been done unless I did it, I thought to be my duty.

Pat Roberts

I think we ought to raze that prison,

Yvonne Johnson

I think we ought to find a way to do it.

Lady Bird Johnson

A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.

George Dacy

My tomatoes taste like tomatoes used to taste, ought to taste and still do taste.

Dan Miller

My view is that while you do occasionally have differences you ought to have a process where you can sit down and talk about things. How else do you solve problems?

Ruth Rendell

It doesn't matter what kind of book you write - you ought to write it well and with some kind of style and elegance.

Azim Premji

You have students in America, in Britain, who do not want to be engineers. Perhaps it is the workload, I studied engineering, and I know what a grind it is.

Jose Sulaiman

I think that perhaps this has more to do with physiological aspects, I don't know,

Michael R. Bloomberg

I think it's time to see what the marketplace really wants, and perhaps we can better accommodate that,

Todd Hamilton

I'm so excited, I probably won't sleep for two or three or perhaps seven days,

Eric Brown

The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down.

Oliver Kahn

Perhaps we will still be using this policy for the World Cup. That would be a new concept.

Juan Carlos

Perhaps we are all suffering from Stockholm syndrome,

David Brown

Perhaps this is the first step on a long road.

Ann Gerhart

Perhaps this is how she is spending her capital,

Michael Musto

My passion is New York and the vitality that makes it special.

Aileen Quinn

I will always be a New York girl at heart, but I am really liking the L.A. lifestyle.

Cathy Elkies

For us, it was really about the story of the Plaza. It is such a New York institution.

Jim Sims

He wanted it to feel romantic, seductive-elegant like a place you'd see in New York magazine.

Rachel Tucker

Living in New York for 10 months was incredible; it was everything I thought it was going to be and more.

Peter Thiel

I worked at a law firm in New York very briefly.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

I was 11 years old and horse-obsessed. New York City was an unfortunate place for a girl like me to be growing up.

Erik Estrada

I wanted to be a New York City cop before I became an actor.

Antonio Sabato, Jr.

I'm a Laker fan, always have been. And the New York Yankees, for sure.