Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lisa Jackson

I hate that bookstores are closing. Hate it! What's better than hanging out a bookstore, be it independent or chain, and talking books with people who love books?

Gabrielle Zevin

A place isn't a place until it has a bookstore.

Gene Nelson

One thing libraries have learned from bookstores in the last decade is marketing. We're trying to entice people to read.

J. A. Konrath

I love bookstores and booksellers. In my novel 'Dirty Martini,' I thanked over 3,000 booksellers by name in the back matter.

Boris Diodorov

I don't go into bookstores because it upsets me,

John Updike

When I went away to college, I marveled at the wealth of bookstores around Harvard Square.

Ricky Jay

Sitting with a deck of cards in your hand all day is an obsession. Visiting print shops and bookstores and libraries is an obsession. And writing about this is an obsession. I think, in general, most collectors are obsessed. I think the only form of a rationalized greed is when you're collecting something you are supposedly serious about.

P. C. Cast

Kids definitely go into bookstores after reading 'Twilight' and want something else like it.

Barbara Bradford

Bookstores see a book by a woman and they put it in the romance section. I write mainstream fiction about women.

Steve Loucks

The other thing we're doing is making sure the customers pay with credit cards so they can get their money back more easily if the tickets can't be used.

Judy McDonald

We usually just play cards - there's always a card game going on. Or we sit around. Sit around and talk.

Sandy Prince

We are a full service florist with fresh-cut flowers, silk arrangements, balloons, table decorations, cake-a-grams, plush, greeting cards and candy.

Ken Hammond

We are looking for the owners of the cards to find out how they last used them,

Eddie Izzard

Everyone gets cards at the beginning of life. I am transgender, I decided to be honest and tell everyone about it, and that's it.

Lesa Young

We also send cards to acknowledge illnesses, births and deaths in the family. One officer who was out on leave for a while told me how much it meant to him that he got a card from us and that we were thinking of him during that time.

Gail Fosler

Very few of the responses will have a post-attack impact, ... In the last two weeks people have ... been very distracted. Filling out response cards to consumer confidence surveys has not really been their number one priority.

Jim Farmer

We knew they had a great team out there, and though we got way ahead, we knew that they would come at us today, ... Twenty-one years after doing this, the guys are so excited. The way they set about their task, it was in the cards from the first day.

Paul Bresson

We've never done this. It's not our place to give out report cards on the states.

David Crockett

The power of collecting and disbursing money at pleasure is the most dangerous power that can be intrusted to man

Bob Ayers

Some nation states prohibit the police from collecting information on their own citizens. But they don't prohibit their own intelligence organizations from collecting information on their own citizens.

Lorrin Lee

Most people tend to focus on getting a dream home and car. I prefer to focus on lifelong friendships and collecting memorable experiences.

James Jeffords

We heard that the degree of environmental damage is considered catastrophic, ... We also heard that the EPA is still in the very early stages of collecting the soil and water samples that are needed to determine whether it is safe for residents to return to the area.

David Redden

We hear about the ones that are selling but in fact there are many others that are also collecting and they generally do it very quietly.

Louis Freeh

Collecting intelligence information is like trying to drink water out of a fire hydrant. You know, in hindsight It's great. The problem is there's a million dots at the time.

Lauren Stamile

Math is a language that you use to describe statistics, but really it's about collecting information and putting it in an order that makes sense.

Oliver Ellsworth

The power of collecting money from the people is not to be rejected because it has sometimes been oppressive. Public credit is as necessary for the prosperity of a nation as private credit is for the support and wealth of a family.

Olivier Theyskens

My first collection was made from sheets that my grandmother, who lived in Normandy, had been collecting for a long time. There are a lot of flea markets in that part of France, and she knew what I liked.

Michael Zolensky

We thought maybe the collectors wouldn't open properly, or maybe they would be covered with gunk from the spacecraft.

Sarah Brady

Our ultimate goal- total control of handguns in the United States- is going to take time... The first problem is to slow down the increasing number of handguns being produced... The second problem is to get handguns registered. And the final problem is to make the possession of handguns and all handgun ammunition- except for the military, policemen, licensed security guards, licensed sporting clubs, and licensed gun collectors - totally illegal.

Paul Mellon

In a way, my father was lucky. He had a hunch that his vision of the National Gallery would interest other collectors and persuade them to come in with him, and that hunch proved to be right.

Jim Holt

Those are the same sandbags our garbage collectors will probably be picking up this week.

Jesus Christ

For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

Hanno Langenhoven

Theologians are collectors and tellers of tales; the better the theologian, the better the stories

Clive Cussler

Ever since Pitt was wearing one, collectors were dumbfounded; they were saying that it wasn't an expensive watch, what's all the fuss about. I understand the prices have been driven up since then; people are even paying $1000 for them. I've met people that tell me that they spent two years looking for one.

Christopher Burge

The results reflect a strong, solid and successful market - there were some very high prices but participating collectors remain focused and controlled.

Ronnie Wood

I'm thrilled to be in South Florida for our tour and to open the first gallery exhibit this year. It's a great turn-out and I look forward to speaking with the collectors who have shown me such great support over the years.

Micky Ward

I'm back in Boston. I own an outdoor deck hockey rink, and I own a boxing gym here also.

John Kosmina

We're in a situation because of the ways the squads are restricted it makes it difficult, so we need all players on deck who can perform.

Bruce Forsyth

You can shuffle my deck any day!

Peter Fonda

Lennon was not very fond of me. Lennon didn't like to be around somebody else who was likely to be the center of attention and didn't like being on deck with somebody who was intellectually as hot as he was.

Bear Grylls

I don't thrive on stress. I love lying on the deck on our houseboat reading a book.

Craig McCabe

I lost my footing on the deck and I literally somersaulted over the rail, hitting my head on the side of the boat, landing in the water.

Tim Foley

We used those markers to ensure we had the genes required for multi-race resistance and focused our field-testing efforts on identifying superior yield performance. We stacked the deck and were able to come up with all face cards.

S. Walker

I was an able-seaman, a deck hand. As I say, it's the way to see the world and get paid for it.

John Blanchette

He has a player's attitude. He has the same intensity as a player. He's intense on the pool deck and he's intense in the office. We feel it in the huddle.

Matthias Platzeck

We want the negotiations on forming a new government to proceed quickly.

David Knopfler

I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting.

Chad Harbach

The novel has always been the form that incorporates other forms. For me, it has always been the ultimate medium.

Bruno Schulz

Lifelessness is only a disguise behind which hide unknown forms of life.

Michel Onfray

We can no more tolerate neutrality and benevolence toward every conceivable form of discourse, including that of magical thinking, than we can lump together executioner and victim, good and evil.

Abhisit Vejjajiva

We are protesting a new form of dictatorship and authoritarianism.

Alex Ferguson

We're in great form at the moment and looking forward to every match.

Method Man

I'm an entertainer, so in whatever form I entertain... The thing about being a rapper is that you have more control over your form, whereas with acting you have to compromise a lot.

Nicolas Roeg

I think the big studios shaped and formed the artists that they put under contract.

Charles Caleb Colton

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

Eartha Kitt

Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.

Stan Hyman

We accomplished what we wanted to come down here with the split, but when you sweep the first day you get a little greedy and want to get at least one of the two (contests) the next day.

Agnes de Mille

Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything, so that we will miss nothing. Partly it's greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.

Aaron Swartz

Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy.

Charles Horton Cooley

It is partly to avoid consciousness of greed that we prefer to associate with those who are at least as greedy as we ourselves. Those who consume much less are a reproach.

Michael Shermer

I say you don't need religion, or political ideology, to understand human nature. Science reveals that human nature is greedy and selfish, altruistic and helpful.

Craig Davis

What this is about, this is isn't about pro sports, this is about greed. This is about money, power and arrogance.

Arianna Huffington

having too much is never enough.

Charles Caleb Colton

The victims of ennui paralyze all the grosser feelings by excess, and torpify all the finer by disuse and inactivity. Disgusted with this world, and indifferent about another, they at last lay violent hands upon themselves, and assume no small credit for the sang froid with which they meet death. But, alas! such beings can scarcely be said to die, for they have never truly lived.

Charles Caleb Colton

Literature has her quacks no less than medicine, and they are divided into two classes; those who have erudition without genius, and those who have volubility without depth; we shall get second-hand sense from the one, and original nonsense from the other.

Charles Dickens

If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you! A curse upon this roof that gave me shelter! Sorrow and shame upon your head! Ruin upon all belonging to you!

Charles Dickens

Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.

Charles Stross

I grew up on second hand bookshops and libraries.

Charles Spurgeon

I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses [of the Bible] all day than rinse my hand in several chapters.

Charles Spurgeon

Faith has a saving connection with Christ. Christ is on the shore, so to speak, holding the rope, and as we lay hold of it with the hand of our confidence, He pulls us to shore; but all good works having no connection with Christ are drifted along down the gulf of fell despair.

Charles Spurgeon

There’s no shame about any honest calling; don’t be afraid of soiling your hands, there’s plenty of soap to be had.

Alan Watts

And it came to pass that in the hands of the ignorant, the words of the Bible were used to beat plowshares into swords

Stephanie Hall

We're so excited. This is the first real new money for libraries from the province in a long time.

Jim Steinberg

This will pretty much put the libraries back together.

Peg Burington

What we're doing is dispelling that stereotype as libraries being this place where it's very quiet and you have to tip-toe around.

Richard K. Morgan

I remember visits to the local libraries and getting my own library cards as things of rite-of-passage significance.

Martina Kominiarek

We also benefited in the past year at all of our libraries from donations.

Donald Brownlee

The most interesting thing about comets is they are libraries with the stored records of our formation.

Dennis Potter

Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.

Ulysses Yannas

Olympus has no printing capability. Opal and Onyx would give them the printing capability.

Brad Goreski

My childhood bedroom had wallpaper that was printed with clouds and rainbows.

A. J. Liebling

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

Karl Lagerfeld

There is a softer, romantic tough by some of the prints and by the colors. It's not harsh. Some is body-conscious. Some is completely fluid.

Andy Serkis

Gollum's never really gone too far away from me because he's indelibly kind of printed into my DNA now, I think.

John Powell

We've joked we should just print it on the form.

Joe Wiegand

We are not printing a newspaper. We are doing a television advertisement.

Ruth Bernhard

I was a very, very careful printer when I used 8-by-10 film. I probably spent more time on printing than anything else. The more the prints were appreciated, the more time I spent on them.

Alan Arkin

My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.

Bryan Ferry

As you get older, you get a bit more serious.

Bryan Clay

Repercussions are serious and they will take you places.

Cathy Freeman

Between 1991 and 1997 I had really serious asthma.

William Shakespeare

In persons grafted in a serious trust, Negligence is a crime.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I understand from those who adore him, he [Julian Assange] has a great sense of humor which rarely gets an airing because he's dealing with such serious issues.

Arthur Rimbaud

No one's serious at seventeen.

Dee Dee Ramone

Visuals are as artistic as sounds, so being serious about both isn't a contradiction to me.

Bill Nye

The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change.

Charles Baudelaire

All the visible universe is nothing but a shop of images and signs.

A. J. McLean

I shop more than most women.

Etta James

I like to shop, but I don't like to go out to dances.

Richard Bach

Shop for security over happiness and we buy it at that price.

Ed Bradley

The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio.

Deepa Mehta

I've never seen or heard of a mob sitting down to read a film script.

Celia Cruz

If I don't work, I'll be sitting on the couch watching TV, eating popcorn and getting like a cow.

Jim Butler

We want to make sure the vessel was not compromised when it was sitting on the beach.

Don Helling

We're sitting in a super spot for tomorrow.

Brian Eno

Put out as much as you can. It doesn't do anything sitting on a shelf.

Ezra Klein

If I'm sitting around exulting over traffic data, I'm an idiot.

Dean Smith

There is a point in every contest when sitting on the sidelines is not an option.

Daniel Handler

A good thing to do when one is sitting, eating, and resting is to have a conversation.

John Palmer

It was supposedly investigated, but I don't know that anything's happened. I think probably nothing has happened.

Diane Abbott

I spend a lot of time visiting local organisations.

Brad Thor

Visiting Lucerne is like going to Disneyland: You can't imagine that it is real because it looks like a movie lot.