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.

Alan Jackson

I'm usually just enjoying life.

Cheryl Richardson

If you want to enjoy life more fully, the trick is to teach yourself to live in the insightful mode more often.

Brian Baumgartner

I do have a childlike enthusiasm at times. I certainly enjoy life and get pleasure sometimes in childish things.

Ashleigh Brilliant

You have a right to enjoy life, but only on your own time.

Edward Abbey

Those who fear death most are those who enjoy life least.

Earl Nightingale

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now.

Curtis Armstrong

I try to work and enjoy life, and that's about all.

Amy Chua

The truth is I'm not good at enjoying life.

Marcus Luttrell

I spend most of my time at the ranch with my family, and enjoy life - watch the sun come up, watch it go down, thank God for another day, and just be happy.

Carlos Castaneda

...one should never turn to one's left when facing the nagual.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.

C. S. Lewis

I do not expect old heads on young shoulders.

Aaron Tveit

Awards are not something that I measure my work by. I've been so fortunate and I've gotten to do such terrific things that it seems petty to look back and say, 'Oh, I should have gotten that prize.' I don't look at it that way.

Aaron Sorkin

Only criminals and adulterers should have to hide who they are.

Charlotte Bronte

They will both be happy, and I do not grudge them their bliss; but I groan under my own misery: some of my suffering is very acute. Truly, I ought not to have been born: they should have smothered me at first cry.

Charlotte Bronte

I had a theoretical reverence and homage for beauty, elegance, gallantry, fascination but had I met those qualities incarnate in masculine shape, I should have known instinctively that they had nor could have sympathy with anything in me...

Charlotte Bronte

We should acknowledge God merciful, but not always for us comprehensible.

Charlie Chaplin

Why should poetry have to make sense?