Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's been more than a decade since I put that self-published novel, 'Lip Service', up on a website. Since then, many hundreds of authors have gone from self-published to traditionally published.

It's great to see each community - the people that live there and the authors who write about it. And the food.

that's one of the reasons the Development Authority was off track so far. You didn't know what they were doing.

That includes all passengers, vehicles, trains and trucks and excludes all other commercial vehicles that are only authorized by the Minister of Interior,

It's sort of like an unlimited buffet but you have to limit yourself. What the trade show allows you to do is compress meeting with sales reps and authors into a couple of days.

It's not for third parties to come in and digitize copyrighted works of 10s of thousands of authors and decide what they'll do with it.

Denis MacShane

The British policy since the start of this crisis has been to reinforce the authority of the United Nations.

A vibrant book festival with internationally renowned authors helps to inspire children and fosters a love of reading. When children and young adults have the opportunity to interact with authors, it's just magical!

Authors are easy to get on with - if you're fond of children.

Erich Fromm

Authority is not a quality one person ''has,'' in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.

Jay Rosen

Authority in an interactive world comes from communicating, not from avoiding communication. Explaining yourself is not navel-gazing. It's a part of democracy.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Authorities from both sides involved are currently pursuing the matter with a view of reaching peaceful settlement.

Authorities are also putting more X-ray equipment to carry out thorough searches on vehicles,

Tariq Aziz

available as long as it is necessary for the Iraqi authorities to continue this dialogue.

Michael A. Stackpole

Authors will make far more on those ebooks through direct sales than publishers are offering. There is no incentive for authors to sell those rights to traditional publishers which means, in the fairly short term, publishers run out of material to sell.

Authors need to decide if they want to keep forever to themselves, or share forever with a publisher who takes over half the cover price.

Neil Gaiman

Authors know that you should never really write a funny book because funny books do not get awards. Comic novels will not get awards.

Helen Oyeyemi

Authors I've longed to write like - but realize I actually can't even begin to - include Poe, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Kafka, Daniil Kharms, Witold Gombrowicz, Emily Dickinson, Robert Walser, Barbara Comyns, Ntozake Shange, Camille Laurens, Zbigniew Herbert, and Jose Saramago.

BAPTISM, n. A sacred rite of such efficacy that he who finds himself in heaven without having undergone it will be unhappy forever. It is performed with water in two ways --by immersion, or plunging, and by aspersion, or sprinkling.But whether the plan of immersion Is better than simple aspersion Let those immersed And those aspersed Decide by the Authorized Version, And by matching their agues tertian. --G.J.

Jim Leach

As long as it's laying dormant, there are no disturbed fibers loose in the air, we don't have any authority over it,

Henry Hyde

As it stands, the situation is both strange and unusual in that the Indian authorities know more about this important proposal than we in Congress.

Bill Clinton

The mistake that they made is that when they kicked out Saddam, they decided to dismantle the whole authority structure of Iraq. ... We never sent enough troops and didn't have enough troops to control or seal the borders,

Whitley Strieber

You're typecast as a mid-list author even before you start. It used to be that a writer would get five or six books before you were pulled and given up on. They gave you a chance to build an audience. Now, if the first book doesn't build an audience, you're gone.

Best Buy's authority in consumer electronics, our deep product assortments and outstanding store experience continue to make the difference with customers.

Robert A. Heinlein

Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.

Jerry Spinelli

Even including myself, my favorite author is Eileen Spinelli, who I happen to live with. She's a terrific writer and has written several of my all-time favorites.

Benjamin had like a quiet presence, but a presence that gave you a sense of authority and of being in control,

Cory Doctorow

Blogs encourage their authors to publish in small, partially formed chunks,

Every Liquor License Authority item, I have to step down.

Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.

Vince Lombardi

Football is like life -- it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

It's not unusual. We have no authority to hold them if they can make the bail.