Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adam Smith

This program will help users discover more books, publishers sell more books and authors to ultimately write more books.

This process isn't something we're trying to hide. We've had this authority since before the Department of Homeland Security was created.

There are very few top conductors in this world. You need incredible authority, experience, charisma. And formal training is the first step. It's not like you can just get on the podium and be a conductor.

Let the scripture be your authority in determining what should be done and what should not be done. You should perform your duty following the scriptural injunction.

Shared sovereignty doesn't work, because sovereignty depends on being able to exercise authority,

Francis Bacon

Severity breedeth fear, but roughness breedeth hate. Even reproofs from authority ought to be grave and not taunting.

She was putting a lot of pressure on herself in the early games. It all came together (against Pennington). She had good shots. She's gone to goal with authority before, but she was really moving the goalie and shooting where she wanted to shoot.

Aristotle

Authority is no source for Truth.

Lee Child

Male authors always take care to make their heroes at least one inch taller than they are, and considerably more muscular. Just as female authors give their heroines better hair and slimmer thighs.

Robert M. Pirsig

I did not want to write one of those sequels that famous first-book authors get into where everybody says, 'Oh yeah.'

Mahmoud Abbas

We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority.

Malorie Blackman

I would like to champion diverse forms like graphic novels and works told in verse and diverse writers and illustrators and diverse authors as well.

MAGDALENE, n. An inhabitant of Magdala. Popularly, a woman found out. This definition of the word has the authority of ignorance, Mary of Magdala being another person than the penitent woman mentioned by St. Luke. It has also the official sanction of the governments of Great Britain and the United States. In England the word is pronounced Maudlin, whence maudlin, adjective, unpleasantly sentimental. With their Maudlin for Magdalene, and their Bedlam for Bethlehem, the English may justly boast themselves the greatest of revisers.

Let me be real clear. We support coach McKay in practicing his religion privately. In fact, we defend his right to do that. It is only where he uses his authority as coach to promote his religious beliefs that we have a problem.

Tobin being here full time is good ? you want someone with authority on site. That will make decision-making a lot faster.

American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.

Gail Carson Levine

Most of the authors I liked were dead, so it didn't seem like a safe occupation.

William Kent Krueger

I think that whether we acknowledge it or not, our opinions as authors always influence our work. How can they not?

Every author believes that the book which he is placing before the public will 'fill a long-felt want,' and success or failure depends very much on how closely he has been able to gauge the nature of the 'long-felt want.'

Vikram Seth

Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and authors and journalists are equally culpable in this regard.

David A. Bednar

Missionary work essentially is a priesthood responsibility, and all of us who hold the priesthood are the Lord's authorized servants on the earth and are missionaries at all times and in all places - and we always will be.

The pink ribbon is an official trademark of the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation, and as such the foundation has the exclusive rights to use the mark in Canada and authorize its use by others. We haven't authorized the use by this coalition who's doing this campaign and it's something we're concerned about and we are investigating.

Each author has his or her own voice. I read each book slowly so I can see the patterns they use to spread out the garden of earthly delights.

Beverly Cleary

I wrote books to entertain. I'm not trying to teach anything! If I suspected the author was trying to show me how to be a better behaved girl, I shut the book.

Readers always seem to think that the author has some control over the design of their books.

Walter Kirn

You have plausible deniability, as they say in politics, as an author with movies. Because if the movie is terrible, you simply say they failed to catch the genius of the book.

We have made clear that we believe that we already have the authority for a military strike, should such an option be chosen.

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt

Probably every book I read influenced me in some small way. Authors like Jan Westcott, Kathleen Winsor, Catherine Cookson, Georgette Heyer, and even Barbara Cartland taught me to write character-driven stories.

Virginia Euwer Wolff

As authors evolve and try to trace the precedents that have shaped their work, it sometimes becomes a matter of identifying the shadowy figure in the back row of the mental photograph, or of grabbing at the tail of a memory that's just slipping out the window into thin air.

I first encountered Bradbury's writing when I was pretty young. He's a great bridge author between young-adult fiction and literature.

Authors as diverse as Rudyard Kipling, E. Nesbit, and J. R. R. Tolkien have shaped modern paganism as greatly as any theological underpinnings.

Lisa McMann

I had one of those defining moments in the fourth grade when my teacher said the story I wrote was the best in the class, and therefore I would be going Young Authors Conference where I'd get to hang out with authors all day.