Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hilary Mantel

There are plenty of books that tell you how to become a writer, but not one that suggests how, if you want a normal life, you might reverse the process.

Eleanor Catton

I have always loved reading books for children and young adults, particularly when those books are mysteries.

With both Christmas and Hanukkah coming late in the week, and considering that two of last year's top four shopping days fell immediately before Christmas, it is still possible that we will see a boost in spending.

Yet it's the only way to get some fizz into the book trade.

Stephen Jay Gould

I picture several reviewers of my own books as passing a long future lodged between Brutus and Judas in the jaws of Satan.

There are seventy million books in American libraries, but the one you want is always out.

There are probably other ways to spend money than boot camps.

You have many games that are movie tie-ins or book tie-ins that historically have not done well because you haven't been able to translate what was good about the book, what was positive about the book, into an entertainment environment.

Christopher Moore

The reason I'm writing funny books is that I wish there were more.

Christian Kane

You can read books on stuff all day long, but until you get out there and just do it, if you want to start playing, and you want to make some music, then go out and play. Go find yourself a venue and play, even if it's in your home. Just play every day. You win the fight by fighting.

Douglas R. Oberhelman

Any politician that says no tax revenue or zero spending cuts does not deserve reelection. Our hole is so deep in this country with the debt and the debt service, the interest on that debt, before the big expenses come for Social Security and Medicare - for we baby boomers in a few years - that everything has to be on the table.

Dav Pilkey

These 'mistakes' occur in my books for a reason. I have an agenda: I'm secretly trying to inspire kids to create their own stories and comics, and I don't want them to feel stifled by 'perfectionism.'

Robert Kiyosaki

I am very concerned about the millions of baby boomers who are counting on the stock market to deliver them a safe, sound, long retirement. I am afraid the baby boomers who are counting on the stock market are in trouble.

Barney Frank

Pat Moynihan could write books with one hand and legislate with the other. I can't; I have a short attention span. The slightest distraction would take me away from writing.

Barry Eisler

I want to position my books as premium-priced versions on the reasonably-priced scale, if that makes sense, to find a sweet spot between the high-end of what my brand can support and the low end that results in impulse purchases and maximum sales volume.

Barton Gellman

The IronClad is faster than most thumb drives but far slower than a standard hard drive. Boot up, application launch and other Windows operations feel sluggish, though still usable.

Al Sharpton

It is up to us to change laws on the books like 'Stand Your Ground' laws and push elected officials to enact regulations that hold police officers to the same standards as the rest of society. This is why we vote.

Andy Kindler

I've sold a lot of different product. Very briefly, I sold Time Life Books on the phone.

Amy Bloom

Smart people often talk trash about happiness and worse than trash about books on happiness, and they have been doing so for centuries - just as long as other people have been pursuing happiness and writing books about it.

Adam Levine

Seriously, 'Honey Boo Boo' is the decay of Western civilization. Just because so many people watch the show doesn't mean it's good.

Alexander Smith

Books are a finer world within the world.

Brendan Myers

Complex astronomical instruments like the Antikythera Mechanism and the Nebra Sky Disk were made by Pagans. Our Pagan intellectual heritage includes poets and scientists and literary intellectuals of every kind, especially including those who wrote some of the most important and influential books in all of Western history.

Carol P. Christ

In my book I specifically discussed the structural nature of injustice and offered Nine Touchstones of Goddess ethics as an alternative to the Ten Commandments of Biblical religion.

Barbara Hambly

It'll take a while for all those strange old books that I love to show up on digital: books that aren't current bestsellers but aren't public-domain freebies, either.

Buzz Osborne

I can't go into Oklahoma without thinking about Larry Clark's photography book 'Tulsa.' It's a great book about how life works.

Ariel Pink

Do you know I used to pride myself on the fact that I'd never booked a show in my life, but that I'd played so many because I'd been invited?

Antony Gormley

There is no question that creative intelligence comes not through learning things you find in books or histories that have already been written, but by focusing on and giving value to experience as it happens.

We have to boost our core services such as fire, police and trash collection. Operating a zoo is a business we can no longer be in.

This series captured Austen's interest in showing the feelings of desire between Elizabeth and Darcy. The director managed to communicate that this is a book about what constitutes a good marriage, and that is love.

Kyle Korver

This was a huge boost for us. Now we feel like we can do some things. We've just played together. We talked all year about doing that.

Iqbal Sacranie

There is no resolution of the problem as long as this very abusive and profane book is in publication and circulation.

Ezra Pound

There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and forty-eight.

The opening of Disneyland this year could prolong the boom for another two years.