Famous Quotes & Sayings

The parents have been great. Today they are out picking up 2,000 books for me.

This really underscores that just because there's a booming housing market, it doesn't translate into strong economic growth. It suggests that consumption spending has a built-in speed limit to it. You just can't expect to grow very fast.

The phone system has been going nonstop, and I'm waiting for the initial online report. Some of our cabins may be booked solid by the end of the day.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

The genre of narrative business books that I love so much - the ones that have a you-are-there quality - was invented, or so it is said, in 1982 by David McClintick, who wrote 'Indecent Exposure,' a rollicking good read about a Hollywood scandal and the ultimate boardroom power struggle at Columbia Pictures.

Action Bronson

Did I collect baseball cards? I've got 10 books full of plastic in my mother's house. All the Upper Decks, the Fleers, the Fleer Ultras. My grandfather brought me to the trade shows. I collected Marvel cards, too.

We've been predicting this will overtake print books in about 10 years. In the first six months it will be a very small part of Steve's business. But three to five years out we see a billion-dollar marketplace.

We sell as much of his kids' books as we do his books for adults.

We see very strong demand now. It's really good times for our business. From a hotel perspective it's boom times.

We're talking about students pocket books and what they'll have to pay.

We're talking about a person with great integrity who played by the book and, as far as I know, never deviated from the rules.

We need to get these tax incentives on the books and help Katrina victims make a fresh start,

We need to get off the oil dependence treadmill, we need to do it fast, and we need to start now. The single most important step we can take is to boost fuel economy standards significantly. Unfortunately, the Transportation Department's weak proposal shows that Washington lacks the will to face up to the problem and help solve it.

We need to sell 10 books a day from every machine to make them profitable. Vending machines aren't going to outshine traditional bookshops.

Shashi Tharoor

We need to scale up what exists in Africa, in various parts of Asia. There has been remarkable progress in China and that's a reflection of the booming economy there, there's been less of that progress elsewhere.

Anthony Browne

One day, I found my dad's dressing-gown in an old suitcase, and it transported me back to when I was five and thought he was a god or a superhero who could do anything. After that, I wrote my first positive book about fathers, about my dad.

Alison Goldfrapp

I love escaping into film, because everyday life I find quite troublesome. So any excuse to go into a cinema and say goodbye to the world for a couple of hours, or in a book or whatever, is great.

What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading

The government should make use of the laws we already have on the books (to stop pornography).

Ashwin Sanghi

That freedom of writing you don't get in other formats, I'd rather leave it to someone else to deal with the headache of drafting my book into a screenplay.

Antony Beevor

There are one or two very good women military historians who use imagination, great study and research; they can put themselves in the boots of the soldier.

Andie MacDowell

I'm always reading several books at the same time, depending on how deeply engrossed in it I am, if it's fiction and if it captures me.

Sonam Kapoor

My mom would always read a book to me at night from when I was three. Now, I can't go to sleep without reading a book. At the same time, once I read, it's difficult for me to go to sleep, as I have an overactive imagination and I start thinking.

Benny Blanco

I used to link up boom boxes, record one take, play it into another boom box then play all that back into the other one until I had six tracks. It was unlistenable!

Burton Cummings

My book is already online. I can type 150 words a minute. I took typing in high school.

Brian P. Cleary

These are books that want to be read out loud. These are books kids share with each other, and I think that's important.

Birdy

I read the three 'Hunger Games' books in a week and because I liked them so much I wrote 'Just a Game.'

I spend a lot of time looking at rococo books. And almanacs used to be huge sellers - they were pretty much part of the fabric of life. I thought, this is bizarre, I'd love to buy a book like this, and there isn't one. So I thought, all right then, this could be fun. I'll write an almanac.

Jim Gaffigan

Ever read a book that changed your life? Me neither.

Joshua Foer

Today we read books 'extensively,' often without sustained focus, and with rare exceptions we read each book only once. We value quantity of reading over quality of reading. We have no choice, if we want to keep up with the broader culture.

While the latest retail sales reading is disappointing, the picture of a solid consumer remains, with positive growth in the first quarter, despite the boom in fourth-quarter spending.

You blink, then you look at the clock and ? boom ? we're up by 30. I don't know how it happens ? it's something about the third quarter.

Derek Jeter

We had some opportunities to score early and we let Boomer off the hook.

Justin Turner

We are excited, ecstatic. We submitted the entry to ABA and it was chosen from over 400 entrants - it's quite an honor and it will boost trail attendance.