Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edan Lepucki

I'm a mother of a three-year-old, but when I started 'California,' my son wasn't even a twinkle in my eye. Because the book took as long as it did, I wrote it before I was pregnant, while I was pregnant, and as a new mother - so I enjoyed a diversity of experiences while creating this world.

Meg Rosoff

I loved horses and horse books as a child.

Marina and the Diamonds

I am very curvy, so the vintage stores suit me better than most designers. I just can't seem to give up crisps, or make my boobs shrink for that matter. Alas, I will never fit a size zero.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Half of my library are old books because I like seeing how people thought about their world at their time. So that I don't get bigheaded about something we just discovered and I can be humble about where we might go next. Because you can see who got stuff right and most of the people who got stuff wrong.

Ned Vizzini

A lot of the books that I grew up reading were pretty brutal, like the 'Redwall' books.

I wouldn't call myself a 'literary critic,' just a book reviewer.

I don't think I've ever read an old book through from start to finish. Not after more than six months after writing it, that is.

Lisa Morton

While I do, of course, now feel the pressure having had books that have been very successful, I just know I have to concentrate on writing for myself. I can't worry about genres or markets or what might be commercial or not. That never works.

Marie Lu

I remember my favorite books when I was a kid: 'The Redwall Adventure' series, 'Ender's Game,' things like that.

Open in his hand was a solid gift of the Church - or, as he thought of it at this moment, a gift from God to the Church, for a distilled grammar of faith and practice. The Book of Common Prayer its treasure was great and always ready. He loved the taste of the phrases in his mouth.

Cynthia Rowley

People are dressing like they work in outdoor booths at the flea market. They are really dressing for the weather, and also knowing that when you go out in the morning, you don't know when you're going to be back.

Jared Diamond

People are responding so well to the book - it's really an upper.

John Searles

People are often surprised that I am so upbeat. I'm always hearing, 'You're so light and funny, and your books are so dark and twisted.' There's a dichotomy. I like books that are dark and creepy. I don't control it - it's just what I gravitate toward.

People actually camp out at the book to get seats at center court.

Our goal was to get 11 booths and we got 26, with a lot of companies outside Berthold and Carpio wanting to help. We'll see how it goes.

Our hope is to somehow take King off the pages of history books and somehow bring him to life in a way that people will find compelling.

O Yahya! take hold of the Book with strength, and We granted him wisdom while yet a child / And tenderness from Us and purity, and he was one who guarded (against evil), / And dutiful to his parents, and he was not insolent, disobedient.

Paul Davis

Our scouting reports are longer than some of the books I have to read in school.

Our strong performance in winter testing has given everybody a genuine boost in motivation.

Will Rogers

Our foreign dealings are an open book -- generally, a checkbook.

Our goal is to create that book that every Wednesday 52 is the one book you can't wait to get.

Our first store, in 1990, was in the shopping center where the movie theater is now. We bought selected books from a bookseller in DeLand and we had already developed a good business core in the selling and trading side of the business.

Gerard Arpey

Our fourth-quarter results close the book on another very difficult year.

Joshua Foer

Our culture constantly inundates us with new information, and yet our brains capture so little of it. I can spend half a dozen hours reading a book and then have only a foggy notion of what it was about.

Our cost structure is solid, and demand for high-quality sheet steel is good. We're in the process of breaking out of the industry's usual boom and bust cycle.

Gloria Hunniford

Overall, I think writing the book was quite a cathartic experience,

Overall the results are good, but the question is if it's enough to boost the shares.

Our training for Melbourne depends so much on the documents and the training log books, so please return it.

Tyler Smith

Our whole team takes a lot of pride in our defense. We needed a defensive boost at that time, and we got it.

Francis Bacon

Out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of books, and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time

Jon Lewis

Our writing process is different. We storyboard it first. We're so visual, and we didn't want to lose that. We want our books to be very cinematic. We want to create awe-inspiring sequences.

Nicholas Sparks

I'm here to love you, to hold you in my arms, to protect you. I am here to learn from you and to receive your love in return. I am here because there is no other place to be.

Becca Fitzpatrick

It makes no difference to me whether I shoot you or you fall to your death.” “It does make a difference,” I said, my voice small but confident. “You and I share the same blood.” I lifted my hand precariously, showing him my birthmark. “I’m your descendant. If I sacrifice my blood, Patch will become human and you’ll die. It’s written in The Book of Enoch.