Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Murphy

Chris Robins did not play with us last year but his level of play, leadership and experience has been a great boost to our team.

Sarah Rees Brennan

I'm a girl, so I've experienced dismissal because I was a girl or because I write about girls: my book with a guy protagonist is treated as more literary and worthy than my other books with girl protagonists.

Chris Rankin

I'm also a fan of the books, long before I got into the movie.

Danny Wallace

I'm a long-time fan of Rob Long, and his books are hugely re-readable, detailing the ins and outs of being a Hollywood comedy writer with a past success but with everything to prove.

Mary Roach

I'm always imposing my taste in books on others. I hope that people enjoy being surprised by a book they might not otherwise read - I enjoy the surprise myself when others do this to me.

Martin Luther

I maintain that some Jew wrote it (the Book of James) who probably heard about Christian people but never encountered any

I look forward to Alex's return to the races. The book isn't over ... there are still more chapters to be written to this story. As always, the health of the horse is most important.

Mary Pope Osborne

I loved Frances Hodgson Burnett, who wrote 'The Little Princess' and 'The Secret Garden.' And I loved the 'Little House on the Prairie' books by Laura Ingalls Wilder.

I love bookstores and booksellers. In my novel 'Dirty Martini,' I thanked over 3,000 booksellers by name in the back matter.

Molly Antopol

I love being in the archives, traveling, sitting in dusty places and looking at books with brittle pages. I love reading biographies and researching, to make myself informed about whatever political or historical time I'm writing about. From there, a lot of the emotional truths about my characters emerge.

Art Alexakis

I love Australia! I got a boot thrown at me there.

Susan Minot

I love 'Anna Karenina.' It's in the top five books on my list. Tolstoy is unsurpassed in combining the grand with the trivial, that is, the small details which make up life.

Mark Twain

I have studied it often, but I never could discover the plot

I have a French book with the period picked out, and I am working on something right now that I don't want to talk about at all.

I have a feeling that most of the actresses on the red carpet will follow the usual pattern of strapless column slinky dresses that show off their bodies. The new emphasis will be the back instead of the boobs -- but that doesn't mean there won't be plenty of implants.

Elizabeth McCracken

I have a memory of my fourth-grade self wanting to be the first woman president of the United States, but I think that has a lot more to do with my love of world records and reference books than a love of serving my country.

John Scales

I have a couple of lists that I can refer to throughout the day, but I don't have the official 'FAT' book yet. Yes, it really is called the FAT (Federal Acronym and Terms) book. And no, you can't speak a sentence around here without using an acronym,

I have an idea for a story, and if the idea is going to work, then one of the characters steps forward, and I hear her voice telling the story. This is what has happened with all the books I've written in the first person.

I have a piece of evidence the book doesn't have with regards to the Knights Templar. You'll have to come to the lecture to see what it is.

Jerry Weintraub

I have a very big phone book and a very long reach around the world. And I think - I don't think, I know - that 95 percent of the people who I know who weren't born into success who have become successful and done things that are different and made a lot of money and had a lot of excitement in their life are people who never hear the word 'no.'

George Bernard Shaw

I have made it so perfectly clear in my tracts, articles, and books what was to be done that all Parliament has had to do was read my works and do the opposite

I have never checked online. I've always used the bookstore because it's convenient.

Jenny Nimmo

I had written two or three books before my husband noticed that in every one of them a family member was missing. He suggested that it was because my father's death, when I was five, utterly changed my world. I can only suppose he is right and that this is the reason I am drawn to a narrative where someone's life is changed by loss.

I had written several books about Kansas railroads and related places to see.

I happen to think it's safer having the people out of the token booths than in the token booths. When they're circulating, they're much more, you know, 'eyes and ears' than when they're stuck in a booth.

I had police officers, fireman and building inspectors come to my booth at the National Hurricane Conference and they thought it was phenomenal.

John le Carre

If I had to put a name to it, I would wish that all my books were entertainments. I think the first thing you've got to do is grab the reader by the ear, and make him sit down and listen. Make him laugh, make him feel. We all want to be entertained at a very high level.

I felt pressure coming to the last hole. To get up there and hit that golf shot, it was a great boost of confidence. I know I can hit the shots. Tomorrow, I can rely on that and have confidence in myself.

I felt pressure coming to the last hole. All I was looking for was a par. But the way I hit the shot, it was a boost of confidence.

I think it's exclusively a move to boost the brand.

Steve Finley

I think it's crap that (the investigation) is just because the book came out.

James Augustine

It could have been broken, but luckily it turned out to only be a sprain. I got the boot off and I've been riding a bike, lifting and doing treatment to get stronger. I have no clue when I'll be back but hopefully within the next two weeks. I just need time, then I need to get back into shape.

It could certainly provide the seed to boost the community.