Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Francis

Would I expect anything different from the Bush administration? No. They will cook the books for whatever they want.

Jim Webb

World War II brought the Greatest Generation together. Vietnam tore the Baby Boomers apart.

Joanne Harris

Writing books and being paid for it - it's not like winning the Lottery. You can't suddenly go, 'Yippee!' and start throwing tenners in the air. I've done pretty well out of it, but certainly not enough to say, 'Right, that's me set up for life.'

Writing a book has provided the single greatest return on investment than any other business decision I have ever made in the history of the company.

We're starting to get that feeling we need to bring our working boots every day and be ready to play. It was such a good win. I'm so proud of our effort.

We're seeing a cultural shift, ... People don't feel that 'used' is a dirty word anymore. Over 78% of buyers on Abebooks.com say they'd be thrilled to receive a used book as a gift.

We've got a week to try and build a stronger squad than we have now. Things can change from day to day, and we are trying very hard to identify players who might improve us, and boost our play-off hopes.

We've tried to structure it so people spend the night, ... I heard that every room in Cache Valley is booked ... We've blacked out the entire valley for tonight.

Paul Hewitt

We've tried to remind him that he's a very good player and he can make plays for us. That's a nice boost for his confidence going into our last game.

Bill Mumy

Well, I've been a big fan of comic books since I was a little kid. In fact, I used to write and draw my own comic books when I was on the old Lost in Space series.

Bill Mumy

I havent been doin much comic book writing for the last several years though, as Ive been writing television projects and a novel.

Whitley Strieber

To make a long story short: the way I work out my fears is in the fiction. The results of that work go into the books of fact.

To limit the press is to insult a nation ; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves

To win our first (league) game is a tremendous boost of confidence.

Jane Lindskold

True confession time: I never know where a book is going. I get a gut feeling the story is there, then pursue it with the enthusiasm of a hunting tiger on a trail. If I knew where I was going, I'd get bored out of my mind and stop writing.

Troops, both regulars and reserves, are already over-stretched. Cutting the number of boots on the ground, ships or aircraft, are not sensible options,

Yeah, that's good. I don't want to go down in the history books for that. I want to be the first guy to lose 19 and come back and win 19.

While the 2001 recession contributed to higher loan losses in 2002, low interest rates and strong consumer demand helped boost earnings to record levels.

Philip Green

You know the Priory? I've got a permanent room booked there in case I ever think about it.

Candace Bushnell

When I first started writing the column and then the book came out, there were so many women who would come up to me and say: This is me. This is about my life, you know, and nobody has done it before. And I think that that's what they've done really successfully with the TV series, is they made women feel like it's about their lives.

Suki Waterhouse

When I first started buying shoes with my own money, I would always get them from eBay. I used to hack my mum's account, and suddenly these white cowboy leather boots would arrive.

When I first envisioned this book back in 2002, I had no idea it would become the massive project it has become. It has been so long since local residents had the chance to participate by sending in family histories.

We needed this win. It's a big win for us, it really boosts our confidence. We are on a roll now.

We need to write books that publicists and marketers and booksellers and book club leaders and librarians and readers can get excited about. That have something about them that makes them stand out. That makes them shine.

Helen Fielding

I've had a lot of books rejected in my time. My first novel, which didn't get published, was, with hindsight, crashingly dull.

Hansie Cronje

The very quick and high sales of the book caught us off guard, but fortunately we got the second edition from the printers at the end of last week and the shops should now be stocked again,

Hans Jonas

To me, it was a sad fate to have been born into a period and a world where everything was in tip-top order, and the only real excitement was to be found in history books and occasionally also in the paper.

Not as ours the books of old - Things that steam can stamp and fold; Not as ours the books of yore - Rows of type, and nothing more.

We generally have had a good feeling going into the third and fourth quarters because the economy is doing better than expected. Semiconductors are going to get a boost from seasonal trends.

Greg Graffin

I got interested in palaeontology and vertebrate history - sparked by books on human evolution - then vertebrate evolution. Studying with palaeontologists kindled my interest in fieldwork.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

I become one of those people who walks alone in the dark at night while others sleep or watch Mary Tyler Moore reruns or pull all-nighters to finish up some paper that's due first thing tomorrow. I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassettes, with pens and paper, just in case I get the urge to sit down somewhere, and oh, I don't know, read something or write my masterpiece. I want all my important possessions, my worldly goods, with me at all times. I want to hold what little sense of home I have left with me always.

We found a wonderful book of Tahitian tatoos, so we've taken a lot of inspiration from that.

We followed a formal book of study at each monthly meeting to get us going, then after that we were in favor of studying individual problems as they came up.