Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bertrand Russell

It appeared that after first contemplating a book on some subject, and after giving serious preliminary attention to it, I needed a period of subconscious incubation which could not be hurried and was if anything impeded by deliberate thinking.... Having, by a time of very intense concentration, planted the problem in my subconsciousness, it would germinate underground until, suddenly, the solution emerged with a blinding clarity, so that it only remained to write down what happened as if in a revelation.

Bertrand Russell

All great books contain boring portions, and all great lives have contained uninteresting stretches.

Bertrand Russell

It is impossible to read in America, except on a train, because of the telephone. Everyone has a telephone, and it rings all day and most of the night.

Bertrand Russell

Great God in Boots! – the ontological argument is sound!

Joan Anderson

The alligator's popular. We're the only Cajun booth out here, and people like Cajun food.

Joan Anderson

The alligator's popular, ... We're the only Cajun booth out here, and people like Cajun food.

That was huge. That gave us a boost of confidence.

That would be a huge boost to get this one under our belt. It would really get us in the right direction of where we need to go. One step closer.

That whole 10-day period in Melbourne 2002 will go down in the history books as the most popular two points ever scored in Formula One.

Bryan Williams

That was a huge win for us. It gave us a real boost to know that we could compete at that level.

That was pretty exciting. It gives you another boost of adrenaline. If they would have done that before my match I would have probably killed him.

Maeve Binchy

That's the kind of motif I bring to the books - that people take charge of their own lives.

Steve Miller

That's been a really good breeding ground for them this year ... It's one for the record books for sure.

I was pretty sure when we made the first 'Carl' book that we had a good idea, but I couldn't have imagined how popular Carl would become. I continue to be grateful for and touched by the extent to which he is known and loved.

I was reading a book and found myself crashing into the person opposite me. The train was going over and over and over, and people were thrown onto the floor.

Graeme Base

I was born in Amersham, England on 6/4/58. My family moved to Australia when I was eight, and I went to Box Hill High School and then Melbourne High School. I liked to draw and write at school, and I liked books by J.R.R. Tolkien, A.A. Milne and Kenneth Grahame.

Gayle Forman

I wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and thought: 'I want to do that!' I always told stories and wrote them down, but I never thought writing was a career path, even though, clearly, someone was writing the books and newspapers and magazines.

Jacque Jones

I wasn't malicious. I just stated my opinion. So, if they boo even more, then that's what they do. It's not a big deal. I just made a statement.

William Shakespeare

O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast.

William Shakespeare

Bell, book and candle shall not drive me back, When gold and silver becks me to come on.

William Shakespeare

Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lender's books, and defy the foul fiend.

William Shakespeare

The painful warrior famous for fight, After a thousand victories, once foil'd, Is from the books of honor razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd

William Shakespeare

You kiss by th' book.

William Shakespeare

Trust not my reading, nor my observations, Which with experimental seal do warrant The tenor of my book.

The problem is, every time the product is upgraded, you have to open up all the book files, change them and reprint them -- same thing with the online documents, ... Now we have one source for creating all of our content and updating it.

We haven't had a single year of falling consumer spending since 1938. There's no boom or bust in consumer spending.

Ben Horowitz

When I was a CEO, the books on management that I read weren't very much help after the first few months on the job. They were all designed to give you directions on how not to screw up your company.

Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Books were the window from which I looked out of a rather meager and decidedly narrow room onto a rich and wonderful universe. I loved the look and feel of books, even the smell... Libraries were treasure houses. I always entered them with a slight thrill of disbelief that all their endless riches were mine for the borrowing.

Zoe Sugg

As a 14-year-old with anxiety, to have read about that in a book would have helped me so much.

And after I compose my programs, but it is very easy because I look to the music in a very natural way without fuss, and so I look always music, in my home, like books and books and books, choose books and you read the pages, so I do this with music, and I make programs.

Kareem Rush

The pressure was there to keep taking shots but when you're not making them you don't want to take as many. But tonight was one of those nights and hopefully this will boost my confidence where I want to go out there and take tough shots.

Those cars have boomer sensibilities in how they're designed.

Ishmael Reed

Those books are still in print, all the books I've written are still in print, but I heard that other people had been victimized also.