Famous Quotes & Sayings

Boomers have been mass-marketed to since they were five years old, and they're always interested in what's next.

David Brown

Boomers have a different view of aging. They're jumping out of airplanes, running marathons and not giving up on rock and roll.

Boomers and the Workplace Revolution. These industries will need to recruit older workers because there is not a skilled enough workforce ready to replace the retirees.

Boomers always struck me as very self-centered and self-important, because there are so many of us. We're always in the middle of the next fun moment at some everlasting party, and we're not able to defer the gratification to tackle the long-term problems.

Bronson Arroyo

Boomer obviously threw a monkey wrench in everybody?s plans.

Boomer is what you want them all to be.

Bob Hartley

Boom Boom was an incredible man who meant a great deal to me and I'm fortunate to have called him a friend and mentor. I'm sincerely honored to be a part of the same coaching fraternity and to follow his lead as an NHL Head Coach in Atlanta.

Book work is something I can do without.

book will become a bestseller, and I'm sure even be proposed for the Nobel prize.

Book - what they make a movie out of for television.

Daniel Handler

Book thirteen marks the return of a reptile previously gone missing.

Sarah Rees Brennan

Books written by boys are given very different treatment to those written by girls: they're even given very different covers. People also expect, in this YA-booming world, girls to be less experimental than boys: girls are achieving a lot of success, but they're confined.

Philip Pullman

Books which satisfy us and feed us and nourish us have to have this substratum of genuine truth in them, ... And I don't see much of that in most fantasy.

Bookstores see a book by a woman and they put it in the romance section. I write mainstream fiction about women.

Rosecrans Baldwin

Bookstores don't exactly dot the American highway in the grand manner of Sbarros.

Abraham Lincoln

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men and women

Books last a really long time if you take care of them.

Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West.

William Godwin

Books have been handed down from generation to generation, as the true teachers of piety and the love of God, that represent him as so merciless and tyrannical a despot, that, if they were considered otherwise than through the medium of prejudice, they could inspire nothing but hatred. It seems that the impression we derive from a book, depends much less on its real contents, than upon the temper of mind and preparation with which we read it.

George Crabbe

Books cannot always please, however good;/ Minds are not ever craving for their food.

Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which othermen have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.

Books are special -- they communicate with us directly, ... movies are made by a bunch of people for a larger bunch of people.

Books are provided by the Reading is Fundamental program.

Joanne Harris

I love it when my books cause controversy, when people argue violently about the ending.

Joanne Harris

Remember, it's the winners write the history books, and the losers get the leavings.

Joanne Harris

I don't tend to do category fiction very well. One of my problems when I was starting off was that publishers were hesitant to handle my books because they were never sure what I was going to do next.

Joanne Harris

The great thing about books is that you can end with a question mark.

Joanne Harris

Some books you read. Some books you enjoy. But some books just swallow you up, heart and soul.

Jo Beverley

When I settled to writing seriously, which would be in my 30s, I did expect to be published eventually, but my aspirations werent very high. A published book and a few appreciative readers was my idea of heaven.

Jo Nesbo

I wasn't that into crime novels at all, but a friend introduced me to the work of Jim Thompson - I loved all his books.

Jo Nesbo

The only pressure I feel is to write good books. And to not replicate the previous book. Whether you have a thousand readers or a million readers it doesn't change the pressure. I never feel tempted to give the reader what I think the reader wants.

Jo Brand

Not many women will go out on a limb to make themselves really unattractive and unfeminine so you can get the laughs, but it's a great thing to do in my book.