Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Snyder

In Paul Friedrich's book Proto-Indo-European Trees he identifies the "semantic primitives" of the Indo-European tribe of languages through a group of words that have not changed much through twelve thousand years - and those are tree names: especially birch, willow, adler, elm, ash, apple and beech (bher, wyt, alysos, ulmo, os, abul, bhago). Seed syllables, bija, of the life of the west.

Gary Snyder

In Western Civilization, our elders are books.

Gaston Bachelard

Written language must be considered as a particular psychic reality. The book is permanent; it is an object in your field of vision. It speaks to you with a monotonous authority which even its author would not have. You are fairly obliged to read what is written.

Gary Vaynerchuk

From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.

Gary Vaynerchuk

The thing that I'm most passionate about, I'm writing a book called 'Jab Jab Jab Jab Jab Right Hook,' and it really focuses on how to story-tell in a noisy, ADD world.

Gary Vaynerchuk

I find it fascinating that a lot of business books that do well are from people who've never made any money in business.

Gao Xingjian

Man tends to think that he is a creator, that he is like God. This is especially true of intellectuals, and in the last century, intellectuals tended to forget that they were like everyone else. Writing this book was a description of man going from a state of God back to a state of man, back to being a normal person.

Fulton J. Sheen

Any book which inspires us to lead a better life is a good book.

Fulton J. Sheen

The Rosary is the book of the blind.

Fulton J. Sheen

Books are the most wonderful friends in the world. When you meet them and pick them up, they are always ready to give you a few ideas. When you put them down, they never get mad; when you take them up again, they seem to enrich you all the more.

Fulton J. Sheen

Neither theological knowledge nor social action alone is enough to keep us in love with Christ unless both are proceeded by a personal encounter with Him. Theological insights are gained not only from between two covers of a book, but from two bent knees before an altar. The Holy Hour becomes like an oxygen tank to revive the breath of the Holy Spirit in the midst of the foul and fetid atmosphere of the world

Freddie Highmore

Also "Catcher in the Rye", which happens to be one of my favorite books, I just found that kind of useful. It helps you get into the American accent.

Frank Oz

I'd like to read a book sometime. I've never read a book before. That'd be an adventure. I understand they have pages and everything. Yeah, I've got to do that sometime.

There ought to be some sign in a book about man, that the writer knows thoroughly one man at least.

Frank Miller

Comic book' has come to mean a specific genre, not a story form, in people's minds. So someone will call 'Die Hard' a 'comic-book movie,' when it has nothing to do with comic books. I'd rather have comics be the vehicle by which stories are told.

Frank Miller

In the world of comic books, "troublemaker" means someone who has some sense of dignity.

Frank Miller

I'm a comic book artist. So I think to myself, what do I like to draw? I like to draw hot chicks, fast cars and cool guys in trench coats. So that's what I write about.

Frank Miller

I don't do a comic book thinking there is a movie. I just want it to be as good a comic book as it can be.

Frank Miller

In a way, 'Sin City''s designed to be paced somewhere between an American comic book and Japanese manga. Working in black and white, I realized that the eye is less patient, and you have to make your point, and sometimes repeat it. Slowing things down is harder in black and white, because there isn't as much for the eye to enjoy.

Frank Miller

In the comic-book world, there tends to be an overblown sense of tradition. Bad habits die hard. There are ways I think the form could work more effectively if we lost the bad habits that were created before we were born.

Christopher Hitchens

Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.

Christopher Hitchens

The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.

Christopher Darden

I dont know how the editors are going to take it or how it may be received. But to some extent Im hoping that with the next book, when people pick it up and read it, it will scare the pants off of them.

Christopher Darden

I am a struggling writer. A middle-aged man with two little kids and I'm just trying to earn a living. So buy this book - or my kids will have to go to foster care.

Christopher Darden

The main thing is that you have a good editor - one that believes in you and who will give you the feedback that you need to produce a good book.

Christopher Dawson

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.

Christina Baldwin

Every person is born into life as a blank page and every person leaves life as a full book.

Christina Ricci

Recently, I've really responded to books that bring the magic of childhood back to us as adults.

Christina Ricci

I love the solitude of being on a plane and finally getting to read an entire book and being left alone.

Christina Aguilera

Just the whole concept of burlesque, I've always been fascinated with it. I've always collected so many books about burlesque.

Christian Lacroix

I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines

Christian Dior

Black is the most slimming of all Colors. It is the most flattering. You can wear black at any Time. You can wear it at any age. You can wear it for almost any occasion. I could write a book about black.

Chris Rock

Success is just hanging out with my kids. I mean, I always say if you have options, you're rich. To me, success is the fact that hey, I just did a movie and maybe I'll do some stand up, maybe I'll will write a book or maybe I will do a play.