Famous Quotes & Sayings

In our high-tech era, deleting somebody from your cell phone book is the equivalent of throwing them out and shunning them.

In our eyes, the book is perfectly good and we stand by our Selection Committee and the rights of children to read this book.

I like to read. I'm going to read my book.

I really lost this tournament on day three. I had several fish pull off Friday, and any one of those would have been a $200,000 fish. That's easy to say in hindsight, but going down in the record books for the heaviest one-day weight in history is truly amazing.

I proposed setting up a booth offering to take digital photos of skiers and snowboarders.

Investors decided to book profits on recent positive news from Volkswagen and solid car registration figures.

Investors are buying dollars to book gains after the real rose for five straight sessions.

Investors will become focused on the interest-rate differential story this week. Strong U.S. economic figures will reinforce the view the Fed will keep raising rates, giving a boost to the dollar.

Alan Simpson

In your country club, your church and business, about 15 percent of the people are screwballs, lightweights and boobs and you would not want those people unrepresented in Congress

Joseph Bruchac

I often find myself unsatisfied with books 'about' Indians because they are written from the viewpoint of non-Indians.

Patricia Heaton

In the past, your dumbness has gotten in the way of a few things that I really wanted to do: The book club. Theater. Having conversations.

In the long run, economic growth will continue to get an important boost from the development of new technologies and the discovery of new ways to work better, faster and smarter,

In the old way, it was as if you were looking through a scrap book, you had a series of images. You would never see the entire organ, you would just see the representative photo.

Tom Selleck

In the book, he's in his mid-30s and 5-foot-10.

Bill Ward

Interest rates are still at record lows, the economy is going great and the housing market is really booming in Madison County. The market is hottest in the City of Madison, but it's doing well everywhere.

David Boyd

International book sellers would want to make sure their websites accommodate Korean and Chinese languages as books top the list of the last three items purchased by the Chinese (56%) and South Koreans (50%). This represents tens of millions of consumers in those markets.

Joe Simon

In the 1950s we use to feel that television was taking away our comic readership; with today's exciting, powerfully visual movies I have to wonder about their effect on the kids' loyalty to the comic book medium all over again.

Insert earphones can boost the signal by as much as six to nine decibels. That's about the difference between the sound of a vacuum cleaner and a motorcycle. It's a significant difference.

George Orwell

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face -- forever.

If you visit the guest book you will find a number of criminal types talking about buying and selling the credit cards. This is very disturbing. It realizes the fear people have about online commerce.

If you want to go back to one partition for the Mac, you just rerun Boot Camp and that comes up as an option we make it very simple.

If you want to sell T-shirts and mountain books and volcano burgers in the existing spots, that's great.

William Shakespeare

In nature's infinite book of secrecyA little I can read.

Guy Deutscher

In fact, the book shows that language is in a rough state of equilibrium: some words disappear and some structures are eroded, but new ones are created at the same time, and these do the job just as well as the old ones, ... It is true, of course, that decay is one prominent force in the course of language evolution. But there are also forces of creation and generation operating at the same time.

Richard Ford

I never will forget standing on top of the truck when Junior won that Texas Busch. (Earnhardt) had on his cowboy boots and jumped from the top to the bottom. He was so excited to see (Earnhardt Jr.) win. He was really, really proud of him. He'd be proud of him today.

In a booming economy, the transportation system is always going to be a lagging factor.

In a booming economy, people in the middle are rewarded more aggressively. It's going to take another economic growth period for full pay levels to be restored to anybody, but especially to people in the middle.

David Pierce

I had done voiceover for a Simpson's episode, and I also did some for the HBO show Puss N Boots that was set in Hawaii.

Candice Millard

When I began work on my first book, The River of Doubt, which tells the story of Theodore Roosevelts 1914 descent of an unmapped river in the Amazon rainforest, I thought of it as a tale of adventure, exploration and extraordinary courage.

Candice Bergen

I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.

Candace Bushnell

Like me, he has a searing belief that books are sacred. They might not be to other people, but when you have a passion, you hold on to it. You defend it. You dont pretend it isn't important at the risk of offending others." -Carrie.

Buzz Bissinger

I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.

Buchi Emecheta

As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money.