Famous Quotes & Sayings

What we're seeing this morning is in response to OPEC's comments and also some old-fashioned year-end book squaring. Oil prices rose sharply and then fell. The market is doing some to-and-fro action, where traders saw the fluctuations and thought about pulling back instead of buying at the higher prices.

Whenever one or two people think they want a study group or discussion - boom - you've got a class. And that's what makes SAGE so great. They're drawing on personal experiences. Been there, done that.

When we first started, we booked a tour first. So, the pressure was on to deliver. The heavens just opened.

Mike Newell

What he said was 'You must read the book and if you find a way of doing the book, then you must tell us what that is. You mustn't come because it's a franchise. You mustn't come because it's the most famous children's film that's ever been. You mustn't come for this that and the other reason. You've got to be able to see how to make a 750-page book into a single movie,'

Sally Phillips

What having a Down's syndrome child isn't - and I feel very strongly about this - is a tragedy. All those pregnancy books you read when you are expecting refer to Down's syndrome as if it were the worst possible outcome, and it's not.

What's not to like? I love fantasy books. I love magic and dragons.

Unlearned men of books are like the eunuchs who are guardians of the beautiful.

Usually it's someone who's taking rare books where they have some marketability and hope for huge profits.

Edmund White

I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or less fills a niche it's seized on, even when it's a far from perfect fit

Edmund White

The most important things in our intimate lives can't be discussed with strangers, except in books.

Edna O'Brien

There was I, devouring books and yet allowing a man who had never read a book to walk me home for a bit of harmless fumbling on the front steps.

Edna O'Brien

Books everywhere. On the shelves and on the small space above the rows of books and all along the floor and under chairs, books that I have read, books that I have not read.

Edna O'Brien

To live with the work and the letters of James Joyce was an enormous privilege and a daunting education. Yes, I came to admire Joyce even more because he never ceased working, those words and the transubstantiation of words obsessed him. He was a broken man at the end of his life, unaware that Ulysses would be the number one book of the twentieth century and, for that matter, the twenty-first.

Edna Ferber

Bizarre as was the name she bore, Kim Ravenal always said she was thankful it had been no worse.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Stranger, pause and look; From the dust of ages Lift this little book, Turn the tattered pages, Read me, do not let me die! Search the fading letters finding Steadfast in the broken binding All that once was I!

Edna St. Vincent Millay

A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public eye with his pants down.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Oh, friend, forget not, when you fain would note In me a beauty that was never mine, How first you knew me in a book I wrote, How first you loved me for a written line....

Edna St. Vincent Millay

This book, when I am dead, will be A little faint perfume of me. People who knew me well will say, She really used to think that way.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

I knew nothing about the technique of story writing, and now, after eighteen years of writing, I still know nothing about the technique, although with the publication of my new novel, "Tarzan and the Lost Empire", there are 31 books on my list.

Edgar Lee Masters

Many books have been written to show that Christianity has emasculated the world, that it shoved aside the enlightenment and wisdom of Hellas for a doctrine of superstition and ignorance.

Brad Bird

I was not a big comic-book reader.

Bobby Orr

I didn't want to do a book just to do a book. I wanted to do a book that, if you should read it, you might take one thing from it. Until that was clear in my mind, I wasn't going to do one.

Benjamin Franklin

Read much, but not too many books.

Benjamin Franklin

My father's little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity, most of which I read, and have since often regretted that, at a time when I had such a thirst for knowledge, more proper books had not fallen in my way since it was now resolved I should not be a clergyman.

Benjamin Franklin

For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head.

Benjamin Franklin

Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.

Benjamin Franklin

Women are books, and men the readers be...

Benjamin Franklin

All the little money that ever came into my hands was ever laid out in books.

Benjamin Franklin

When about 16 Years of Age, I happened to meet with a Book written by one Tryon, recommending a Vegetable Diet. I determined to go into it.... My refusing to eat Flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity....

Benjamin Franklin

Some books we read, tho' few there are that hit the happy point where wisdom joins with wit.

Ben Casnocha

Expose yourself to as much as possible. Attend conferences no one else is attending. Read books no one else is reading. Talk to people no one else is talking to.

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Bookstores see a book by a woman and they put it in the romance section.

Barbara Taylor Bradford

I will never stop writing. People often ask when I will retire, but I say it's none of their business. Writing defines who I am. I love the feeling of holding a finished book in my hands, and then I can't wait to start the great adventure of writing the next one.