Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jennifer Aniston

I can still go out and do things. I can go to a book store. I can go out.

Joey Harrington

I don't like it, but it's part of the game. They are booing for their own reasons, some of which happen to do with us losing. I want to change the losing, obviously. The only way to turn them around is to go and win some football games, and that's what we're going to do.

Avi

I don't like the idea of a book being a test or being used for a test. The way - in my opinion - to make good readers is to let kids choose their own books and not test them.

Salman Rushdie

I don't like books that seem to want to teach me things. Which is not to say that one doesn't learn from books - but you do your own learning in your own way.

Jared Dudley

I don't listen to the crowd, but I'd probably boo if I was watching and we were down 20.

Stan Lee

Comic books would probably be the last thing on the list of what we'll do at this point. But wherever a comic book is warranted, we're more than capable of doing them.

Larry Walker

Carp really needed that. That was a big boost for him.

Humphrey Lyttelton

I did the pilot, and when they came through and said they were going to put it on the air, I had already some dates in the book with my band and so on. So Barry did the first one, he may have done a few more than the first one in the series, and I took it up from then.

Huey Long

The Bible's the greatest book ever written. But I sure don't need anybody I can buy for six bits and a chew of tobacco to explain it to me.

Hubert H. Humphrey

I had no money to buy books, so between classes and work, I haunted the library. I even tutored in French with a sliding scale of payment: twenty dollars for an A, fifteen for a B, ten for a C, five for a D.

Howard Shore

I look at the film without any music or sound. I try to grasp the story from the screenplay. I try to write to the novel or book if there is one. I try to create music that's honest and true to my heart for the story.

Honore de Balzac

We must have books for recreation and entertainment, as well as books for instruction and for business; the former are agreeable, the latter useful, and the human mind requires both. The cannon law and the codes of Justinian shall have due honor, and reign at the universities; but Homer and Virgil need not therefore be banished. We will cultivate the olive and the vine, but without eradicating the myrtle and the rose.

Honore de Balzac

Holding this book in your hand, sinking back in your soft armchair, you will say to yourself: perhaps it will amuse me. And after you have read this story of great misfortunes, you will no doubt dine well, blaming the author for your own insensitivity, accusing him of wild exaggeration and flights of fancy. But rest assured: this tragedy is not a fiction. All is true.

Honore de Balzac

One day, about the middle of July 1838, one of the carriages, lately introduced to Paris cabstands, and known as Milords, was driving down the Rue de l'Universite, conveying a stout man of middle height in the uniform of a captain of the National Guard.

Honore de Balzac

There are houses in certain provincial towns whose aspect inspires melancholy, akin to that called forth by sombre cloisters, dreary moorlands, or the desolation of ruins. Within these houses there is, perhaps, the silence of the cloister, the barrenness of moors, the skeleton of ruins; life and movement are so stagnant there that a stranger might think them uninhabited, were it not that he encounters suddenly the pale, cold glance of a motionless person, whose half-monastic face peers beyond the window-casing at the sound of an unaccustomed step.

Ibrahim Babangida

The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity's most enduring legacies.

Ibrahim Babangida

It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.

Ibrahim Babangida

With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth of a new body of ideas, to the coming into being of another testimony of history.

Ice T

I'm pretty open book, I'm also the kind of person that will say, 'That's none of your business,' too.

Ice Cube

My problem is that I never get through the whole book. I skim through this one, that one, and then the other one.

Ice Cube

Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.

Hearing the boos for Sweeney, that's poor. He does a lot around here -- the fans need to back off a little.

Alexander Pope

Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state

He really gave us a boost early. I was real proud of his effort tonight.

He pulled himself up by his bootstraps and he went to work as a policy guy.

Francis Spufford

When I'm tired and therefore indecisive, it can take half an hour to choose the book I am going to have with me while I brush my teeth.

Francis Spufford

What follows is more about books than it is about me, but nonetheless it is my inward autobiography, for the words we take into ourselves help to shape us.

Francis Quarles

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself.

Ian MacKaye

I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.

Ian Mcewan

I like to think that each book I start is a completely new departure But I’ve learned that whatever you do, readers will have no difficulty assimilating it into what you’ve done before.

Ian Mcewan

She had lolled about for three years at Girton with the kind of books she could equally have read at home--Jane Austen, Dickens, Conrad, all in the library downstairs, in complete sets. How had that pursuit, reading the novels that others took as their leisure, let her think she was superior to anyone else?

Ian Mcewan

Reading groups, readings, breakdowns of book sales all tell the same story: when women stop reading, the novel will be dead.

Ian Frazier

A book tour is not a good opportunity to let your mind wander. You have to pay attention, remember salespeople's and interviewers' names, succinctly summarize your book in a 'selling' way, and so on.