Famous Quotes & Sayings

I haven't found that term in a medical book yet. It's human tissue. It's his. No kidding.

Jeffery Deaver

I have to say that there are certain books that exist to tell a particular story and then there are books that exist in the context of character.

I have to tell you, I'm a happy man. I've lived the life I wanted to live. I've written the books I wanted to write. No publisher has ever even suggested that I change so much as a phrase - commas and periods, yes - and I suspect that I have a lot of serious readers; in fact, I know.

I really feel this gym would boost the high school experience.

High-tech issues are surrounded by persistent fears over possible profit warnings as we get closer to the mid-year book closing in September.

He stood up and told us if we didn't take the boot off he was going to kill us.

He's such a boost for everyone out there. It's disappointing that we lost, but I think this was more step forward than step back and he's going to really help out a lot and we can get this thing back on track.

Adam Baldwin

Hopefully, young people will read more books, and it will cause them to think a little longer, than just react to pretty pictures.

Stan Lee

Howard the Duck ... should have been good, but every mistake in the book was made with that movie, and it didn't work. I didn't want to butt-in...

He's our guy. It's a confidence boost for our team knowing we're not trying to figure out who the quarterback is from one series to the next.

Mark Teixeira

He's our ace. For him to be back is a huge boost for us. Unfortunately, he can only pitch one out of every five days.

He's rejected our offer. We respect what he's done on the field, but now we're going to close the book and go forward.

Daniel Alfredsson

He's one of those guys that can win you a game. He runs the power play. It's a big boost for us.

Stephen King

I don't think my books would've have been as successful as they are if the readers didn't think they were in the hands of a true crazy person. When I start a story, I don't know where it's going.

Mary Roach

I don't read good books anymore, it seems; I just buy them and put them on the shelf and every now and then walk over and pet them. I'm like the optimistic dieter who fills her closet with clothes two sizes too small and dreams of the day she can wear them. I know just what I want to do when I retire.

Dee Brown

I didn't even know it was (a) 19-0 (run). We were just out there playing. It was a tremendous boost for us going into the half.

Colin Clarke

(I didn't know until) this morning. We were happy to have him back; he gave us a boost and a lift. We worked on a few different things during the week but having him was only a positive.

Ingmar Bergman

I want to stop. I want to stay on Fårö, and read the books I haven’t read, find out things I haven’t yet found out. I want to write things I haven’t written. To listen to music, and talk to my neighbors. To live together with my wife a very calm, very secure, very lazy existence, for the rest of my life.

Jack L. Chalker

No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them.

Jack Kirby

I always enjoyed doing monster books. Monster books gave me the opportunity to draw things out of the ordinary. Monster books were a challenge - what kind of monster would fascinate people?

Jack Canfield

I attempt to read one book every day. I don't always achieve that, especially when I'm traveling. But when I'm home, I read almost a book a day. I certainly read a minimum of two or three a week. And as a result of that, I've read over 3,000 books in areas that interest me, like consciousness and spirituality, holistic health, leadership, success, psychological awareness, therapy, etc.

Jack Canfield

I worked from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. every night for a year to write the first Chicken Soup for the Soul book,

Jack Canfield

The Chicken Soup for the Soul' books are the result of over 20 years of teaching seminars and giving speeches. The first book contains all of the stories that I used in my seminars to illustrate the points that I wanted to make.

Jack Canfield

Never quit. My book, Chicken Soup for the Soul, was turned down by 33 publishers. It's since sold millions of copies.

Jack Canfield

I teach something called The Law of Probabilities, which says the more things you try, the more likely one of them will work. The more books you read, the more likely one of them will have an answer to a question that could solve the major problems of your life.. make you wealthier, solve a health problem, whatever it might be.

J. D. Salinger

I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.

J. D. Salinger

What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.

J. J. Abrams

I was never really a comic-book fanatic.

J. G. Ballard

There is a British pop group called God. At a recent book signing the lead singer introduced himself and gave me a cassette. I have heard the voice of God.

J. G. Ballard

By the eighteenth book, one has a sense of having bricked oneself into a niche, a roosting place for other people's pigeons. I wouldn't recommend it.

J. G. Ballard

Burroughs called his greatest novel Naked Lunch, by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. He's a writer of enormous richness whose books are a kind of attempt to blow up this cozy conspiracy, to allow us to see what's on the end of the fork . . . the truth.

J. D. Salinger

I asked him what, if anything, got him down about teaching. He said he didn't think that anything about it got him exactly down, but there was one thing, he thought, that frightened him: reading the pencilled notations in the margins of books in the college library.

J. I. Packer

The books of C.S. Lewis had a very profound, indirect effect on me.