Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kazuo Ishiguro

Throughout my career I've struggled to encourage people to read my books on a more metaphorical level. I'm less attached to my settings than, for example, Saul Bellow. The setting of a novel for me is just a part of the technique. I choose it at the end.

Kazuo Ishiguro

I find Japanese books quite baffling when I read them in translation. It's only with Haruki Murakami that I find Japanse fiction that I can understand and relate to. He's a very international writer.

Kazuo Ishiguro

There comes a point when you can more or less count the number of books you're going to write before you die.

Kazuo Ishiguro

I want my words to survive translation. I know when I write a book now I will have to go and spend three days being intensely interrogated by journalists in Denmark or wherever. That fact, I believe, informs the way I write - with those Danish journalists leaning over my shoulder.

Kazuo Ishiguro

I had been plunged into a different world. I found myself spending half my time answering weird questions on book tours in the Midwest. People would stand up and explain to me the situation in their office and ask me whether they should resign or not.

Kazuo Ishiguro

When I see films made from books, I make a huge effort not to remember the book. It's important to see the film as a film.

Kazuo Ishiguro

People aren't quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They're not quite sure what is being recommended, what literary values it stands for, because every year it stands for something different.

Tom Burke

There seems to be a lot of eating, wine drinking and self-introspection going on. Those books are doing very well.

There's certainly an issue of free speech here. We're not saying by any means that these books shouldn't be read. But ... if it's categorized as Jewish history, versus conspiracy literature, then there's a problem.

The relative stability of U.S. foreclosure inventory ended in December. With lending institutions closing their books at the end of the year, it is somewhat common for the foreclosure inventory to rise. It is premature to predict that December's inventory indicates a foreclosure crisis in the U.S.; however, this rise in inventory, which is higher than in recent years, should be closely monitored as 2006 begins.

There is the risk the investment boom in China turns to bust and that would have a knock-on effect on the rest of the world. Higher rates may take off some of the froth from commodities markets which have benefited from the investment boom.

There's a pull and tug with these two big factors. There are concerns about oil supply and security which ends to boost oil stocks, but this event is clearly pushing the economy into a recession which may put a lot of downward pressure on oil prices, with less demand especially for jet fuel.

There's a new culture of online stars being born. Those people could write a book and sell a few copies.

At least we've made it fun. We've played some games out there, so it's nothing like boot camp or anything like that. It's more like it's been good to get in shape, but at the same time you can make it fun, and that's what they've been doing. It's getting old right now. We want to get back at it and play.

Ken Salazar

At first glance, the President's mix of spending and spending cuts presents a fiscally tight budget. But, this proposal is ultimately what's wrong with Washington. The President is not being forthcoming about his budget or the booming deficit.

A stronger coalition would boost Lula's chances of being reelected.

Ryan Holmes

A swarm of new business tools coming to phones and desktops near you promise to boost efficiency and streamline collaboration by borrowing social features from the likes of Facebook and Twitter.

A surge of some 20 percent in exports in February reflects the booming global economy, one example of which is growth in vehicle exports to North America.

Rahul Dravid

All of us had been reading about it in the history books over the years. So, it was very special just to have passed the same route after knowing about all those great people who have used that route.

All players need to focus on what was promised four years ago: reform of world trade rules that boosts development.

All my books explore fatherhood. I look at what it means to have a big father figure at the centre: sometimes they're a good father, sometimes bad.

A big thing that people want to know is how much of their money goes to the charity and how much is administrative. You can look in the book and find the percentages,

John Foley

A bookstore to me is ike a candy store, ... There is not a book I would not want to read at some point. My son is learning to read right now. Watching him get excited how he can discover things through books is pretty phenomenal.

A book is a garden carried in the pocket

A book has but one vioce, but it does not instruct everyone alike.

A book containing this offensive poem should not be included in any textbook,

The most expensive book I bought was $10. It's all relative to today's market.

The mosque incident will definitely boost his cause.

Viktor Orban

The more rickety the situation (of the budget), the more radical tax cuts are needed...If they jump-start a rise in employment and boost the economy, the period of budget instability will be rather short. If we do it badly, instability will be prolonged.

Mark Twain

A classic is a book which people praise and don't read.

Accelerating world trade is proving a boon to German exports. The recovery is broadening; no doubt the optimism is warranted.

Michael Mandelbaum

In my experience, it's not just that serious books get a hearing on comedy shows. But serious books get a serious hearing, as well as a funny one, on comedy shows.

Michael Irvin

If he wins a fourth Super Bowl, he's the greatest ever in my book.