Famous Quotes & Sayings

I think what we're doing right now is evaluating the current statutes that are on the books and looking at the whole gamut of issues that continue to come up.

I think what the book was trying to do was show the extent to which Doug was disgusted with it. It just didn't fit in. I guess disgusted isn't the word. He just didn't seem to fit. He had a good time. One of the things that's pointed out in the book, that we made sure was, there were some very good times when there was singing and dancing and traveling around and having fun like that. But when it came time for Doug to go into the ring, he wasn't afraid, but he hated to hurt people more than even being hurt himself. He just found it repulsive. He just did not want to be a part of causing pain to anyone. He was completely non-violent -- and huge and strong.

Roz Chast

I think that children's books should be censored not for references to sex but for references to diseases. I mean, who didn't think after reading 'Madeline' that they were going to get appendicitis?

Helen Oyeyemi

I think, basically, what I'm good for is reading - a lot. I think I'll always be more of a reader than a writer, definitely. There are sooo many books in the world I haven't read, sometimes I feel as if they're all piled on top of my head weighing me down and saying, 'Hurry up.'

I think any news out of OPEC tomorrow is likely to provide more of a psychological boost than anything else,

I think an upside to book stocks will come if these two books generate a lot of traffic into bookstores and boost sales of other books as well.

The next time you download a book on Kindle, buy a Michael Moore screed at Barnes & Noble, or order up a political movie from video on demand, remember that it is the Supreme Court's decision in 'Citizens United' that guarantees you the right to do so.

Bret Easton Ellis

I just sort of write the book I feel like writing given the emotional place I am in my life at the time.

Wilbur Smith

I'm a feminist. The women in my books in recent years have been powerful characters and I love to see a woman with a cute bottom walking past.

Ann Hood

I often feel that I have a split personality. I love more than anything to be in my study writing, but when it's time to do a book tour, I love that extroverted part, too - talking to people, reading, traveling, going out into the world.

David Weinberger

Because books are written by individuals, it has often made knowledge seem like the product of individuals, even though everybody has always understood that individuals are working within the social network.

David Weinberger

In the university library, we know when a book has been used in a class or put on reserve... or while it was out, did somebody call it back in. It turns out to be a pretty good indicator of how relevant the work is at that time.

Andrea Barrett

When I'm sniffing around new territory, I often choose, rather randomly, one general book and then follow its bibliography and notes to other, more specialized works and to the primary source material.

We're linked by our common desire to boot Berlusconi out of office.

Jalal Talabani

The only book that cannot be changed is the Koran.

Jen Lancaster

Quinn Cummings is a master story-teller and her book is nothing short of delightful. Her insights into topics like celebrity, parenting, and cats with a taste for homicide are pithy and uproarious and not to be missed. Notes from the Underwire is charming, hilarious, and just snarky enough to be ultimately satisfying.

Jen Lancaster

I'm such a fangirl when it comes to other writers. I read 250 books a year, and I'm always talking up books by other authors.

We are constantly checking our circulation system database which tells us who the books are issued to and whether they were returned late or damaged.

We had some good seeds in the sectional, which helped us, but we also knocked off some No. 2 seeds. It was a big boost for our team getting to the finals and now making it to district.

Brooks Robinson

Was it a fact? ... Or just a great new story about a celebrity that might help sell books?

To boo Joey here, that's tough on him and tough on all of us. At the same time, I can sympathize with the fans, too.

Tony Stewart

Yeah, but he's around it every week. It's hard when you're not around that, to go every week to get caught up. Every year that goes by, it just seems like that's a part of my career that is kind of like a chapter in a book that seems it's closed and we've moved on to another chapter.

We are looking for a 300,000 jump in non-farm payrolls. That should continue to provide some boost to the U.S. dollar.

James Thurber

I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.

We recognized there were tens of millions of fans of the book ... and therefore we followed a strategy to make a movie that would be true to the book.

Cynthia Ozick

Above all, a book is a riverbank for the river of language. Language without the riverbank is only television talk - a free fall, a loose splash, a spill.

Cynthia Ozick

All politicians know that every 'temporary' political initiative promised as a short-term poultice stays on the books forever.

Cynthia Ozick

In books, as in life, there are no second chances. On second thought: its the next work, still to be written, that offers the second chance.

Cyril Connolly

I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the writer is soothed by the opiate of action, the crank by posing as a good journalist, and having an air hole. I dislike it. I do it and I am always resolving to give it up.

Cyril Connolly

There are only three things which make life worth living: to be writing a tolerably good book, to be in a dinner party of six, and to be traveling south with someone whom your conscience permits you to love.

Cyril Connolly

How many books did Renoir write on how to paint?

Cyril Connolly

The books I haven't written are better than the books other people have.

Daphne Guinness

I never read gossip press. I just read books. And I never switch on the TV anymore.