Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Fisk

I'm not sure whether I've been happy. After my last book tour, I sat on my balcony with a cup of tea. I thought: 'You can't rewind the movie. I've spent more than half my life in the Middle East. There have been great moments of horror and depression and loneliness.'

The data tells us that recovery is on its way, but it's not booming growth.

Ivy Lee

The data show Taiwan's economic fundamentals aren't so good, prompting investors to sell the currency, ... a weakening Taiwan dollar, because it can help boost exports.

The defensive playbook is the size of a phone book. We didn't even get through the first letter of the alphabet.

Abbie Cornish

I read everything I could find: books and online. Sometimes bigger revelations came to me through finer details or something that you wouldn't pick up just by surface reading.

Abbas Kiarostami

I never intended to write poems, nor to be a photographer, nor to be a film-maker. I just took many, many pictures and I would put them in an album, and then some years later I decided to show them and suddenly I was called a photographer. Same thing with my poetry. They're notes that I'd written in a book and it may be considered poetry.

A. C. Benson

A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.

A. A. Milne

To her- Hand in hand we come Christopher Robin and I To lay this book in your lap. Say you're surprised? Say you like it? Say it's just what you wanted? Because it's yours- because we love you.

A. E. Housman

Do not ever read books about versification: no poet ever learnt it that way. If you are going to be a poet, it will come to you naturally and you will pick up all you need from reading poetry.

A. E. Housman

Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man.

A. A. Milne

Then would you read a Sustaining Book, such as would help and comfort a Wedged Bear in Great Tightness.

Jack White

The Guinness book is a very elitist organization. There's nothing scientific about what they do. They just have an office full of people who decide what is a record and what isn't.

Aeschylus

You'll see all other mortal sinners, the ones who flout the honor owed to gods or guests, or loving parents--you'll see them get the justice they deserve. For Hades holds men mightily to a strict accounting down below the earth; he sees all things, inscribes them within the book of his remembering.

Agatha Christie

It had come about ex­act­ly in the way things hap­pened in books.

Agatha Christie

People should be interested in books, not their authors.

Agatha Christie

If anyone is really determined to lend you a book, you never can get out of it!

Agatha Christie

Three months seems to me quite a reasonable time to complete a book, if one can get right down to it.

Agatha Christie

Books are a habit-forming drug.

Adriana Trigiani

If there is one thing I hope my books do always and forever, its that they honor working people.

Adriana Trigiani

Book clubs are the best thing that has happened to the world of publishing.

Adriana Trigiani

I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading and libraries.

Adrian Rogers

The Bible is not primarily a science book. It is not written to tell us how the heavens go; it is written to tell us how to go to heaven. But when it speaks on science, it is accurate.

Vanessa Morgan

I booked my first series when I was 13. Acting kind of took control because I was just going from part to part at that point.

Val McDermid

I was always writing the books that I wanted to write, books that demanded to be written at the time. But, like most writers, you start off feeling your way.

Val McDermid

I spent a lot of time at my grandparents in the school holidays, and the only books in the house were a copy of the Bible and Agatha Christie's 'Murder at the Vicarage.' I developed a taste for murder mysteries and then later discovered libraries, second-hand bookshops, and jumble sales.

Val McDermid

I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.

Toni Morrison

If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it.

Tom Brokaw

I've interviewed presidents and royalty, rock stars and movie stars, famous generals and captains of industry; I've had front row seats at Super Bowls, World Series, and Olympic Games; my books have been on best-seller lists, and my marriage is a long-running success.

Tom Brokaw

I was still in college when 'To Kill a Mockingbird' came out in 1960. I remember it had a kind of an electrifying effect on this country; this was a time when there were a lot of good books coming out.

Trip Adler

Books is our main type of content, but we include user-generated content and will include other verticals such as scientific papers, sheet music, and comic books.

Tyler Hilton

I like to read really good books - anything that's really great, whether it's fiction, non-fiction, how-to, or whatever.

Tinashe

I'm the type of person that doesn't like to wait for people to do things for me, and I never want to feel stuck. Why sit around and be like, 'I wish my label would book me some studio time,' if I can just buy my own studio equipment and figure out how to run Pro Tools and record it myself?

Taylor Mali

In many ways, 'What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World' is just one big thank-you note to my teachers. The book is dedicated to my fifth and sixth grade English teacher, Dr. Joseph D'Angelo, a massive force of erudition, martial artistry, culture, and love.