Famous Quotes & Sayings

One of the hallmarks of any book about her is we don't really know her. We know the story, and there's different ways different cultures have told that story, but I really wanted to get to know her as a character.

Holly Black

One of the great things about writing middle-grade books is that it's really a nice break, when you're writing super intense stuff like 'Coldtown', to be able to write something a little lighter - calm down and do something different.

Manny Farber

One of the fine moments in 1940s film is no longer than a blink: Bogart, as he crosses the street from one bookstore to another, looks up at a sign.

Holly Black

One of my favorite things in books is watching someone make the mistake. You know it's going to happen. You keep thinking: 'Don't do it!' But of course they're going to do it. It's riveting. You learn through them that it's okay. It's the ecstatic fall, where you watch someone make that terrible decision, and there's such pleasure in it.

Mel Brooks

I was going to do the book and the music and the lyrics,

Andrew Wyatt

I was a total music nerd. I grew up on Perry Street in the '80s. My father wrote books about jazz, so I was always at the 'Village Vanguard.'

Barbara Bush

I was so sad to read recently that 32 percent of fourth- graders say they never read a book for pleasure,

I was really proud of our daughters. My youngest, who is 3, donated her two favorite books and said she wanted a little one to have them.

I was really proud of our daughters, ... My youngest, who is 3, donated her two favorite books and said she wanted a little one to have them.

I was surprised at this concept, but I think it's a fun and interesting way to get people to take interest in books and come visit the library.

I was surprised at how quickly and smoothly the use of the boom went.

Mothers and daughters read the same book once a month. We get together in each other's homes, and while we are talking about the book, we also end up talking about life issues.

Most will boost their prices over a period of time. They'll do it daily.

(McCulloch) seems to be in the scene for that type of music. The last show he booked here was pretty successful.

Maureen Corrigan

My mailman and the UPS guy - I always have to tip them lavishly at holiday times, because they're carrying all these books every day,

Ruth Rendell

My favourite book - 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford, which I have read about 20 times - is different from my favourite author, who is Iris Murdoch. I find her books exciting and unputdownable. Her characters are so carefully studied and in-depth; I love that.

William Butler Yeats

My fiftieth year had come and gone,I sat, a solitary man,In a crowded London shop,And open book and empty cupOn the marble table-top.

My four-year-old daughter is soon going to be old enough to look at the children's books upstairs. I don't want her to accidentally read something she's not supposed to.

Jeffrey Zeldman

My first typewriter cost me $75. I can't tell you how many hours it took me to earn that money, or how proud I was of that object. I wrote my first books on it. They will never be published, but that's all right.

Christian Lacroix

My first time in England, in the '60s, the interiors were somehow familiar to me, probably because of the books I'd read and the images I'd seen.

My first three novels were all the subjects of intensely exciting flurries of calls from producers and even stars' production companies, and once someone actually hired a screenwriter to adapt one of my books - but it all came to nothing, so I tried not to get too excited when a Hollywood suitor came calling for 'Admission,' my fourth novel.

Andy Weir

My first book was so horrible I have deleted all copies of it. Thankfully, it was before the Internet, so there are no lurking caches of it anywhere.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

My first book was bad. It concentrated more on form than content,

John Burnside

My first book was a car crash. I tried to find all the copies and destroy them.

Net-net, the change is expected to boost earnings on a continued operating basis.

One outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

Robert Graves

One smile relieves a heart that grievesthough deadly sad it be,and one hard look Can close the book that lovers love to see.

Joseph Kanon

One of the things that's always interested me, from the first book on, is unintended consequences,

One of the themes is how is it we cope with trials and tribulations? How do we endure struggles and come out differently? ... The book has been criticized for being messy, and it is messy in many ways, with loose ends and stories that don't tie up neatly. But why do we need to impose expectations?

Martin Rees

One of President Obama's first acts was to give a massive boost to America's scientific community.

One book that I read called Comedy Writing Secrets by Helitzer made a great point. He said that most of being funny is the CHARACTER and not the jokes.

One important thing in the application process for sellers will be to verify that their items are produced locally and are from those counties. The Farmer's Market is for the nature and well being of the local community and for those producers trying to boost their business.

Bud Selig

Obviously, we've only seen parts of things. And the book itself doesn't come out until the end of the month, but we'll review everything that there is to look at.