Famous Quotes & Sayings

From the publisher's point of view, there are lots of issues because students buy books and sell them back. Future students might only buy the used textbooks.

For the surf idol Duke Kahanamoku portrait, which I created for the Surfrider Foundation, I took a photo from a book cover and abstracted the photo image into a drawing. This drawing was laminated onto a surfboard and auctioned to a buyer.

Fortunately, in talking with the classroom teacher, she shared with me that the children recently read a couple of books on loss -- 'Charlotte's Web' and 'The Taste of Blackberries,' ... The children had an opportunity to discuss feelings and talk about what it meant to lose someone and to share with each other.

Jeffrey Toobin

Go ahead, book me and charge me whenever you feel like it.

If it's not in the books, then they become something that's simply hard and harsh and violent and quite unrelenting. That's neither the kind of book that I would like to read, nor that I would like to write. It's people's feelings that interest me.

Howard Stern

I got books full of notes, like a mental patient. I wish I could plug a wire into my head and play it for everyone.

David Reuben

I get email from people who say, 'We read your book 20 years ago and it really helped us.

Thomas Carlyle

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carl Jung

Damen is gorgeous. I know this without looking up. I just focus on my book as he makes his way toward me since I know way too much about my classmates already. So as far as I'm concerned, an extra moment of ignorance really is bliss. But according to the innermost thoughts of Stacia Miller sitting just two rows before me - Damen Auguste is totally smoking hot. Her best friend, Honor, completely agrees. So does Honor's boyfriend, Craig, but that's a whole other story

Carl Jung

Another one from the immortals and again i cant remember what book. Haven to Ever In every relationship there is always someone who loves more, my point is no matter how it looks from the outside the truth is, its never really equal, that's just not the way it works,there is always the pursued and the pursuer, the cat and the mouse.

Carl Jung

Life is not meant to be an open-book test.

Antoni Gaudi

Everything comes from the great book of nature.

Antoni Gaudi

Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature.

Antoni Gaudi

The great book, always open and which we should make an effort to read, is that of Nature.

Pedantry and bigotry are millstones, able to sink the best book which carries the least part of their dead weight. The temper of the pedagogue suits not with the age; and the world, however it may be taught, will not be tutored.

Mary Roach

Follow your instincts. Do the kind of writing you love to do and do best. 'Stiff' was an oddball book - I mean, a funny book about cadavers? - and I worried that it would be too unconventional. In the end, that's what has made it a success, I think.

We may as well wipe it off the books.

We made some crucial turnovers. In my book, a turnover is a four-point swing.

Kelly Hu

The comic book fans, especially 'X-Men' fans, are so serious about their comic book.

Kelsey Chow

'One Tree Hill' will always be very, very special to me. It was my first television show. And my first gig in the business. It was surreal. I booked the role when I was 13. I had just started high school, and literally, I think, a week into high school, I found out I got the role. It was unimaginable! I learned so much from that show.

HR (human resource) books are very popular in India and are in great demand.

John Burnside

Hunted for sport by the rich, then driven from large tracts of its natural habitat by agricultural and housing development, the giant panda deserves better than to be scrubbed from conservation's ledger books through false accounting.

Thomas Frank

I actually don't express contempt for the rank-and-file conservative voters in Kansas. The conservative reviews of the book claim that I do, but by and large I am very respectful of these people. I certainly don't try to make these people sound crazy. In a lot of ways I really respect them.

He was in their starting lineup, and we didn't even have a book on him. He's about 6-foot-3 and he can jump out of the gym.

He was obviously bright, a good lawyer, and served his clients well. When it got to be 5 p.m., he closed his law books and went home. He didn't fuss over things.

I actually wrote it down when Jamie said that. I'm going to use it in my book someday ? if I ever write a book.

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.