Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sid Bernstein

I was the first to promote The Beatles in the States, and Ed Sullivan called me first about them before he ever booked them on his television show.

Mike Grant

I was happy -- we lined up right, and we didn't give them too many big plays. First game, you're just happy to get it in the books and go to the cabin.

I was going through my scrap book and I couldn't do nothing but to cry because I had all kinds of pictures of her in there.

Jessye Norman

I was given the opportunity to write the kind of book that I wanted to write, rather than one that catalogues where I sang and what I sang and what I wore. I wanted to write a book about an American family, the family that has produced me. The longer I live, the more I realise the incredible support and love we were given as children.

Julie Walters

I was given the book to read first of all and I found it totally inspiring, arousing and very moving. I literally couldn't put it down. There is something intoxicating about Marie's belief, not just in herself, but in the children at the school and in humanity - we need that!

Paul Gray

It even looks exactly like a real book, with pages and print and dust jacket and everything. This disguise is extremely clever, considering the contents: the longest lounge act never performed in the history of the Catskills.

Michael Chabon

It feels a little scary for most writers because when you're writing, you're completely in charge you can say this book is all mine, it's my world. Whether giving over some of that has any monetary value or not, we'll see.

I think publishers need to be the ones that publish the books and control that process: finding writers, helping them with their work, finding readers. I think writers need that.

Rick Riordan

I think children love reading, and they will make time for it if we put the right books into their hands. And I hope I get the chance to keep being one of the people that writes them.

Gloria Estefan

I think every child, every person at some point in their life feels like they don't fit in, ... I wanted to plant some seeds with this book in young children today to realize how important it is to have your identity and to be who you are.

I think most people who write want to write, so that's what they do, ... I hope that this is a book my friends and others will enjoy reading.

Carl Hiaasen

I think once they get into it and read it, they'll plug right in to it, ... It's not fiction. It's the real thing. The message and underlying theme are serious. There are parts of this book that are downright disturbing.

I think he's the only person who can do it -- unless we get Jesse Jackson, and I think he might be booked up.

Mats Sundin

It definitely deserves something. That shot goes into the history books.

I think knowing that the image will go down in the history books is the greatest prize.

It is Florida. It is the holidays. The rooms are booked with most of the hotels. We knew this day would come. We didn't know it would come this soon.

Sophie Hannah

I'm snobby about books that aren't crime fiction: if I start reading a literary novel and there's no mystery emerging in the first few pages, I'm like, 'Gah, this obviously isn't a proper book. Why would I want to carry on reading it?'

Milo Hamilton

I'm sure a lot of people will be surprised to know what was going on, and that's why I wrote about it. It's my book and my story, and it was time for me to say some things about some people that have been a part of my life and that I've had some bumps and bruises.

Steven Hall

I'm such a magpie. I'll get halfway through one thing and pick up something else. I always have 5 or 6 books open and spine-up by my bed: it's like a row of tents. I don't finish nearly as many books as I should.

It has a lot of truck space for Dad's golf clubs and our book bags.

I think those books do have the same feeling as the big movies. You know you're going to get lost in this world. A shorter book can't quite do that.

Rebecca Stead

I think that's one of the most important things that books do: not to teach you anything, but to help you teach yourself by just being in the world of the book and having your own thoughts and reactions and noticing your own reactions and thoughts and learning about yourself that way.

John Faso

I think someone gave it to him out of a briefing book, and he's just not as familiar with New York as I am.

Ron Carlson

I was writing a third novel when my kids arrived. And I looked at that book about whether these two people would get together, and I thought, 'I don't care! I've got kids!'

I was 13 when Dr. King was slain. I didn't have the opportunity to know him. But reading Taylor's books make me feel that I do know Dr. King.

I want to write a book about a schoolteacher who's murdered picking up someone when she's cruising a singles bar.

Ashley Johnson

I will not plan on buying any kind of electronic textbook. If you pay for it, it should be yours. That's information open to you, especially if you're buying books for your major.

Photograph books are very expensive to print, and I don't think a commercial publisher was willing to take it on. But for us, it was interesting because it combined photographs with the essay.

planting a flag, trying to establish some ground rules that we are comfortable with to create this new kind of commerce around book content.

Record-breaking sales of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince drove significantly higher results in children's book publishing and distribution and for the company overall,

Relative to most of the country, it's still rather mild, but when people book Florida vacations, they're not expecting temperatures in the 40s.

Or have We given them a book before it so that they hold fast to it? / Nay! they say: We found our fathers on a course, and surely we are guided by their footsteps.

Part of the reason I wrote the book was that so many people were leaving their jobs (to invest in foreclosed homes), and they had no idea of what they are doing.