Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lars Ulrich

...Metallica mythos...distilled the essences of the comic books and horror movies and the fantastic literature of metal itself...

Whoever is able to write a book and does not, it is as if he has lost a child

When the book first came out (in 1997), I did the hike three times in one year because I thought there would be a high demand for it. And there was.

James A. Baldwin

When the book comes out it may hurt you -- but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you about yourself as much as I can face about myself.

When students enrolled, they often found overcrowded classrooms, unprepared instructors and few computers, books or other necessary materials,

We have overfed Europe with oil. Any economics text book will tell you that when you have an excess of supply, the price will fall.

You can have a great law, but if public officials don't want to comply, you're not going to get access. You have the law on the books and the reality on the ground, and sometimes they're not the same thing.

Bertrand Russell

Beware the man of the single book

Bertrand Russell

If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it.

Bertrand Russell

It appeared that after first contemplating a book on some subject, and after giving serious preliminary attention to it, I needed a period of subconscious incubation which could not be hurried and was if anything impeded by deliberate thinking.... Having, by a time of very intense concentration, planted the problem in my subconsciousness, it would germinate underground until, suddenly, the solution emerged with a blinding clarity, so that it only remained to write down what happened as if in a revelation.

Bertrand Russell

All great books contain boring portions, and all great lives have contained uninteresting stretches.

Bertrand Russell

It is impossible to read in America, except on a train, because of the telephone. Everyone has a telephone, and it rings all day and most of the night.

That whole 10-day period in Melbourne 2002 will go down in the history books as the most popular two points ever scored in Formula One.

Maeve Binchy

That's the kind of motif I bring to the books - that people take charge of their own lives.

Steve Miller

That's been a really good breeding ground for them this year ... It's one for the record books for sure.

I was pretty sure when we made the first 'Carl' book that we had a good idea, but I couldn't have imagined how popular Carl would become. I continue to be grateful for and touched by the extent to which he is known and loved.

I was reading a book and found myself crashing into the person opposite me. The train was going over and over and over, and people were thrown onto the floor.

Graeme Base

I was born in Amersham, England on 6/4/58. My family moved to Australia when I was eight, and I went to Box Hill High School and then Melbourne High School. I liked to draw and write at school, and I liked books by J.R.R. Tolkien, A.A. Milne and Kenneth Grahame.

Gayle Forman

I wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and thought: 'I want to do that!' I always told stories and wrote them down, but I never thought writing was a career path, even though, clearly, someone was writing the books and newspapers and magazines.

William Shakespeare

O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast.

William Shakespeare

Bell, book and candle shall not drive me back, When gold and silver becks me to come on.

William Shakespeare

Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lender's books, and defy the foul fiend.

William Shakespeare

The painful warrior famous for fight, After a thousand victories, once foil'd, Is from the books of honor razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd

William Shakespeare

You kiss by th' book.

William Shakespeare

Trust not my reading, nor my observations, Which with experimental seal do warrant The tenor of my book.

The problem is, every time the product is upgraded, you have to open up all the book files, change them and reprint them -- same thing with the online documents, ... Now we have one source for creating all of our content and updating it.

Ben Horowitz

When I was a CEO, the books on management that I read weren't very much help after the first few months on the job. They were all designed to give you directions on how not to screw up your company.

Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Books were the window from which I looked out of a rather meager and decidedly narrow room onto a rich and wonderful universe. I loved the look and feel of books, even the smell... Libraries were treasure houses. I always entered them with a slight thrill of disbelief that all their endless riches were mine for the borrowing.

Zoe Sugg

As a 14-year-old with anxiety, to have read about that in a book would have helped me so much.

And after I compose my programs, but it is very easy because I look to the music in a very natural way without fuss, and so I look always music, in my home, like books and books and books, choose books and you read the pages, so I do this with music, and I make programs.

Ishmael Reed

Those books are still in print, all the books I've written are still in print, but I heard that other people had been victimized also.

Ben Horowitz

I think when companies are struggling, they don't want to talk to the press. The guys who write business books aren't interested in it because nobody wants to learn what it's like to be a mess, you want to learn how to be successful. That's slanted the whole thing quite a bit.

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