Famous Quotes & Sayings

You have nothing to vet in court if you haven't put it on the books yet.

Heinrich Heine

Wherever they burn books they will also end up burning people.

Hillary Clinton

When I traveled as secretary of state, I was deluged with thick briefing books full of information about the politics, economy, and culture of each destination, so those took up most of my reading time.

Truman Capote

When I think of how good my book can be, it scares me.

We published six books in our first year, we're publishing nine this year, and we're scheduled to publish 12 in 2006,

Road signs and indicators are the table of contents, the index and the page numbers all at once. If you had a book without those things, you'd never be able to read it.

Diane Ravitch

Removing books from the library is a no-no.

Mo Ibrahim

Remarkably, governments are beginning to embrace the idea that nothing enhances democracy more than giving voice and information to everybody in the country. Why not open their books if they have nothing to hide?

Molly Harper

I think my books are lighter and funnier than some of the big series out there. You may not walk away from my books having learned a life-altering lesson, but you will feel better for having laughed for a few hours. It's just a different style of writing.

James Frey

I think I made a lot of mistakes in writing the book and promoting the book.

There have been healthy increases in the number of weekend nights booked from people in neighboring states as well as a lot of business travelers bringing their families and spending a long weekend in Atlanta.

Virgin Books will be publishing an autobiography. But it is relatively early days. We still need to proceed to a final contract.

William Shakespeare

Was ever book containing such vile matterSo fairly bound? O, that deceit should dwellIn such a gorgeous palace!

was at the time thought to be rather bold. Reading these books wasn't quite like being in a secret society or a clique. But it certainly made you feel different from a lot of people in Leeds and they did put you in touch with a wider world.

Anthony Swofford

War is always seductive, ... 'Full Metal Jacket' didn't make me want to join the Marines. I already had fallen in love with the idea of combat. I think whether somebody feels that about our movie is subjective. It depends on the viewer. I got letters from people who said 'I was thinking about joining up and I read your book and now I can't wait' and I got letters from people who said 'I was thinking about joining up and I read your book and now I'm going to go to college.'

Bernie Siegel

I decided to become a surgeon named Bernie who writes books and gives seminars to teach people what he has learned and is still learning about how to deal with life's difficulties.

Barry McGee

I read in a weird way. It comes in waves, and then I start, like, five different books at once. It takes me six months to a year to finish them all, since I read mostly on planes.

Gustave Flaubert

Books are made not like children but like pyramids and they're just as useless! And they stay in the desert! Jackals piss at their foot and the bourgeois climb up on them.

Books . . . are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time

Jayne Anne Phillips

Books about women and children are not valued in the same way as a book about war. And why is that? I don't know.

Mark Tooley

Book of Daniel perhaps failed because it showed an elite world of liberal religion with which most Americans cannot relate. Like much of the Episcopal hierarchy today, it was preoccupied more with the aberrant than with the enduring norms for human behavior. And like the declining Episcopal Church as a whole, it turned out to be a failure.

Book covers got very boring for a time. Then they improved with shiny ones, and now they come in fabric, and the kids are going crazy for them.

Salman Rushdie

Both are responsible. But I know when I write a book it's my name on the book, so I stand or fall by what I sign. And so must she.

Charles Lamb

Borrowers of books --those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.

Book work is something I can do without.

book will become a bestseller, and I'm sure even be proposed for the Nobel prize.

Book - what they make a movie out of for television.

Daniel Handler

Book thirteen marks the return of a reptile previously gone missing.

Sarah Rees Brennan

Books written by boys are given very different treatment to those written by girls: they're even given very different covers. People also expect, in this YA-booming world, girls to be less experimental than boys: girls are achieving a lot of success, but they're confined.

Philip Pullman

Books which satisfy us and feed us and nourish us have to have this substratum of genuine truth in them, ... And I don't see much of that in most fantasy.

Bookstores see a book by a woman and they put it in the romance section. I write mainstream fiction about women.

Rosecrans Baldwin

Bookstores don't exactly dot the American highway in the grand manner of Sbarros.