Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Austen

. . . provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.

Graham Greene

Perhaps it is only in childhood that books have any deep influence on our lives.

Annalee Newitz

Radio Shack is meeting the fate of many other stores that were wildly popular in the twentieth century, including record stores, comic book stores, bookstores and video stores.

Clyde Edgerton

Raney ... Describes more people I know than any book I've read.

Sara Nelson

Random House would have preferred not to have this lawsuit and spend money defending the book and Dan Brown, but they've certainly not been hurt by it.

Terry Eagleton

Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman ''other'' or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no longer a shameful mark of secondary status but a positively enabling space, just as within every writer can be seen to lurk, as a repressed but contaminating antithesis, a reader.

Prices have skyrocketed. Five or six years ago, no one even considered comic books a serious investment.

Nicholas Sparks

Promoting a book is always the same-busy but fun. I like to meet people who enjoy my work.

...promises to be one of the most influential books of the 21st century.

Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed; it is the same as it has always been, since Callimachus administered the great library in Alexandrea.

Proceeds go for books for the library, and also every student gets one book for their birthday.

Our thing was always music. Back in the heyday people would come in constantly and say 'You know, you ought to get into comic books. We could put a rack of comic books over here.' Well, I don't know (anything) about comics so we're not going to do it. I used that space to sell some more Joy Division or something like that.

As they work through the process they keep a log book detailing each step of development.

Peter Asher

astonishing, and profoundly depressing, that any mother would write a book containing numerous allegations about her own young daughter.

Tony Blair

At that point we close the chapter or we close the book.

A truce to your volumes, your studies, give o'er: for books cannot teach you love's marvelous lore

A truce to your volumes, your studies, give o'er: for books cannot teach you love's marvelous lore

Kevin Mitnick

At the time the books were released, I was in custody, so I had higher priorities - dealing with my criminal case - than dealing with litigation. There's a lot of information out there that is inaccurate.

Cynthia Kadohata

At the time I was writing 'Weedflower,' my friend Naomi Hirahara was writing a book about Japanese-American flower farmers. She knew quite a few elderly farmers and put me in touch with four or five of them who had been in camps during WWII. Some, like my father, were reluctant to talk about their experiences.

David Adler

Conservatively speaking, my understanding of the law is that if Google went to scan in a book without the author's permission, then that would be a violation of copyright law. I think it would be great to be able to search text electronically, but you have to get the copyright permission.

Jonathan Zittrain

Digital books and music are often different from their physical counterparts in that consumers buy licences to a work, revocable under an ongoing contract, rather than their own copies.

Documentary has become a kind of new space in the culture. A lot of the films are about social concerns, and in a way, are a new form of media. . . . Making a documentary has become sort of trendy, a little like what writing children's books was a few years ago. But what I've noticed is, once documentary filmmakers get locked in, they really get locked in. They may have started off thinking they're going to do something relatively quick and casual, and then it takes them over.

Don't judge a book by its cover, it's what's inside that's matters,

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Don't join the book burners. Don't think you are going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

CPI is certainly the big economic report of next week. The Fed's beige book and some of the manufacturing numbers will be looked at as well.

C-SPAN2 has a new Book TV show that features interviews with nonfiction authors, so it has turned a full-size bus into a fully contained television studio. They take it to big book events to let people know about their new show, and we're now one of the largest book sales in the Southeast, if not the nation.

Hillary Clinton

Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers.

And those who were given the Book did not become divided except after clear evidence had come to them.

William Shakespeare

And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

And this is a Book We have revealed, blessed; therefore follow it and guard (against evil) that mercy may be shown to you.

And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.

And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.

Daniel Handler

The way Sunny speaks in the books seems a perfect fit for the cause in question. She often uses words that can't be found in the Oxford English Dictionary, which then are explained as sly commentary on what's going on around her,