Famous Quotes & Sayings

Karin Slaughter

I've always been interested in violence, even as a teenager. I loved 'Helter Skelter' and books like that.

Tracy Kidder

I wanted some way to invite readers in, to set the stage for the book - and I tried many different things.

Lisa Loeb

I want children to be glued to interactive books that encourage singing and dancing. I feel when kids work together it brings about a different energy.

So right there you're looking at 5 to 8 percent, which the book will gladly take in most cases.

Augusten Burroughs

So, really, if you think about it, the only thing that separates me from the guy with the stinky foot and no teeth is a book deal and some cologne.

Julia Glass

Somewhat sadly, the survival of many bookstores now depends on selling merchandise other than books.

John Ray

It was all flames. There was a fire coming out of the window here, all at the top here ... And right when you go through the front door, where the bookshelf was, there was a bunch of fire there, too.

The SEC made the effort to get to 12 teams in order to have a championship game. If the ACC wants to do the same thing, why should we change a rule just for them when it's been on the books for a long, long time?

These books now stand both as a testament to the resilience of the residents of New Orleans ... and as a map back from disaster, offered by the city's teenagers.

Matt Smith

These books carry messages and have had impact on our daily existences.

These books are the students' very own to keep. This is a great program encouraging the children to read and build a home library.

These books are going to rock the nation. Elly and Ray are two of the three jurors who initially voted for guilty.

These books are feeding that same reader who has been starved for more books like The D a Vinci Code .

These books are donated either by businesses that sponsor the entire month or a collection of donations from parents with smaller donations. We even had one of our junior teachers sponsor everyone herself for Christmas.

These sports fans are savvy. They book as soon as there's a chance their team is going.

These sales declines will result in significant markdowns, which will be booked in the third and fourth quarters,

The sheriff's idea is to empower his investigators to do the work of immigration officers to help get dangerous criminals off the streets. Our plan will also provide for our jail staff to screen every individual who is booked into the Orange County Jail and if they are not supposed to be in this country, they will be turned over to federal authorities.

The Stones have written and rewritten the book on touring.

The stock looks extremely good in terms of fundamentals, with a book value of 1.64 pesos per share.

The strength of the year's competition can be measured by the fact that three good books by previous Man Booker winners were finally not selected.

The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have beenpresented in the entire history of television."Andrew Ross

The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television.

The Singapore books are good enough, so that when you've been in them a while, you can learn this.

Mariella Frostrup

The sight of parents, children and grandparents all descending on a tented field to enjoy the pleasure of ideas and books renews my faith in humanity.

As a librarian, I have seen a lot of books checked out of the library that I didn't think were very good, but people came back to return those same books and said that the book changed their lives.

A very great deal is written about the future of book publishing - much more than on its present or past - and the only takeaway from all these oracles seems to be that a great empire will be destroyed.

Rudy Rucker

At San Jose State I got very interested in the work of Stephen Wolfram, who wrote a pretty famous book called A New Kind of Science.

Thomas Dekker

A wise man poor Is like a sacred book that's never read, - To himself he lives, and to all else seems dead

Stephen Chow

As many people have pointed out, the scene in 'Kung Fu Hustle' where the Landlady was chasing after me resembled the Roadrunner, ... I loved to watch cartoons and read comic books when I was small. In fact, I still watch and read a lot of them now. They give me great ideas.

Alan Titchmarsh

At least you will know how useful the book has been.

That's why I chose it, it's the first book in a series. This way they get the first book and it will suck them in. It draws them in and gets them interested in the book, and then they want to continue the series. And it gets them reading, which is the whole point of this group.

That's my mom. Books came first. Before you could go play, you had to get your homework done.

Candace Bushnell

That's kind of a difficult question, because people say I'm one of the people who started it ... but I think my books are much more satirical.