Famous Quotes & Sayings

You have to learn leadership through on-the-job experience, through successes and failures. But you can use books and experts to help you through those experiences.

You have to go by the handbook. We have all the guidelines in that book. ... Coming out at a meeting and saying you can do this or that, we can't do that in a meeting.

When I was reading book six, there were parts I was reading and going, 'Oh, I would love to do that.'

Ryan Murphy

What this show says is that real change happens internally, that maybe you should book a consultation with a shrink instead of a plastic surgeon.

Mark Hanson

We've really focused on trying to make this event something that the whole family can come out and enjoy. While the husband is off looking at hunting and fishing exhibits and the wives are off looking at home improvement displays, the kids can be checking out the fine entertainment we have booked for them this year. And with ticket prices costing just $3 for adults and $1 per child a day, it's very inexpensive. Say you have a family of four, for just $8 they can come out to the Great Outdoors Show and enjoy great food, great entertainment and check out the various exhibits. That sounds like a pretty cheap day of fun to me.

David Healy

What GM is talking about in my book are not hybrids. These are trucks with humongous starter motors.

Anthony Browne

What excites me about picture books is the gap between pictures and words. Sometimes the pictures can tell a slightly different story or tell more about the story, about how someone is thinking or feeling.

Marcia Muller

Through the misguided notion that writing about flying was easy, I had McCone become a pilot. When I learned that research in books wasn't enough, I forced myself to take lessons.

We try and book shows two to three times a month and they're always over by 11 p.m..

Graham Nash

We truly love CSNY music, and so we're always waiting, and what happens is that we have lives to lead, too, so, you know, at some point we have to say, well, you know, I can't wait any longer we have to book a tour because, you know, they take three, four months of preparation before we actually step out on the stage.

We just go by the book and conduct thorough inspections, and it is our duty to maintain that regulatory framework. It is up to private-sector companies what decisions they make.

Ethan Hawke

There's something at the root of our love-hate relationship with celebrity that I think has the makings, if you could do it in a really substantive way, of a great modern American novel. And it's something I know a lot about, and so I feel like that's the book that I should write.

There's no such thing as an original idea. We're all inspired by books, magazines and movies.

Dave Wannstedt

There's no short cuts. There's no books you can read to solve this thing.

There's no satisfactory way of closing the book on this. I think people are well meaning when they say they're going to move on. But I don't think it's realistic.

There's no rule book to respond to anything that comes your way - face it, deal with it - just don't hurt yourself and don't hurt other people because we are all buffeted by things we can't control with that magic wand.

There's no doubt German firms are doing exceptionally well: order books are full to the brim and business confidence is at levels not seen since reunification. But they haven't started hiring yet. They know that in 2007 a very large fiscal tightening is envisaged, so this could be a short-lived rise in demand.

There's no other book that's been endorsed by five first ladies.

There's nothing to match curling up with a good book when there's a repair job to be done around the house.

The travel industry will do really well this year. It's a great time to be an operator. What that means for the individual is: Book early, book often.

Jeff Lemire

I started off doing indie comics that I wrote and drew myself. I was doing those for ten years before I started to work for DC. The first book that I wrote for DC was for another artist. I did some backups in 'Adventure Comics' years ago starring The Atom. That's the first time that I ever wrote for another artist.

John Searles

I stayed at 'Cosmo' well beyond my internship, moving up the ranks over some 15 years to become books editor, then brand director, then editor-at-large - editing everything from an excerpt of Gore Vidal's memoir to writing some of those juicy cover lines myself.

E. B. White

I started talking about writing a book in 1992. I was writing a lot, and I got an idea for a story in the middle of the night. I sat down and started writing dialogue.

I started reading this book about two months ago, because we meet once a week so it takes a while to get through it. So two months ago I started reading it and the young girl came back and said 'I got the book, I borrowed it from my teacher at school and I'm reading it.' The next thing I know she was done, so she was trying to tell the story as we were going along, but it was great.

Malorie Blackman

I started reading seriously at seven or eight, books about myths and legends, the Narnia series. By the time I was 11, I had read all the children's books in my local library, so I moved on to 'Jane Eyre.' What I loved about Jane Eyre was that she didn't rely on her looks but her character. She had a spirit nobody could break.

George Smith

I self-published the first edition, hardcover, in June 2003. The book is now in its third printing.

I see this as a way for local writers to celebrate and sell some of the books which we have produced. And with all these creative energies, it should be exciting.

Tess Gerritsen

I shy away from showing cruelty on the page. A lot of the violence in my books actually happens off stage. The police come on to the scene after the event has occurred.

I've been working with the record book for 14 years, and I can't recall this ever happening.

Oprah Winfrey

I've decided I will open the door to all books as potential Oprah's Book Club selections, ... I feel this will give the book club a whole new range of opportunities to explore the world through words.

Joe Nedney

I've been a victim of just about every kind of circumstance there is, ... I could write a book on how to get cut in the NFL. It's never necessarily been because I haven't performed.

What that study finds will help tell us which way to go -- whether there are intriguing findings or the book ought to be closed on this topic.

Jason Epstein

What is true for book publishing is true for civilization: the books that survive the test of time are humanity's backlist, our collective memory.