Famous Quotes & Sayings

Al Capp

There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital.

Mothers and daughters read the same book once a month. We get together in each other's homes, and while we are talking about the book, we also end up talking about life issues.

(McCulloch) seems to be in the scene for that type of music. The last show he booked here was pretty successful.

Maureen Corrigan

My mailman and the UPS guy - I always have to tip them lavishly at holiday times, because they're carrying all these books every day,

Ruth Rendell

My favourite book - 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford, which I have read about 20 times - is different from my favourite author, who is Iris Murdoch. I find her books exciting and unputdownable. Her characters are so carefully studied and in-depth; I love that.

William Butler Yeats

My fiftieth year had come and gone,I sat, a solitary man,In a crowded London shop,And open book and empty cupOn the marble table-top.

My four-year-old daughter is soon going to be old enough to look at the children's books upstairs. I don't want her to accidentally read something she's not supposed to.

Jeffrey Zeldman

My first typewriter cost me $75. I can't tell you how many hours it took me to earn that money, or how proud I was of that object. I wrote my first books on it. They will never be published, but that's all right.

Christian Lacroix

My first time in England, in the '60s, the interiors were somehow familiar to me, probably because of the books I'd read and the images I'd seen.

My first three novels were all the subjects of intensely exciting flurries of calls from producers and even stars' production companies, and once someone actually hired a screenwriter to adapt one of my books - but it all came to nothing, so I tried not to get too excited when a Hollywood suitor came calling for 'Admission,' my fourth novel.

Andy Weir

My first book was so horrible I have deleted all copies of it. Thankfully, it was before the Internet, so there are no lurking caches of it anywhere.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

My first book was bad. It concentrated more on form than content,

John Burnside

My first book was a car crash. I tried to find all the copies and destroy them.

One outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

Robert Graves

One smile relieves a heart that grievesthough deadly sad it be,and one hard look Can close the book that lovers love to see.

Joseph Kanon

One of the things that's always interested me, from the first book on, is unintended consequences,

One of the themes is how is it we cope with trials and tribulations? How do we endure struggles and come out differently? ... The book has been criticized for being messy, and it is messy in many ways, with loose ends and stories that don't tie up neatly. But why do we need to impose expectations?

One book that I read called Comedy Writing Secrets by Helitzer made a great point. He said that most of being funny is the CHARACTER and not the jokes.

Bud Selig

Obviously, we've only seen parts of things. And the book itself doesn't come out until the end of the month, but we'll review everything that there is to look at.

Susan Sontag

Of course the movies are going to be the more visible, more high profile, for the simple reason that a lot more money is involved and this is a largely money-oriented society. ... Nevertheless, this is a very good book town, whether it's known to be that or not, and that's why you have something like this.

Margot Kidder

None of us were famous, we were broke. We didn't think they'd be writing books about us in 30 years. We were just kids doing the right thing.

Gay Talese

Nonfiction takes no liberty with the facts. The trouble with book publishers is that they don't have the staff or they don't want to have the staff to ensure the veracity of a writer. ... My wife is going to hate me for this, but that is what I believe.

William Hazlitt

One would imagine that books were, like women, the worse for being old : that they open their leaves more cordially; that the spirit of enjoyment wears out with the spirit of novelty; and that after a certain age, it is high time to put them on the s

Shaun Alexander

My first day here, just like my first day at Alabama, I went and got the record books and looked it all up. It was like, 'OK, how hard is it going to be for me to get this thing?' I started setting goals to get them fast.

Bill Nye

My dad was fascinated with sundials. He photographed hundreds of them and wrote a book about them. He designed a Nye family dial that kept time at our house in Washington, DC.

Pete Townshend

My autobiography now offers me the chance to lay down my life story and place recent events in proper context, ... I have had a long and lumbering life -- this book will take time.

More than 60 percent of low-income families have no books in their homes for children.

More people play video games than watch movies, read books, listen to music and watch TV combined. We're doing everything we can to have the industry come of age.

Moody and I are friends and decided to transcribe this book so others could use it.

More memos have gone out, books have gone out. There's a video that players are watching in spring training.

Martha Stewart

My goal with this book is to help people turn their passions into successful businesses, as I did myself through many of the things I learned over the years,

Jenna Jameson

My heart is a gypsy - continuously searching for a home, fighting within itself, wondering whether it is weak or even right for that matter to be searching in the first place. Lonliness is what it feels like...

My gut instinct is someone or some gang of thieves is targeting books (being held in places) with light security.