Famous Quotes & Sayings

If you've picked up this book, it's probably because fad diets haven't worked for you or you're ready to let go of the quick fix. Instead of promising dramatic short-term results, the book provides lasting results by focusing on the big picture of lifelong weight management.

Matthew Scully

In the summer or fall of 1974, I read some books about factory farming, and decided that I wanted no part of it.

Jim Lee

In the '50s, a lot of stories were built around radiation and the proliferation of new technology. In the '70s, there were a lot of stories that dealt with the Vietnam War. So comic books have always been a reflection of the times we live in.

Jennifer Weiner

Instead of hoping that some day the boys' club will open its doors, we can form our own clubs, define 'worthy' our own way, and celebrate the books and voices that we decide deserve celebration.

In my opinion, I'd rather have Barnes & Noble's book business than Borders book business.

In our high-tech era, deleting somebody from your cell phone book is the equivalent of throwing them out and shunning them.

In our eyes, the book is perfectly good and we stand by our Selection Committee and the rights of children to read this book.

I like to read. I'm going to read my book.

I really lost this tournament on day three. I had several fish pull off Friday, and any one of those would have been a $200,000 fish. That's easy to say in hindsight, but going down in the record books for the heaviest one-day weight in history is truly amazing.

Investors decided to book profits on recent positive news from Volkswagen and solid car registration figures.

Investors are buying dollars to book gains after the real rose for five straight sessions.

Joseph Bruchac

I often find myself unsatisfied with books 'about' Indians because they are written from the viewpoint of non-Indians.

Patricia Heaton

In the past, your dumbness has gotten in the way of a few things that I really wanted to do: The book club. Theater. Having conversations.

In the old way, it was as if you were looking through a scrap book, you had a series of images. You would never see the entire organ, you would just see the representative photo.

Tom Selleck

In the book, he's in his mid-30s and 5-foot-10.

David Boyd

International book sellers would want to make sure their websites accommodate Korean and Chinese languages as books top the list of the last three items purchased by the Chinese (56%) and South Koreans (50%). This represents tens of millions of consumers in those markets.

Joe Simon

In the 1950s we use to feel that television was taking away our comic readership; with today's exciting, powerfully visual movies I have to wonder about their effect on the kids' loyalty to the comic book medium all over again.

If you visit the guest book you will find a number of criminal types talking about buying and selling the credit cards. This is very disturbing. It realizes the fear people have about online commerce.

If you want to sell T-shirts and mountain books and volcano burgers in the existing spots, that's great.

William Shakespeare

In nature's infinite book of secrecyA little I can read.

Guy Deutscher

In fact, the book shows that language is in a rough state of equilibrium: some words disappear and some structures are eroded, but new ones are created at the same time, and these do the job just as well as the old ones, ... It is true, of course, that decay is one prominent force in the course of language evolution. But there are also forces of creation and generation operating at the same time.

Candice Millard

When I began work on my first book, The River of Doubt, which tells the story of Theodore Roosevelts 1914 descent of an unmapped river in the Amazon rainforest, I thought of it as a tale of adventure, exploration and extraordinary courage.

Candice Bergen

I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.

Candace Bushnell

Like me, he has a searing belief that books are sacred. They might not be to other people, but when you have a passion, you hold on to it. You defend it. You dont pretend it isn't important at the risk of offending others." -Carrie.

Buzz Bissinger

I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.

Buchi Emecheta

As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money.

James Herbert

I'm not into high literature, but I think all my books are literate.

James Herbert

I've always loved comic books. As a kid, I used to read cowboy stories and historical comics about other worlds, unknown places that would take me out of myself and which helped to develop my imagination.

James Hilton

In a small cathedral town where changes are few, there are always people who remember who used to live in a particular house, what happened to them there and afterwards, and so on.

James Herriot

I will write another book if I feel like it.

James Hillman

The Greek idea of fate is moira, which means "portion." Fate rules a portion of your life. But there is more to life than just fate. There is also genetics, environment, economics, and so on. So it's not all written in the book before you get here, such that you don't have to do anything. That's fatalism.

James Hillman

Your life is not predestined, as in Calvinist thought, where everything is written down in the book of life long before your birth and is inescapable. There are choices, accidents, hints and wrong paths, and the ego you, or whatever you call yourself, is a factor in all this. But there is still this other factor that keeps calling. At some moment, people turn, in despair or when they are unable to go any longer on a certain route, and this inner voice says, "Where have you been? I've been waiting for you to turn to me for a long time."

James Earl Jones

I found my voice in books...