Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francis Bacon

Let no one think or maintain that a person can search too far or be too well studied in either the book of God's word or the book of God's works.

Francis Bacon

There are two books laid before us to study, to prevent our falling into error; first, the volume of the Scriptures, which reveal the will of God; then the volume of the Creatures, which express His power.

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.

I wanted to call it 'Street Smarts' because that's what the book is all about. I've learned a lot in this business and in this life, and I want to pass it on.

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.

I've got a huge collection of books I haven't even read yet because I've been so busy over the years. I want to travel. I love going out West, going to Maine.

Robert Rubin

I've got 11 fly rods and a lot of unread books.

Markus Zusak

I've got every Dr Seuss book there is. Everything was red, like the sky was on fire. That was a memory that I could see really clearly as a child, a very visual image.

I'm playing in six leagues. I'm fully booked in Rotisserie.

David Thewlis

I'm in the fifth one, so I'm reading the book now. You know he's not a werewolf don't you? He's actually a cat!

Rick Davis

I'm excited about having this ordinance on the books.

It looks great and very nice. We already have people booked through May.

Erykah Badu

I'm a Pisces, so I'm a very closed-book kind of person.

Erma Bombeck

Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it.

Erma Bombeck

Grandma told me Mama was once caught by the Principal for writing in the front of her book, "In Case of Fire, Throw This in First." I have never had so much respect for Mama as the day I heard this.

Erin Wasson

Each piece of jewellery tells a story of my life. Picking one particular piece as a favorite would be like taking a chapter out of a book.

Florence Scovel Shinn

Behold, I make all things new.

Florence King

Recently while browsing in a secondhand bookstore I bought a paperback copy of The Intellectual and the City, but I was unable to read it. When I got home I discovered that the original owner had highlighted the entire book - literally. Every line on every page had been drawn through with a bright green Magic Marker. It was a terrifying example of a mind that had lost all power of discrimination.

Flann O'Brien

Could Henry Ford produce the Book of Kells? Certainly not. He would quarrel initially with the advisability of such a project and then prove it was impossible.

Flann O'Brien

Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of my mind, my eyes and face assuming a vacant and preoccupied expression. I reflected on the subject of my spare-time literary activities. One Beginning and one ending for a book was a thing I did not agree with. A good book may have three openings entirely dissimilar and inter-related only in the prescience of the author, or for that matter one hundred times as many endings.

Flannery O'Connor

When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.

Flannery O'Connor

I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.

Flannery O'Connor

One old lady who wants her head lifted wouldn't be so bad, but you multiply her two hundred and fifty thousand times and what you get is a book club.

Flannery O'Connor

There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and however na?ve that may have been, it was a good deal less na?ve than some of the limited objectives he has now. Today novels are considered to be entirely concerned with the social or economic or psychological forces that they will by necessity exhibit, or with those details of daily life that are for the good novelist only means to some deeper end.

Fisher Ames

[Why] should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book? Its morals are pure, its examples captivating and noble. The reverence for the Sacred Book that is thus early impressed lasts long; and probably if not impressed in infancy, never takes firm hold of the mind.

Fisher Ames

Should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a schoolbook? Its morals are pure, its examples are captivating and noble....In no Book is there so good English, so pure and so elegant, and by teaching all the same they will speak alike, and the Bible will justly remain the standard of language as well as of faith.

Henry Louis Gates

Kansas City Lightning succeeds as few biographies of jazz musicians have. . . This book is a magnificent achievement; I could hardly put it down.

Henry Miller

And the books you write. They're not you. They're not me sitting here, this Henry Miller. They belong to someone else. It's terrible. You can never rest.

Henry Miller

Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing.