Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benjamin Franklin

Pollio, who values nothing that's within, Buys books as men hunt Beavers, -- for their Skin.

My suggestion is that a better way to manage the game is just tell the player to take the jewelry off. That's hard to do when you have a young referee. Maybe a little more experience, maybe he'll disregard what the rule book says there and use maybe a little more common sense.

Stephen Graham Jones

My uncle Randall always had a book in his hand. He read in the car, he read at restaurants, he read when you were talking to him. He read lots of different things, but mostly it was Louis L'Amour's westerns and contemporary thrillers.

Clint Hurdle

Only Glaus seemed to have the right book on Cook. We're fortunate he didn't share it with the rest of the team.

Gene Nelson

One thing libraries have learned from bookstores in the last decade is marketing. We're trying to entice people to read.

Daniel Tammet

One of the lines from my books is about having respect for different minds, and if I had to have an epitaph at this point in my life, that would be it.

One of these years they will be right. If there is ever a safety or the game goes into overtime, everyone knows the books will take a hit.

Frank Capra

One of these books isn't, by any chance, called 'Filibusters I Have Known,' is it?

Peter Coyote

One of the most treasured books that I own is Donald Allen's 'The New American Poetry, 1945-1960.' It was a totem of great importance and potency to my group of writer friends in college from 1960 to 1964.

Jean Fritz

One of the most important things in my childhood were the new books that came in. I feel sorry for kids today who have so many other options like television that they may not value books as much as they could enjoy them.

One of the hallmarks of any book about her is we don't really know her. We know the story, and there's different ways different cultures have told that story, but I really wanted to get to know her as a character.

Holly Black

One of the great things about writing middle-grade books is that it's really a nice break, when you're writing super intense stuff like 'Coldtown', to be able to write something a little lighter - calm down and do something different.

Manny Farber

One of the fine moments in 1940s film is no longer than a blink: Bogart, as he crosses the street from one bookstore to another, looks up at a sign.

Holly Black

One of my favorite things in books is watching someone make the mistake. You know it's going to happen. You keep thinking: 'Don't do it!' But of course they're going to do it. It's riveting. You learn through them that it's okay. It's the ecstatic fall, where you watch someone make that terrible decision, and there's such pleasure in it.

Mel Brooks

I was going to do the book and the music and the lyrics,

Andrew Wyatt

I was a total music nerd. I grew up on Perry Street in the '80s. My father wrote books about jazz, so I was always at the 'Village Vanguard.'

Barbara Bush

I was so sad to read recently that 32 percent of fourth- graders say they never read a book for pleasure,

I was really proud of our daughters. My youngest, who is 3, donated her two favorite books and said she wanted a little one to have them.

I was really proud of our daughters, ... My youngest, who is 3, donated her two favorite books and said she wanted a little one to have them.

I was surprised at this concept, but I think it's a fun and interesting way to get people to take interest in books and come visit the library.

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.