Famous Quotes & Sayings

My grandparents had a house full of books. They were both fluent in several languages. My grandfather was a scholar in biblical literature, and my grandmother was a poet. They planted a seed that grew when I went to college and took some classics classes.

My grandmother is a Russian immigrant and, as a child, I always dreamed of going to Russia and opening a nonprofit there. I learned Russian as a teenager through studying books in the hopes of moving there.

Gary Kemp

My father had inklings of my cultural aspirations. He would take me to the library, things like that. But he wasn't one of those dads who had read George Orwell and was a member of the Communist party. We had no books at home.

Peter Greenaway

My father died. His ornithological knowledge, never collected or collated in anything like a comprehensible book - it was five suitcases and two trunks of scattered notes - died with him. A loss of knowledge. I made a film in small part reparation.

Joseph Gatt

My favorite comic book growing up was 'Thor.' It was one of my three, favorite comic books. Obviously, Marvel is such a huge name, but for me, to book a role in a Marvel movie, and for it to be 'Thor.' When my manager told me I booked 'Thor,' I literally didn't know what to say.

James Burrows

My father was weaned on books. I'm halfway between being weaned on books and weaned on television. And if you're weaned on television, you're not as good a writer as if you were weaned on books.

My dad has a book shop in England, and some people came in there the other day to buy books who were from Ozona. There can't be many people from Ozona.

No other management book will ever be needed.

Stewart O'Nan

No one writes a great book every time out, or even a good book.

Now, we're seeing 9,000 to 10,000 people per day, so the economic impact has to be even greater. We know that virtually every motel room and camping spot in the area, including Sweet Home, Lebanon and Albany, is booked during the Jamboree.

Jack Kerouac

Now you understand the Oriental passion for tea," said Japhy. "Remember that book I told you about the first sip is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy.

Now who do you think cooked these books? Some janitor or low-level employees?

Ron Kittle

Obviously, I'm not gonna read the book. Hey, I didn't even want to read my book.

George Bernard Shaw

Obscenity can be found in every book except the telephone directory.

Jennifer Lopez

Nobody writes books about how to deal with it or anything like that. Maybe I'll do that next. No. I'll make no money, it's not worth it.

Nobody wants to read a book to learn how to type a letter on the computer. Before you know it, material on computers is out of date, and there's so much material online (that people can access).

Nobody's taught me. I read ... some poker book I checked out of the library. I read about it so I'd have some idea of the rules of the game, so I wouldn't make a fool out of myself.

Given that some of the news of late ... has been on the weak side, and given that the Fed's own Beige Book report reflected weakness, they might show an inclination to cutting rates in the future,

Suzanne Somers

'Get Skinny' is my sixth book. I look over the books that I've written, and my subject matters are varied, and I write books pertaining to that which I'm dealing with at the moment.

Four of us work year-round sorting books, pricing them and getting them organized. And most of the books are on shelves. It's easy to locate the kinds of things you're looking for.

Robert K. Massie

Four of my children are daughters, and I've watched them devote themselves to reading books about how little girls learn to become women - how they learn to deal with boys and men, and the different hurdles females have to go over.

Mark Twain

Four years at West Point and plenty of books and schooling will learn a man a great deal, It won't learn him the river.

Francis Collins

Four years ago, we took down the book called Homo sapiens, ... Today, we take down the book next to it on the shelf.

Jason Reitman

For some reason, tobacco really makes people mad. It's not like other issues of vice. I don't know exactly why, but I can feel it, and I think that's why the book works so well.

Bryan Singer

From comic books to radio to TV to the movies, everyone knows this character. And they have an idea of who he should be. Those can be big expectations.

For publishers and authors, this means that electronic books and periodicals can now quickly grow to become a vast and lucrative new industry.

Bret Ellis

Fun is what reading a book should be. I had fun writing it. I wanted a reader to be gripped but it shouldn't be a heavy experience.

Lykke Li

I don't relate to the 'Twilight' books or movies at all, but I'm obsessed with it as a pop culture phenomenon - all these people just screaming like it was the Beatles.

If anything, the book shows the good, the bad, the ugly, and then the sad. They're chasing these gold dreams, but what happens when you put too much value in your chain? If you spend all your money on your ring and then you go broke? It's not an advertisement for jewelry.

If anything, the book shows the good, the bad, the ugly, and then the sad.

Katie Davis

If a kid knows a book and meets the author, he will love it so much more.

I don't think we need another law on the books to cover that subject.

I don't think we'll see consumers voting with their pocketbooks. If a book captures someone's imagination, consumers aren't going to decide not to buy it because it's a memoir.