Quotes about book
book firsts world
I wrote my first book, I published it in 1955, it was in Jiddish and it was called And The World Was Silent. Elie Wiesel
book interesting matter
My pictures are not that interesting, nor the subject matter. They are simply a collection of facts; my book is more like a collection of Ready-mades. Edward Ruscha
book people gasoline
When I first did the book on gasoline stations, people would look at it and say, Are you kidding or what? Why are you doing this? In a sense, that's what I was after: I was after the head-scratching.
book organization people
If none of us ever read a book that was "dangerous," had a friend who was "different," or joined an organization that advocated "change," we would all be the kind of people Joe McCarthy wants. Edward R. Murrow
book firsts remember
I don't remember when exactly I read my first comic book, but I do remember exactly how liberated and subversive I felt as a result. Edward Said
books coaching concentration either focused games high level officials ourselves ready respect responsibility talk turn
We have a responsibility to show respect for the game, for the opponents, the officials and ourselves by approaching all the games in the same manner. As so many coaching books talk about, you can't just turn on and off the concentration switch. You're either always focused and always ready to play at a high level or you're not.
books project replace
We have a project on the books right now to replace the women's jail, ... but it's only partially funded.
book president brushes
Promoting his new book, President Bush visited the headquarters of Facebook. Unfortunately, he spent the whole visit on Farmville, clearing brush. Conan O'Brien
book writing president
President Clinton signed a $10 million deal to write a book by 2003. Isn't that amazing? Yes, and get this, not only that, President Bush signed a $10 million deal to read a book by 2003.
book tree als
Al Gore announced he is finishing up a new book about global warming and the environment. Yeah, the first chapter talks about how you shouldn't chop down trees to make a book that no one will read.
book texas worry
Texas Senator Ted Cruz said if elected president he would abolish the Department of Education. But not to worry. He promised to replace it with the less expensive Bureau of Book Learning.
book long presidential
A comic book publisher says he's trying to increase voter turnout in the presidential election by publishing comic books about John McCain and Barack Obama. Yeah, the publisher said that the election comic books are targeted at first-time voters and long-time virgins.
book loan admire
When I get hold of a book I particularly admire, I am so enthusiastic that I loan it to someone who never brings it back. E. W. Howe
book cds way
I hope that books don't go the way of albums and CD, large format albums, and physical product. Dwight Yoakam
book reality thinking
Books are influential in proportion to their obscurity, provided that the obscurity be that of inexpressible Realities. The Bible is the most obscure book in the world. He must be a great fool who thinks he understands the plainest chapter of it. Coventry Patmore
book cells cupcakes
These are my wakeup cupcakes, some anti-depressants, and a cell phone book Courtney Love
book thinking tv-shows
I think there seems to be a need for escapism at the moment. maybe that's the type of world we're living in. it's a sanctuary, in a way, where you can immerse yourself in something that doesn't exist, whether that's tv shows or comic books or novels. it's not solely down to magic and vampires - that's in at the moment. but escapism, being a part of other worlds, is very good for you. Colin Morgan
book school average
I was in school for literature, and read so many 19th century and early 20th century novels that it was hard to break out of that and read an average Jeanette Winterson book or something. Colin Meloy
book school people
I was a bookworm. Every week I'd go to the library and get seven books. Remember libraries? I wonder if people still go. And I learned about everything from the library. I came from a Scottish family. Old school. Colin Mochrie
book comedian wow
A weird sort of awareness set in, like, 'Wow. My stand-up isn't just separate from everything else I do anymore.' With Twitter and Face book, everything is universal that everything everybody says gets seen. Colin Quinn
books close takes until
It takes a while to get a movie together, and they don't start talking books until the movie is close to being finished. Gregory Keyes
book sleep healing
Sleep is good, he said, And books are better. George R. R. Martin
books change complain forget people stories translated watching
A lot of times, people complain about how books and stories change when they're translated to the screen. But I think sometimes people forget that a lot of changes have to be made because we're not in a book when we're watching a movie. Brian Selznick
books cups people poetry reading tea
I like cups of tea and reading books and poetry and old people things. Bindi Irwin
books gives likes point puts stupid time wife
My wife likes me to point out that she puts our daughter down to sleep more often than I do, which gives me time to write stupid books about it.
books both crave good nonfiction types writer
Both types of books - fiction and nonfiction - are a search for story. As a writer and a reader, there's nothing I crave more than a good story! Susan Campbell Bartoletti
books buy defines excited love
The one thing that I would say that defines me is I love to learn. I get excited about new things. I buy more books than I read or finish. Satya Nadella
book form highest journey point using worst
Its highest point was The Worst Journey in the World. Then you see this decline, and this harking back, using the 19th-century form when we're not in the 19th century. That way of writing a book about the world out there - you just can't do it anymore. Robyn Davidson
books finish good inside people
Many people tell me that they don 't know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story was dark, or complicated, or strange. But while they were reading it, they were inside my world and they were happy. That's good. Haruki Murakami
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The stakes in my books tend to be kind of ridiculously high. In 'Kid vs. Squid,' the question is whether or not the California coast will be subsumed by the ocean in favor of the creation of a new Atlantis. In 'The Boy at the End of the World,' what's at stake is the survival of the human species. Greg van Eekhout
books continue equally far hope included
I feel lucky that my career so far has included books for adults and books for kids. They're equally important to me, and I hope I get to continue writing both.
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'California Bones' is the first volume in my trilogy about Daniel Blackland, a wizard trying to survive in a world that eats wizards. It's a book about friends and family, trust and betrayal, the love of power and the power of love.
books couple weeks
A couple of weeks after that, Zebra Books phoned with an offer, and I accepted.