Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Hillman

I can't read all the books I want to read, I can't watch all the phenomena that interest me in the world. The work calls me, and sometimes I wonder whether this is an obsession and I should drop it, or it's a necessity I'm obliged to fulfill.

I forgot it. I'm happy and excited. I'm honored to have my name in the books with some other great players.

Raquel Welch

I found out a long time ago that if I indulged by stuffing my face with great food, lying about reading books and watching TV or talking on the phone, I was not a happy camper.

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.

Kerr-McGee has booked less than (1 trillion cubic feet of oil equivalent) as proven, which means we have the potential for a fivefold increase to existing proved reserves in this field alone.

Jeff Kinney

Kids and adults have a difference of opinion when it comes to what constitutes legitimate reading. Adults often push books that they loved as children, which, ironically, were often books that their parents weren't particularly keen on.

Kid books can get cute and a-d-o-r-a-b-l-e. Garfield says cute rots the intellect. Don't forget the name of the cat! You pick up cats the wrong way and they stop being adorable...they become Scratch.

Mark Latham

Kim Beazley said my book would only be a two-day wonder, so he was not too worried about it,

James Patterson

Kids say the No. 1 reason they don't read more is that they can't find books they like. Freedom of choice is a key to getting them motivated and excited.

Knowledge without wisdom is a load of books on the back an ass

Spike Jonze

Kids are so fiercely opinionated, that if they love the Harry Potter books and they go see the movie, they'll be the first to say, 'That was wrong! They didn't get that right!' They're storytellers themselves. They're critics. They're going to have the critical opinion.

Kids are not interested in taking their summer vacation to start thinking about back-to-school wardrobes, supplies and book bags.

Jojo Moyes

I wrote three books before I got one published. Most writers do. Have faith, and know that with each work you are getting better.

William Rehnquist

I wrote this book for a sense of personal satisfaction. Just like taking a good photograph or painting a picture or playing a good golf game or something, it's the thing in itself that justifies it.

Terry McMillan

I wrote the book in order to give myself permission,

Len Deighton

I wrote my first books the way people would write science fiction, because they gave me much more latitude to invent situations.

Kevin Spacey

I write a lot about my experiences and the people I meet. I've got a lot of material. But a book about me? It seems sort of odd.

Just look at the shelves of any bookstore in any airport, and you see how much people love crime and mysteries, how much they love solving puzzles.

Kathleen Norris

Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier

Just the child seeing a parent with a book or a newspaper, or reading a recipe or a book on how to repair a car encourages their children to want to read.

John Archibald (in the book as well as in real life) is a big, important part of the yard.

Emerson Spartz

J.K. Rowling called in May to invite me to her house and interview her on the day of the new book's release, ... I had to stay up all night to read through the entire book in time for the interview.

Lord Byron

I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in 20 minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it.

Galway Kinnell

I think it might help to keep his memory vivid, ... People might be led from one book to the other.