Famous Quotes & Sayings

Graeme Base

It's not even my job to educate, but what I do is try to facilitate by creating a book that works on different levels. I do want to entertain and bring some joy to the reading experience. If it holds a little kernel of knowledge that readers choose to explore, well, that's great.

Tony Buzan

As a very small boy, my passion was nature, and I had pets - cats, a dog and a bunny rabbit - and I wrote a very small book called 'My Pets,' filled with their photographs and a discussion about my pets and how much I loved them... That was my first book.

Tony Buzan

I used to think that when I finished a book, I was finished with it. But it's like a wonderful Hydra. Every time a head disappears, more heads appear, so I will be writing for the rest of my life. The more books I write, the more books I find that I still have to write about. I use it like an inspiration, and that's wonderful.

You'll notice that my books offer great variety. Some are for adults, some for children and some for teens. There are mysteries, historical novels, picture books, love stories and stories of crisis and courage.

Sophie Hannah

Agatha Christie's writing is incredibly skillful because her books are incredibly intellectually puzzling and challenging.

In real life, people are integrated into society. That's what happens in my books as well. Minor characters don't just walk in and spout lines, they interact and have an effect on the events. It's not an isolated universe.

Sugata Mitra

Schools still operate as if all knowledge is contained in books, and as if the salient points in books must be stored in each human brain - to be used when needed. The political and financial powers controlling schools decide what these salient points are.

Jon Scieszka

There are six 'Time Warp Trio' books that would take a page each to fully praise. And I just thought up twelve more while I was typing this sentence.

Q'orianka Kilcher

I honestly think I was an Indian living in the time of the Trail of Tears. Something like that. Every time I read books about back then, I get so devastatingly sad, so, so... I feel such a deep connection to it.

Marion Blakey

We can close the book on center fuel tank explosions,

Chip Kidd

What you must remember about hardcover books is that they are like tattoos. Once you get one, it's never really going to go away.

What we have created is a major resource for our community for years to come. It's a work that will be read 100 years from now. We've given a voice to people largely ignored in previous books African-Americans, Hispanics, women and other ethnic groups.

Nicholas Sparks

Having the book sell out of stores is far and away the most difficult step of all. Walk into a bookstore these days and scan the shelves. Thousands, sometimes tens of thousands of books, are competing with yours and the front of the store is dominated by brand-name authors.

Going forward, stock specific movement will continue. It is advisable to buy on declines and book profits at higher levels.

Going by the statement of the honorary secretary, we felt the rule book was not properly referred to.

Johnny Ball

Go Figure! A Totally Cool Book About Numbers

Going on a diet doesn't mean limiting your foods. So many food shows and books are geared toward healthier, lighter cooking. Your choices are endless. People have to realize that cooking at home takes extra time and work, but there's a big long-term pay off.

Bobby Jenks

He's just very good at what he does. I'm sure he feels the same way. That he can take the last two outings and put them in the book and be ready for tomorrow. You can never doubt yourself when you are a closer. It's very important. You can't dwell over the little things or it will be stuck in your head the next time you go out.

Steve Finley

I think it's crap that (the investigation) is just because the book came out.

It integrates everything that is important to them: games, friends, sports, e-mail, music, books, movies and, when they have time, homework,

It includes 200 recipes all in one book and saves having to cut recipes from magazines and storing them somehow.

Gus Frerotte

I threw it and you've got to move on. I would throw it a lot earlier and put it only where Book can get it, maybe high and outside. If it's incomplete, it's incomplete and we move on. When you're in the heat of the moment and you're trying to fit one in, sometimes it's not the greatest thing to do.

Winston Churchill

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations.

It is a great thing for him to have read so many books. You just don't usually hear that about a first-grader.

It is a Christian poetry book and it is patriotic. There is a lot of it that shares my faith in Christ and it's dedicated to our service men and women. It's also dedicated to the Twin Towers and the men and women who lost love ones there. That's one of the main poems.

Michael Vaughan

I think the newspaper headline might have over-exaggerated the comments in the book,

I think the image I had in my head from the book -- they've captured it.

I thought a lot of people would dismiss the subject as trivial, ... and ... that regardless of what I achieved, the subject would be dismissed. I think I've been gratified more than anything. Whether people like the book or don't like the book, they treat the subject as worthy of discussion.

Simon Cowell

I think you just booked your plane ticket home.

James Frey

I think writing a book about this experience would be trying to capitalize on it in some way and that's not something I want to do at all.

I think the book itself is a blueprint, really, for any company on how to make a company successful.

David Healy

I think the effect has already been felt on Ford's earnings because Ford and the other automakers book themselves in profits when they produce and ship the cars to the dealers,

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all.