Famous Quotes & Sayings

Asa Hutchinson

Ladies and gentlemen of the Senate, in my book that is illegal, and I hate to say it, obstruction of justice by the president of the United States,

James Snyder

I was doing television and films for a good five years, and then I booked 'Cry-Baby.'

Ron Carlson

I was a good college kid, all-American and baseball-playing, living in the dorms with a million barbarians. I did not expect to be claimed by Fitzgerald hook, line, and sinker. 'This Side of Paradise' - that sweet, sophomoric pastiche of notes, scenes, poetry, and plays - I felt like he'd written the book just for me.

I was browsing through some books in a local bookstore, thinking of a special thing to do for God during Lent, when the idea of writing the musical hit me.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

I was an early reader, reading even before kindergarten, and since we did not have books in my home, my older brother, Alexander, was responsible for our trip every week to the public library to exchange books already read for new ones to be read.

I was a librarian years ago, and I really liked reading the fun books (to kids) because the kids would always run and check those books out later. It did get them excited about reading, and I'm happy to see that.

Robert Hall

He might be a very clever man by nature for aught I know, but he laid so many books upon his head that his brains could not move

Leonard Mlodinow

Whatever I've worked on, I've always tried to make my writing personal. I think that's what makes my books somewhat different from what other scientists are doing. You have to tie concepts into everyday life, or they just won't be interesting for readers.

Sathya Baba

Whatever books you may read, you cannot realize the Divine merely by intellectual effort. One must put it into practice. That sense of oneness can only be promoted by the practice of love and not by any other means.

Gene Nelson

What do we owe this to? I think the building draws people. We have a better layout and more shelving, so the books are more approachable. It looks really sharp, and users can find things faster.

Maurice Sendak

What most people wanted was a reproduction of the book, because the book made money,

There is no book so bad, said the bachelor, but something good may be found in it.

There is no better way to do this. They're taking a page out of Mel Gibson's play book for 'The Passion of the Christ' to let the media coverage sell the movie. All the coverage is better than ads.

There is more to life than a job. I didn't ever want to look back and point to a bookshelf of videotapes and say, 'That's been my life.' It's so much easier to write a resume than it is to craft a spirit.

The purpose of the book isn't necessarily, 'We're all miserable and here's how to be happier,' ... There are many people who are feeling very happy. But it's addressed to people from the standpoint of whatever level of life satisfaction and contentment you're experiencing, it's always possible through your own efforts to increase that level and improve upon it.

Robertson Davies

The people who are always monkeying with these great books to make them fully (comprehensible) have no friend in me, for in their realm the fully comprehensible is not worth comprehending

We talked about the children's book Where's Waldo? That was our philosophy going into it. Where's Reggie? You better know where Waldo is.

We've been underdogs most of the season. We had books ranking us 15th (in the Big East), saying we had the worst backcourt in the nation and look what we did. If they select us, I have no doubt that my team will go to the tournament ready to play.

We've been together through good times and bad. If we didn't have book group, we would miss it.

We treated this the same as we would any case. There was no clear evidence of a crime being committed, so there was nothing to book him on.

Mark Foley

We track library books better than we do sexual predators.

We're optimistic that the new Harry Potter will bring more foot traffic to stores and perhaps become a catalyst to drive sales of other books as well.

Hilaire Belloc

When I am dead, I hope it is said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.

Donal Henahan

When her name is mentioned in the opera history books we will recall that vibrant, soaring tone-that and the blinding, high-beam-headlight smile that she flashed on her fans at each curtain call.

We take the book everywhere we go. It's not just my husband ? we're a 'Chicken Soup' family, I guess.

We suspect that the Taliban has a hundred useable tanks, which isn't that many. On the books they probably have 600, but most of those are inoperative.

Michel Faber

History proves that most writers get forgotten anyway. That's very likely to happen to my books, and if I'm extremely lucky, maybe one of my books will survive.

Carl Jung

Damen is gorgeous. I know this without looking up. I just focus on my book as he makes his way toward me since I know way too much about my classmates already. So as far as I'm concerned, an extra moment of ignorance really is bliss. But according to the innermost thoughts of Stacia Miller sitting just two rows before me - Damen Auguste is totally smoking hot. Her best friend, Honor, completely agrees. So does Honor's boyfriend, Craig, but that's a whole other story

Carl Jung

Another one from the immortals and again i cant remember what book. Haven to Ever In every relationship there is always someone who loves more, my point is no matter how it looks from the outside the truth is, its never really equal, that's just not the way it works,there is always the pursued and the pursuer, the cat and the mouse.

Carl Jung

Life is not meant to be an open-book test.

Antoni Gaudi

Everything comes from the great book of nature.

Antoni Gaudi

Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature.

Antoni Gaudi

The great book, always open and which we should make an effort to read, is that of Nature.