Famous Quotes & Sayings

He gave me a book and said he was going to give me a quiz on the first 24 pages,

Jane Asher

Having done lifestyle books and being an actress, I suppose it made sense to bring the two together. I think that's what happened.

Fran Lebowitz

Having been unpopular in high school is not a just cause for book publication

He made investing make sense, ... His books are as good a read as you can find on investing.

John Chaney

He managed a lot of big plantations before he worked for us. As for turkey hunting, he lives it. He could write books about it.

Siri Hustvedt

Henry Miller is a famous writer whose work has fallen out of fashion, but I strongly recommend that readers who don't know his work pick up a book and experience this writer's zealous, crazy, inventive, funny, sexy, often delirious prose.

Charlie Haas

From the German verb tinzelle- literally, "to book a turkey into 1,200 theaters and make one's money before word of mouth hits.

Jim Lee

From 'The Sandman' and 'Black Orchid' to 'Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?,' Neil Gaiman has provided some of the most memorable stories of the comic book industry.

From the publisher's point of view, there are lots of issues because students buy books and sell them back. Future students might only buy the used textbooks.

For the surf idol Duke Kahanamoku portrait, which I created for the Surfrider Foundation, I took a photo from a book cover and abstracted the photo image into a drawing. This drawing was laminated onto a surfboard and auctioned to a buyer.

Fortunately, in talking with the classroom teacher, she shared with me that the children recently read a couple of books on loss -- 'Charlotte's Web' and 'The Taste of Blackberries,' ... The children had an opportunity to discuss feelings and talk about what it meant to lose someone and to share with each other.

Jeffrey Toobin

Go ahead, book me and charge me whenever you feel like it.

If it's not in the books, then they become something that's simply hard and harsh and violent and quite unrelenting. That's neither the kind of book that I would like to read, nor that I would like to write. It's people's feelings that interest me.

Howard Stern

I got books full of notes, like a mental patient. I wish I could plug a wire into my head and play it for everyone.

David Reuben

I get email from people who say, 'We read your book 20 years ago and it really helped us.

Thomas Carlyle

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Terry Pratchett

If the government ever imposes a tax on books - and I wouldn't put it past them - I'm in dead trouble.

He was a new coach and decided to give me another chance. I got to go to a little smaller town, concentrate on my books and play basketball. I'm on track to graduate in May, and I think I've made the most of it.

Barry McGuire

He was an entrepreneur. He was the one who hired the musicians and booked the sessions and he had the ear. He heard the Mamas and Papas and said yes, immediately, yes! And so he did have, I guess, that producer's gift.

I was so excited about it because I felt it was meaningful. I really do worry about our species in the next 100 years. This book taps into the planetary concerns I have.

Mark Millar

I wouldn't let kids near half the stuff I've written so it is quite lovely to pass these little books out to children when they visit the house.

I wouldn't want to see people giving one company hundreds of thousands of books and thinking it doesn't matter, when in fact it does.

I would recommend books weigh between two and three pounds.

I would encourage people to get a copy of the book. It's a good book to have.

Clint Hurdle

I wish him good things. Our book is closed.

I work on one book at a time. And yes, I am immersed. Six days a week for four to six hours a day. In between books, I stop writing for as much as two to three months, but during that time, I do research and think, plot and plan the book.

John Grogan

I was pretty confident the book would be big, but not this big, Marley & Me.

I guess it's a pretty big weekend for both of us. I'm preparing for another big step in my career at Texas. Tiger is looking to place himself in the record books again. I'm sure we're both excited for different reasons.

Stephen Frears

I grew up with those MGM musicals, so I have an idea what I like from a musical. It helped to read a book about making musicals, however.

Colson Whitehead

I grew up reading the 'Village Voice' and wanting to be one of these multidisciplinary music writers, film writers, book writers. And I lucked out getting a job at the 'Voice' right after college.

Jeffrey Skilling

If we don't do this, the books that will get written will be wrong, like the books that have been written so far. I am innocent of all of these charges and I will fight for that for a long time.

If we had stuck with that cover concept for the remaining books in the series, I think it would have failed. But we were quick to respond, and it's been successful.

Gene Luen Yang

I got these big coffee table books about Chinese opera from the local library, and I loved looking through them. I loved studying the intricate costumes and figuring out how to 'cartoonify' them.