Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kurt Vonnegut

Never index your own book.

Kurt Vonnegut

I go on many thrilling adventures and wondrous, profound escapades through books.

Kurt Vonnegut

A book is an arrangement of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numerals, and about eight punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes over these and envision the eruption of Mount Vesuvius or the Battle of Waterloo.

Kurt Vonnegut

I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on.

Kurt Vonnegut

There is no shortage of wonderful writers. What we lack is a dependable mass of readers.

Kurt Vonnegut

There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.

William Shakespeare

A beggar's book outworths a noble's blood.

William Shakespeare

Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

William Shakespeare

I can see he's not in your good books,' said the messenger. 'No, and if he were I would burn my library.

Hermann Hesse

Whenever books are burned, sooner or later men also are burned.

We're trying to find someone who can print up the books for free, because we do not have the cash flow to do that ourselves, ... Our sales rep is running around to all the printing plants, trying to find someone.

We're trying to find someone who can print up the books for free.

Charlie Trotter

We said, 'We've got to write his book for him,'

We just won't be a walk-in bookstore anymore. As long as there are call-in orders we will keep that (side of the business) going.

We think you should be able to search through every word of every book ever written, and come away with a list of relevant books to buy or find at your local library,

Madeleine Albright

I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor.

William Shakespeare

A great while ago the world begun, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain; But that's all one, our play is done, And we'll strive to please you every day.

William Shakespeare

Abate the edge of traitors, gracious Lord, That would reduce these bloody days again And make poor England weep in streams of blood! Let them not live to taste this land's increase That would with treason wound this fair land's peace! Now civil wounds are stopped, peace lives again: That she may long live here, God say amen!

William Shakespeare

Lords, I protest my soul is full of woe That blood should sprinkle me to make me grow. Come, mourn with me for what I do lament, And put sullen black incontinent. I'll make a voyage to the Holy Land To wash this blood off from my guilty hand. March sadly after. Grace my mournings here In weeping after this untimely bier.

William Shakespeare

Myself will straight aboard, and to the state This heavy act with heavy heart relate.

William Shakespeare

To pore upon a book, to seek the light of truth.

William Shakespeare

Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will not be deep-searched with saucy looks: Small have continual plodders ever won, Save base authority from others' books.

William Shakespeare

Shakespeare scholars just sigh and consign the book to the great pantheon of revelations .. I am accustomed to fanatics who get a funny look in the eye when they come to speak to me how about the Earl of Oxford or Marlowe really wrote the plays. She spoke rationally, and it's an intelligently readable book, but it floats way above the facts, as I told her.

William Shakespeare

Though men can cover crimes with bold, stern looks, poor women's faces are their own faults' books.

There is no path to the Holy Book. The Holy Book is the path.

John Anderson

There is no other book that I know of that provides such a comprehensive exposition of gang dynamics and activities.

There is no logical reason why humanity could not be organized as a society, or as a purely economic enterprise, or as a vast book club.

Alexander McCall Smith

I think people in Botswana are pleased that my books paint a positive picture of their lives and portray the country as being very special. They've made a great success of their country, and the people are fed up with the constant reporting of only the problems and poverty of the continent. They welcome something which puts the positive side.

William Shakespeare

Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters.

William Shakespeare

Oh God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea.

Edan Lepucki

I'm a mother of a three-year-old, but when I started 'California,' my son wasn't even a twinkle in my eye. Because the book took as long as it did, I wrote it before I was pregnant, while I was pregnant, and as a new mother - so I enjoyed a diversity of experiences while creating this world.

Meg Rosoff

I loved horses and horse books as a child.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Half of my library are old books because I like seeing how people thought about their world at their time. So that I don't get bigheaded about something we just discovered and I can be humble about where we might go next. Because you can see who got stuff right and most of the people who got stuff wrong.