Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oprah Winfrey

passports to new and exciting worlds... and I know that I would not be the person I am today had it not been for my love of reading.

Malorie Blackman

Part of my job as Children's Laureate is to visit schools and talk about my love of books and stories and encourage them all to do it as well - to read, to write, to never be afraid of their own voice. Because we all have something to say.

Our major acquisitions and joint ventures ... will be shown on the books for the second half of the year,

Martin Luther

Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.

Order books are full and people are operating closer to capacity, so that companies are building up employment again.

Such categories of books are not economically viable for mass production. So POD is a great solution which serves the purpose of both the niche readers as well as publishers.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

'Success' is a seductive word. Thousands of books have been written on the subject. They promise money, freedom, leisure, and luxury.

Carl Hiaasen

Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.

Paul Di Filippo

Stephen King consummately honors several traditions with his rare paperback original, 'Joyland.' He addresses the novel of carny life and sideshows, where the midway serves as microcosm, such as in those famous books by Ray Bradbury, Charles Finney and William Lindsay Gresham.

Louis MacNeice

Some on commission, some for the love of learning, some because they have nothing better to do or because they hope these walls of books will deaden the drumming of the demon in their ears.

Paul Davis

Our scouting reports are longer than some of the books I have to read in school.

Our first store, in 1990, was in the shopping center where the movie theater is now. We bought selected books from a bookseller in DeLand and we had already developed a good business core in the selling and trading side of the business.

Our training for Melbourne depends so much on the documents and the training log books, so please return it.

Francis Bacon

Out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of books, and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time

Jon Lewis

Our writing process is different. We storyboard it first. We're so visual, and we didn't want to lose that. We want our books to be very cinematic. We want to create awe-inspiring sequences.

Diane Ravitch

Removing books from the library is a no-no.

Mo Ibrahim

Remarkably, governments are beginning to embrace the idea that nothing enhances democracy more than giving voice and information to everybody in the country. Why not open their books if they have nothing to hide?

Photograph books are very expensive to print, and I don't think a commercial publisher was willing to take it on. But for us, it was interesting because it combined photographs with the essay.

Nicholas Sparks

I'm here to love you, to hold you in my arms, to protect you. I am here to learn from you and to receive your love in return. I am here because there is no other place to be.

We need all those wonderful books people have on their bookshelves and are willing to part with.

I was 13 when Dr. King was slain. I didn't have the opportunity to know him. But reading Taylor's books make me feel that I do know Dr. King.

Ashley Johnson

I will not plan on buying any kind of electronic textbook. If you pay for it, it should be yours. That's information open to you, especially if you're buying books for your major.

I think there always will be the need for the books and the lectures and the classrooms, and the classroom material. And that's where our secret comes in. This is supplemental to that.

Ron Gardenhire

Just another one for the books. Ohhhh God.

Nick Hornby

I write the books I want to write, and readers will either respond or not respond.

That whole 10-day period in Melbourne 2002 will go down in the history books as the most popular two points ever scored in Formula One.

Maeve Binchy

That's the kind of motif I bring to the books - that people take charge of their own lives.

Steve Miller

That's been a really good breeding ground for them this year ... It's one for the record books for sure.

I think those books do have the same feeling as the big movies. You know you're going to get lost in this world. A shorter book can't quite do that.

Rebecca Stead

I think that's one of the most important things that books do: not to teach you anything, but to help you teach yourself by just being in the world of the book and having your own thoughts and reactions and noticing your own reactions and thoughts and learning about yourself that way.

John Faso

I think someone gave it to him out of a briefing book, and he's just not as familiar with New York as I am.

Michael Morpurgo

Marry someone who flatters you. Because I've written 80 books since 'War Horse' but when my wife reads one, all she says is, 'It's quite good, but it's not as good as 'War Horse,' is it?'

Jean Fritz

My mother had been a Latin teacher, and she was always very fascinated with words. She and I shared books and responded to them.