Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yeah, that's good. I don't want to go down in the history books for that. I want to be the first guy to lose 19 and come back and win 19.

We need to write books that publicists and marketers and booksellers and book club leaders and librarians and readers can get excited about. That have something about them that makes them stand out. That makes them shine.

Helen Fielding

I've had a lot of books rejected in my time. My first novel, which didn't get published, was, with hindsight, crashingly dull.

Hans Jonas

To me, it was a sad fate to have been born into a period and a world where everything was in tip-top order, and the only real excitement was to be found in history books and occasionally also in the paper.

Not as ours the books of old - Things that steam can stamp and fold; Not as ours the books of yore - Rows of type, and nothing more.

Graeme Base

I was born in Amersham, England on 6/4/58. My family moved to Australia when I was eight, and I went to Box Hill High School and then Melbourne High School. I liked to draw and write at school, and I liked books by J.R.R. Tolkien, A.A. Milne and Kenneth Grahame.

Gayle Forman

I wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and thought: 'I want to do that!' I always told stories and wrote them down, but I never thought writing was a career path, even though, clearly, someone was writing the books and newspapers and magazines.

I was not surprised by anything knowing where each person comes from. There were some strong things said about the tensions in the Middle East. I have a few more books to read.

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

I was never really a nerd. I'm not really into comic books or Dungeons and Dragons or any of that kind of stuff. I was in drama class, and I'm a big movie and music buff. And I'm into sports.

Carol Berg

I would love to have written Roger Zelazny's first five books of 'Amber.' What a great idea he had about the shadings of reality!

Joseph Howe

My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve.

Henry Miller

My books are the books that I am, the confused man, the negligent man, the reckless man, the lusty, obscene, boisterous, scrupulous, lying, diabolically truthful man that I am.

Eddie Trunk

My books are personal: I'm not saying they're the Bible of music.

Darren Shan

My books always focus on the response of the characters to extreme events. As dark as they get, they are ultimately positive, uplifting books about children who take control of their lives and overcome great adversaries. I think that is why they have been so popular.

Arthur Hailey

Mostly because inactivity has never suited me well, and it isn't practical for me to write other books with worldwide implications and so on.

Most books today seem to have been written overnight from books read that day

Lars Ulrich

...Metallica mythos...distilled the essences of the comic books and horror movies and the fantastic literature of metal itself...

When students enrolled, they often found overcrowded classrooms, unprepared instructors and few computers, books or other necessary materials,

You can have a great law, but if public officials don't want to comply, you're not going to get access. You have the law on the books and the reality on the ground, and sometimes they're not the same thing.

Marion Ross

We had many luxuries, such as books an the theater, but not many of the necessities,

Paul Foster

We had good earnings and we have a lot of projects on the books and plan to significantly improve the refinery to make it more efficient and more profitable.

We had to struggle to find crimes in the books that fit the conduct here.

We're up there (in the ranks of weird spots and stories). Of all the books I've written, this one was the easiest. I could have written four times as much.

Philip Reeve

I had no idea I'd end up writing four books when I completed 'Mortal Engines.' I didn't even think it would find a publisher.

We published six books in our first year, we're publishing nine this year, and we're scheduled to publish 12 in 2006,

We're breaking huge monopolies. It just can't happen overnight. The time is takes is dependent on how long it takes to get rules on the books and whether or not the (Baby Bells) take the rules to court which is their right. Without question, consumers are going to get the competition Congress and the president promised,

Wendy was a smart, kind, warm, funny, talented, generous, successful woman - that we all know. But perhaps we didn't know was how deeply, profoundly, universally loved she was. Not by just the 1,000 who are here in the Beaumont today ... but by those who did not know her, who had never even met her, but who had heard her speak or seen her plays or read her books and felt as we do, that she was their friend.

Greg Graffin

I got interested in palaeontology and vertebrate history - sparked by books on human evolution - then vertebrate evolution. Studying with palaeontologists kindled my interest in fieldwork.

Ben Horowitz

When I was a CEO, the books on management that I read weren't very much help after the first few months on the job. They were all designed to give you directions on how not to screw up your company.

Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Books were the window from which I looked out of a rather meager and decidedly narrow room onto a rich and wonderful universe. I loved the look and feel of books, even the smell... Libraries were treasure houses. I always entered them with a slight thrill of disbelief that all their endless riches were mine for the borrowing.

And after I compose my programs, but it is very easy because I look to the music in a very natural way without fuss, and so I look always music, in my home, like books and books and books, choose books and you read the pages, so I do this with music, and I make programs.

Ishmael Reed

Those books are still in print, all the books I've written are still in print, but I heard that other people had been victimized also.

Ben Horowitz

I think when companies are struggling, they don't want to talk to the press. The guys who write business books aren't interested in it because nobody wants to learn what it's like to be a mess, you want to learn how to be successful. That's slanted the whole thing quite a bit.