Famous Quotes & Sayings

Philippe Petit

I needed more knowledge in rigging and knotting. I started collecting books on knots and really learning more and more. That's how it started. And also in magic, of course. With a piece of rope, you can do magic.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We are hoping that people will return the books and/or money. We are willing to work with the customer to restore our relationship and be flexible with payment options.

You have nothing to vet in court if you haven't put it on the books yet.

Heinrich Heine

Wherever they burn books they will also end up burning people.

Hillary Clinton

When I traveled as secretary of state, I was deluged with thick briefing books full of information about the politics, economy, and culture of each destination, so those took up most of my reading time.

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

Diane Ravitch

Removing books from the library is a no-no.