Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Van Allsburg

I try to satisfy the desires that people have to have their books personalized. That's a value, or feature, of bibliophilia that may vanish. How do you get your e-book signed? The idea of people standing in line to get my signature in their book, it's hard to turn them away.

Julie Kenner

I try not to think about the trope or whether or not my books are like 'Fifty' or 'Crossfire' or any other series.

It took 16,000 bricks. I worked with my grandfather, who was a bricklayer and carpenter. We also relied on books from the library for the heating, wiring and plumbing.

It will be nice to be in the record books, I guess, but it's not really a great big deal,

It will be really dramatic. Three years from now, everything in the books will be done. This will really become a much more significant part of campus.

Claudio Sanchez

It was just a small idea, to write these records and songs that have a concept, ... and at some point create those records in another medium, whether it would be comic books or a novel or something else.

They changed the title of the book, but it is the same book. They still haven't rectified any of the legal problems of the statute of limitations, of the staleness of the charges.

The visitation policy hasn't changed (in the books). There is a policy on the books that visitation Sunday night through Thursday night ends at midnight and then weekends it is 24 hours. So, it's not that the policy is not there. If there is a problem, a roommate conflict or something like that, the policy is still in place and can be enforced.

Ron Paul

They broke the mold when they decided to do music. If bookstores have coffee, then why can't a coffee store sell books and movies?

They want us to have our books picked out by mid-semester of fall for our spring classes. But many of us don't even know what we'll be teaching yet.

Larry Sabato

They violated every rule in the book. I've studied feeding frenzies. This is a classic feeding frenzy, and it was created in part by their inability to get the news out. You have to tell the truth, and you need to get the facts out completely as soon as possible. This was a public-relations disaster because they didn't do that.

They have to keep their record books and think about their goals it's not just a horse standing in their backyard.

There's no such thing as an original idea. We're all inspired by books, magazines and movies.

Dave Wannstedt

There's no short cuts. There's no books you can read to solve this thing.

There's no doubt German firms are doing exceptionally well: order books are full to the brim and business confidence is at levels not seen since reunification. But they haven't started hiring yet. They know that in 2007 a very large fiscal tightening is envisaged, so this could be a short-lived rise in demand.

John Searles

I stayed at 'Cosmo' well beyond my internship, moving up the ranks over some 15 years to become books editor, then brand director, then editor-at-large - editing everything from an excerpt of Gore Vidal's memoir to writing some of those juicy cover lines myself.

Malorie Blackman

I started reading seriously at seven or eight, books about myths and legends, the Narnia series. By the time I was 11, I had read all the children's books in my local library, so I moved on to 'Jane Eyre.' What I loved about Jane Eyre was that she didn't rely on her looks but her character. She had a spirit nobody could break.

Anthony Browne

What excites me about picture books is the gap between pictures and words. Sometimes the pictures can tell a slightly different story or tell more about the story, about how someone is thinking or feeling.

Maria das Gracas Silva Foster

We didn't have much money. My whole extended family used to help us, and buy us books and food. It was hard, and there were things I didn't want to talk about. But at the end I was a happy girl.

I know at my church a lot of the times we sung from hymn books and as we got older we started to change with time. I can honestly say that I was never influenced to write for the church.

Jean Craighead George

I hope my books empower kids, and that they learn how to work out their problems themselves.

Robertson Davies

I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed - and one of them hadn't even been colored in yet.

Jojo Moyes

I have read books that are so cliched and lazy, my eyes have bled. But I also have read books marketed under the chick-lit umbrella that are so honest, clever and gritty that I've wanted to give up writing and paint walls instead.

Jeffery Deaver

I have to say that there are certain books that exist to tell a particular story and then there are books that exist in the context of character.

I have to tell you, I'm a happy man. I've lived the life I wanted to live. I've written the books I wanted to write. No publisher has ever even suggested that I change so much as a phrase - commas and periods, yes - and I suspect that I have a lot of serious readers; in fact, I know.

I really lost this tournament on day three. I had several fish pull off Friday, and any one of those would have been a $200,000 fish. That's easy to say in hindsight, but going down in the record books for the heaviest one-day weight in history is truly amazing.

Joseph Bruchac

I often find myself unsatisfied with books 'about' Indians because they are written from the viewpoint of non-Indians.

In the old way, it was as if you were looking through a scrap book, you had a series of images. You would never see the entire organ, you would just see the representative photo.

Tom Selleck

In the book, he's in his mid-30s and 5-foot-10.

If you want to sell T-shirts and mountain books and volcano burgers in the existing spots, that's great.

I had a happy childhood, with many stimulations and support from my parents who, in postwar times, when it was difficult to buy things, made children's books and toys for us. We had much freedom and were encouraged by our parents to do interesting things.

Jean Paul Gaultier

If there is somebody we're interested in we might place a phone call and send them a look book.

Mark Morris

It has been up to parents to hit the Web and hit the books and find information on both sides about K-8.