Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Ray

It was all flames. There was a fire coming out of the window here, all at the top here ... And right when you go through the front door, where the bookshelf was, there was a bunch of fire there, too.

The SEC made the effort to get to 12 teams in order to have a championship game. If the ACC wants to do the same thing, why should we change a rule just for them when it's been on the books for a long, long time?

These books now stand both as a testament to the resilience of the residents of New Orleans ... and as a map back from disaster, offered by the city's teenagers.

Matt Smith

These books carry messages and have had impact on our daily existences.

These books are the students' very own to keep. This is a great program encouraging the children to read and build a home library.

These books are going to rock the nation. Elly and Ray are two of the three jurors who initially voted for guilty.

These books are feeding that same reader who has been starved for more books like The D a Vinci Code .

These books are donated either by businesses that sponsor the entire month or a collection of donations from parents with smaller donations. We even had one of our junior teachers sponsor everyone herself for Christmas.

The strength of the year's competition can be measured by the fact that three good books by previous Man Booker winners were finally not selected.

The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have beenpresented in the entire history of television."Andrew Ross

The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television.

The Singapore books are good enough, so that when you've been in them a while, you can learn this.

Mariella Frostrup

The sight of parents, children and grandparents all descending on a tented field to enjoy the pleasure of ideas and books renews my faith in humanity.

As a librarian, I have seen a lot of books checked out of the library that I didn't think were very good, but people came back to return those same books and said that the book changed their lives.

Stephen Chow

As many people have pointed out, the scene in 'Kung Fu Hustle' where the Landlady was chasing after me resembled the Roadrunner, ... I loved to watch cartoons and read comic books when I was small. In fact, I still watch and read a lot of them now. They give me great ideas.

That's my mom. Books came first. Before you could go play, you had to get your homework done.

Candace Bushnell

That's kind of a difficult question, because people say I'm one of the people who started it ... but I think my books are much more satirical.

We had to buy furniture and computers; we had to put a teacher's desk, wall unit and file cabinet in each classroom. We ordered all those items six months ago from different manufacturers. When they were delivered, they were stored and some pieces had to be assembled. We ordered half a million dollars worth of textbooks. It took a great deal of planning by everyone in the school district - from the custodians planning on how to schedule cleaning to how we were going to supply books and teachers. It was an unbelievably complex project,

Judith Regan

What people respond to in this culture is loud and brash and pointed and sometimes vulgar -- that's what gets people's attention, on TV and radio and in books. Shades-of-gray books are very difficult to sell.

What is important is not to be able to read rapidly, but to be able to decide what not to read.

Mal Peet

What I value in books is lucidity. I want the language to be rich; I love lexical fireworks on the page, but I have to know what it means. I want to be surprised and delighted, not merely baffled.

Malorie Blackman

We had a few non-fiction books at home, but my dad was of the opinion that fiction was a complete and utter waste of time because it wasn't real - so what was the point of reading it?

Juicy J

I used to read music books when I was 13. My mom was working at a library. She's a librarian. I would get my mom to check out any kind of books that had anything to do with the music industry. I read a lot about royalities, publishing, marketing, stuff like that.

Things like taking her math books to English class.

The rule has been on the books a number of years and only been enforced sporadically at best, to our knowledge. We think this exceeds what is reasonable in governing the conduct of players on the court.

Lynsey Addario

I've seen so many photographers rush to do books the minute they start shooting, but one great thing about photography is that the images don't go away, so the more I sit with these images, the more I learn which ones have had the most impact.

Andrea Seigel

I've never read any of the '50 Shades of Grey' books because the Internet pre-educated me about the 'my inner goddess is doing the merengue with some salsa moves' material.

David Bergen

Though I loved books as a young boy, I loved sports even more. I wanted to be a quarterback in the CFL.

Nic Pizzolatto

TV and film were always governing passions of mine, and that first wave of great HBO shows in the early years of the millennium was feeding my desire for fiction more than the books I was reading.

Sebastian Faulks

To have been able to write the books I wanted to write, on demanding subjects like war and the history of psychiatry, and for them to have sold in the numbers they have - and then go around saying: 'Actually, I'd also like to have won the Costa Book of the Year?' That would be ridiculous.

You have to learn leadership through on-the-job experience, through successes and failures. But you can use books and experts to help you through those experiences.

You have to go by the handbook. We have all the guidelines in that book. ... Coming out at a meeting and saying you can do this or that, we can't do that in a meeting.

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.