Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oscar Wilde

The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.

Eleanor Catton

The books that really made an impact on me were not set in New Zealand. Some were New Zealand novels, but the New Zealandness of them was not what carried me or excited me.

Theodore Parker

The books that help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

The books, representing writers from Egypt, Brazil, Europe, Canada and the United States, will explore what it means to belong, a theme that transcends many cultures and experiences.

The books are not a straight line to the corner office. But they're going to help you figure out where you want to go.

It's important that everyone have a comfortable place to sit. Even though this is a room for kids, Mom needs a place to sit while reading books or helping them with a project.

It's important for readers, especially girls to read characters that they can relate to and model themselves after: a strong female hero. The Nancy Drew books will be discussed in the program. Then, as girls grow-up, they want a grown-up Nancy Drew. We'll discuss that.

Rebecca Stead

There's this trouble with books for me because I'm terrible at thinking of titles. The truth is, even with the titles that I've landed on in the end, they always feel wrong. I think it's because of this whole problem of having to package your book in a certain way.

Richard Lewis

The retailers are trying to gain market share by offering good value on their books and they want people to receive a brand image about their shop too,

I want to illustrate children's books and write them. It's very difficult to get into, it's very competitive. I really haven't spent much time doing it, maybe two to three years.

Jim Lee

Once I started down the path of co-founding Image Comics, and even co-publisher, it just seems a lot more like a career path that isn't that atypical for someone with a college degree. Whereas, someone who draws comic books as a freelancer and lives from job to job is a more unusual story.

Adam Smith

Any and all copyright holders ... can tell us which books they'd prefer that we not scan if we find them in a library.

Voltaire

It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude

It's not like this heat is going to last for one or two months. This is not going down in the books as a hot summer.

For many, many years, I thought that I wasn't good enough or that I would never be able to create something that could touch other people the way books have touched me. There's nothing better than having a lifelong dream come true.

Sammy Sosa

I'm real happy my name is in the record book, but it means nothing because we lost.

I keep painting on newspapers, maps, and books spending days in bookstores to look for old paintings and young painters.

I learned every good consultant must have a book.

I have on my bookshelf a book called 'Movie Monsters' by Alan Ormsby, a kids' book I got when I was in kindergarten. It started there.

Lauren Bacall

I'm a fan. My grandchildren are fans. I wish I'd written the books.

Mallory Ortberg

I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more secular, and I love reading books by just really smart people of religious faith. It's always a really cool perspective.

Mary Pope Osborne

I love reading all kinds of books. I usually have about ten books going at any one time - books about the past, the present, novels, non-fiction, poetry, mythology, religion, etc. Reading is my favorite thing to do.

Charles Lamb

I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think; books think for me.

I love those books like 'Gone with the Wind,' the huge, sweeping family sagas.

James Dickey

I'm sure they were disappointed. As you can imagine, the players listened intently. But they all wished him the best, told him they loved him. He told them he loved them, to stay on the books and play hard and do their best.

That's a first line many have heard, whether or not they've read the book.

Thomas Cahill

Every one of these books is going to have one really big surprise in it to make people say, 'I didn't realize that,'

J. M. Coetzee

Everyone seems to see bleakness and despair in my books. I don't read them that way. I see myself as writing comic books, books about ordinary people trying to live ordinary, dull, happy lives while the world is falling to pieces around them.

Dean Lombardi

Everyone has to be singing from the same hymn book.

I've got a huge collection of books I haven't even read yet because I've been so busy over the years. I want to travel. I love going out West, going to Maine.

Robert Rubin

I've got 11 fly rods and a lot of unread books.

Tanith Lee

I've written two books set in India... In the mid-'80s, I just fell for India, and it was like a love affair. I was obsessed with it. I read a few things, and looked at films, and it was as though I was more there than in England, where I was writing! This always happens to me, and it's magical.

Chelsea Cain

I've written books for awhile, but always on a pretty small scale and always pretty self-indulgent. I chose projects that I thought would be really fun to work on and found friends to work on them with me, and it was all about the process.