Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeremy Stoppelman

There's been resistance to every new technology that's ever been introduced. When books came out hundreds of years ago, there were complaints that it would destroy the oral tradition. Some of those fears were justified, but it didn't stop the rise of the written word. And books have proven to be incredibly useful.

Tom Burke

There seems to be a lot of eating, wine drinking and self-introspection going on. Those books are doing very well.

There's certainly an issue of free speech here. We're not saying by any means that these books shouldn't be read. But ... if it's categorized as Jewish history, versus conspiracy literature, then there's a problem.

The relative stability of U.S. foreclosure inventory ended in December. With lending institutions closing their books at the end of the year, it is somewhat common for the foreclosure inventory to rise. It is premature to predict that December's inventory indicates a foreclosure crisis in the U.S.; however, this rise in inventory, which is higher than in recent years, should be closely monitored as 2006 begins.

Rahul Dravid

All of us had been reading about it in the history books over the years. So, it was very special just to have passed the same route after knowing about all those great people who have used that route.

All my books explore fatherhood. I look at what it means to have a big father figure at the centre: sometimes they're a good father, sometimes bad.

John Foley

A bookstore to me is ike a candy store, ... There is not a book I would not want to read at some point. My son is learning to read right now. Watching him get excited how he can discover things through books is pretty phenomenal.

All of our books have to qualify under the vision of creating a world that works for all.

Samuel Johnson

A man ought to read just as his inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

A lot of the traditional business books are still struggling. It is a crowded cluster of magazines of which there are some underperformers. So it is a curiosity.

A lot of Winnipeggers received real literature in their stockings this year. We have seen lots of people right now looking for books that push them and their brains.

They got their medications, books and clothes. Some brought little portable game systems to play. We wanted to get everybody out and make sure we were all safe.

This is phenomenal. Students from any of the partner colleges can now go to the other college and use their library, all their resources, their professional staff. We're talking over a million books combined.

Daniel Handler

The way Sunny speaks in the books seems a perfect fit for the cause in question. She often uses words that can't be found in the Oxford English Dictionary, which then are explained as sly commentary on what's going on around her,

This creates the possibility of an entirely new book-promotion event that will inject new life into the marketing of books and authors' relationship with their readers.

This festival is our way of saying that there are few more rewarding ways to spend time with children than to help them discover the wonders of books and to start them on a journey of pleasure and learning that will last a lifetime.

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 very beautifully done. Everything that, to me, is the most important and most moving in the books is on the stage.

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.

Sally Quinn

They had not been viewed as demigods in the newsroom. Only after the book, and really after the movie, did it become clear that their celebrity was a little over the top.

They essentially own the books now, and we're working with them on the international bid.

Steven Bennett

They eliminate half the cleaning because you don't have storm windows to wash. Energy-wise I know what the books tell me. The books say 25 to 30 percent, but that's with everything being identical.

Lev Grossman

The year after I graduated college I had a job in a library. When people underlined passages in the library books, or made notes in the margins, the books were sent to me. I erased the lines and the notes. Yes, that was my job.

Rick Perry

This order means schools that do not currently meet this standard will be spending more dollars on items like classroom computers and technology, science lab equipment, books and instructional materials or even higher teacher salaries,

Elizabeth McCracken

There were a lot of things I loved about working in a library, but mostly I miss the library patrons. I love books, but books are everywhere. Library patrons are as various and oddball and democratic as library books.

There was sufficient quality for two distinguished lists. 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.

There really are a lot of outstanding books published for young adults,

You shouldn't talk about yourself all the time - most of us aren't for sale. Our books are. Talk about them. It's not a question of whether or not you're fascinating on a personal level - it's that your trivia and trials might not have any connection to the tone, tenor and sense of your books.

James Otis

Your Honors will find in the old books concerning the office of a justice of the peace precedents of general warrants to search suspected houses.

You need to have both schools on the books at the same time.

This is how I passed my time was reading his book.

David Armstrong

This is the first time I've been to a bookstore that I actually had to search for.