Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's a matter of what are our priorities as a nation. Obviously, our priorities are guns and not books.

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

Robert Burton

They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works

John Wood

Things do go wrong, ... We had sent all these books to Nepal, but then we did an evaluation with local teachers.

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.

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.

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 not uncommon to see kids on the school bus reading books and doing homework on the bus.

It's one thing to put this business on the books. It's far more important to maximize the profit from it.

Stacie Orrico

It's one thing for the people in the industry to know who you are, because they've heard about you earlier. I have friends calling me from the Christian bookstore because there's a poster on the wall. It's just weird.

Robert Gottlieb

It's often the case that the most strained moments in books are the very beginning and the very end - the getting in and the getting out. The ending, especially: it's awkward, as if the writer doesn't know when the book is over and nervously says it all again.

It started in January 1998 on a total whim. I didn't want to write another book. I wanted to do something fun on the Web to relax.

It's the personal, intimate nature of books. It's hard to curl up with a computer.

It's a worry on the minds of local business owners. But, unless local businesses open their books and share that information with us, we don't have any specific data available.

It is really important to have a good sale this year because the libraries' budget for new books from the county has been cut by 80 percent this year.

It's a picture book. No story. Just photographs of a little boy growing up with a cheetah. We had to concoct a story. Actually, I stole part of the idea of the trek from a movie that I got fired off of many years ago, 'A Far Off Place,' where a boy takes a travel trip with a little Bushman guy.

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.