Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Larry McMurtry

The only bookstore I had was the paperback rack at the drugstore.

Rachel Cohn

We all just took the bookstore at its word, because if you couldn't trust a bookstore, what could you trust?

Paul Krugman

As I've often said, you can shop online and find whatever you're looking for, but bookstores are where you find what you weren't looking for.

Chris Riddell

Go out and find a copy of 'The Shrinking Of Treehorn' and its sequel, 'Treehorn's Treasure.' Written by Florence Parry Heide and illustrated by the great Edward Gorey, master of the gothic and the macabre, these books are small masterpieces.

Mark Twain

Great books are weighed and measured by their style and matter and not by the trimmings and shadings of their grammer

For that purpose alone, we need to find out what's on the books and see what kind of input the public has for this.

For someone who does as many things as he does -- edits, writes columns, writes books, lectures -- he is calm and very relaxed with a great wry sense of humor about things.

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.

Neil Gaiman

All bookshelves are magical.

Pharrell Williams

I like to browse and just hang in bookstores.

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.

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.

Angelina Jolie

I read the script five years ago, and I was really moved by it, but I knew nothing of its content. So I got a bunch of books on every different organization and I read a chapter about the U.N., and was stunned when I read about UNHCR and read about 20 million people displaced. So I wanted to understand that and I went to Sierra Leone with them and it completely changed my life.

Jeff Kinney

I read the 'Harry Potter' books as I was writing my own books, and I love them, but I don't think Harry was very much like I was as a kid. He's always brave, and he's perfect in a lot of ways.

Nick Harkaway

I read my father's books growing up. I thought then and I still think now that his writing is wonderful. It delights and infuriates me in equal measure that he's still that good.

David F. Houston

I read his books back in high school and through college. I just always thought he was a fascinating and brilliant man. The story of the bus was always very compelling. To find out it had been just left to go - I really wanted to restore the bus and tell its story to the world.

Robert Francis

I read a lot of books by well-informed authors.

Danni Ashe

I picked up some software and some books and got online, ... and there were all these Danni Ashe pictures all over the newsgroup. I started striking up conversations with people, saying, 'Hey, you know, hi, I'm Danni. Where'd you get that picture?'

Stuart Smith

I picked up an idea to sell receipt books to doctors and lawyers.

Ed McMahon

But you do need to remember to bring the patient's toothbrush, comfortable clothes and shoes. Books, videos, music and any personal mementos are also a good idea.