Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Dahl was a very shrewd cookie. He was an expedient writer who would use anything to make an impact in a book. He saw what worked; his books are full of effects and good scenes. In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory , there are fantastic scenes of demolishing this person, getting rid of that person - all very high-powered stuff.

Meg Cabot

The minute the text-messaging icon went up on my Web site, teens were talking about it on my message boards. Anything that gets kids excited about books is great. This is just reading in a totally different way.

Everybody has lots of books that are slightly used and garden magazines. You used it once and don't need it anymore, but somebody else could use it.

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's a tradition and the books from past years are so good.

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

Christina Baker Kline

It's hard selling books in general: companies are merging, editors being laid off, bricks-and-mortar bookstores closing, large chain bookstores squeezing out independents, and online retailers squeezing out chain bookstores.

Meg Rosoff

It's hard recommending books for kids, and a huge responsibility. If you get it wrong, they don't tell you they hate that particular book, they tell you they hate reading.

It's an opportunity to create something over time that would potentially make a big difference to books, literacy, and reading.

Chris Albrecht

It's like the next Harry Potter book. You'll have to wait for it and be grateful.

Jonathan Vilma

It's good to know we're going to be the last one. That makes it that much more special for us. We're going to be in the history books as the last Monday night game on ABC.

Jami Attenberg

It should be said upfront that I totally dig people who work in bookstores and libraries. They love books, and I love books, and that is all I really need to know. If they are friendly to me, then we are clearly soul mates.

Oprah Winfrey

It's been a secret dream of mine to be part of Broadway, ... I hope to be able to do for this production some of what I've been able to do for books - that is, to open the door to the possibilities for a world of people who have never been or even thought of going to a Broadway show.

Dorothy Bryant

It's great being able to keep up. Even without my sight, I can talk about books with people who can still read and know what's going on,

Robert Hall

It's rush for fraternities and it's rush for bookstores too.

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.

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.

John Cornwell

Alasdair MacIntyre is one of the world's most influential living moral philosophers. He has written 30 books on ethics and held a variety of professorial chairs over the past four decades in North America.

Michel Faber

Before I was published, I thought men read car manuals or books about football. But once I started having really serious conversations with male lovers of literature, I let go of that prejudice.

Besides, there are privacy laws on the books, both state and federal, so there's no way they'd win. It makes you wonder what they're really worried about.

Gabe Norwood

Even our bookstore didn't have the greatest amount. We had a Jai Lewis jersey. I think that might have been it.

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.