Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Davis

I'm excited about having this ordinance on the books.

If life is short, then how come most books reflect the opposite approach?

I have noted the growing market for HR books.

Jason Giambi

I have no idea what's in the book. I handled it last year and I've gone forward from that.

I had to read it for home school. It is sort of a mystery, and it was so detailed. I like books like that and I love puzzles. It (the book) didn't spell anything out for you. You had to read it carefully.

Melanie Rawn

The first fantasy books I can remember reading were 'The Shy Stegosaurus of Cricket Creek' and the series of 'Mushroom Planet' books.

Gareth Thomas

The final week before Christmas saw our record books rewritten, once again.

Steve Erickson

The first books I remember having an impact on me when I was a kid were L. Frank Baum's 'Oz' books, which were much stranger than the movie: at once rather whimsical and really dark.

Josh Hutcherson

'The Hunger Games' for me is I love the books so much and the character and the story were incredible. That's kind of the game plan is just do really interesting stories with interesting characters.

Albert Einstein

The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It doe

Simon Schama

The Elephantine papyri - written as some of the books of the Bible are being written - is true social and legal documentation, and to historians overwhelmingly powerful and moving, even when ostensibly about trivial things.

Chuck D.

The guides have been combined. They are now one book.

The growth reflects how easy it has become to sell used books and to create inventory in this business.

The great thing is that a lot of their hikes aren't even written up in books, so by going on their hikes you can learn ones that you wouldn't have any other way of knowing about.

The great thing about travel books is that they are written with a voice, but sometimes it's hard to deliver that voice with real personality. With travel advice, you want to feel like you're getting it from a good friend. You know, the inside scoop.

The independent bookstores that are left have learned how to compete in this marketplace. There are fewer bookstores now, but the ones that are left are not only a good place to buy books, but they are also well-run businesses.

The incentive for CEOs who focus on improving their quarterly reports is short term, at the expense of long-term, sustained growth. And so you see things, as we have seen in recent years, where CEOs are more willing to play with the books or make acquisitions that look good in the interim but may detract from the long-term mission.

The district then could say 'No' if it reviewed the material and it determined they (the coloring books) were not appropriate.

Horace Mann

A house without books is like room without windows

Christopher Paolini

a great compliment, but I don't write books like hers.

You will be the same person in five as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read.

Robert Hunter

And nobody ever picked up on it, and, of course, they wouldn't, So maybe these books do serve some purpose.

All the wins are great, but I'd rather be on the right side of that book. Pete Tilman won a New England championship, and I don't consider myself the greatest wrestler in Sharon history because I don't have a New England title to back that up.

The Gainesville Chamber of Commerce organized a drive to collect books to be donated to the Gainesville Victory ship. Two hundred books were collected.

The fourth graders raised more than $3,500 that was earmarked to purchase books for the Bay-Waveland School District. We want to raise more money to purchase the remaining books that are needed.

Paul Auster

The funny thing is, as a young person I was trying to write prose, and I wrote a lot of it, but I was never satisfied with the results. Two of the novels I wound up finishing and publishing later I started very early on, in my early 20's, In The Country Of Last Things and Moon Palace. Both of those books I worked a great deal on but never quite got a grip on either one.

The cloke that I left at Troas with Carpus, when thou comest, bring with thee, and the books, but especially the parchments.

Jan Karon

This is a gift that God has given me. I'm not smart enough to write for everybody, but it's the love in these books that comes from Him and goes out to my reading audience. I'm forever grateful for that. It's a privilege.

John Banville

This is a great surprise and a great pleasure. Any one of these books could have won. To my colleagues I say just hang around and it will come. I have hung around for many years.

All false: I like gambling, the system was not cheating, and it was simple. But you're getting my side of the story here. It's my book; let those guys write their own books if they like. ... The cheaters stacked the deck, but cheaters are always the easiest people to beat.

Tom Lehrer

All books can be indecent books, though recent books are bolder.For filth, I'm glad to say, is in the mind of the beholder. When correctly viewed, everything is lewd. I could tell you things about Peter Pan,And the Wizard of OZ, there's a dirty old man!

The idea is to keep as many planes as we can in our books.

You don't have to go buy your book.