Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lisa Randall

If you look through the shelves of science books, you'll find row after row of books written by men. This can be terribly off-putting for women.

Michael Lewis

There are enough books in the world. You want to write the ones that are good. The minute you write books because you need the income not because you think you have a good subject, you should just stop. There are sixty thousand books published in this country every year, and most of them are crap.

I bring in books that are interesting to the students but I also try to challenge them a little bit. I love this program because my grandchildren are too little to read to me yet.

Categories showing particular strength for the month included jewelry, home fashions, electronics, seasonal items, stationery, horticulture, cosmetics, consumables, books and photography.

Bud's kind of a perfectionist. He was always changing his swing, reading golf magazines and books to get tips on ways to improve.

Amy Anderson

Because of the Olympics, we decided the books had to have something to do with competition, teamwork and sportsmanship.

Because they are inherently social, people find value in reading the same books and watching the same movies that others do.

Chris Rankin

I'm also a fan of the books, long before I got into the movie.

Danny Wallace

I'm a long-time fan of Rob Long, and his books are hugely re-readable, detailing the ins and outs of being a Hollywood comedy writer with a past success but with everything to prove.

Mary Roach

I'm always imposing my taste in books on others. I hope that people enjoy being surprised by a book they might not otherwise read - I enjoy the surprise myself when others do this to me.

More than 60 percent of low-income families have no books in their homes for children.

More people play video games than watch movies, read books, listen to music and watch TV combined. We're doing everything we can to have the industry come of age.

More memos have gone out, books have gone out. There's a video that players are watching in spring training.

Jenna Jameson

My heart is a gypsy - continuously searching for a home, fighting within itself, wondering whether it is weak or even right for that matter to be searching in the first place. Lonliness is what it feels like...

My gut instinct is someone or some gang of thieves is targeting books (being held in places) with light security.

Carrie Coon

My husband and I are huge bibliophiles. He's always reading 'The New York Times Book Review' and then ordering 20 books online.

My grandparents had a house full of books. They were both fluent in several languages. My grandfather was a scholar in biblical literature, and my grandmother was a poet. They planted a seed that grew when I went to college and took some classics classes.

My grandmother is a Russian immigrant and, as a child, I always dreamed of going to Russia and opening a nonprofit there. I learned Russian as a teenager through studying books in the hopes of moving there.

Gary Kemp

My father had inklings of my cultural aspirations. He would take me to the library, things like that. But he wasn't one of those dads who had read George Orwell and was a member of the Communist party. We had no books at home.

James Burrows

My father was weaned on books. I'm halfway between being weaned on books and weaned on television. And if you're weaned on television, you're not as good a writer as if you were weaned on books.

Now who do you think cooked these books? Some janitor or low-level employees?

Ron Kittle

Obviously, I'm not gonna read the book. Hey, I didn't even want to read my book.

Jennifer Lopez

Nobody writes books about how to deal with it or anything like that. Maybe I'll do that next. No. I'll make no money, it's not worth it.

Suzanne Somers

'Get Skinny' is my sixth book. I look over the books that I've written, and my subject matters are varied, and I write books pertaining to that which I'm dealing with at the moment.

Four of us work year-round sorting books, pricing them and getting them organized. And most of the books are on shelves. It's easy to locate the kinds of things you're looking for.

Robert K. Massie

Four of my children are daughters, and I've watched them devote themselves to reading books about how little girls learn to become women - how they learn to deal with boys and men, and the different hurdles females have to go over.

Mark Twain

Four years at West Point and plenty of books and schooling will learn a man a great deal, It won't learn him the river.

Bryan Singer

From comic books to radio to TV to the movies, everyone knows this character. And they have an idea of who he should be. Those can be big expectations.

For publishers and authors, this means that electronic books and periodicals can now quickly grow to become a vast and lucrative new industry.

Lykke Li

I don't relate to the 'Twilight' books or movies at all, but I'm obsessed with it as a pop culture phenomenon - all these people just screaming like it was the Beatles.

I don't think we need another law on the books to cover that subject.

Mary Pope Osborne

I loved Frances Hodgson Burnett, who wrote 'The Little Princess' and 'The Secret Garden.' And I loved the 'Little House on the Prairie' books by Laura Ingalls Wilder.

I love bookstores and booksellers. In my novel 'Dirty Martini,' I thanked over 3,000 booksellers by name in the back matter.