Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Osler

To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

I've got a bunch of books... I rely on funny books and movies to cheer me up. Oh, but I must say, I do have the world's most perfect husband, so a cuddle from him always cheers me up. He's a good guy.

Chuck Palahniuk

I think Chris Brown gets kind of dismissed as a gay writer, and I think Chris's books are really, really smart. I wish his books sold a little more widely.

Chuck Palahniuk

My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are easy to carry as you travel.

Yann Martel

It's true, too, that I'm tired of using books as political bullets and grenades. Books are too precious and wonderful to be used for long in such a fashion.

Chris Bohjalian

I think the most important lesson isn't necessarily to try and write a different book every time, or to try and brand yourself and write one specific kind of book, but to write the kind of books you love to read.

Bruce Feiler

'Walking the Bible' describes the year that I spent retracing the five books of Moses through the desert, and I was actually working on a follow-up, which would look at the rest of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament.

Debbie Macomber

In my books and in romance as a genre, there is a positive, uplifting feeling that leaves the reader with a sense of encouragement and hope for a brighter future - or a brighter present.

David Crosby

I'm an inveterate bookstore wanderer. I read constantly, so I love a good bookstore. I can't help it.

Richard Burton

They lard their lean books with the fat of others work.

Brooks Robinson

Was it a fact? ... Or just a great new story about a celebrity that might help sell books?

Calvin Baker

We're not trying to eliminate books. We love books.

Heinrich Heine

Where one burns books, one will soon burn people.

Emily Smith

What's not to like? I love fantasy books. I love magic and dragons.

Dr. Smith

In the old way, it was as if you were looking through a scrap book, you had a series of images. You would never see the entire organ, you would just see the representative photo.

Tom Selleck

In the book, he's in his mid-30s and 5-foot-10.

Chuck D.

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

Jim Scott

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.

Yotam Ottolenghi

When I cook a meal, I like to serve things one by one and keep them separate. I get that from my father - he's such a purist. Some people even put their desserts on the main plate. It's just wrong.

Yotam Ottolenghi

My father always cooks more polenta than he needs for a meal. The excess he spreads on an oiled surface and chills. Next day, he cuts out chunks, fries them in olive oil and serves with salad.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Food that's served at the table in a paper parcel always creates a remarkable culinary moment when opened, because the package is full of aromatic steam from the lightly cooked ingredients inside.

Clotilde Hesme

I love quinoa. It's great, it cooks like rice and is better than caviar.

Donatella Versace

I like to eat. Definitely. I love sitting around a table with my friends. But I don't know how to cook anything.

Bryan Q. Miller

The qualities of an exceptional cook are akin to those of a successful tightrope walker: an abiding passion for the task, courage to go out on a limb and an impeccable sense of balance.

Nana Mouskouri

The secret is to cook the aubergines the day before and let them dry of all the oil they drank in cooking. When you cook aubergine, they eat a lot of oil. It can be very heavy.

Bonnie Raitt

I was always drawn to the blues. Alberta Hunter at the Cookery was a life-changing experience. I only wanted to get enriched as a performer as I got older, to have an audience which got older, too, and would come to see me when I'm 80.

Nikki Sixx

It takes all kinds to make the world go 'round. If everyone was straight-laced and uptight, it would sure be a drag. We need a little tug of war in society.

Pervez Musharraf

We are not deterred. These kinds of things were expected,

Paul Downs Colaizzo

I'd say there are two kinds of theater: one you end with an answer, one you end with a question.

Juicy J

Three-6 Mafia, we were always doing different kinds of things, and we like rock music, we like whatever - not saying they was rock, but they had a little rock-n-roll with some of their music, a little rock with it.

Terry Jones

Those kinds of things I think will stay and get more sophisticated. I think it's going to be very tailored for the customer.

Al Gillen

Those kinds of things are incremental improvements that really were pretty important.

Matt Hasselbeck

We haven't been parading around town doing all kinds of things. We're here for one thing and that's to play football. We're not here to do all this other stuff.

Haley Barbour

Those are the kinds of things that will be discussed,

Candice Hansen

Those are the kinds of things that we have theories about, but we really don't have data.

Charlie Chaplin

Simplicity of approach is always best.

Charlie Chaplin

Simplicity is a difficult thing to achieve.

Charles Wagner

Simplicity is a state of mind.

Alan Watts

In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness.

Alan Perlis

Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Distractions must be conquered or they will conquer us. So let us cultivate simplicity; let us walk in the Spirit...

Carl Jung

If only simplicity were not the most difficult of all things. It consists of watching objectively the development of any fragment of fantasy.

William Shakespeare

Never anything can be amiss, when simpleness and duty tender it.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

And all the loveliest things there be come simply, so it seems to me.

Nikki Reed

I guess the older I get, the more understanding and forgiving I've become.

Rick Wakeman

I always say that it's about breaking the rules. But the secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place.

Bill Belichick

Understanding what not to do sometimes is just as important as what you can do.

Clayton Christensen

Understanding motivation is one of the most important things we can do in our lives, because it has such a bearing on why we do the things we do and whether we enjoy them or not.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.

Alan Moore

As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an understanding.

Carl Sagan

Understanding is a kind of ecstasy

Carl Sagan

The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.

Bryan Stevenson

There is a strength, a power even, in understanding brokenness, because embracing our brokenness creates a need and desire for mercy, and perhaps a corresponding need to show mercy. When you experience mercy, you learn things that are hard to learn otherwise. You see things you can't otherwise see; you hear things you can't otherwise hear. You begin to recognize the humanity that resides in each of us.

Dick Durbin

We need to know as much as we can and as much as he will tell us about his values and beliefs,

Demi Lovato

When you treat your body like a Bentley, you value yourself and you start to look at your body differently.

Wendell Perkins

We know how to value companies. And we go where the value is.

Johnny Depp

There are 4 questions of value in life..

James J. Gibson

The meaning or value of a thing consists of what it affords.

Brian Tracy

Nobody values your time but YOU.

Robert Gerhardt

We thought we could get it out before May 1, but because the values for some of the neighborhoods were out of whack, we had to go back and fine-tune those.

Kathryn Reith

That was only some coolers, so the value was pretty minimal. That has to be done over again.

Gloria Steinem

We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.