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.

Ernie Accorsi

We are not going to pick a linebacker just to pick a linebacker. That is just not going to happen. We are going to pick a player that is decidedly higher rated. We have options.

Chang-Rae Lee

Unlike F. Scott Fitzgerald and Tom Wolfe, I don't like proper dress while working. I like writing in pajama-like clothing, which eases and relaxes me and allows me to connect with the decidedly improper.

Geoff Ogilvy

With three or four holes to play, it looked decidedly unfavorable for us. But Justin made a massive par on 17, and then on 18 we got it down.

Edgar Allan Poe

The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the elaborate frivolity of chess.

Letitia Baldrige

It is decidedly rude to make mistakes in e-mail, because the recipient will then have difficulty reading and understanding the message.

Mark Zandi

It depends on your time frame. For the next few months, it's decidedly a negative event. But in a year or so, the effects will likely have faded.

Albert Murray

Effective stream-of-consciousness narration is the product of verbal precision, not just of literal documentation. It is decidedly not a matter of unedited free-association.

Caroline Leavitt

By the time I was 5, I was already an outcast. It was the early 1960s, and I was part of the only Jewish family in a decidedly Christian suburb of Waltham, Mass.

Graham Joyce

George Orwell's '1984' frequently tops surveys of our greatest books: it's not a celebration of poetic language. It's decidedly anti-literary, a masterpiece of personal and political narrative sequence. And its subject matter is crucial, because what '1984' shows is that language can be a dirty trick.

Carl Jung

I have gradually learned to be cautious even in disbelief

Ed Wood

What do you know? Haven't you heard of suspension of disbelief?

James Cook

We were in disbelief that someone would be that ignorant to do something so flagrant in violation of the law,

William Kiefer

Our feeling, in talking with people at the school, was disbelief that she would actually be involved in something like this.

Ted Ligety

I was in disbelief when Raich went out.

Frances Chaney

I?m still in disbelief that we won the big one.

Jerry Jones

You just shake your head in disbelief and, What on earth are they thinking?

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses.

Kim Insalaco

We were living in disbelief the last two days. We had to get over it.

William McDonough

I suggest we take our heads out of the tar sands and look up to see the sun. We don't own it, but it provides us all with great, endless value. So, too, the wind. These free, renewable sources of 'energy currency' are perfect partners to what we own together.

Brendon Urie

My favorite type of pet has always been a dog. They're loyal, kind, and offer endless affection. My friend Eric says, 'The more people I meet, the more I like my dog.' Funny thought.

Sylvia Earle

I have heard endlessly that fish are so resilient that there is no way that you could exterminate a species. We are learning otherwise.

Susan Minot

Families are endlessly fascinating. We all have one, and they have a great impact on who we are and what we do - Freudian as that is.

Vincent Schiavelli

My grandparents told endless stories about the town they were from. It became an almost mythic place.

John Roberts

I will be vigilant to protect the independence and integrity of the Supreme Court, and I will work to ensure that it upholds the rule of law and safeguards those liberties that make this land one of endless possibilities for all Americans.

Monica Crowley

Working for President Nixon was the most extraordinary professional experience of my life. He was endlessly fascinating: brilliant, visionary, kind, generous, warm, funny - and yes, a good man.

Rabindranath Tagore

Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

Peter Hermann

I still speak to my parents only in German, and I have endless family over there.

Vik Muniz

My grandmother taught me how to read, very early, but she taught me to read just the way she taught herself how to read - she read words rather than syllables. And as a result of that, when I entered school, it took me a long time to learn how to write.

Angela Featherstone

I was 16 when I entered the foster system, and know firsthand the statistics for 'aging out.'

Sherry Cooper

Today's report indicates that the sector is still robust and entered the second quarter with lots of momentum.

Albert Einstein

Thus the partial differential equation entered theoretical physics as a handmaid, but has gradually become mistress.

Yelena Baturina

In the mid-1990s, when Russia was undergoing a construction boom, I entered the real estate development market.

Lou Barlow

We had a lot of offers that if we'd taken them we wouldn't be happy. We didn't sign immediately with the label (Polygram) that put out the soundtrack. It wasn't the logical step for us. We entered a period where we worked really hard. We went on tour and recorded, instead of doing what was expected. No, it was about John and me doing what we wanted.

Henry Paulson

U.S. exports to China have more than quintupled since China entered the WTO and have grown more quickly than imports. In fact, China is America's fastest-growing export market.

Diao Chunhe

We have noticed that diversified players have entered the project contracting market.

Andrew Patel

The plea that will be entered next Thursday will be 'not guilty'.

Stephanie Hall

We're so excited. This is the first real new money for libraries from the province in a long time.

Peg Burington

What we're doing is dispelling that stereotype as libraries being this place where it's very quiet and you have to tip-toe around.

Jim Steinberg

This will pretty much put the libraries back together.

Martina Kominiarek

We also benefited in the past year at all of our libraries from donations.

Richard K. Morgan

I remember visits to the local libraries and getting my own library cards as things of rite-of-passage significance.

Donald Brownlee

The most interesting thing about comets is they are libraries with the stored records of our formation.

Etel Adnan

I love Nicolas de Stael particularly, and my work can remind people of him. But looked at attentively, our works are not similar at all.

Cilla Black

It's true what they say: 'You don't appreciate what you've got until it's gone.' I miss love. I miss being looked after.

Goldie Hawn

Oftentimes, actors are looked at as court jesters. They are not looked at as deep-thinking, smart people who do many other things or have gifts in other areas.

P. G. Wodehouse

He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say 'when!'

Catherine Hicks

People always want you to look pretty. I would like to live in the Midwest in a small town and never put makeup on. But they won't let you do that. Once I went through a period when I did do that, wore no makeup, wore my hair any which way, and people looked at me like I was a bum.

Persis Khambatta

Besides, a bald cap would have never looked real.

Martin Garcia

When I got it, it looked pretty bad. It had a motor, but it wasn't running.

Rich McKay

When I got here, I looked at him and said that my previous opinion of him was not fair,

Steven Cohen

We have looked at time-temperature indicators ... doneness indicators and things like that.

Karin Slaughter

I am hard-pressed to find a successful writer who doesn't have a similar story to mine - transformation through the public library.

Nik Wallenda

I started walking a wire when I was 2 years old, and this has been a dream of mine to recreate this walk.

Kate Atkinson

A novel and its writer are inseparable: you are your books. A play's not like that at all. 'Abandonment's not mine - it's everyone's. I wanted it to be a co-operative thing because I was tired of that anal control that I have over novels.

Robert Hunter

We can share what we got of yours'Cause we done shared all of mine

Frank Holmes

Those miners who are hedged are put in the penalty box.

Irwin Thomas

My grandfather was from Aberdare. He was a coal miner who emigrated and then continued mining in Pennsylvania.

Benjamin Franklin

Mine is better than ours.

Patricia Briggs

Mine, ... Mine is what she is.

Anna Kournikova

When I was 12, every little girl in Russia was trying to wear her hair like mine and playing tennis.

Frederick Pollock

Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his own.

Malik Peiris

One can narrow potential culprits and be prepared with vaccines.

Madeline Albright

There are gaps. We're trying to narrow those gaps,

Patrick Cunningham

It is a very narrow population and this is pretty much unique,

Waris Ahluwalia

My go-to jeans are a straight, narrow cut from A.P.C. or BLK DNM.

Ernest Hemingway

Oak Park is a neighborhood of wide lawns and narrow minds.

Willie Randolph

I don't think you can look at one leader, ... You narrow yourself and get into trouble when it's only one guy. Because if he isn't always there, what are you going to do?

Larry Wachtel

so you can see how narrow (the rally) really is.

Jane Fonda

promulgate their right wing, narrow world view. It really doesn't have anything to do with me and it's kind of sick.

Steven Sacks

You could do projection work onto these other buildings. You'd need permission, of course. Unless you own them.

Terri Blackstock

I want readers to rehearse that day when everything shatters and think through what they'll hang onto when that happens.

Sendhil Mullainathan

You can get pictures into what people are sort of thinking about others. Just go onto Google and type 'Why are Indians' and then look for the autocomplete.

Kevin Allen

He passed it onto his sister who is my wife and now it's in my house.

Felix Klein

It is well known that the central problem of the whole of modern mathematics is the study of transcendental functions defined by differential equations.

Eugene Wigner

The enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and there is no rational explanation of it.

Matt Bomer

My favorite actors are people who I don't know anything about, and I can project any character onto them.

Ciaran Hinds

Stuntwork... once, I've really only done one thing, which is take a punch and transport myself into the air onto a mat.

Alisdair Gray

We are going to get products onto the shelves as soon as possible.

John Bunyan

When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.

Kevin Spacey

Being an actor sometimes requires that you ask yourself questions you'd rather not know the answers to.

Mike Shinoda

I'd rather get up early and go out and do something than stay up late and screw up my body.

Sam Crawford

I do have a television over there - it was a gift - but I never turn it on. I'd rather read a book.

Lynn Flewelling

I come from a very small city in a rather remote part of America, where writers simply weren't part of the daily fabric.

Len G. Murray

There does not seem to be that collegiality I referred to, there seems to be much more of a them versus us attitude, rather than we all have a role to play in this process so let's get on with it.

Olli Rehn

We recommend a constitutional evolution, rather than a constitutional revolution,

Alison Moyet

My idea of hell is a girlfriend ringing up and saying, 'Let's go shopping and have cocktails.' I'd rather play cards.

Karen Horney

Until I feel strong enough to pray sincerely and to act accordingly, I would rather not pray at all.

Carroll Shelby

I never had ambitions to see how rich I could get. I got a lot of contemporaries that that's their ambition, and I don't know very many of them that are happy.

Alexa Von Tobel

I always have Moleskine notebooks on my desk. I am a big journaler. Every day I write down where I went, who I spoke to and what it was all about. Richard Branson told me to do that.

Ving Rhames

I can always do theater; I can do Ibsen, I can do Macbeth, I can do Chekhov, I can do Moliere, Othello, I can do Richard III.

Don Cox

We're not getting rich by any means, we're surviving and we're healing, ... and we're just tryin' to make a buck.

Xavier Niel

Stephane Richard is far more attuned to the market than Didier Lombard.

Chris Corrigan

Well, Richard always is a colourful sort of sideshow, isn't he.

Tim Williams

You know everything you need to know, but the richness is gone,

Mike Fratello

We don't have the rich tradition that some other teams have.

Charles Spurgeon

I had rather be poor in His service than rich in my own.

Deborah Kerr

[Autobiographies] are all the same - it's always rags-to-riches or I-slept-with-so-and-so. Damned if I'm going to say that.

Benjamin Franklin

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

Diana Ross

My life has often been described as 'from rags to riches' but in fact, the Ross's were never raggedy.

Daniel Gilbert

Our inability to recall how we really felt is why our wealth of experiences turns out to be poverty of riches.

Billy Sunday

Riches have never yet given anybody either peace or rest.

Benjamin Franklin

If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with to the other world?

John Piper

The great danger of riches is that our affections will be carried away from God to His gifts.

Martin Luther

Not only the adoration of images is idolatry, but also trust in one's own righteousness, works and merits, and putting confidence in riches and power. As the latter is the commonest, so it also is the most noxious.

Plautus

Riches, rightly used, breed delight.

Vince Clarke

When we start to write for a new record, we never really know what we're doing. We don't come into the room with a set of ideas, but miraculously, a song comes out of it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Caitlin Moran

I once went into a meeting, and every woman put her a million-pound bag on the table. Then I'm there with my tote bag and anorak. And I'm like, well, I'm still the most important person in the room right now.

Stefan Bauknecht

Volkswagen must be completely reassessed. The shares have room to rise.

Madonna Ciccone

I think it's fun to get in a room and sweat with people. I'm happy to share my workouts with everyone.

Pat Nixon

I'll have to have a room of my own. Nobody could sleep with Dick. He wakes up during the night, switches on the lights, speaks into his tape recorder.

Richard Kovalcheck

We don't have room to not be focused,

Pete Dunn

When you're having trouble scoring runs, you have very little room for error.

Caio Fonseca

My 20s were spent in a room, alone, mixing paints and figuring it all out.

China Mieville

'Kraken' is set in London and has a lot of London riffs, but I think it's more like slightly dreamlike, slightly abstract London. It's London as a kind of fantasy kingdom.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

I am slightly shocked to have gone as far as I have.

Paulette Goddard

I'm always slightly embarrassed to meet other actresses of my vintage. We have so little in common. They're all so dedicated. I find - so desperate.

Stephen Potter

Yes, but not in the South', with slight adjustments, will do for any arguments about any place, if not about any person.

Ciaran Hinds

If you're venturing into territory that is slightly operatic, it all has to be done so carefully.

Lykke Li

I always feel like I've been slightly misunderstood. As a woman, you get judged for appearances or things like that I don't really care about.

Lena Headey

I think I look slightly like a horse. Hand on heart, I think I'm pretty average.

Anna Kendrick

I never have used a trainer. I'm slightly intimidated by the idea of somebody in my face.

Andy Serkis

I think when actors run away from their work that they're slightly crazy, really!

Roz Foster

We had no idea it was still there. We were thrilled to find it.

Camille Paglia

The thrill of terror is passive, masochistic, and implicitly feminine. It is imaginative submission to overwhelming superior force.

Michael R. Bloomberg

thrilled if I won by one vote or more.

Lisa Randall

I considered going into business or becoming a lawyer - not for the money, but for the thrill of problem-solving.

John Wagner

There's a thrill in going someplace you aren't supposed to go. The place should come down.

John Rzeznik

It's such a thrill to perform live. You never know if you're going to get hit with a bottle or a bra.

May Sinclair

At the moment you are no longer an observing, reflecting being; you have ceased to be aware of yourself; you exist only in that quiet, steady thrill that is so unlike any excitement that you have ever known.

Lee Child

I'd been a thriller reader all my life.

Lynn Redgrave

So I - the thought that I would physically be different was - it's not a thrill, I have to tell you. It's kind of - it brings you up short. But I was able to look at it right away.

Camille Paglia

Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.

Benjamin Franklin

Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith.

William Shakespeare

He that is strucken blind can not forget the precious treasure of his eyesight lost.

Michael Moorcock

Treasures are not won by care and forethought but by swift slaying and reckless attack.

Kurt Sanger

In times of yen weakness, Lexus is just a treasure chest,

John Piper

Our obedience is God's pleasure when it proves that God is our treasure.

John Muir

Nature had gathered her choicest treasures , to draw her lovers into close and confiding communion with her

John Piper

Every sin flows from the failure to treasure the glory of God above all things.

John Piper

When GOD is our deepest pleasure we display Him as our highest treasure.

Valentino Castellani

We are having a party. A wonderful party.

Walter Benjamin

This planet is a wonderful place, but a vulnerable place.

William Shakespeare

O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all hooping.

Alan Moore

Now everything is wonderful and hazardous and nothing's hypothetical.

Alan Alda

I'm in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.

Casey Stengel

It's wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn't used to like.

Astrid Lindgren

Don't let them get you down. Be cheeky. And wild. And wonderful.

Daniel Handler

How can someone so wonderful do something so terrible?

Bette Midler

If you can accept your differentness and learn to love it and encourage it, then you can be someone wonderful.