At Berkshire, I both initiate and monitor every derivatives contract on our books ... If Berkshire ever gets in trouble, it will… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
the shop owner did not try to push the book on any of her customers. She knew that in the wrong hands… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
It works in the comic book, but as the audiences have gotten older and more sophisticated, I think the stories need to… — Todd McFarlane Copy Share Image
I think I've learned over the years, because you'd have to be stupid not to, that when a book publisher gives you… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
In waiting for the glorious moment of that first book contract, writers must have giant reservoirs of patience. Yet they must persevere… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
Teddy grinned again. 'Truths are dangerous,' he said. -'Then why are you writing them in a book?' -'To catch them between the… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
Before I left the 'Star' last year to write books full-time, I welcomed catastrophe. It was material. Missed planes, broken pipes, dead… — Linwood Barclay Copy Share Image
No encounter occured that day, and I was glad of it; I took out of my pocket a little Homer I had… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
“But I must hope that books possess a life of a more varied kind than their authors' myopia concedes to them. A… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I believe that the mainstream publishers, DC and Marvel, need to catch up as well. Out of the fifty-odd books that are… — Marjorie M. Liu Copy Share Image
Book culture has also become something that's kind of incredible to younger people now, because of the Internet. If you go to… — Jim Walrod Copy Share Image
“All books are good,’ he said. ‘That’s not true,’ I said. ‘I’ve read some really bad books.’ I was thinking specifically of… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
Yes, a bunch of carrots, observed directly, painted simply in the personal way one sees it, worth more than the Ecole's everlasting… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
People do amazing things for love. Books are full of wonderful stories about this kind of stuff, and stories aren’t just fantasies,… — Mahbod Seraji Copy Share Image
I was lucky to book a show pretty quickly after getting to L.A., but I struggled getting started in Vancouver. If I… — Jacqueline MacInnes Wood Copy Share Image
We no longer just take religious identity from our parents, so what's going on? Why are people going to this series, why… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
I think if I were reading to a grandchild, I might read Tolstoy's War and Peace. They would learn about Russia, they… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“The book should be the written counterpart of the unwritten world; its subject should be what does not exist and cannot exist… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Juliet and Romeo Awake the scene, a twilight chamber’d dream, Two angels both alike in dignity: One imaged misadventure on the screen;… — Tiger Lewis Copy Share Image
If I as a geologist were called upon to explain briefly our modern ideas of the origin of the earth and the… — Wallace Pratt Copy Share Image
Growing up, my two favorite books were Woody Allen's 'Side Effects' and Phyllis Diller's 'Housekeeping Hints.' I carried that Phyllis Diller book… — Jill Davis Copy Share Image
In one of my favorite anecdotes about Foucault, someone asks him why he writes books. He responds by saying something like "When… — Thomas L. Dumm Copy Share Image
Hinduism is a living organism liable to growth and decay subject to the laws of Nature. One and indivisible at the root,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I get hundreds of emails daily and a lot of feedback from people that are reading or have read my books. When… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Any neuroscience book is the death of me. I'm currently obsessed with 'The Moral Landscape' from Sam Harris. He's a controversial writer… — Eiza Gonzalez Copy Share Image
If I do not seem to be mentioning anything I’ve read lately, it is because I am in one of those periods… — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
You can read it in history books now, but they often suppress the fact that the U.S. government tolerated [Nazi]. It's really… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
To make three films out of one shortish book, they have to turn it into an epic, just as 'Lord of the… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
Books should confuse. Literature abhors the typical. Literature flows to the particular, the mundane, the greasiness of paper, the taste of warm… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
When Holly Madison, Hef's former chief girlfriend, came out with a tell-all book about life in the Mansion, the most bizarre revelation… — Monica Hesse Copy Share Image
[as for evolution]…cutting out the sections [on the subject] is preferrable if the portions are not thick enough to cause damage to… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I read books when I was a kid, lots of books. Books always seemed like magic to me. They took you to… — Pat Murphy Copy Share Image
Youve got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even… — Samantha Morton Copy Share Image
One of the great perks of being an actor is you're only as smart as the job you're in, you know, and… — Amy Ryan Copy Share Image
“This book is a labor of love. It is dedicated to people who have cried themselves to sleep because they were 'different'.… — Jodee Blanco Copy Share Image
Let the trumpet of the day of judgment sound when it will, I shall appear with this book in my hand before… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Fiction is very greedy. It will take all you know and then some. The first novel I tried to write, I was… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Religion embarrasses the commentators. It is offbounds. An editor of the old Life magazine once assigned me a book on religion with… — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
You must take a year off, one of these days, before you’re old and tired and weighed down by responsibility. Go away… — Helon Habila Copy Share Image
I find with most of my readers are kind of like me, sort of people who were a little bit naive in… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
![“You can read it in history books now, but they often suppress the fact that the U.S. government tolerated [Nazi]. It's really remarkable because they claim that [Franklin] Roosevelt was impeded by the Neutrality Act. On the other hand, he bitterly condemned a Mexican businessman for sending…” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/7b5/noam-chomsky-42_book_you-can-read-it-in-history-books-now-but_2812980.jpg)
![“[as for evolution]…cutting out the sections [on the subject] is preferrable if the portions are not thick enough to cause damage to the spine of the book as it is opened and closed in normal use. When the sections needing correction are too thick, paste the pages together being careful not to…” quote by George R. R. Martin](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/7ae/george-r-r-martin-2-926_agnostic_as-for-evolution-cutting-out-the-section_1807939.jpg)
