On the analogy of 'Dictionary Johnson,' we call Fred R. Shapiro, editor of the just-published Yale Book of Quotations (well worth the… — William Safire Copy Share Image
We search the world for truth; we cull The good, the pure, the beautiful, From all old flower fields of the soul;… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
My books do have a sort of romantic community at the end - people coming together. But on a more basic level,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
If you tell certain people that you like Kerouac, they assume that's all you read, like you don't know anything else about… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
Greece won the 2004 European Championship with the oldest trick in the book: man-for-man marking. Why? Because nobody expected it - and… — Martin Samuel Copy Share Image
I have heard Mr. Romney's speech's many times on television and the radio and I have even read his book No Apology:… — Angela Lansbury Copy Share Image
Students at residential universities often live together and spend time on activities that aren't connected with the university. Then, should the university's… — Vanessa Grigoriadis Copy Share Image
“The important thing is that another medium—stage, film, music—doesn’t obliterate a book. The movie is here now, on a big screen, with… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“The imagination circuit is taught to respond to the most minimal of cues. A book is an arrangement of 26 phonetic symbols,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
But we do need a breather. We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
A lot of people say I tried to emulate Tupac, but when I look back at my career, we're very different artists.… — Ja Rule Copy Share Image
I'd been influenced by reading books on art and colonies that existed in Paris and places like that and so when I… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
'Out of Africa,' Dinesen's second book, is a love story, though not the one portrayed by Streep and Redford in the film.… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
When I read Jerome D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye" that was the first time I felt my mind blow open.… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Invitations to speak upon public occasions are among my most grievous embarrassments. Why is it inferred that one is or can be… — Corra May Harris Copy Share Image
“The Black Book of Economic Development - The Clandestine Art and Practical Science of Building Local Economies” is a must-read for everyone… — Don Holbrook Copy Share Image
It's true that I wouldn't have written the first book had my sister and mother been alive. It was my way of… — Nigella Lawson Copy Share Image
[My Book] will endeavour to establish the principle[s] of reasoning in ... [geology]; and all my geology will come in as illustration… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
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If you must die a little to become immortal, then both Ali and Frazier died a bit that night in their third… — Teddy Atlas Copy Share Image
I wanted to create a heroine that was flawed. I wanted her to be a real person. She's selfish, she's childish, she's… — Amber Benson Copy Share Image
“When I was a kid, I just read and read. We were lucky enough to have gone to England and had a… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I had always turned to books, to knowledge, to help me get through everything in my life—and, sometimes, to escape it. But… — Michele Bardsley Copy Share Image
I don't think I would ever write a book with what anybody could call pornography in it, because I feel that pornography… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
We're in a strange situation where people either don't read at all or they read a lot. There's a huge gap in… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I was raised in Harlem. I never found a book that took place in Harlem. I never had a church like mine… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
I hear some guy teaches a course in diagrammatic thinking now; he's written books on it and stuff like that, and so… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
When Emily Dickinson's poems were published in the 1890s, they were a best-seller; the first book of her poems went through eleven… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Let's find and remedy all our weaknesses before our enemies get a chance to say a word. That is what Charles Darwin… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
The second book, which was probably more from a professional standpoint - when I read Junot Díaz's Drown, I was like, Oh… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
The Transformation of the World is lavishly reinforced with critical apparatus (that, too, must have been a labor of Hercules to translate--I… — Steve Donoghue Copy Share Image
Nimzovitch became then for me more or less the author of the only book which could help me get away from these… — Bent Larsen Copy Share Image
My first company was MicroSolutions. I worked 20 hours a day. I didn't take a vacation for 7 years. I didn't even… — Mark Cuban Copy Share Image
No, Groucho is not my real name. I am breaking it in for a friend. I never forget a face, but in… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
Karl Marx said, “The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.” A variant to keep in mind… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Anyway, in the mid 80's I was spending a fortune buying old Golden Age books from the late 30's and 40's and… — Bill Mumy Copy Share Image
First one gets works of art, then criticism of them, then criticism of the criticism, and, finally, a book on The Literary… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
It is not as mirrors reflect us but, rather, as our dreams do, that movies most truly reveal the times. If the… — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
Not long ago, an English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was "What's your alma mater?" I told him, "Books."… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image