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I look at my books the way parents look at their children. The fact that one becomes more successful than the others doesn't make me love the less successful one any less.

I look at it like the cover on a book, ... We'd like to see something really great go there, because of its visibility.

I live in north Kenner and everything in the house flooded, ... All her books flooded, school shoes flooded, everything. Should we just show up for the first day of school?

I hope it helps my book sales. I'm swamped with media interviews.

I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed - and one of them hadn't even been colored in yet.

I have read all four of the books and think they are absolutely wonderful.

I haven't read the Book of Job yet, but I'm about to.

I haven't found that term in a medical book yet. It's human tissue. It's his. No kidding.

Investors are buying dollars to book gains after the real rose for five straight sessions.

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.

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

In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.

If you think about libraries built even 20, 30 years ago, they were about protecting books, keeping the light out, kind of creating an environment that kept people apart from the world. What you're seeing (now) is lots of glass. ... the library becomes very transparent.

I guess my first impression is you can't judge a book by its cover.

If there is somebody we're interested in we might place a phone call and send them a look book.

It has been up to parents to hit the Web and hit the books and find information on both sides about K-8.

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.

I read several books on possession and exorcism and did some study on epilepsy. I tried to look at everything from a birds eye perspective and not let my own point of view get in the way.

I picked up some software and some books and got online, ... and there were all these Danni Ashe pictures all over the newsgroup. I started striking up conversations with people, saying, 'Hey, you know, hi, I'm Danni. Where'd you get that picture?'

But you do need to remember to bring the patient's toothbrush, comfortable clothes and shoes. Books, videos, music and any personal mementos are also a good idea.

His book on Lincoln is not only a classic in the field ... it is a treasured resource,

High oil prices are kind of benefiting Singapore in a way. We're seeing some increase in the order books of all these companies, the oil rig manufacturers.

He wrote 16 books and most of them are not about flying and the military.

become as much a part of their books as do the readers, and they escape into the worlds they have created. If their own personal life is in some sort of turmoil ... for example, if they are living with an abusive partner ... then that escape is more necessary.

He's just amazing, ... When your books are put into any other medium, you don't know what's going to happen to them. But he's a wonderful actor. But more than that, I'm just amazed when I see and hear an actor who can do so many voices with subtle changes that so nail the character and then consistently do it.

Hopefully, young people will read more books, and it will cause them to think a little longer, than just react to pretty pictures.

Changing the standards on the books is not the same as changing the meals themselves.

Certain opuscules, denominated 'Christmas Books,' with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration, or other expansive emotions, incident upon the exodus of the old and the inauguration of the new year

Children 10 and under are invited to dress as a story book character to win a cash prize. This year we have four local school librarians to be the judges. I am anxious to see what the big character will be this year.

Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept

Garth was smart enough that he could have done just about anything. He was book savvy, and the things he knew, he knew well. He spoke with confidence.

General histories-there have been a few that have served as pioneering books.

Good thought can be imbibed by reading and studying good books and by contemplating on them.

If I could write a book, there's going to be a chapter about Mark Martin. He's an unbelievable guy. He has an amazing character. He actually treats people exactly how they treat him. I mean, he doesn't waver.

If ever I were to read a comic book, it might be this one.

I can't account for Beth at all, ... I would not say in any of my books that things have gotten away from me but Beth is truly just out there.

I certainly didn't have a three-book plan or a 10-year plan when I worked on the first book.

I don't see myself as an icon. I was very moved by the response to my book; it brought me into relationship with many people whom I otherwise would not have met. I also discovered that in becoming a public figure, I became a focus for all kinds of projections that had little to do with me.

For someone who does as many things as he does -- edits, writes columns, writes books, lectures -- he is calm and very relaxed with a great wry sense of humor about things.

You could say I lived the life, I wrote the book, and then it was made into a TV series starring Sarah Jessica Parker. (The character) would have been me about four or five years ago.

The market for unabridged, full-length books only started taking off over the last few years. And we think Hemingway will be especially popular for audio downloads.

The libraries of old -- passive organizations that just sat around waiting for people to come in and take the books off the shelves -- those days are over, ... We have competition out there.

These are both excellent books for developing systems in your home and office, with many resources to help you manage your time.

These guys expected it. They went out champions in my book and that's the way I'll always look at it.

These guys can look at our books just as we can look at their books.

A.J. fits that whole line about judging a book by its cover. You look on the outside and see some of the things he's doing on the field that maybe you don't think are appropriate. But once you get to know him, he's a fierce competitor and, at times, maybe not your best qualities come out when you're trying to win.

The idea is to keep as many planes as we can in our books.

The hugely successful publication has evolved with the changes in the book market, and has expanded its mission to have a wider appeal to all business executives at book publishing companies.

You don't have to go buy your book.

The hardest thing in doing this book was finding out who lived there.

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

The growth reflects how easy it has become to sell used books and to create inventory in this business.

The group is exceptionally well positioned for future growth in 2006 with a strong order book and good visibility of earnings, supported by a high level of recurrent revenues.

The Greatest Story He Never Told' is what the book should have been called.

The greatest book is not the one whose message engraves itself on the brain, but the one whose vital impact opens up other viewpoints, and from writer to reader spreads the fire that is fed by various essences, until it becomes a great conflagration

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.

The great thing about travel books is that they are written with a voice, but sometimes it's hard to deliver that voice with real personality. With travel advice, you want to feel like you're getting it from a good friend. You know, the inside scoop.

The district then could say 'No' if it reviewed the material and it determined they (the coloring books) were not appropriate.

A good novel tells us the truth about it's hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

A great book to tell you how to get organized. Marilyn illustrates a special seven-step system to make your life easier.

A good book is the best of friends, the same today and for ever.

And Michael likes to read a lot. People don't realize that about him but he reads a number of books per week and he's fascinated just about every subject.

And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

All the wins are great, but I'd rather be on the right side of that book. Pete Tilman won a New England championship, and I don't consider myself the greatest wrestler in Sharon history because I don't have a New England title to back that up.

The Gainesville Chamber of Commerce organized a drive to collect books to be donated to the Gainesville Victory ship. Two hundred books were collected.

The four executives arranged a complex scheme to cook the books at AIG. The scheme was designed to mislead analysts and the investing public.

The cloke that I left at Troas with Carpus, when thou comest, bring with thee, and the books, but especially the parchments.

The first thing I noticed was the size of it. It really is about the size of a phone book or a dictionary.

The Catalogue of Ships in the second book of Homer's Iliad names the places in Greece that committed ships and troops to the siege of Troy,

The Commission fails completely in its Green Book to react to the rebirth of 'economic patriotism' in the energy sector.

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.

When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.

Love goes toward love, as schoolboys from their books;But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.

Obscenity can be found in every book except the telephone directory.

Pollio, who values nothing that's within, Buys books as men hunt Beavers, -- for their Skin.

I have studied it often, but I never could discover the plot

I feel like I'm drowning. Every night, I'm carrying home loads of things to read but I'm too exhausted. I keep clipping things and Xeroxing them and planning to read them eventually, but I just end up throwing it all away and feeling guilty.

Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable.

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.

He that can compose himself, is wiser than he that composes books

He hath not fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.

When I am king, they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations.

Our foreign dealings are an open book -- generally, a checkbook.

passports to new and exciting worlds... and I know that I would not be the person I am today had it not been for my love of reading.

Tis easy to write epigrams nicely but to write a book is hard

Was ever book containing such vile matterSo fairly bound? O, that deceit should dwellIn such a gorgeous palace!

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all

Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men and women

And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

I've decided I will open the door to all books as potential Oprah's Book Club selections, ... I feel this will give the book club a whole new range of opportunities to explore the world through words.

Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know,Are a substantial world, both pure and good:Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood,Our pastime and our happiness will grow.

You should study the Peerage, Gerald. It is the one book a young man about town should know thoroughly, and it is the best thing in fiction the English have ever done.

A man ought to read just as his inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razor strap. A thin book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.

A classic is a book which people praise and don't read.

It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude

The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.

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