Quotes with book-friends

Quotes 541 till 560 of 1030.

  • Henrik Ibsen Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace and happiness.
    Henrik Ibsen
    Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906)
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  • Billie Holiday Money, you've got lots of friends
    Crowding round the door
    When you're gone, spending ends
    They don't come no more
    Rich relations give
    Crust of bread and such
    You can help yourself
    But don't take too much.
    Source: God Bless The Child
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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  • Ben Parr More and more, the things we do in real life will end up as Facebook posts. And while we may be consoled by the fact that most of this stuff is being posted just to our friends, it only takes one friend to share that information with his or her friends to start a viral chain.
    Ben Parr
    American journalist, author, venture capitalist (1985 - )
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  • Kofi Annan More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.
    Source: Faceboek (2016)
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Stephen Vizinczey Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author is an alcoholic, then the most sympathetically portrayed character in his book will be an alcoholic. This sort of thing is very boring for outsiders.
    Stephen Vizinczey
    Hungarian writer and critic (1933 - 2021)
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  • Adam Sandler Most of the stuff I do on the show comes out of me just trying to make my friends laugh.
    Adam Sandler
    American actor, comedian, and filmmaker (1966 - )
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  • Alain de Botton Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Lord Chesterfield Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Carolina Herrera Most people travel with a good book, but I also keep my agenda with me; I'll flip through the pages and take a few moments to organize my life a little - I rarely get the time to do this normally.
    Carolina Herrera
    Venezuelan fashion designer (1939 - )
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  • Billy Bob Thornton Movies these days have made killers into funny people. What's that all about? I've got kids and family and friends, and I don't like bad things. I don't think they're funny, and it's irresponsible to make movies that don't show you how that's not good.
    Billy Bob Thornton
    American actor, writer, and musician (1955 - )
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  • Burton Cummings My book is already online. I can type 150 words a minute. I took typing in high school.
    Burton Cummings
    Canadian musician, singer and songwriter (1947 - )
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  • Edna St. Vincent Millay My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    American poet (1892 - 1950)
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  • Herbert Hoover My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope.
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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  • Barbara Park My criteria for what makes a book an official 'favorite,' is based almost entirely on how desperately I don't want the story to end.
    Barbara Park
    American author of children's books (1947 - 2013)
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  • Barry Hannah My dad read history, about a book a day, but only after he retired as a successful bank and insurance man.
    Barry Hannah
    American novelist (1942 - 2010)
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  • Lee Iacocca My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
    Lee Iacocca
    American businessman and CEO of Chrysler (1924 - 2019)
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  • Barry Marshall My favourite book as a child was an old 'Newne's Children's Encyclopaedia' which my grandfather had bought just before World War II and donated to our family after seeing how interested we were in it. Each volume had special chapters called 'Things Boys can Do.' My brothers and I would pick out interesting projects.
    Barry Marshall
    Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology (1951 - )
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  • Ben Marcus My first book, 'The Age of Wire and String,' came out in 1995, and it was hardly reviewed at all.
    Ben Marcus
    American author and professor
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  • Brendan Myers My first Kickstarter project created a book called 'Clear and Present Thinking', a college-level textbook on logic and critical reasoning, which was made available to the world for free. As a professor myself, I observed that the price of textbooks was too high for some of my students.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard My friends knew I was obsessed with these 'Twilight' boys because I love a dangerous love story.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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