Quotes with book-making

Quotes 801 till 820 of 1038.

  • John Steinbeck The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
    John Steinbeck
    American author (1902 - 1968)
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  • Salman Rushdie The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Ursula K. Le Guin The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    American writer of science fiction and fantasy books (1929 - 2018)
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  • David Attenborough The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?
    David Attenborough
    English veteran broadcaster and naturalist (1926 - )
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  • Lord George Byron The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Thomas Wolfe The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.
    Thomas Wolfe
    American writer and journalist (1900 - 1938)
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  • Carine Roitfeld The reason I call my book 'Irreverent' is because there were a lot of pictures that were very irreverent. Maybe I could call my book 'Forgiving' because maybe I made a lot of errors, too.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Jonathan Swift The reason why so few marriages are happy, is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II The relationship of the toastmaster to the speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Raoul Vaneigem The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.
    Raoul Vaneigem
    Belgian philosopher (1934 - )
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  • Eileen Caddy The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.
    Eileen Caddy
    Scottisch spiritual teacher (1917 - 2006)
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  • Calvin Trillin The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin The society of life on Mars, or the challenge of making Mars more livable, will have significant benefits on our attempts to modify and change in some ways the environment here on Earth.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection...
    Source: The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche (1960)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • B. F. Skinner The strengthening of behavior which results from reinforcement is appropriately called conditioning. In operant conditioning we strengthen an operant in the sense of making a response more probable or, in actual fact, more frequent.
    Source: Science and Human Behavior
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Winston Churchill The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemen's speech is that making a profit is a sin. It is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss!
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Abraham Lincoln The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Carter G. Woodson The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Bill Nelson The tragic case of Terri Schiavo in Florida highlights the importance of making our health-care wishes known.
    Bill Nelson
    American attorney and politician (1942 - )
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