Bookselling Industry Quotes & Sayings

Those only deserve a monument who do not need one; that is, who have raised themselves a monument in the minds and memories of men. — William Hazlitt

Being our best involves walking away from every situation with less than what we had when we encountered it because we left something behind in the exchange. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

My fans have always been so supportive, and several years ago, I realized that I could thank them by naming all my characters after my Twitter and Facebook fans. — Neal Shusterman

I learnt that music cost something, and that's a good thing. Also, that I should exercise, because I didn't and I got very sick. — Brooke Fraser

Don't just have dreams. Take actions too. To make it possible, begin every dream with a simple action and your interest will beam out. — Israelmore Ayivor

Lyndon Johnson (with Abraham Lincoln close behind). Johnson was able to get things done, to read other people, and to adjust his own approach accordingly. One of the reasons he has so fascinated biographer Robert Caro over the years is Johnson's consummate skill in acquiring and using influence. — Jeffrey Pfeffer

I have so much fun on stage that I should have to pay to get in. — Marty Robbins

For this you keep a lab notebook. Everything gets written down, formally, so that you know at all times where you are, where you've been, where you're going and where you want to get. — Robert M. Pirsig

The American way of stress is comparable to Freud's 'beloved symptom', his name for the cherished neurosis that a patient cultivates like the rarest of orchids and does not want to be cured of. Stress makes Americans feel busy, important, and in demand, and simultaneously deprived, ignored, and victimized. Stress makes them feel interesting and complex instead of boring and simple, and carries an assumption of sensitivity not unlike the Old World assumption that aristocrats were high-strung. In short, stress has become a status symbol. — Florence King

No act can be quite so intimate as the sexual embrace. — Havelock Ellis

The problem with real estate is that it's local. You have to understand the local market. — Robert Kiyosaki