Godfather Book Quotes & Sayings

You can attract only that which you mentally become and feel yourself to be in reality. — Ernest Holmes

An author entices the readers with their words, and it is painful for them to even lose a sentence. But films and books are two different mediums and should be dealt differently. What works in a book might not work for a film. When I saw 'Anna Karenina' on screen, I didn't like it at all, whereas 'The Godfather' was legendary. — Ashwin Sanghi

In a certain sense, this guy - who is one of the most evil people in the book - he's not really that bad at running the show, because he knows what he's doing, he's smart and he's got the big picture in mind. He's like the Godfather. — Kevin J. Anderson

When we're alive, life consumes us. But when we die, all of the color and the motion is gone so quickly, it's as though it can no longer stand to be wasted on us. — Lauren DeStefano

In the tennis world, there weren't a whole lot of Asians playing. You see it a little bit more now. The same can really be said for basketball. — Michael Chang

Then I realized that I was falling victim to one of the fallacies of the bad reviewer (whose habits we already discussed at length in yesterday's commentary). I was wishing that Hamid had written a different book than he had. How I might have written this story is completely irrelevant. It would be like dismissing The Godfather because I wished it were a musical. The novel needs to be considered on its own terms. — Kevin Guilfoile

#Dialogue does a remarkable thing in restoring mind, that is, to rescue it from authority-systems and rigid beliefs. — Anthony Blake

Loneliness is designed to help you discover who you are ... and to stop looking outside yourself for your worth. — Mandy Hale

In this business, there is an insane amount of pressure, spoken and unspoken, to be thin. If you look at some of the television shows, eating disorders become like a competitive thing. — Kim Raver

Some people are so addicted to their misery that they will destroy anything that gets in the way of their fix. — Bryant McGill

A story in Asimov's is read by hundreds of thousands of people. — Greg Egan

Julie sat on the wall beside him, her hair swirling around her like she was underwater. He imagined the dappled light flashing across her face. Portrait of the young pinnace racer as a mermaid. She smiled at the idea, and Miller smiled back. She would have been here, he knew. Along with Diogo and Fred and all the other OPA militia, patriots of the vacuum, she'd have been in a crash couch, wearing borrowed armor, heading into the station to get herself killed for the greater good. Miller knew he wouldn't have. Not before her. So in a sense, he'd taken her place. He'd become her. They made it, Julie said, or maybe only thought. — James S.A. Corey

Excellence always sells. — Earl Nightingale

New York restaurants are about selling atmospheres. — Andy Warhol

I got a call on a Sunday. 'Do you want to do 'The Godfather?' I thought they were kidding me, right? I said, 'Yes, of course, I love that book' - which I had never read. — Albert S. Ruddy