You Books Speaker Quotes & Sayings

An increasing number of people are taking advantage of having a leg up on their competition by branding themselves as "the expert" in their particular niche. Call it a business card, a resume, a billboard, or whatever you choose, but the long and short of it is that books are no longer just books. They are branding devices and credibility builders, not to mention door openers. Books are the reason that authors command large speaking and consulting fees. — Kytka Hilmar-Jezek

It is better to proceed with one's duty in the service of others than wallow in the pain attachments bring — Robyn Davidson

Men seldom take the opinion of their equal, or of a man like themselves, upon trust. — Alexis De Tocqueville

It's totally okay to fuck up. More than okay. It's normal. Our fuck-ups make us who we are, and if we don't accept that ... well, there'd be nothing but more potential fuck-ups in our future. Or, worse, we'd just freeze up and stop doing anything at all. — Steph Campbell

I dont write books so that you can be fascinated with me. I write them so you can be fascinated with YOU! — Steve Maraboli

is a pearl, and a pearl buried in a dung heap is no less valuable for its surroundings. — Christine Merrill

I'm ready for something private, private and real — Simone Elkeles

At the Redbox we gather essential movies:
Johnny Depp, Jude Law,
Michael Cera, and Jon Heder
(because we all have a weak spot
for the skinny, homely, Leftover,
Napoleon Dynamites of the world). — Sarah Tregay

A man once asked me ... how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men when they were by themselves. Was I, by any chance, a member of a large, mixed family with a lot of male friends? I replied that, on the contrary, I was an only child and had practically never seen or spoken to any men of my own age till I was about twenty-five. "Well," said the man, "I shouldn't have expected a woman (meaning me) to have been able to make it so convincing." I replied that I had coped with this difficult problem by making my men talk, as far as possible, like ordinary human beings. This aspect of the matter seemed to surprise the other speaker; he said no more, but took it away to chew it over. One of these days it may quite likely occur to him that women, as well as men, when left to themselves, talk very much like human beings also. — Dorothy L. Sayers

I'm sorry."

"Not yet, but you will be. — Teresa Mummert

The world promises you so much...and leaves you empty. God's promises are for real and forever. — Beth Moore Jones

There are often multiple sources for some famous statements by King; as a professional speaker and minister he used some significant phrases with only slight variation many times in his
essays, books, and his speeches to different audiences. — Martin Luther King Jr.

We went through a hard time, and we had to turn to music as a means to putting food on the table. And we've been doing it ever since. No regrets either. — Selena

Whether you do a play in front of 100 people or a movie that one billion people see, you're still affecting people. — Luke Ford

Day and night. Give and take. But never to die. Each have their time. — Zechariah Barrett

Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours
ambition is the serious business of life. — Walter Scott

Crazy loves company, Sir Clay. — Marissa Meyer

A man has perished; his corpse is dust,
and his people have passed from the land;
it is a book which makes him remembered
in the mouth of a speaker.
More excellent is a [papyrus] roll than a built house,
than a chapel in the west.
It is better than an established villa,
than a stela in a temple... — Anonymous

When we set out to do the best we can do, it is inevitable that great opportunity finds us because we are doing what truly makes us happy. We're in alignment and ready for the opportunities that life puts in our path. — Josh Hinds

The decision for me was whether to have 'The Father' be a book that told a story - from the point of view of this speaker, the daughter - without, as in the earlier books, then having a section on something else and a section on something else. — Sharon Olds

Beware that the one who reads is the same as the book, the same as what is read, the same as the speaker and the same as what is spoken without being the word. — Mohammed Dib

I'm in an on-off relationship at the moment. — Cat Deeley