All Quotes

My body really, really wanted to reproduce when I was 15. It took a lot of civilization, socialization, willpower and some emulsion polymerization technology for me not to reproduce at 15.
‐‐ Penn Jillette

My body's feeling it a little bit. But one good thing, my back is in good shape, and that's my main concern. I know that my legs are going to take awhile to get back to where I was a few years ago, but as long as my back is solid, I feel that I can play many years.
‐‐ Mario Lemieux

My body's my best friend.
‐‐ Bryce Dallas Howard

My body started to shut down. I got really, really ill. When you're starving yourself, you can't concentrate. I was like a walking zombie, like the walking dead. I was just consumed with what I would eat, what I wouldn't eat.
‐‐ Tracey Gold

My body will never go back to what it was, and I wouldn't expect it to after three babies.
‐‐ Kate Winslet

My bohemianism consisted of not wanting to get involved with the stupid stuff that I thought people wanted you to get involved with... namely America... Dwight Eisenhower, McCarthyism and all those great things.
‐‐ Amiri Baraka

My Bond character was meant to look like a virgin. I don't think they do that very often.
‐‐ Jane Seymour

My bones are as hard as a rock. Every time I have a biopsy, the doctors are doing hand exercises a week, ten days out.
‐‐ Don Baylor

My bones are tired from all the tragedy in me.
‐‐ Peter Krause

My book 'Ali Pasha' tells the true story of a young sailor Henry Friston, who, in the hell-fire of battle, forms an unusual friendship.
‐‐ Michael Foreman

My book centers in on the New Testament, the goal being to help a person who wants to understand the Bible to see how what God did as revealed in the New Testament will reveal to them their own personal story.
‐‐ Max Lucado

My book collection is primarily in America, since that's where I've lived most of my life.
‐‐ Terri Windling

My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.
‐‐ Lev Grossman

My book has a lot of parts of my life that people don't know about.
‐‐ Maureen Forrester

My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.
‐‐ Mark Haddon

My book is already online. I can type 150 words a minute. I took typing in high school.
‐‐ Burton Cummings

My book is focused on the power of the American state, not least because the government of the United States governs so much that the case could be made that everybody around the world ought to have a vote in determining some of its policies.
‐‐ Todd Gitlin

My book is traditional. It runs counter to the post-modern spirit.
‐‐ David Guterson

My book is very wild. But you know during the period of BATMAN, that there were thousands of Batman and Robin costumes sold and these weren't just for kids.
‐‐ Burt Ward

My book sales make 'real writers' possible.
‐‐ Jennifer Weiner

My book 'The Exciting Adventures of Boo' was first published when I was fifteen. It is a children's book with ten different stories. In each story, the main character Boo learns a lesson - one of the ten most important lessons I learned as a kid. I also donated all the money from my books I personally sold to my local ASPCA Animal Shelter.
‐‐ Manika

My book 'Trust Your Heart', which is the story of my life, will be followed by 'Singing Lessons', a memoir of love, loss, hope, and healing, which talks about the death of my son and the hope that has been the aftermath of the healing from that tragedy.
‐‐ Judy Collins

My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.
‐‐ Jeanette Winterson

My books always focus on the response of the characters to extreme events. As dark as they get, they are ultimately positive, uplifting books about children who take control of their lives and overcome great adversaries. I think that is why they have been so popular.
‐‐ Darren Shan

My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search.
‐‐ Antonio Tabucchi

My books are about ordinary people, like you, me, people on the street, people who really have an expectation of reasonable happiness in life, want their life to have a sense of security and predictability, who want to belong to something bigger than them, who want love and affection in their life, who want a good future for the children.
‐‐ Khaled Hosseini

My books are about ordinary people placed in extraordinary situations who are able to draw upon their inner reserves to challenge the status-quo in life and navigate compelling human relationships.
‐‐ Vikas Swarup

My books are all fantastically sentimental.
‐‐ Chuck Palahniuk

My books are always about somebody who is taken from aloneness and isolation - often elevated loneliness - to community. It may be a denigrated community that is filthy and poor, but they are not alone; they are with people.
‐‐ Chuck Palahniuk

My books are anti-absolutist and deeply distrustful of any religious stance that precludes the validity of any other.
‐‐ David Mitchell

My books are based 98 percent on documentary evidence.
‐‐ Irving Stone

My books are based on observing others, not myself.
‐‐ Michael Korda

My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.
‐‐ Carl Hiaasen

My books are comedies; I want to take my readers on a jet-setting romp, make them laugh, make them swoon at the beautiful settings, and maybe even make their mouths water at all the food.
‐‐ Kevin Kwan

My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.
‐‐ Richard Russo

My books are, in a way, a record of my life - that part of it that came to flower and fruit in my mind.
‐‐ John Burroughs

My books are inert as cordwood till a reader's imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life.
‐‐ David James Duncan

My books are just pure escapism for kids.
‐‐ Dav Pilkey

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
‐‐ Mark Twain

My books are love stories at core, really. But I am interested in manifestations of love beyond the traditional romantic notion. In fact, I seem not particularly inclined to write romantic love as a narrative motive or as an easy source of happiness for my characters.
‐‐ Khaled Hosseini

My books are never about the crimes. They are about how the characters react to the crimes.
‐‐ Karin Slaughter

My books are not generic. You know when you're reading a Joy Fielding book.
‐‐ Joy Fielding

My books are not really books; they're endless chains of distraction shoved inside a cover. Many of them begin at the search box of Pub Med, an Internet database of medical journal articles.
‐‐ Mary Roach

My books are often shelved around those of Chinua Achebe and Margaret Atwood, or Chimamanda Adichie and Monica Ali. All of this depends, of course, on the bookstore and how conversant the shelf stocker is with the alphabet.
‐‐ Chris Abani

My books are personal: I'm not saying they're the Bible of music.
‐‐ Eddie Trunk

My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about.
‐‐ Jeffery Deaver

My books are published by Hachette. My books have been blacklisted and blocked on Amazon on multiple occasions.
‐‐ Charles Stross

My books are shelved in different places, depending on the bookstore. Sometimes they can be found in the Mystery section, sometimes in the Humor department, and occasionally even in the Literature aisle, which is somewhat astounding.
‐‐ Carl Hiaasen

My books are so tame!
‐‐ Sarah Dessen