Quotes by Publishers - Page 3

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.
Helen Gurley Brown
On many of the great issues of our time men have lacked wisdom because they have lacked courage.
William Benton
Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms.
H. G. Bohn
Morality like physical cleanliness is not acquired once and for all: it can only be kept and renewed by a habit of constant watchfulness and discipline.
Victoria Ocampo
A tablecloth restaurant is still one of the great rewards of civilization.
Harry Golden
No Santa Claus! Thank God he lives and he lives forever. A thousand years from now Virginia nay ten times ten thousand years from now he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.
Francis P. Church
There can be no return to prosperity while the government (of Ontario) believes that taking money from the people who have earned it and giving it away to the people who haven't in exchange for their votes and regardless of merit is the essence of fairness.
Conrad Black
Reading like prayer remains one of our few private acts.
William Jovanovich
A publisher is somebody looking for someone who has something to say.
Lome Pierce
Middle age is when your old classmates are so gray and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.
Bennett Cerf
To live your life in the fear of losing it is to lose the point of life.
Malcolm Forbes
I care. I care a lot. I think of "Cosmopolitan" all day and I run scared. So it's a combination of fright caring and anxiety.
Helen Gurley Brown
A man of fifty looks as old as Santa Claus to a girl of twenty.
William Feather
The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be.
William Feather
Unless a man has been kicked around a little you can't really depend upon him to amount to anything.
William Feather
I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief struggle and flashes of vision which enlighten.
Margaret Anderson
Acceptance and Work If you have a job without aggravations you don't have a job.
Malcolm Forbes
There is a value to books—unhackable, paper books—that measures far beyond mere ink and paper.
Richard Due
People one doesn't care for, even dislike, make most of us feel uneasy when they appeal against their sentence.
J.L. Carr
Yeah, save the idiots in government, definitely a priority. He didn't say it out loud, though.
Alexander Gordon Smith
Prohibition is to abstain from intoxicating liquor, as it makes us morbid and sometimes drunk. But we get drunk every day, nevertheless, not so much by the strength of what we sip from the cup, but that which we eat, the water we drink, and the air we inhale, which at fermentation conspire at eventide to make us so drunk and tired that we lose control of ourselves and fall asleep. Everybody is a drunkard, and if we were to enforce real prohibition we should all be dead.
Marcus Garvey
The great miraculous bell of translucent ice is suspended in mid-air.It rings to announce endings and beginnings. And it rings because there is fresh promise and wonder in the skies.Its clear tones resound in the placid silence of the winter day, and echo long into the silver-blue serenity of night.The bell can only be seen at the turning of the year, when the days wind down into nothing, and get ready to march out again.When you hear the bell, you feel a tug at your heart.It is your immortal inspiration.
Vera Nazarian
[Lord Horror] was so unique and radical, I expected to go to prison for it. I always thought that if you wrote a truly dangerous book -- something dangerous would happen to you. Which is one reason there are so few really dangerous books around. Publishers play at promoting dangerous books, whether they're Serpent's Tail or Penguin. All you get is a book vetted by committee, never anything radically imaginative or offensive that will take your fucking head off. Ironically, I think it would do other authors a power of good if they had to account for their books by going to prison -- there are far too many bad books being published!
David Britton
Take away the newspaper—and this country of ours would become a scene of chaos. Without daily assurance of the exact facts—so far as we are able to know and publish them—the public imagination would run riot. Ten days without the daily newspaper and the strong pressure of worry and fear would throw the people of this country into mob hysteria—feeding upon rumors, alarms, terrified by bugbears and illusions. We have become the watchmen of the night and of a troubled day. . . .
Harry Chandler
Writing a book is like sliding down a rainbow! Marketing it is like trudging through a field of chewed bubblegum on a hot, sticky day.
Betty Dravis
The Earth is an animal that shakes off its fleas when they dig too deep, bite too hard.
Dave Eggers
You see pictures of Buddha and he’s sitting, reclining, at peace. The Hindus have their twelve-armed elephant god, who also seems so content but not powerless. But leave it to Christians to have a dead and bloody man nailed to a cross.
Dave Eggers
Never judge someone By the way he looks Or a book by the way it's covered; For inside those tattered pages, There's a lot to be discovered
Stephen Cosgrove
As you walk, hop, hobble, or wheelMeeting people of different kinds, Remember that being handicappedIs only a state of mind
Stephen Cosgrove
Life is too short to waste your time with bad books.
Michael Krüger
You get in life what you create. Expectation drives the creative process. What do you expect? You expect whatever it is you're thinking about. Your thought process, the conversation in your head, is at the base of the results you create in life.
Darren Hardy
Babies are born without knee-caps.
Reader's Digest Association
Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.
Dave Eggers
Your Purpose Should Dictate How You Spend Your Time
Brenda Johnson Padgitt
To every rule there is an exception—and an idiot ready to demonstrate it. Don't be the one!
Vera Nazarian
Far more important than being the first, be willing to settle for the best.
M. Lincoln Schuster
You and I read the same books and hear the same sermons and we come away with different messages. That has to be evidence of some serious problem, right?
Dave Eggers
This is the generation that thinks of itself as global citizens but knows little about the world and acts locally. It is the most diverse generation in collegiate history with the strongest relationships between races but they have limited interest in talking about race or reaching across political or generational divides.
Arthur Levine
No matter how much you learn in college, it never prepares you for the real world.
Donald Allen
Here is the soundless cypress on the lawn:It listens, listens. Taller trees beyondListen. The moon at the unruffled pondStares. And you sing, you sing.That star-enchanted song falls through the airFrom lawn to lawn down terraces of sound,Darts in white arrows on the shadowed ground;And all the night you sing.My dreams are flowers to which you are a beeAs all night long I listen, and my brainReceives your song, then loses it againIn moonlight on the lawn.Now is your voice a marble high and white,Then like a mist on fields of paradise,Now is a raging fire, then is like ice,Then breaks, and it is dawn.
Harold Monro
No. There is no balance, and no retribution, and no rules. The rules and balances you blather about are hopeful creations of a man fearing death.
Dave Eggers
There seems to be a sense of balance or equilibrium that nature attempts to achieve with the usage of cycles, leading us to the concept of self-organization and spontaneous order.
Kat Lahr
The starting point for ‘discounts’ may be the manufacturer’s suggested retail price (MSRP), an arbitrarily high price that no one will ever pay. By crossing out the high MSRP, retailers are handing shoppers a psychological victory that will make them feel good about the purchase, even if the discounted price is still expensive.
Ian Lamont
At the end of the day, taking 50% off a $250 dress still means walking out of the store $125 poorer.
Ian Lamont
As long as I live, I will always remember those wee children standing at the railing on that ship." - John Hanlon, the sailor
Deana J. Driver
I stopped typing and started having a conversation about the blog post with my boyfriend. He said he’d liked the part where the narrator had explained that, while she was disturbed by the revelation that the Internet writer had a girlfriend – because that meant he wasn’t the pure ethical person she’d perceived him to be via reading his literary criticism (which, !) –she was flattered and aroused that he was overcoming his principles in order to be with her.Keith said, “It’s like he can do no wrong. I thought that was nice.”I surprised myself by turning to him and shouting. “It’s a SLAVE MENTALITY. IT’S A SLAVE MENTALITY!!!”I tried to explain what I meant.I talked about how Ellen Willis had a theory that women didn’t know what their true sexuality was like, because they’d been conditioned to develop fantasies that enable them to act in a way that conforms to what men want from them, or what they think men want from them. And I thought about how Eileen Myles described the difference between having sex with men and having sex with women, how having sex with men was more about forcing yourself into what their idea of what sex was supposed to be. I told him that in my experience men do not often become suddenly charmed or intrigued by aspects of women that they have also perceived as off-putting or scary. Men, heterosexual men, don’t tend to make excuses for women and find reasons to admire them despite and even slightly because of their faults, unless their faults are cute little hole-in-the-stocking faults. Whereas women, heterosexual women, are capable of finding being ignored, being alternately worshiped and insulted, not to mention male pattern baldness, not just tolerable but erotic.
Emily Gould
I had long ago stopped believing in promises. Biological imperatives, yes. Environmental factors, yes. Promises, no.
Jeff VanderMeer
The great city of New York wields more of the destinies of this great nation that five times the population of any other portion of the country.
Malcolm Forbes
I once started outto walk around the worldbut ended up in Brooklyn,that Bridge was too much for me.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
However, although you might think this is the time of year to take some time off, you must never transgress one of the allotment rules: 'Thou shan't go on holiday in summer!
Mitchell Beazley
Mistakes are always mistakes, Or so I've heard them say...But if it teaches a lesson, The mistake will go away.
Stephen Cosgrove
Along in LifeAs you will goRemember the TimesWhen you must say "NO!
Stephen Cosgrove
Thing is," Grial said in a conspiratorial voice, "let me tell you a little secret, girlie. That road- those roads, all roads and paths in fact- they never end. You might think they do. You might think they just narrow and fade and disappear in the hoary depths of the forest? Not so, not at all! They merely go into hiding, and you just have to search a bit harder to see them.
Vera Nazarian
What is blood but the wine of life?
Vera Nazarian
His lies were so exquisite I almost wept.
Dave Eggers
If we don't discipline ourselves, the world will do it for us.
William Feather
Alcohol is the drug ethanol. They are one and the same. Alcohol is also called ethyl alcohol or grain alcohol. It is a chemical compound. Ethanol is often added to the gasoline we use to run our cars.
Chris Prentiss
I have gathered a posy of other men's flowers and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own.
John Bartlett
Freemasonry is relevant as much as the actions of Freemasons are meaningful.
Stevan V. Nikolic
When you're in your twenties in a new city where no one's from here, we're all sort of orphans. The only people that you can count on our bunch of people that you work with and that you know. You're only as good as the reliability of that latticework.
Dave Eggers