Top 100 Booker Quotes
#1. New Jersey Mayor Corey Booker last night personally rescued a woman from a burning building. Or as Fox News reported it, 'black man loots house, steals white woman.'
Bill Maher
#2. You write a book and you finish the book. That's your job done, right? You win the Booker and you have a whole new job. You have to be the thing, right? So instead of writing the story, you somehow are the story. And that I found that sort of terrible.
Anne Enright
#3. Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
Ed Smith
#4. [On being a judge for the 1986 Booker Prize:] I got to the point where I couldn't read a laundry list without considering it for the Booker Prize.
Bernice Rubens
#5. He's a seminal force, a guru, an original creator of the New Orleans piano style.. the teacher of great players like Fats Domino, Allen Toussaint, Mac Rebenack, James Booker, and Huey Smith. All acknowledge him as The Great Master.
Jerry Wexler
#6. I'll always struggle over saying I'm a writer, even if I won the Booker Prize.
Sonya Hartnett
#7. In Australia, the Man Booker is sometimes seen as something of a chicken raffle.
Richard Flanagan
#8. He (Vince Russo) is the only booker I've seen who doesn't get people over, he gets them under.
Jim Cornette
#9. My father always had doubts about the Booker prize, although they evaporated on the announcement that he had won it.
Martin Amis
#11. Small Faces were really a soul band as far as we were concerned. That's what we listened to; that's what we played, you know? We were pretty much based on Booker T. and the M.G.'s.
Ian McLagan
#12. I think I'm drawn to people who dream big, and both films have that. In 'Street Fight, Cory Booker wants to become Mayor of Newark, and in 'Racing Dreams,' three kids want to become NASCAR drivers.
Marshall Curry
#13. I'm sure I wouldn't have been asked to judge the Man Booker if it weren't for 'Downton.'
Dan Stevens
#14. I'd like to win a Booker Prize for writing. A Nobel Peace Prize for my work in peace ... and I think that'll probably do.
Billy Boyd
#15. The Booker Prize is a big, popular prize for big, popular books, and that's the way it should be.
John Banville
#16. But race is not biology; race is sociology. Race is not genotype; race is phenotype. Race matters because of racism. And racism is absurd because it's about how you look. Not about the blood you have. It's about the shade of your skin and the shape of your nose and the kink of your hair. Booker
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#17. There's no good reason that reliably liberal states should be electing senators as friendly to Wall Street as Cory Booker.
Alex Pareene
#18. I'm not defending what Cory Booker said. I'm saying I understand why he has to kiss the asses of the rich people on Wall Street, because there's no other way to keep his city afloat.
Bill Maher
#19. Cory Booker became a millionaire because this is how the economy works for people of his class: Rich people give other rich people money to do nothing, simply because they 'deserve' it.
Alex Pareene
#20. There's an image that some of us have of Jackie Onassis, stepping out in the rain, and Maurice Tempelsman is holding her umbrella. We want that man. We want the man to be the concierge and the masseur and the travel booker.
Sandra Tsing Loh
#21. Oh, I've become immune to the Booker. I think we need something a little more like the Pulitzer prize, where there isn't this great race.
Ian McEwan
#22. I am, of course, greatly honoured to win the Booker, which is one of the great literary prizes in the world.
Richard Flanagan
#23. Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or a private jet.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#24. Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation.
C.L.R. James
#25. Well, I was always a bit of a political junkie. Even as a kid I would read biographies of presidents and of civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King and Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington.
John Legend
#26. Others have falsely claimed to be the inspiration for Tom Booker in The Horse Whisperer. The one who truly inspired me was Buck Brannaman. His skill, understanding and his gentle, loving heart have parted the clouds for countless troubled creatures. Buck is the Zen master of the horse world.
Nicholas Evans
#27. The Booker triumph of Graham Swift's moving, effortlessly profound Last Orders is a vindication of the quiet, much-misunderstood path this fine writer chose to take after the brilliance of Waterland more than ten years ago.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#28. Is the prestige conferred by the Man Booker prize for the book or me? I would prefer it on the book and for me to be treated ordinarily.
Eleanor Catton
#29. I said in my acceptance speech that I hope that readers remember this not as the year I won the Booker, but the year that there were six extraordinary books on the shortlist.
Richard Flanagan
#30. It may be the first in what I trust will be a rapidly growing and influential genre
the novel designed on purpose to be excludedfrom the Booker short-list.
Angela Carter
#31. There are celebrated literary lions who've won Pulitzers and Booker prizes for ideas that Dick would toss aside in an early chapter, but ... oh, what's the use. You evidently already know the score, because you're reading this.
Philip K. Dick
#32. The Booker 2011 is of no more interest to me than the world heavyweight championship, which I'm not going to win either. It's irrelevant.
Edward St. Aubyn
#33. You can't really win as a Booker judge. If you choose the obvious names, the unit-shifters, you're accused of being timid and unimaginative; if you choose the unfamous, you're labelled willful and perverse.
Tibor Fischer
#34. The Commonwealth Prize is about celebrating the Commonwealth and the special relationship we have with the ex-colonies - which is part guilt and part warmth - and the Booker Prize isn't an essential part of that, but it is part of that.
Jim Crace
#35. I've heard people, usually writers, say that no one wrote a great book after winning the Booker, but I honestly did not feel any big pressure. 'The Gathering' did hang over me in that it was darker than I thought at the time.
Anne Enright
#36. Oh dear me, the Booker people don't like me. I don't care. I have been given an award for being taken not seriously, and I am very, very pleased about that.
Terry Pratchett
#37. Six months into the bliss of edible sex, free-style music, challenging books and the company of an easy undemanding Bride, the fairy-tale castle collapsed into the mud and sand on which its vanity was built. And Booker ran away.
Toni Morrison
#38. Winner of the "Booker of Bookers," Midnight's Children is the novel that can be said to have done for Indian literature what One Hundred Years of Solitude did for the literature of the Americas, exciting a boom whose echoes have yet to fade.
Salman Rushdie
#39. People aren't quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They're not quite sure what is being recommended, what literary values it stands for, because every year it stands for something different.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#40. Du Bois marked a great stage in the history of Negro struggles when he said that Negroes could no longer accept the subordination which Booker T. Washington had preached.
C.L.R. James
#41. The three people who are most often talked about with Hillary Clinton, whether it's Tim Kaine or Vilsack or Cory Booker, they are three extremely nice people.
David Brooks
#42. If you think your lot has been hard, read 'Up From Slavery' by Booker T. Washington, and you may see how fortunate you have been.
Napoleon Hill
#43. Booker T. Washington, Buddha, John Dewey, Leo Buscaglia, Moses and Jesus.
Jack Canfield
#45. Folk-punk artists like This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb or Paul Baribeau were popular in the Florida punk community. I saw people early on combine roots music with more aggressive music.
Benjamin Booker
#46. I spent eight years living without heat and hot water.
Cory Booker
#47. My family is no different from yours. We may be different from the geography that we come from. Some of you all may pray differently than I do, some of you all may be from a different ethnicity, but we all have the same story.
Cory Booker
#48. The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.
Booker T. Washington
#49. These are the themes in life which are consistent in Judaism, Islam, Hinduism - of being grounded in who you are and being engaged in an unjust world.
Cory Booker
#51. Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.
Booker T. Washington
#53. The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your 'civilization'.
Booker T. Washington
#54. I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. I never saw Martin Luther King alive.
Cory Booker
#55. There are two ways of exerting one's strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
Booker T. Washington
#56. Hopelessness is a really toxic and dangerous state.
Cory Booker
#57. When I go about my own politics, I meet Tea Party supporters who I can work with in Congress, that I find common ground with. I find Tea Party supporters who won't let me get a sentence out without judging me. To say that there is a 'Tea Party supporter' is a gross generality.
Cory Booker
#58. You should be able to afford health care for your family. You should be able to retire with dignity and respect. And you should be able to give your children the kind of education that allows them to dream even bigger, go even farther and accomplish even more than you could ever imagine.
Cory Booker
#59. Don't let your inability to do everything undermine your determination to do something.
Cory Booker
#60. The more you limit your choices, thereby limiting thought, the more you can simplify your life and focus your energy elsewhere.
Cory Booker
#61. I went to school in Gainesville because it was a huge punk and folk town. So I went to class twice a week, and then I went to shows and wrote. I did a lot of music writing before I actually started playing music.
Benjamin Booker
#62. We live in a nation where, when New Jersey figures out how to do something and does it well, and shows progress, it affects other states.
Cory Booker
#63. Let's not judge. Let's draw inspiration from each other's stories - successes and failures - and realize we're all connected.
Cory Booker
#64. If you want extraordinary results you must put in extraordinary effort.
Cory Booker
#65. Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people. No young man or woman can make a greater error than this ...
Booker T. Washington
#66. Nothing ever comes to me, that is worth having, except as the result of hard work.
Booker T. Washington
#67. I'm very concerned about U.S. food policy.
Cory Booker
#68. You cannot find what you do not seek. You cannot grasp when you do not reach. Your dreams won't come up to your front door. You have got to take a leap if you want to soar.
Cory Booker
#69. I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Booker T. Washington
#70. Remember that everyone's life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.
Booker T. Washington
#72. One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
Booker T. Washington
#73. The negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting, but for years it will be necessary to guide and stimulate him.
Booker T. Washington
#74. The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
Booker T. Washington
#75. Our nation was founded with a bunch of founding legislators who joined together to move our country out of the blocks and get us started, and every generation since then has found a way to advance the ball down the field.
Cory Booker
#76. Cities can be places that represent the best of our ideals: where Americans of all different backgrounds can come together and, through their interactions, and even through their unity, spawn true American greatness.
Cory Booker
#77. I debated between law school and divinity.
Cory Booker
#78. Everybody wants to find their soul mate, and I'm no different. That's definitely what I want in the future.
Cory Booker
#79. I knew that, in a large degree, we were trying an experiment
that of testing whether or not it was possible for Negroes to build up and control the affairs of a large education institution. I knew that if we failed it wold injure the whole race.
Booker T. Washington
#80. You were not built for comfort and convenience. You were built to overcome.
Cory Booker
#81. Dream big & have huge ambition, but never forget life is lived in small moments and sustained by simple acts of love.
Cory Booker
#82. It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.
Booker T. Washington
#83. When we embraced social media, we took more control of the Newark narrative. We increased responsiveness toward residents. We drew more of our constituents in to participate in government and improve our cities.
Cory Booker
#84. Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you've over come
Booker T. Washington
#86. I have found that the happiest people are those who do the most for others; the most miserable are those who do the least. I have also found that few things, if any, are capable of making one so blind and narrow as race prejudice.
Booker T. Washington
#87. Democracy is not a spectator sport. It is a difficult, hard, full-contact, participatory endeavor.
Cory Booker
#88. I reject the idea that the guy who comes out of Yale and goes to work in the projects in Newark is good, and the guy who goes to work for a white-shoe law firm is bad. We're all mountain rangers. We all have peaks and valleys.
Cory Booker
#89. The mayoral mentality is incredibly valuable. I don't want to lose that.
Cory Booker
#90. Life is about where you are right now, and the choices you make.
Cory Booker
#91. I wrote down the grades I wanted in every class.
Cory Booker
#92. The greatest natural resource our country has is not oil. It's not gas. It's not coal. It's the genius of our children.
Cory Booker
#93. I love talking about the challenges [Newark, NJ] has because of the way they are always brilliantly disguised as opportunities..the biggest global challenge that there is is a challenge of the spirit, a challenge of our vision, a challenge and a test of our ideals, of who we SAY we are GOING TO BE.
Cory Booker
#94. Our platform is crafted by Democrats but it is not about partisanship, its about pragmatism.
Cory Booker
#95. Stand in a way that you are always empowering people to join in, because the only way to be truly successful is not to succeed as an individual, but to succeed as a part of a community, of a country.
Cory Booker
#96. Elections have consequences. So many people want to complain, but they don't want to vote. We can talk about Hillary Clinton. We can celebrate her; we can support her, but if we don't come out and vote for her, for shame.
Cory Booker
#97. I was raised in a very religious home with two parents who were deeply involved in the black church. When I was young, I went to a small black AME church in New Jersey.
Cory Booker
#98. The great human law that in the end recognizes and rewards merit is everlasting and universal.
Booker T. Washington
#99. My grandmother from Iowa, she is dancing in Heaven at the prospect that the next president of the United States is going to be Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Cory Booker
#100. There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
Booker T. Washington
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