Bookselling Industry Quotes

#1. Be your biggest competitor - challenge yourself each day to be better than you were yesterday.

Kaoru

#2. I don't know why America always thinks she has to run all around the world forcing people to take our way of governance at the barrel of a gun. When you've got something really good, you don't have to force it on people. They will steal it!

Dick Gregory

#3. There is no other way to find ourselves but in each others faces.

Rod McKuen

#4. Barbie's disfigured. It's fine to play with her just as long as you keep that in mind.

Lena Dunham

#5. When I speak of drama, I'm really referring to just 'desperately trying not to be ordinary'. Trying to get something that has a little bit of friction, conflict, absurdity.

Gore Verbinski

#6. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.

Franklin Pierce Adams

#7. You can find Calcutta all over the world, if you have the eyes to see.

Mother Teresa

#8. But you-aren't afraid of me?"
Elliot forced himself not to look away. "Oh I am. But for different reasons."
They stared at each other for a long, agonising moment . Elliot's throat went dry.

Astrid Amara

#9. Writing with one pencil in hand is so much easier than the choosing of 114 buttons to press in series for an extended period of time.

Robert N. Franz

#10. I was really good in high school, so in college I was going to be really bad.

Rob Huebel

#11. I was beautiful because I'd been made in God's image. How could I not be so?

Mindy Starns Clark

#12. You can only fight what you are for so long. Eventually the hand that nature has dealt you will make you become what you were meant to be. You have no control over it.

Lindsay J. Pryor

#13. Those who have a great deal to complain about are so often silent in their suffering, while those who have little to be dissatisfied with are frequently highly vocal about it.

Alexander McCall Smith

#14. Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.

Natasha Trethewey