Quotes About Acknowledgements

#1. Finally, thank you very much to Jeaniene Frost and Jill Myles. This book does have sex in it. Please don't hit me anymore."

~Ilona Andrews in the Acknowledgements section of Magic Bleeds

Ilona Andrews

#2. Some men will never be heroes, some heroes will never be men, he thought, with urgent acknowledgements to Joseph Conrad.

John Le Carre

#3. My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence.
[Sources and Acknowledgements: Chapter 19]

Arthur C. Clarke

#4. Like most readers, I tend to skip the acknowledgements at the beginnings of books: the 'To-My-Wife-Without-Whose-Invaluable-Assistance' kind of thing.

Gore Vidal

#5. Encouragement from any source is like a drop of rain upon a parched desert. Thanks to all the many others who rained on me when I needed it, and even when I foolishly thought I didn't.
(acknowledgements in The P.U.R.E.)

Claire Gillian

#6. I didn't learn Chinese to write 'Confucius.' That would've been a monumental task. I have three friends who can translate Chinese text for me; all three helped me with my research on Confucius. They are acknowledged in my acknowledgements in the book.

Russell Freedman

#7. Acknowledgements
With grateful thanks to the three least-appreciated and hardest-working proselytizers of the written word: independent bookstores, librarians, and teachers.

Gail Carriger

#8. Deeply impressed with the blessing which we enjoy, and of which we have much manifold proofs, my mind is irresistibly drawn to that Almighty Being, the great source source from whence they proceed and whom our most grateful acknowledgements are due.

George W. Bush

#9. You are my wickedest mischievous sisters, most beloved friends of my mind. - Esme from Sister Mischief

Laura Goode

#10. Sometimes the darkness finds us, that will always be inevitable. If one chooses to manifest such feelings creatively, then it really isn't darkness at all.

Beth Turner

#11. Business should never be allowed to justify mean, thug ugly deals for any reason.

Ralph Steadman

#12. You can't grow strong without resistance.

Rick Warren

#13. Keep in mind that other people's actions can never 'make' you feel any certain way. Feelings are your warning indicators.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#14. I don't ever want anyone to hear my music and look at it as just gratuitous violence, or hustling and money-getting - I try to tell the perspective of the woman, the man, the mind, why.

Pusha T

#15. He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.

Charles Caleb Colton