"Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering."

-- Carl Hiaasen

#Book Quotes #Names Quotes #Profound Quotes

“We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.”

Source : "Net neutrality should be law, says media tycoon" by Shane Richmond, www.telegraph.co.uk. March 15, 2011.
“Contemporary art photography, or, more specifically, what I would term mainstream art photography, represents for the most part the mining of an exhausted lode.”
“My toils in the quotation field have led me to formulate two or three laws about the way people use and abuse quotations. My first law is: When in doubt, ascribe all quotations to Bernard Shaw - which I don't mean to be taken literally, but as a general observation of the habit people have of attaching remarks to the nearest obvious speaker. Churchill, Wilde, Orson Welles and Alexander Woollcott are other useful figures upon whom to father remarks when you don't know who really said them.”

Source : "Sayings of the Century". Book by Nigel Rees, 1984.
“When one man dies it is a tragedy, when thousands die it's statistics.”
“If you look at my eyes when I'm dancing, you'll see that glazed look.”
“I remember being a bathtub singer. You know, the type that sings and everybodys like, Shut up.”
“I am an organization person, I believe in individuals banding together. I don't believe in unilateral actions. Some people don't like organizations. But it is always awesome to me when you can pool a lot of talent and a lot of people who have so many talents. That is when you really can make your program move.”
“So, if I were arrested or if I were killed, then after me the issues that American fears about me wouldn't exist anymore - and I couldn't tell you what those issues are”

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