Will Ferrell Quotes

I'm the minority in my house sometimes. My wife is Swedish, and we go to Sweden and everyone is rattling off in Swedish. It's like, 'OK, I can just read a book.'

Will Ferrell

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• I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Book
  • Like
  • Princess

• I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope, if you ramble off... As my friend Julius Lester says, 'A picture book is the essence of an experience.'

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Book

• It's easier to release an ebook than a print book.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Book
  • Easier
  • Print

• I'm somebody who plays the piano... sometimes.

  

  Harold Budd
  • Sometimes
  • Piano
  • Somebody

• Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Book
  • Universe
  • Language

• I'm not a fan of self-help books - how can something be 'self-help' if the book itself is purportedly helping you?

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Book
  • Help
  • You

• Every burned book enlightens the world.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Book
  • Burned

• Now, I'll tell you something that might interest you. Casino Royale was the first Bond book that Ian Fleming ever wrote. And he couldn't get anybody to touch it, to publish it - he couldn't do anything about it at all. Nobody wanted to know.

  

  Val Guest
  • Book
  • Know
  • Bond

• I did a book event with a former colleague, Bob Bauer, and was so relieved that he said I got all the CIA stuff right.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Book
  • Said
  • Event

• The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Important
  • Book
  • Earth

• Don't hire anyone - no matter what they offer - who promises you they'll sell 'X' copies of your book. Every book is different. The best any marketing company or PR firm can do for your book is make potential readers aware of it.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Different
  • Book
  • Best

• Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Book

• Why then, if these books for children must be retained, as they will be, should not the bible regain the place it once held as a school book ? Its morals are pure, its examples captivating and noble. The reverence for the sacred book, that is thus early impressed, lasts long; and, probably, if not impressed in infancy, never takes firm hold of the mind.

  

  Fisher Ames
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Children

• Generally, if you preface an interview request with, 'I'm an author writing a book,' for some reason, that seems to open a lot of doors.

  

  James Rollins
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Author

• Whenever I start a book, I swear it's going to be a short one. But then it's, 'Who was his grandfather? And how did he get there in the first place? And what kind of animals is he chasing?'

  

  James A. Michener
  • Book

• I'm not a great reader, believe it or not. It's not the vocabulary - my father made me read the dictionary when I was little - but my attention span is poor. Takes me months to read one book.

  

  David Robinson The Cars
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Book

• I'm a big comic book guy.

  

  J. R. Ramirez
  • Book
  • Guy

• I try to create a challenge for myself in each book. And sometimes, believe me, I just kick myself afterwards, and say, 'Why on earth did you ever attempt this, you idiot!' But I'm always better for the experience.

  

  Elizabeth George
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Experience

• Characters in a book are very much like personalities divvied up within a family. In the end, it all averages out to a sort of overall averageness.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Up
  • Family
  • Book

• I'm quite proud of what I anticipated about reality television from my books in the early '90s, which I based on the early seasons of 'Cops' and on the amazing stuff I had read about happening on Japanese shows and the British 'Big Brother'.

  

  William Gibson
  • Book
  • Reality
  • Proud

• There is never a sickness Jesus cannot heal and never a disease Jesus cannot cure. To God's power, nothing is impossible!

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • God
  • Power
  • Jesus

• It's been great to travel because I really enjoyed being 'Elektra', so it's not a problem talking about it.

  

  Elodie Yung
  • Great
  • Travel

• For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and behaving like mere men?

  

  Bob Sorge
  • Men
  • Divisions
  • Behaving

• I'm the minority in my house sometimes. My wife is Swedish, and we go to Sweden and everyone is rattling off in Swedish. It's like, 'OK, I can just read a book.'

  

  Will Ferrell
  • Book
  • Sometimes
  • Minorities