#boo

My mother used to take my brother and me to get any books we wanted, but they were second hand books published in the '30s and '40s. I liked scary books. ↗

— Alejandro Amenabar

#books #brother #get #hand #i

And it's interesting, when you look at the predictions made during the peak of the boom in the 1990s, about e-commerce, or internet traffic, or broadband adoption, or internet advertising, they were all right - they were just wrong in time. ↗

— Chris Anderson

#adoption #advertising #boom #broadband #during

We have to have a way of dealing with this that engenders confidence, trust, gives us every chance of getting the right outcome and boosts both sustainability and economic return at the same time. ↗

— John Anderson

#both #chance #confidence #dealing #economic

Each book will have a lot of cliffhangers, because I like that. ↗

— Kevin J. Anderson

#book #each #i #like #lot

When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

#because #becomes #book #french #goes

As for collaboration - I have done a lot, 26 books, and found publishers increasingly resistive to them. It's not that the books are bad; editors won't even read them. ↗

— Piers Anthony

#books #collaboration #done #editors #even

Beware of the person of one book. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#book #person

I don't enjoy the boo scare when you're watching a movie and then suddenly there's a big shark on the screen. The only thing they're doing is catching you off guard. ↗

— Sergio Aragones

#boo #catching #doing #enjoy #guard

We did like 12 shows, then we did the entire Ozzfest with the first half completely booked; then we did the second half with a couple days off here and there. ↗

— Tom Araya

#completely #couple #days #did #entire

People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book. ↗

— Simon Armitage

#example #feel #for example #like #people