Author: Jeff Parietti
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780062735072
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
As evidenced by the phenomenal success of the Dilbert books, Americans love to laugh at the foibles of the business world. With The Book of Truly Stupid Business Quotes, they can do just that. Packed with hundreds of examples of unintentional witticisms by the movers and shakers of the corporate sphere, it includes such gems as: "I'd Say 'It's a Buttmaster, Your Holiness.'" -- Suzanne Somers on how she would respond if the Pope asked her the name of the exercise apparatus she promotes "Over a long weekend, I could teach my dog to be an investment banker." -- Herbert Allen, president of Allen & Company, Inc., an investment banking firm "My only complaint about having a father in fashion is that every time I'm about to go to bed with a guy, I have to look at my dad's name all over his underwear." -- Marci Klein, daughter of Calvin Klein. "I go to bed happy at night knowing that hair is growing on the faces of billions of males and on women's legs around the world while I sleep. It's more fun than counting sheep." -- Warren Buffett, whose Berkshire Hathaway owns about 10% of the stock of The Gillette Company
The Book of Truly Stupid Business Quotes
Author: Jeff Parietti
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780062735072
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
As evidenced by the phenomenal success of the Dilbert books, Americans love to laugh at the foibles of the business world. With The Book of Truly Stupid Business Quotes, they can do just that. Packed with hundreds of examples of unintentional witticisms by the movers and shakers of the corporate sphere, it includes such gems as: "I'd Say 'It's a Buttmaster, Your Holiness.'" -- Suzanne Somers on how she would respond if the Pope asked her the name of the exercise apparatus she promotes "Over a long weekend, I could teach my dog to be an investment banker." -- Herbert Allen, president of Allen & Company, Inc., an investment banking firm "My only complaint about having a father in fashion is that every time I'm about to go to bed with a guy, I have to look at my dad's name all over his underwear." -- Marci Klein, daughter of Calvin Klein. "I go to bed happy at night knowing that hair is growing on the faces of billions of males and on women's legs around the world while I sleep. It's more fun than counting sheep." -- Warren Buffett, whose Berkshire Hathaway owns about 10% of the stock of The Gillette Company
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780062735072
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
As evidenced by the phenomenal success of the Dilbert books, Americans love to laugh at the foibles of the business world. With The Book of Truly Stupid Business Quotes, they can do just that. Packed with hundreds of examples of unintentional witticisms by the movers and shakers of the corporate sphere, it includes such gems as: "I'd Say 'It's a Buttmaster, Your Holiness.'" -- Suzanne Somers on how she would respond if the Pope asked her the name of the exercise apparatus she promotes "Over a long weekend, I could teach my dog to be an investment banker." -- Herbert Allen, president of Allen & Company, Inc., an investment banking firm "My only complaint about having a father in fashion is that every time I'm about to go to bed with a guy, I have to look at my dad's name all over his underwear." -- Marci Klein, daughter of Calvin Klein. "I go to bed happy at night knowing that hair is growing on the faces of billions of males and on women's legs around the world while I sleep. It's more fun than counting sheep." -- Warren Buffett, whose Berkshire Hathaway owns about 10% of the stock of The Gillette Company
The Book of Best Sports Quotes
Author: M. Prefontaine
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781518701375
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
This is a book for those who love sport and all that goes with it. Most of us have played sports where people have said something amusing, inspirational or just exquisitely stupid. It is a part of the enjoyment of sports and those experiences are shared with team mates and competitors. This is a collection of some of the best quotes from sports stars, commentators and those who love sports. "Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible." -Frank L. Gaines (1921 - 2012)
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781518701375
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
This is a book for those who love sport and all that goes with it. Most of us have played sports where people have said something amusing, inspirational or just exquisitely stupid. It is a part of the enjoyment of sports and those experiences are shared with team mates and competitors. This is a collection of some of the best quotes from sports stars, commentators and those who love sports. "Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible." -Frank L. Gaines (1921 - 2012)
The Idiot
Author: Elif Batuman
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 014311106X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book • Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction • Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction “Easily the funniest book I’ve read this year.” —GQ “Masterly funny debut novel . . . Erudite but never pretentious, The Idiot will make you crave more books by Batuman.” —Sloane Crosley, Vanity Fair A portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself. The year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of, befriends her charismatic and worldly Serbian classmate, Svetlana, and, almost by accident, begins corresponding with Ivan, an older mathematics student from Hungary. Selin may have barely spoken to Ivan, but with each email they exchange, the act of writing seems to take on new and increasingly mysterious meanings. At the end of the school year, Ivan goes to Budapest for the summer, and Selin heads to the Hungarian countryside, to teach English in a program run by one of Ivan's friends. On the way, she spends two weeks visiting Paris with Svetlana. Selin's summer in Europe does not resonate with anything she has previously heard about the typical experiences of American college students, or indeed of any other kinds of people. For Selin, this is a journey further inside herself: a coming to grips with the ineffable and exhilarating confusion of first love, and with the growing consciousness that she is doomed to become a writer. With superlative emotional and intellectual sensitivity, mordant wit, and pitch-perfect style, Batuman dramatizes the uncertainty of life on the cusp of adulthood. Her prose is a rare and inimitable combination of tenderness and wisdom; its logic as natural and inscrutable as that of memory itself. The Idiot is a heroic yet self-effacing reckoning with the terror and joy of becoming a person in a world that is as intoxicating as it is disquieting. Batuman's fiction is unguarded against both life's affronts and its beauty--and has at its command the complete range of thinking and feeling which they entail. Named one the best books of the year by Refinery29 • Mashable One • Elle Magazine • The New York Times • Bookpage • Vogue • NPR • Buzzfeed •The Millions
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 014311106X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book • Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction • Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction “Easily the funniest book I’ve read this year.” —GQ “Masterly funny debut novel . . . Erudite but never pretentious, The Idiot will make you crave more books by Batuman.” —Sloane Crosley, Vanity Fair A portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself. The year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of, befriends her charismatic and worldly Serbian classmate, Svetlana, and, almost by accident, begins corresponding with Ivan, an older mathematics student from Hungary. Selin may have barely spoken to Ivan, but with each email they exchange, the act of writing seems to take on new and increasingly mysterious meanings. At the end of the school year, Ivan goes to Budapest for the summer, and Selin heads to the Hungarian countryside, to teach English in a program run by one of Ivan's friends. On the way, she spends two weeks visiting Paris with Svetlana. Selin's summer in Europe does not resonate with anything she has previously heard about the typical experiences of American college students, or indeed of any other kinds of people. For Selin, this is a journey further inside herself: a coming to grips with the ineffable and exhilarating confusion of first love, and with the growing consciousness that she is doomed to become a writer. With superlative emotional and intellectual sensitivity, mordant wit, and pitch-perfect style, Batuman dramatizes the uncertainty of life on the cusp of adulthood. Her prose is a rare and inimitable combination of tenderness and wisdom; its logic as natural and inscrutable as that of memory itself. The Idiot is a heroic yet self-effacing reckoning with the terror and joy of becoming a person in a world that is as intoxicating as it is disquieting. Batuman's fiction is unguarded against both life's affronts and its beauty--and has at its command the complete range of thinking and feeling which they entail. Named one the best books of the year by Refinery29 • Mashable One • Elle Magazine • The New York Times • Bookpage • Vogue • NPR • Buzzfeed •The Millions
Stupid Fast
Author: Geoff Herbach
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1402256302
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Just before his sixteenth birthday, Felton Reinstein has a sudden growth spurt that turns him from a small, jumpy, picked-on boy with the nickname of "Squirrel Nut" to a powerful athlete, leading to new friends, his first love, and the courage to confront his family's past and current problems.
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1402256302
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Just before his sixteenth birthday, Felton Reinstein has a sudden growth spurt that turns him from a small, jumpy, picked-on boy with the nickname of "Squirrel Nut" to a powerful athlete, leading to new friends, his first love, and the courage to confront his family's past and current problems.
The Big Book of Football's Funniest Quotes. [Compiled by Stuart Reeves, Adrian Clarke and Iain Spragg]
Author: Iain Spragg
Publisher: Carlton Publishing Group
ISBN: 9781847323798
Category : Soccer
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Publisher: Carlton Publishing Group
ISBN: 9781847323798
Category : Soccer
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
The Bowler's Holding, the Batsman's Willey
Author: Geoff Tibballs
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446407225
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
'He dribbles a lot and the opposition doesn't like it - you can see it all over their faces' - Ron Atkinson 'Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the city centre' - Oscar Wilde Whether over the moon or sick as a parrot, sportsmen and women can invariably be relied upon to come out with a humorous quote...even if it's not always intentional. The Bowler's Holding, The Batsman's Willey provides the definitive collection of sporting wit, from participants and observers alike. The book covers the full gamut of the sports spectrum and provides over 4,000 side-splittingly funny quotes - some examples of incisive sporting wit, others inadvertent howlers never to be forgotten; ranging from the cutting remarks of Brian Clough and Muhammad Ali to the studied observations of John Arlott and the hilarious gaffes of Murray Walker. The Bowler's Holding, The Batsman's Willey is an absolute must for any sports fan.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446407225
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
'He dribbles a lot and the opposition doesn't like it - you can see it all over their faces' - Ron Atkinson 'Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the city centre' - Oscar Wilde Whether over the moon or sick as a parrot, sportsmen and women can invariably be relied upon to come out with a humorous quote...even if it's not always intentional. The Bowler's Holding, The Batsman's Willey provides the definitive collection of sporting wit, from participants and observers alike. The book covers the full gamut of the sports spectrum and provides over 4,000 side-splittingly funny quotes - some examples of incisive sporting wit, others inadvertent howlers never to be forgotten; ranging from the cutting remarks of Brian Clough and Muhammad Ali to the studied observations of John Arlott and the hilarious gaffes of Murray Walker. The Bowler's Holding, The Batsman's Willey is an absolute must for any sports fan.
It's Kind of a Funny Story
Author: Ned Vizzini
Publisher: Disney Electronic Content
ISBN: 1423141083
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Like many ambitious New York City teenagers, Craig Gilner sees entry into Manhattan's Executive Pre-Professional High School as the ticket to his future. Determined to succeed at life—which means getting into the right high school to get into the right college to get the right job—Craig studies night and day to ace the entrance exam, and does. That's when things start to get crazy. At his new school, Craig realizes that he isn't brilliant compared to the other kids; he's just average, and maybe not even that. He soon sees his once-perfect future crumbling away.
Publisher: Disney Electronic Content
ISBN: 1423141083
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Like many ambitious New York City teenagers, Craig Gilner sees entry into Manhattan's Executive Pre-Professional High School as the ticket to his future. Determined to succeed at life—which means getting into the right high school to get into the right college to get the right job—Craig studies night and day to ace the entrance exam, and does. That's when things start to get crazy. At his new school, Craig realizes that he isn't brilliant compared to the other kids; he's just average, and maybe not even that. He soon sees his once-perfect future crumbling away.
1001 Stupid Sports Quotes
Author: Randy Howe
Publisher: Globe Pequot
ISBN: 9781599210124
Category : Sports
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Entertaining and amazingly supid quotes from the world's best athletes.
Publisher: Globe Pequot
ISBN: 9781599210124
Category : Sports
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Entertaining and amazingly supid quotes from the world's best athletes.
Book of Truly Stupid Sports Quotes
Author: Jeff Parietti
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780062734259
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780062734259
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Notes from a Small Island
Author: Bill Bryson
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062417436
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Before New York Times bestselling author Bill Bryson wrote The Road to Little Dribbling, he took this delightfully irreverent jaunt around the unparalleled floating nation of Great Britain, which has produced zebra crossings, Shakespeare, Twiggie Winkie’s Farm, and places with names like Farleigh Wallop and Titsey.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062417436
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Before New York Times bestselling author Bill Bryson wrote The Road to Little Dribbling, he took this delightfully irreverent jaunt around the unparalleled floating nation of Great Britain, which has produced zebra crossings, Shakespeare, Twiggie Winkie’s Farm, and places with names like Farleigh Wallop and Titsey.