Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book.
I am stretching out this volume, since those German dogs estimate the value of books by their cubic contents.
It is written in the Jewish law book, the Talmud, that only the Jew is human, that Gentiles are only animals.
I've been a big music guy for a long time and a lot of my books have music in them so I like music analogies.
Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can.
The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women.
Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
When I was a kid, I was a big science fiction fan, but current horror books were harder to get your hands on.
Now I am as big of an [ Georgia] O'Keeffe admirer as Ivy [Wilkes] is, but that came through writing the book.
The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.
I think the people who would be the least interested in my work would be people who read lots of comic books.
In books they don't have deleted scenes, like with DVDs. You could have your deleted scene in a book as well!
I sip the Dom P watching Gandhi til I'm charged - writing in my book of rhymes, all the words past the margin
It's like reading a book about a life that you will never occupy, but that's the beauty of being transported.
I walked out of the movie "Lincoln" and bought the book [of Doris Kearns Goodwin] at the bookstore next door.
The Chicken Soup for the Soul books are the result of over 20 years of teaching seminars and giving speeches.
I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.
Anything that propels me to create, like [my book, Straight Walk]. It kept me inspired for almost four years.
I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
My Sister Rosa was bumped from the schedule. None of my books has ever been bumped before. It freaked me out.
Every play is so important. It's a record of what life was like at the time you wrote that play or that book.
People have no memory of phone numbers now because of the cell phone - their address book is in a cell phone.
Oh, filmmakers, please don't take my soft book and turn it into a horror, or take my horror and make it soft.
A street that you have never visited is a book that you have never read! You never know what you are missing!
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
You make learning fun. Like a children’s book or after school special. Tell me about your…um, Athenian women.
'The Jungle Book.' It's one of the best animated films ever. I saw it when I was small at a cinema in Tehran.
Reality Hunger is more than thought-provoking; it's one of the most beautiful books I've read in a long time.
If you're going to pick a book and you want to base a system of government around it, why not 'Harry Potter?'
I'm not being disrespectful of the medium; it's just not as important as the work that I actually do [books].
Book lovers are engaged with writers in a private communion that occurs in some vaporous cenacle of the mind.
A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.
Everything that is printed and bound in a book contains some echo at least of the best that is in literature.
I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind.
The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.
My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love.
I mean, if someone asked for my birth certificate, I'd get my baby book and hand it out and say 'Here it is.'
...next to the pleasure of reading a favourite fishing book comes that of persuading a friend to read it too.
Other books we may read and criticise. To the Scriptures we must bow the entire soul, with all its faculties.
What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?
If I have the option, I always read the paper or a book or something I can touch and destroy in my own hands.
He didn't just occupy space; he saturated it. The room had been full of books before, now it was full of him.
I don't think there's a difference between writing for a newspaper or magazine and doing a chapter in a book.
'The Great Gatsby' is a book I have read a few times, and it seems to get heavier every time I come to visit.
What did a person need to survive? Food. Water. Shelter. Warmth in cold weather. And something else... books.
If I were a cassowary On the plains of Timbuctoo, I would eat a missionary, Cassock, band, and hymn-book too.
When I did start writing books, I didn't realize it, but the girls that grew up watching the show became moms.
I tend to pull nuggets out of many books - rather than having a handful of books that serve as guiding lights.
A true martial artist, in my books anyways, is someone who is going to do the right thing and lead by example.
The only way to write a great book is to write it with the eyes of a child who sees things for the first time.