Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more.
What shall we do with...the Jews?...I advise that all their prayer books and Talmudic writings...are to be taken from them.
Research is a lifelong occupation so it's hard to factor it in, but I reckon most books take 5 months from start to finish.
I was not a giant comic book fan as a kid, but to the extent that I did read comics, Spider-Man was always my favorite guy.
After all, I believe it is the style of thought entirely, and the style of expression, which makes the difference in books.
Geek and Sundry has an eclectic line-up of shows all targeted around things I love: Comics, Tabletop Games, Books and more.
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.
Revolution in America begins in books and music, then waits for political operatives to 'implement changes after the fact.'
We would do well to ask ourselves the kind of fundamental questions posed by [Buruma's] erudite and thought-provoking book.
If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs.
Reading a book you are not enjoying is a torture not to be undertaken without a reward. I leave plays at the interval, too!
Out of respect to writers, you have to read the book in the way in which the author visualised it going out into the world.
The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.
It's amazing that a man who is dead can talk to people through these pages. As long as this books survives, his ideas live.
I was sitting in the toilet and I was by myself. I was tired of playing with the roller, so I said I'd better write a book.
Few books today are forgivable. Black on canvas, silence on the screen, an empty white sheet of paper are perhaps feasible.
Dullard: Someone who looks up a thing in the encyclopedia, turns directly to the entry, reads it, and then closes the book.
The tremendous efficiency and economy of the book has once again demonstrated itself. It's the world's most patient medium.
There's no more to Holden Caulfield. Read the book again. It's all there. Holden Caulfield is only a frozen moment in time.
With the use of psychedelics, it was all based around the Tibetan Book of the Dead, using them to experience enlightenment.
I still read quite a few printed books, but if something is available in digital format I do not print it before I read it.
We all have life-defining moments. They are like open-book tests, but we don't know we have been examined until it is over.
He would go somewhere no one knew him, and he would sit in a library all day and read books and listen to people breathing.
It is a terrible thing for an author to have a lot of people running about his book without any invitation from him at all.
I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels
I love watching the Bond movies obviously and I grew up reading the books as a kid. I've always loved them because of that.
When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your whole life does.
I like to pretend that each book is my first one and last one, because it takes a tremendous amount of energy to do a book.
You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.
Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
Had I not had children of my own, I would have never written books for children, nor would I have been capable of doing so.
Maurice Sendak is the daddy of them all when it comes to picture books - the words, the rhythm, the psychology, the design.
I have been photographing people dancing for 20 or 30 years now, and I think I will eventually do a book of dancing photos.
The content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future and change lives.
Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters.
Nico was wrong. The Book of Fate isn't already written. It's written every day. Some scars never heal. Then again, some do.
I can't believe there will ever be a time when the book is truly obsolete. It is the perfect technology and feeds the soul.
The physics of undergraduate text-books is 90% true; the contents of the primary research journals of physics is 90% false.
Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer.
The study of maps and the perusal of travel books aroused in me a secret fascination that was at times almost irresistible.
Only what touches us closely preoccupies us. We prepare in solitude to face it. (The Little Book of Unsuspected Subversion)
Sometimes I'll ask the book writer to write a monologue, not to be performed, just as if they were notes for the character.
I am influenced by books which dont have their eye on the endgame, but which try to be entertaining on each and every page.
Nice tights," I snorted. Or I tried to snort, anyway. I'm not exactly sure how, though people in books are always doing it.
I'd like to thank readers. Every time you open a book, it is a strike against ignorance. Unless you're reading Sarah Palin.
I want to write books that can be read a hundred years from now, and readers wouldn't be bogged down by irrelevant details.
If I can write a book that will help the world make a little more sense to a teen, then that's why I was put on the planet.
And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
We are free to burn the Qur’an or any other book, and to criticize Muhammad or any other human being. Let no one forget it.
Talking, is a digestive process which is absolutely essential to the mental constitution of the man who devours many books.