Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
We're seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time - every man doing that which is right in his own eyes.
How much there is in books that one does not want to know, that it would be a mere weariness and burden to the spirit to know.
Things that bring out your emotions are what should be in theaters and in books. That's what art is. It makes you feel things.
Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.
The sentences in the book of providence are sometimes long, and you must read a great way before you understand their meaning.
Don't talk about things you don't like. Talk about music that you love, books that you've read. I put a lot of recipes online.
But it is impossible to enjoy a tennis game, a book, or a conversation unless attention is fully concentrated on the activity.
Please," she whispered as she opened the book, "please get me out of here just for an hour or so, please take me far, far away
Joe Bonomo has written a fine book: a book not only about a band or times passed, but also about the rare virtue of endurance.
The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.
My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?
If I were a better artist, I'd be a painter, and if I were a better writer, I'd write books.. but I'm not, so I draw cartoons!
I have an intimate relationship with books. After all, I take them with me into the bathtub-not an invitation I offer lightly.
Nothing you see on the Internet is mine unless it comes from one of my albums, books, HBO specials, or appeared on my website.
It is no fun at all to have been writing a book for seven or so years, especially when you've never published anything before.
I'd like to do something involving jazz. But books are how I earn my living, and I'd like to stay with the horse I rode in on.
There is nothing wrong with a writer who has a distinct style in book after book, but I am not interested in repeating myself.
You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time.
I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible books.
I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book.
You can't click through a book, you can't hyperlink and jump out of it. It requires a little bit more of a regular engagement.
I would probably have been very content as a scholar to have carried on organising exhibitions and writing books and teaching.
The best book in the world to put into the hands of one who desires to know about Jesus and to be saved is the gospel of John.
It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition.
Having a dog or cat will open your heart. Reading a book will open your mind. Having both a pet and a book... absolute heaven.
Each book needs a good beginning and a good ending. People get pissed off when you don't close things off properly at the end.
Books are a better investment in our future than bullets. Books, not bullets, will pave the path towards peace and prosperity.
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
I have 20 or 30 books completely plotted out in my mind - mysteries, thrillers, horror, romance, science fiction. You name it.
My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.
We're supposed to have guns. It says so in the Bible; and the second greatest book ever written, the Texas State Constitution.
I enjoy the fact that we have these mobile comics now, which are sort of a cross between a comic book and an animated cartoon.
From the beginning. I was a poem-writing child. I wrote little novels in my composition book when I was eight, nine years old.
Books are medicine and you have to take the right medicine that you need at that moment or that day or that time in your life.
I read books that say if you want to keep sex hot you tell a person what you want. How do you tell 'em you want somebody else?
In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.
I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.
A self-help book can't really address a problem unless it's individualized. It's not going to talk about a globalized problem.
Good books that often I would hate to finish because they took me into their lives and let me out of mine, for a while anyway.
I had a book come out several years ago, when there were no blogs. This is a mark to me about how the environment has changed.
It's just a freak of fate that I'm paid to write, not paying to print my own books - but I'd be doing it anyway: it's my life.
One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that are not predictable.
My hope when I wrote the first book was that I would get to do it again. But it was not entirely clear that that would happen.
I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all their books.
When my books were translated, it was always about the characters, because the unique language aspect was lost in translation.
Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author knows.
In his 1930 book, Dirac took for granted that measurements could be made, but was very vague about what was actually involved.
London has always provided the landscape for my imagination. It becomes a character - a living being - within each of my books.
The authors of book reviews would consider themselves dishonored were they to mention, as they should, the subject of the book.