Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys.
Hamid Gul is an actor who is definitely not in our good books. Hamid Gul is somebody who was never appreciated by our government.
The teachers liked me. In grade school, they make you copy pictures from books. I think the first one was Robert Louis Stevenson.
I'm in a comic book fan. I have long boxes at home. I'm a comic book collector; I'm not joking. It's just the coolest thing ever.
In France I'm very private, I don't like talking about my life, and I imagined that people would think that I'm now an open book.
I like Jo Nesbo and Hakan Nesser. There are so many good books in the world. I don't want to spend time reading bad crime novels.
Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.
I thought I had a great opportunity when I started doing my comic book in 1972. I thought there was so much territory to work in.
No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop your books and run like hell
I've been reading a lot of books on history, and watching a lot of educational TV. Wikipedia too, even though it is not reliable.
There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.
I am at a loss to reconcile the expensive and glossy production values of this book with the breathtaking inanity of the content.
I don't like my books being defined by their "about"-ness. So now the subtitle has just become a kind of strap-line on the cover.
To some people, the fact that I am not married, or don't have children, would be the reason I have written a book on punctuation.
It doesn't really matter what "genre" your book is. What matters is that it's a good book of its kind. Whatever that kind may be.
Being a man of faith, what was so interesting to me was the subject, which started, by the way, with Anne Rice's wonderful books.
The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me.
As a child, we couldn't afford holidays overseas, so instead I travelled through books. I was inspired by Dr Dolittle and Tarzan.
I'm a geek of all general types. I like a little bit of everything, I love comic books, I love pro-wrestling, I love video games.
I'm reading a manuscript by Rodney Jones, "Village Prodigies",it's one of the best contemporary poetry books I've ever read ever.
I don't really read children's books or deal with children's books, so I don't have any relationship with them other than my own.
If only they would all just leave me alone with my books and my letters, I would be content to let life, and the world pass me by
The Koran is a fascist book which incites violence. That is why this book, just like [Adolf Hitler's] Mein Kampf, must be banned.
Books and teachers are always "right", and we learn only from them, not from any other resource in the room, such as our friends.
She would bring you some great book because she was a book matchmaker, because she loved books the way other girls loved clothes.
I think we are very environmental people. We need to be supported environmentally. Books very much have that imprint on the mind.
We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.
I accumulated in those years so fine a surplus in the Book of Observance that I have been drawing confidently upon it ever since.
One of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made the book yours.
People have given me classified information, but always with the disclaimer 'This can never end up in a book.' And it never does.
I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book.
I love it when people ask who my influences are... or what my favorite part of my last book was... or the last great book I read.
I'm a better writer now because I've worked very hard at getting better. My long-range goal will always be to write better books.
Putting a computer in front of a child and expecting it to teach him is like putting a book under his pillow, only more expensive
Do not, do not, do not books for ever hammer at people like perpetual bells? When, between two books, silent sky appears: be glad
A book's alright when the weather's foul and there's nothing else to do, but why sit and read when the wind is calling your name?
I've always read books and loved human behavior since I was ten or twelve years old. Maybe even that's why I wanted to do comedy.
The books from which [children] learn must reflect movement and change and all of the infinite possibilities of minds at liberty.
His books are kept on freestanding shelves hung at different angles on a sea-green wall. They defy gravity, as good books should.
I see so many tattoos of my stuff on people - tattoos of my book covers, tattoos of quotes . . . it's kind of daunting sometimes.
There weren't too many books featuring other cultures and countries when I was growing up as an immigrant kid here in the States.
If you ever go home with somebody and they don't have books in their house, don't sleep with them. I think that's very important.
I've always said that Watership Down is not a book for children. I say: it's a book, and anyone who wants to read it can read it.
"Cracking the Ice" scores the literary equivalent of a hat-trick: funny, harrowing and finally, heartfelt. This book is a winner.
The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can't think of one single book that changed my life in any way.
I have always loved reading. Ever since I was a young girl I had a book by my bed and would get lost in the world of make believe.
I don't know if I officially proofread my father's book, but I read it. I did get some conception of grammar in general from that.
It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000.
According to a Wall Street Journal article some 59 percent of Americans don t own a single book. Not a cookbook or even the Bible.