Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Treat your past as a book that you learn from instead of a hammer that you beat yourself up about.
Mathematics speaks to the transcendental, as does this extraordinary friendship. A beautiful book!
A biggest mistake I made when I started doing a talk show was I thought you had to read the books.
The most difficult book I have ever read was a manual on the use of iron bangles by A.J. Thompson.
When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum.
How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy! Pendennis. Book ii. Chap. xxxi.
If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
Don't worry whether or not I am now happy. Today is only chapter one, we have yet to write a book.
A great library is one nobody notices because it is always there, and always has what people need.
I live for books that produce a mood of gathering creepy fascination, a true descent in the Weird.
At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
If you have a question about anything, the answer can be found in a book somewhere in the library.
But I like all the books. You've got to read them all to get the complete Harry Potter experience.
Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" He laughed. "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course.
When a literary person's exhaustive work is over, the last thing he wishes to do is to talk books.
At this very moment I'm behind on a compilation that Slave Labor is doing for Free Comic Book Day.
Books were to my family's house like beds and stoves, the most basic items, necessary for survival
Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.
Every jacket I make has interior pockets big enough to store a book and a sandwich and a passport.
I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing.
The Summer Book is beautiful and warm, with the kind of wisdom we can adapt to our everyday lives.
You can love more than one person at a time, and I don't give a damn what the self-help books say.
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
I want to check the record books and see how many fathers and daughters have won Grammys together.
Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy.
Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.
How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books!
Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart.
I think if you can take something out and it doesn't change the book, it doesn't need to be there.
The minutes ticked past. This is why peelers need a book. A wee paperback to stick in your pocket.
It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent - it took me that long to start writing good.
When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
Reading the [The Verso Book of Dissent] is like encountering the best version of our angry selves.
Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.
Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.
My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid.
I’d much rather pretend I’m somewhere else, and any time I open the pages of a book, that happens.
As for the largest-hearted of us, what is the word we write most often in our cheque-books? "Self.
For as spiritual as some people think my books are, I've never really dealt with religious things.
I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines
Worthy books Are not companions – they are solitudes: We lose ourselves in them and all our cares.
The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
As we expand our knowledge of good books, we shrink the circle of men whose company we appreciate.
The reading of books, what is it but conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all countries.
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
I've come to the conclusion that you can't write scary books unless you're easily scared yourself.
Librarians lend people books from the library. The best librarians are children's book librarians.
There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?
He had been so busy getting away from the library, he hadn't paid attention to where he was going.
I read much more that I do anything else. I don't watch too much television, because I like books.