there won't be any pain, he promised. Only an eternity together. Come back to me. (Stanton, book #5)
The original theme of 'Beauty and the Beast' is don't judge a book by its cover. Love what's inside.
When you read the sacred Scriptures, or any other book, never think how you read, but what you read.
I think everyone should sit down and write a book. It's a lot like therapy but a lot less expensive.
We are born to die tomorrow, and yet through books we are able to know events of thousands of years.
Some books makes me want to go adventuring, others make me feel that they have saved me the trouble.
When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books.
Years ago on the set of Gunsmoke I read the book The Holy Science. Since then I have not eaten meat.
I do a lot of books on tape for Beverly Cleary, and another 'Smurfs' shout-out for that demographic.
I'm a books person. Yes, I have a Kindle. I used it for an hour and a half and put it in the closet.
Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.
A good picture book can almost be whistled. ... All have their own melodies behind the storytelling.
I've never yet read a review of one of my own books that I couldn't have written much better myself.
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
At home I've got 1,500 cook books and the spines have all gone, the pages are all torn - it's chaos.
I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.
Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
I think it's hard to write a book about happiness because fiction requires tension and complication.
I was going to write a book one day and I actually did. To have it is a major accomplishment for me.
I loved the theatre-my dad gave me many plays and books to read. The dramatic form just spoke to me.
Read books, listen to tapes, attend seminars-they are decades of wisdom reduced to invaluable hours.
Confucianism is all about tempering your instincts with intellectual discipline, with book learning.
Some books are drenchèd sandsOn which a great soul's wealth lies all in heaps,Like a wrecked argosy.
The internet creates more of an appetite for media - it doesn't replace physical books, radio or TV.
The book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves.
I'm more interested in books than people, and I always expect everybody else to be, but they're not.
Rough board shelves hold a number of books, without which some of the evenings would be long indeed.
The Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible.
Read (this book), smile, enjoy, and if you happen to learn something along the way, don't get upset.
I love “The Autobiography of Malcolm X.” That was like the only black book we read in high school...
A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books.
My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.
Books are messengers of freedom. They can be hidden under a mattress or smuggled into slave nations.
But I like my madness. There is a thrill in it unknown to such sanity as yours. ~ Book 1, Chapter 9.
There's not a day that I don't work on vocals, have vocal coaches, go to acting classes, read books.
Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. . . I just wish some of them were harder to figure out.
I was about 13, in some ways, when I wrote the first book. Approximately 18 when I wrote the second.
Books, in the plural lose their solidity of substance and become a gas, filling all available space.
I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book.
Therefore we say that a lying Spirit has been in the mouth of the writers of the books of the Bible.
I try hard and aim big. People can hate or love my books but they can never accuse me of not trying.
Nothing is as dangerous for the state as those who would govern kingdoms with maxims found in books.
It didn’t matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home.
Van Ritzen is one of the funniest humans I've ever met. Read her book, laugh, lather, rinse, repeat.
The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book.
While writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration.
I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.