Quotes about boo
book inspiration sleep
What is indispensable to inspiration? ...sound sleep and the provocation of a good book or a companion. Ralph Waldo Emerson
book tongue world
This book of Montaigne the world has endorsed by translating it into all tongues.
book men action
Man's actions are the picture book of his creeds.
book writing character
All writing is by the grace of God. People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad. In these sentences that you show me, I can find no beauty, for I see death in every clause and every word. There is a fossil or a mummy character which pervades this book. The best sepulchers, the vastest catacombs, Thebes and Cairo, Pyramids, are sepulchers to me. I like gardens and nurseries. Give me initiative, spermatic, prophesying, man-making words.
book college thinking
The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.
book reading men
Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence, the book-learned class, who value books, as such; not as related to nature and the human constitution, but as making a sort of Third Estate with the world and the soul. Hence, the restorers of readings, the emendators, the bibliomaniacs of all degrees.
book men lovers
We expect a great man to be a good reader.
book lovers forget
Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book.
book civilization delight
In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.
book men personality
Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise.
book men judging
Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.
book names pages
The book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page.
book elements mouths
It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a companion than dully from a book.
book thinking done
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.
book reading raw-materials
Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestion, the raw material of possible poems and histories.
book reading four
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.
book eye men
A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes, by his distastes, by the stories he tells, by his gait, by the notion of his eye, by the look of his house, of his chamber; for nothing on earth is solitary but every thing hath affinities infinite.
book reading blood
Let us answer a book of ink with a book of flesh and blood.
book reading writing
There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.
book school boys
A collector recently bought at public auction, in London, for one hundred and fifty-seven guineas, an autograph of Shakespeare; but for nothing a school-boy can read Hamlet and can detect secrets of highest concernment yet unpublished therein.
book hands broken
In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue.
book inspire used
Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.
book years reading-books
Never read a book that is not a year old.
book reading ears
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
book years long
When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.
book reading heart
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart.
book parent passionate
There are books . . . which rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences.
book house atheism
Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.
book men house
Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
book ideas giving
I like to have books around to give me ideas-to get the verbal part of my brain to start working. Sean Lennon
book home gun
The rules that have been imposed, the rules that are already on the books haven't been effective. If you look at the places where the strictest gun control measures, whether it be California, Los Angeles, Barack Obama's home state in Chicago, they're a disaster, and they have the greatest rules in the world. Sean Hannity
book character alive
We're at a point nowhere it has to change. We have characters that are not alive that are alive in the book. We have characters that never appeared in the book. We have a lot of events that didn't quite happen the same way in the book. But there's so much in the book, stuff we've passed in the timeline that I really thought was awesome, that I really wanted to get to. Scott M. Gimple
book walking-dead zombie
What I love about 'The Walking Dead' is it's a human story, which is to me what makes the comic book so good, but once you jump from the pages of the book to the screen, the gore and the zombies have to look great. Scott Ian