Quotes about book
book history oracles
The student is to read history actively and not passively; to esteem his own life the text, and books the commentary. Thus compelled, the muse of history will utter oracles as never to those who do not respect themselves. Ralph Waldo Emerson
book retrospect hours
Some of the sweetest hours in life, in retrospect will be found to have been spent with books.
book reputation written
No book was ever written down by any but itself.
book years three
The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are, --/ Never read a book that is not a year old./ Never read any but the famed books./ Never read any but what you like.
book writing mood
Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.
book perception moral
The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour.
book prose
Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose.
book judging creative
It is true that the discerning intellect of the world is always much in advance of the creative, so that there are competent judges of the best book, and few writers of the best books.
book writing men
Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.
book writing men
But there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on our population where all the millions read and write ? It is the joy of nations that man can communicate all his thoughts, discoveries and virtues to records that may last for centuries.
book years drunk
It happens to us once or twice in a lifetime to be drunk with some book which probably has some extraordinary relative power to intoxicate us and none other; and having exhausted that cup of enchantment we go groping in libraries all our years afterwards in the hope of being in Paradise again.
book reading beer
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
book smell insects
My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects.
book eye acquire
What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.
book world censorship
Every burned book enlightens the world.
book fate destiny
The book of nature is the book of fate. She turns the gigantic pages, leaf after leaf never returning one.
book thinking years
I can tell you that my contribution based on my interpretation of the book is unchanged. The other things, in terms of doing the research and following the trail of it, were probably pretty similar to what I would have done then. I think that what makes me celebrate that it took the 10 years is the various other people and contributors that I ended up having on board. Sean Penn
book apologizing comic
Form and content must never apologize for each other. Scott McCloud
book ideas giving
The idea that comics stores, distributors and publishers simply 'give the customers what they want' is nonsense. What the customers wanted they didn't get - and they left.
book ifs has-beens
I wouldn't necessarily have been making books about how to make comics if I'd really felt I knew how to make comics.
book average dollars
Comic book readers are just as abandoned by the corporate system as the creators, despite the importance supposedly given their hard-earned dollars. The average comics shop can offer only a tiny fraction of an industrywide selection that is itself extremely limited in scope. And even when readers know exactly what they want, the search can be maddeningly futile.
book people want
To book commercials, you do something to get to a callback, and once you get to the callback, you've got three minutes to get the people to want to hang out with you for a day. Scoot McNairy
book thinking stories
I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply "there is a book. Scarlett Thomas
book character men
I think I'm up for not trying to play a literary heroine. I think I'd rather just do someone that has just been created in a script, rather than in a book that everyone knows and loves. The difficulty with it and the reason these characters are so loved is that every woman and man that reads it understands it in a different way. They're so relatable, but different aspects will be drawn from different people. Lily James
book character writing
Usually, the creating of the book happens while I'm writing the book. I start with Chapter One, with a few ideas and a handful of characters, and the book grows from there. Lily King
book television-watching tvs
If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed. Lily Tomlin
book world given
There are no books in this world that everybody must read, but only books that a person must read at a certain time in a given place under given circumstances and at a given period of his life. Lin Yutang
book writing judging
She can't even chew gum and walk in a straight line, let alone write a book. Liam Gallagher
book show-me shows
There's no rules. Show me the rule book.
book reading atheism
I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism. Liam Neeson
book watches littles
You might have a favorite book or film, but you can only watch or read it so many times before you have to let it sit and then go back and realize it's your favorite still. At some point everything gets a little stale and you have to step away from it. Les Claypool
book careers knowing
Meadowlark Lemon's book Trust Your Next Shot is written by a remarkable person. I have had the pleasure of knowing Meadowlark for quite some time. He has given back to his community quite generously in addition to serving as an outstanding role model for young people. Meadowlark's career has allowed him to touch people's lives everywhere and I am so proud to be his friend. God has certainly touched his life. Lenny Wilkens
book games ideas
I had no idea 'The Hunger Games' was so big. I didn't even know the book. I had been living under my own rock. Lenny Kravitz