Quotes about book
book thank-god chapters
I read one chapter of a book and put it down. Thank God for Kindle. Jimmy Fallon
book thinking years
In her new book, Sarah Palin says she once gave up chocolate for an entire year just to prove she could do it. Still think she's not qualified to be President?
book writing one-day
I jotted down Oslo After Death. This would be a great title for a book, I thought. That is what I do sometimes. I jot down titles for books that I one day intend to write. John Corey Whaley
book eye promise
God, he thought, her eyes are so bright, flashing, deep, full of promise, all those things eyes are in books but never are in life, and she was his. John Crowley
book journey glue
Learning to decipher words had only added to the pleasures of holding spines and turning pages, measuring the journey to the end with a thumb-riffle, poring over frontispieces. Books! Opening with a crackle of old glue, releasing perfume; closing with a solid thump.
book reading doe
How much there is in books that one does not want to know, that it would be a mere weariness and burden to the spirit to know. John Burroughs
book names three
If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature....
book blessing may
Now may this little Book a blessing be To those that love this little Book, and me: And may its Buyer have no cause to say, His money is but lost, or thrown away. John Bunyan
book heart heaven
I seek a place that can never be destroyed, one that is pure, and that fadeth not away, and it is laid up in heaven, and safe there, to be given, at the time appointed, to them that seek it with all their heart. Read it so, if you will, in my book.
book men hands
I saw a man clothed with rags . . . a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back.
book heart hands
The God in whose hands are all our days and ways, did cast into my hand one day a book of Martin Luthers; it was his Comment on Galatians . . . . I found my condition in his experience so largely and profoundly handled, as if his book had been written out of my heart . . . . I do prefer this book of Martin Luther upon the Galatians, excepting the Holy Bible, before all the books that ever I have seen, as most fit for a wounded conscience.
book differences giving
John Bunyan, author of the classic book the Pilgrim’s Progress, said “You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who cannot pay you back.” Make a decision that you will live to give. Be on the lookout each day for somebody you can bless. Don’t’ live for yourself; learn to give yourself away, and your life will make a difference. Joel Osteen
book blessed mind
I don't mind saying, you know, that I don't take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books.
book thinking way
Sometimes when I'm really enjoying a book, I'll read a sentence or paragraph and just think - how can someone's head be wired in such a way that they'd come up with that? Joe Abercrombie
book stories firsts
'The Blade Itself' was my first book. Probably I should've tried a few short stories first, but for some reason I decided to begin with Everest.
book character thinking
I think the further away you get from completing a book, the more responses you see to it from readers, the more your own tastes and opinions shift and the more you start to see things you could have written differently in the detail, or done differently on the broader scale of plot and character.
book coffee people
I didn't study anything really. I didn't learn out of the books because I couldn't read music very well, so it is what they say it is - you learn from other people. And my cohorts and I would sneak around the coffee shops and hear stuff we wanted to learn, and then you ask whoever was playing it to teach you. Joan Baez
book thinking generations
And I think of that again as I've written in several of my beauty books, a lot of health comes from the proper eating habits, which are something that - you know, I come from a generation that wasn't - didn't have a lot of food. Joan Collins
book two years
And then I wrote my first autobiography when I - well, it was 23 years ago. And since then I've written about one book every two years.
book opportunity careers
Dynasty was the opportunity to take charge of my career rather than waiting around like a library book waiting to be loaned out.
book four wells
Well I've written four beauty books as well.
book people atmosphere
From the Olympian heights of an executive suite, in an atmosphere where your success is judged by the extent to which you can maximise profits, the overwhelming tendency must be to see people as units of production, as indices in your accountants' books. Jimmy Reid
book reading ideas
You go into the office and take a book or two from the shelves. You read a few lines, like your life depended on reading 'em right. But you know your life doesn't depend on anything that makes sense, and you wonder where in the hell you got the idea it did; and you begin to get sore. Jim Thompson
book study environment
Study nature not books Louis Agassiz
book blue gathering
Gathering Blue' was a separate book. I wanted to explore what a society might become after a catastrophic world event. Only at the end did I realize I could make it connect to 'The Giver. Lois Lowry
book believe kids
I think 'The Giver' is such a moral book, so filled with important truths, that I couldn't believe anyone would want to suppress it, to keep it from kids.
book adjectives found
Once she read a book but found it distasteful because it contained adjectives.
book tuna-fish giving
You eat canned tuna fish and you absorb protein. Then, if you're lucky, someone give you Dover Sole and you experience nourishment. It's the same with books.
book thinking action
I think I've written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I'm an introspective person.
book thinking gone
I think of every book as a single entity, and some have later gone on to become a series, often at the request of readers.
book important want
So many of my books, I don't want to say they have messages, but they have important things to say.
book kids writing
I don't for one second think about the possibility of censorship when I am writing a new book. I know I am a person who cares about kids and who cares about truth and I am guided by my own instincts, and trust them.
book knowing feelings
I turn to books for a feeling of companionship: for somebody knowing what I have known.