Quotes about book
book reading air
A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing. Georg C. Lichtenberg
book writing play
If it is permissible to write plays that are not intended to be seen, I should like to see who can prevent me from writing a book no one can read.
book common-sense religion
Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.
book abandoned finished
A book is never finished; it's abandoned. Gene Fowler
book space accomplishment
Today, we are on a path of decay. We are seeing the book close on five decades of accomplishment as the leader in human space exploration. Gene Cernan
book writing games
The books I write because I want to read them, the games because I want to play them, and stories I tell because I find them exciting personally. Gary Gygax
book thinking office
I'm not one of those professors whose office is encased floor-to-ceiling with books. By the way, I think academics do this to intimidate their visitors. Gary Hamel
book writing order
In Russia there is an emigration of intelligence: émigrés cross the frontier in order to read and to write good books. But in doing so they contribute to making their fatherland, abandoned by spirit, into the gaping jaws of Asia that would like to swallow our little Europe. Friedrich Nietzsche
book opponents spirit
A book full of brilliance imparts some of it even to its opponents.
book men criticism
We criticize a man or a book most sharply when we sketch out their ideal.
book reading smell
Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them.
book passion boredom
One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom -such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it -those quarter-hours of profoundest contemplation within oneself and nature. He who completely entrenches himself against boredom also entrenches himself against himself: he will never get to drink the strongest refreshing draught from his own innermost fountain.
book blessed apology
We are, indeed, not among the least contented. You, however, if your belief makes you blessed then appear to be blessed! Your faces have always been more injurious to your belief than our objections have! If these glad tidings of your Bible were written on your faces, you would not need to insist so obstinately on the authority of that book ... As things are, however, all your apologies for Christianity have their roots in your lack of Christianity; with your defense plea you inscribe your own bill of indictment.
book language worst
It is neither the best nor the worst things in a book that defy translation.
book reading smell
Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them.
book independent intelligent
So far no one had had enough courage and intelligence to reveal me to my dear Germans. My problems are new, my psychological horizon frighteningly comprehensive, my language bold and clear; there may well be no books written in German which are richer in ideas and more independent than mine.
book reading opponents
A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.
book mean home
Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home swiftly out of the rays of some insight that suddenly dawned on him, while another thinker offers us nothing but shadows - images in black and grey of what had built up in his soul the day before.
book writing thinking
I certainly wouldn't be writing books if it hadn't been for the feminist blogosphere, and I think that's a really amazing thing. Jessica Valenti
book self noble
I am the first person to go to Barnes & Noble and buy the new self-help book. I like to fill out the surveys, then I get my friends' opinions on how I answered to see if I was being honest with myself or not. Jessica Simpson
book
Even though I have so many things to figure out, I'm very much at peace. I don't feel like I'm closing the chapter on this phase of life - I feel like I'm closing the book and starting a new one.
book writing years
I put off writing the first Left Behind book for a year because I got invited to assist Billy Graham in his memoirs, and had we known what we were putting off for a year, we might not have put it off. Jerry B. Jenkins
book writing poetry-is
Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.
book done smashing
Books that do a tenth of what Left Behind has done are smashing successes.
book character writing
Sophie [Kinsella]'s writing just captivated me. We bought this eight years ago, before it became an international success and was only one book. Now there's five. So, we were very fortunate to latch onto a character who has since become an international success both as a novel and hopefully now as a movie. Jerry Bruckheimer
book giving trying
Well, I feel that we're kind of fortunate that this book gives the whole world a lesson in economics and how to get out of the mess that we're all in. It's basic message is to try and stop spending as much and try to release some of your assets to pay off your debt.
book world way
We hope that audiences around the world embrace the picture in the same way they have the books and that hopefully Disney will allow us make another one.
book character thinking
I think it's the source material. 27 Dresses was a famous book, and Devil Wears Prada was also a wonderful book, so it's coming out of the novelists who are really creating these wonderful female characters that we want to see on the big screen.
book years teammate
Gaylord Perry and Willie McCovey should know each other like a book. They've been ex-teammates for years now. Jerry Coleman
book writing islands
Why do I write historical fiction? Johnny Tremain, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Island of the Blue Dolphins-that's why. I'll never forget how it felt to read those books. I want to write books with the same power to transport readers into another time and place. Jennifer Armstrong
book laptop less newspaper open stop trying
If I have a laptop open in a cafe, I'm less approachable than if I had a book or a newspaper open. I'm not trying to stop that practice. I'm just trying to counterbalance it. Joe McCarthy
book change coming helped people signing tears
I did a book signing Saturday, actually, in Augusta and people were just coming up to me in tears saying, 'Thank you, for what you've done. You've helped me change my life'. Ashley Smith
bookstores looked small writers
I don't think there's a neighborhood where more writers live. There is no neighborhood in the world - and I've looked - with more independent bookstores in such a small area. Dave Eggers