Quotes about book
book writing heart
Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write their names in the lives of others, and hold the hearts of others as the treasure most dear. Orson Scott Card
book protect
I have my books and my poetry to protect me Paul Simon
book islands rocks
I have my books And my poetry to protect me; I am shielded in my armor, Hiding in my room, safe within my womb. I touch no one and no one touches me. I am a rock, I am an island.
book three mature
The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged. Robert Morgan
book home use
In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out.
book long guy
Look, don’t get me wrong. I worship the ground this guy walks on. I’m excited to meet him tonight. I’m dying to meet him tonight. If he wanted to carry me off and make me his love slave, I’d do it, so long as I got advance copies of his books. Richelle Mead
book printed
There is a Book worth all other books which were ever printed. Patrick Henry
book thinking people
I always think of books as being like people. Even the dull ones are worthy of decent respect, but you don't have to seek them out and spend time with them.
book games stories
nobody ever wrote to me saying"you know ender's game was a pretty good book, but you know what it really needs a n introduction!".....so be assured the novel stands on its own, and if you skip this intro and go straight to the story, i not only won't stand in your way i'll even agree with you!
book gun next-week
My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.
book law behavior
Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.
book satanic behave
Satanic Verses is a despicable book that could not have been written by a person who wished to behave decently and responsibly.
book ideas library
The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned or where one's one devotion to the bound book is expressed in ritual. A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life. Norman Cousins
book certainty closed days december felt looks number proved view
We closed the book in Chico having a number one back in December as we felt he was a certainty and it looks like we will be proved right. But in our view his days are numbered.
books-and-reading excited great pleased seen turned
We're all excited about Doreen and her book. I've seen the prototype. Very colorfully done. I'm pleased and excited by the way it turned out. It's a great story for kids. Jeff Martin
book books-and-reading department ideas submitted together
We put together this 25-page book of essentially our ideas on how we would go about doing the project, and we submitted that to the Department of Energy.
book chapters favourite people tie work
When people ask, what's your favourite song, it doesn't work like that. It is more like chapters in a book that tie into one story. Alison Moyet
book books-and-reading great
We would never use it as our only book in the library, but it's a great way to start.
book reading worst
The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones. Joseph Joubert
book slaughterhouse-five billy-pilgrim
Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time. Kurt Vonnegut
book
Never index your own book.
book adventure profound
I go on many thrilling adventures and wondrous, profound escapades through books.
book eye eight
A book is an arrangement of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numerals, and about eight punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes over these and envision the eruption of Mount Vesuvius or the Battle of Waterloo.
book grateful knack
I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on.
book reading wonderful
There is no shortage of wonderful writers. What we lack is a dependable mass of readers.
book slaughterhouse-five suspense
There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.
book blood noble
A beggar's book outworths a noble's blood. William Shakespeare
book reading beer
Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.
book library messengers
I can see he's not in your good books,' said the messenger. 'No, and if he were I would burn my library.
book loss journey
In this moment she felt that she had been robbed of an enormous number of valuable things, whether material or intangible: things lost or broken by her own fault, things she had forgotten and left in houses when she moved: books borrowed from her and not returned, journeys she had planned and had not made, words she had waited to hear spoken to her and had not heard, and the words she meant to answer with. . . . Katherine Anne Porter
book thinking keys
She once said, 'I'm really a little prudish, which people may think incongruous'. I take a prudish point of view on certain films, books, and trends. Then, I pull myself up short and ask myself how Gypsy Rose Lee could possibly be this way.I thought that quote was so telling, a key insight into the way she so carefully separated who she was from her meticulous creation. Karen Abbott
book rose would-be
I thought both she [Gypsy Rose Lee] and her story would be ill-served by a conventional, birth-to-death narrative, and so I structured the book like one of her stripteases: revealing a peek of shoulder, then a glimpse of knee, pulling back a bit before you go a bit further, until all is revealed at the end.