Quotes about book
book people waiting
That's how it is with books, isn't it: They're not in a hurry. They'll wait for you till you're ready. People empty me. I have to go away to refill. Charles Bukowski
book drop fact half horrendous matter national though
The fact of the matter is this is the 52nd National Book Awards, and when something has been going on for half a century, you have to think about the fact that you're responsible for that and you just can't let it drop even though these are horrendous circumstances,
books playing reading
When I'm not playing football, I'm usually studying. I want to go to college, so I got to keep reading books and doing my homework. Joe King
book evil age
The enormous multiplication of books in every branch of knowledge is one of the greatest evils of this age, since it presents one of the most serious obstacles to the acquisition of correct information by throwing in the reader's way piles of lumber in which he must painfully grope for the scraps of useful matter, peradventure interspersed. Edgar Allan Poe
book greatness trying
Always in all my books I'm trying to reveal or help to reveal the hidden greatness of the small, of the little, of the unknown — and the pettiness of the big, Eduardo Galeano
book utah arizona
My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah. Edward Abbey
book writing shoes
When a writer has done the best that he can do, he should then withdraw from the book-writing business and take up an honest trade like shoe repair, cattle stealing, or screwworm management.
book oblivion new-books
Most new books drop immediately into the oblivion they so richly deserve.
book eggs
Books are like eggs -- best when fresh.
book focus force
Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.
book would-be higher
I expected higher prices for some books, but [there would be] flexibility for other books, Eddy Cue
book fiction impossible
While fiction is often impossible, it should not be implausible. Aristotle
book kids world
As a small kid, I came across things like these early Edward Gorey books in department-store bookstores. These were these really unusual objects to me. I didn't know how they fit into the comic world or into newspaper comics. Ben Katchor
book escaping play
I loved the movie theater so I always saw a lot of movies. And then there was a play, I saw in the local paper, they were having auditions for a play of a book I had read. Which was One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey. So I said, "oh, I've read this, so I'm perfect for the part of the lead." His name is escaping me. Ed O'Neill
book reading son
Some people act as if it were demeaning to their manhood to wish to be well-read but you can no more be a healthy person mentally without reading substantial books than you can be a vigorous person physically without eating solid food. Books should be chosen, not for their freedom from evil, but for their possession of good. Dr. Johnson said: "Whilst you stand deliberating which book your son shall read first, another boy has read both." Earl Nightingale
book sleep heart
Close, close all night the lovers keep. They turn together in their sleep, Close as two pages in a book that read each other in the dark. Each knows all the other knows, learned by heart from head to toes. Elizabeth Bishop
book pages fingertips
Open the book. (The gilt rubs off the edges of the pages and pollinates the fingertips.)
book reading mind
the process of reading is reciprocal; the book is no more than a formula, to be furnished out with images out of the reader's mind. Elizabeth Bowen
book writing thinking
My writing, I am prepared to think, may be a substitute for something I have been born without - a so-called normal relation to society. My books are my relation to society.
book pages megadeth
I collect books and I have some really, really old schoolbooks, and God is mentioned on every single page. Dave Mustaine
book years giving
Well, it's so hard for books to take off. You give years of your life to something that probably won't happen, so when it does, it feels a little unjust. David Nicholls
book inside judge
Don't judge a book by its cover, it's what's inside that's matters,
book conceal concealing evidence faults join
Don't join the book burners. Don't think you are going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Dwight D. Eisenhower
book certainly economic looked next numbers report
CPI is certainly the big economic report of next week. The Fed's beige book and some of the manufacturing numbers will be looked at as well.
book bus contained events features fully interviews largest nonfiction people sales television turned tv
C-SPAN2 has a new Book TV show that features interviews with nonfiction authors, so it has turned a full-size bus into a fully contained television studio. They take it to big book events to let people know about their new show, and we're now one of the largest book sales in the Southeast, if not the nation.
books gardening guilty pleasures time useful
Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers. Hillary Clinton
book books-and-reading clear divided evidence except given
And those who were given the Book did not become divided except after clear evidence had come to them.
books books-and-reading exempt finds good public running sermons
And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. William Shakespeare
book evil follow guard mercy shown therefore
And this is a Book We have revealed, blessed; therefore follow it and guard (against evil) that mercy may be shown to you.
book enemies midst moon people stood sun themselves until written
And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.
book cast fire found lake life written
And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
book father george handed john people similarly wrote
And you look at the candidates, and particularly George W. Bush's, just imagery-wise, allows people to feel that -- particularly men, to feel that something was handed down from father to son, that there is a legacy. And similarly with Gore, who's father was senator, and similarly with someone like John McCain, who just wrote a book on his father. Susan Faludi
books constant learning life study tons
And you know, life is a constant learning experience. I learn so much with my kids. I read tons of books and study what they're studying. Reese Witherspoon