Quotes about boo
book writing people
Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of magic. Carl Sagan
book punishment catholic
It took the Church until 1832 to remove Galileo 's work from its list of books which Catholics were forbidden to read at the risk of dire punishment of their immortal souls.
book keys understanding
Books are key to understanding the world and participating in a democratic society.
book home airports
To me, the greatest invention of my lifetime is the laptop computer and the fact that I can be working on a book and be in an airport lounge, in a hotel room, and continue working; I fire up my laptop, and I'm in exactly the same place I was when I left home - that, to me, is a miracle. Bill Bryson
book writing men
For most of us the rules of English grammar are at best a dimly remembered thing. But even for those who make the rules, grammatical correctitude sometimes proves easier to urge than to achieve. Among the errors cited in this book are a number committed by some of the leading authorities of this century. If men such as Fowler and Bernstein and Quirk and Howard cannot always get their English right, is it reasonable to expect the rest of us to?
book mean appreciate
If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here-and by 'we' I mean every living thing. To attain any kind of life in this universe of ours appears to be quite an achievement. As humans we are doubly lucky, of course: We enjoy not only the privilege of existence but also the singular ability to appreciate it and even, in a multitude of ways, to make it better. It is a talent we have only barely begun to grasp.
book reading writing
For me, reading books and writing them are tied together. The words of other writers teach me and refresh me and inspire me. Betsy Byars
book thinking looks
When I type a title page, I hold it and I look at it and I think, I just need four thousand sentences to go with this and I’ll have a book.
book men weight
My books have helped a lot of men to lose weight. Bethenny Frankel
book loss cooking
My recipes aren't geared towards women; my books are marketed towards women because women are the biggest market for weight loss, weight management and weight maintenance and for cooking.
book past worry
Doing everything with one arm, being well-known, and having a book and a movie, it's fairly abnormal. As far as just not having to worry about past experiences, I've healed very well. Bethany Hamilton
book ideas people
I just love the idea that people disappear into the story for a while. You grab a book, and you want to get back to it, and your life becomes a bit of an interruption. I would love readers to feel like that. Bernard Beckett
book waiting dying
In the end, living is defined by dying. Book- ended by oblivion, we are caught in the vice of terror, squeezed to bursting by the approaching end. Fear is ever-present, waiting to be called to the surface. Change brought fear, and fear brought destruction.
book mean government
We profess to be republicans, and yet we neglect the only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government; that is, the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible; for this divine book, above all others, favors that equality among mankind, that respect for just laws, and all those sober and frugal virtues which constitute the soul of republicanism. Benjamin Rush
book school patriotic
The Bible, when not read in schools, is seldom read in any subsequent period of life...The Bible...should be read in our schools in preference to all other books because it contains the greatest portion of that kind of knowledge which is calculated to produce private and public happiness.
book patriotic men
The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.
book childhood france
The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France! Antonia Fraser
book reading squares
I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book.
book hands people
People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.
book writing way
I get intrigued by a puzzle, and writing a book is the best way to solve it. Anthony Storr
book reading age
In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature. Bill Vaughan
book thinking doe
The easiest books are generally the best; for, whatever author is obscure and difficult in his own language, certainly does not think clearly.
book
I never thought I would just be doing Arkady books.
book greek bed
I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.
book ideas people
Most people - and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all - are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right.
book iron long
You'll accidentally find in barrows of books wrought-iron lines of long-buried poems, handle them with the care that respects ancient but terrible weapons.. .
book reading understanding
The guru, if he is gifted, reads the story as any bilingual person might. He does not translate-he understands.
book son cutting
My son, who's on the spectrum is a very rigid thinker. He needs clear-cut definitions of right and wrong. Anything hazy or gray confuses him. For instance, if I try to get him to see that a friend behaved badly, he'll often get upset with me because a friend is a 'good guy' by definition, in his book.
book writing library
I really enjoy going to a library and spending the day doing research - to me that is the most pleasurable part of writing the science book.
book successful firsts
The first book I did - the first successful book - was a kind of a travel book, and publishers in Britain encouraged me to do more.
book pride use
Anyone who has read my books will know that I don't tend to use guides when I am travelling. It's not a pride thing, but it is certainly a fact.
book rocks looks
Carnegie Hall is as good as they say it is. It's not like Stonehenge which looks great in books but then you go there and it's a pile of rocks next to a highway. There's actually a highway right next to it, but you don't see that in pictures. Bill Burr
book reading waffles
The waitress comes over to me like, 'What'chu readin' for?' I had never been asked that. Not 'What am I reading?' but 'What am I reading for?' Goddammit, you stumped me. Hmm, why do I read? I suppose I read for a lot of reasons, one of the main ones being so I don't end up being a... waffle waitress. Bill Hicks