Quotes about boo
book interesting people
Nowhere will you meet more interesting people than in books. James Patterson
book kind creeps
What kind of thoughtless creep would burn a book? James Patterson
book science-books simplest
The simplest science book is over my head. James Merrill
book college giving
I just read history books. I read nothing but history books. They have so much to give; I wish I'd majored in history in college. James McBride
book kids comic-book
I love comic books. Since I was a kid, I've collected them. James Mangold
book character kids
I'm a huge comic book collector. When I was a kid, I had both Marvel and DC. I was my own librarian. I made card files. I had origin stories of all the characters, and cross-referenced when they appeared in other comic books. I was full on. James Mangold
book artist light
I'm really interested with the way light plays on images and one of the artists that really reawakened my interest in comic books was Frank Miller and his treatment of Daredevil, and then Wolverine and, of course, Batman. James Marsters
book cutting years
The problem is we don't know what the climate is doing. We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some alarmist books – mine included – because it looked clear-cut, but it hasn’t happened; James Lovelock
book ideas hell
My idea of going to hell is going somewhere where there are no books. James MacArthur
book writing world
I thought I'd write one book and the world would change overnight James Levine
book science epidemics
Imagine a survivor of a failed civilization with only a tattered book on aromatherapy for guidance in arresting a cholera epidemic. Yet, such a book would more likely be found amid the debris than a comprehensible medical text. James Lovelock
book add life-is
Our life is a book to which we add daily, until suddenly we are finished, and then the manuscript is burned. James M. Barrie
book writing able
It is very well to be able to write a book, but can you waggle your ears? James M. Barrie
book firsts pockets
For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded. James M. Barrie
book people engagement
If enough people openly engage in conduct once considered reprehensible, we rewrite the rule book and assume that God, as a good democrat, will go along. James L. Buckley
book thinking worship
There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed. James Larkin
book virginia remembrance
The Anglo-Saxon farmers had scarce conquered foothold, stronghold, freehold in the Western wilderness before they became sowers of hemp--with remembrance of Virginia, with remembrance of dear ancestral Britain. James Lane Allen
book two orchestra
I do read everything that we publish. We usually have to have two or three votes for a book before we take it on. So in that sense I suppose it is an orchestra. James Laughlin
book inquiring psychological
Saddling another person with a book he did not ask for has always seemed to me like a huge psychological imposition, like forcing someone to eat a chicken biryani without so much as inquiring whether they like cilantro. Joe Queenan
book mind lovers
Book lovers are engaged with writers in a private communion that occurs in some vaporous cenacle of the mind. Joe Queenan
book weapons siege
Because to the poor, books are not diversions. Book are siege weapons. Joe Queenan
book sadness may
Every life, even the best ones, ends in sadness. Books hold out hope that things may end otherwise. Joe Queenan
book taken fighting
My books have been part of my life forever. They have been good soldiers, boon companions. Every book has survived numerous purges over the years; each book has repeatedly been called onto the carpet and asked to explain itself. I own no book that has not fought the good fight, taken on all comers, and earned the right to remain. If a book is there, it is there for a reason. Joe Queenan
book people lending
Lending books to other people is merely a shrewd form of housecleaning. Joe Queenan
book culture passionate
I'm passionate and I travel the world not just as a tourist but to understand cultures... I've lived with Masai tribe... I travel the world and bring it back in the form of a research book that would become the starting point for the collection. John Galliano
book men squares
The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square, Westminster, was so unobtrusively American that his driver had some hesitation in asking for double his fare. The young man had no hesitation in refusing it. John Galsworthy
book buddhism synthesizers
But for me if I'm gonna read about something I'd rather read a pamphlet or the instructions to a synthesizer than a book on Buddhism. John Frusciante
book writing importance
I am writing a book and that takes third place of importance. John Entwistle
book library environmental
Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books. John Dingell
book men world
The world is a great volume, and man the index of that book; even in the body of man, you may turn to the whole world. John Donne
book reading lovers
I shall die reading; since my book and a grave are so near. John Donne
book writing reality
The only excuse for a novelist, aside from the entertainment and vicarious living his books give the people who read them, is as a sort of second-class historian of the age he lives in. The "reality" he missed by writing about imaginary people, he gains by being able to build a reality more nearly out of his own factual experience than a plain historian or biographer can. John Dos Passos
book creativity adventure
The Enormous Room seems to me to be the book that has nearest approached the mood of reckless adventure in which men will reach the white heat of imagination needed to fuse the soggy disjointed complexity of the industrial life about us into seething fluid of creation. There can be no more playing safe. John Dos Passos