Quotes about boo
book thinking boston
It's a bit scary to see my book come true: the recent (if minor) LA earthquakes, Hurricane Sandy, the Boston bomber, and so on - much of it stoppable, I think, and yet I, too, am also guilty of passivity. Edan Lepucki
book loss safety
The messiness [in my books] is nothing like an Atwood novel. For me, the deeper subjects are secrets versus intimacy, and how both beget safety but also threaten it. And there is a lot for me about loss, too.
book writing sadness
I am not sure I knew what I was doing, writing an "apocalypse" novel, when I started this book. Now that the book is done, I can own that I have in fact written an apocalypse novel, one that speculates on a dark, dark future. Why I did it, I really don't know - every time people read my work they comment on its darkness, its sadness.
book school character
I did a lot of this through writing flashbacks. Many of the flashbacks took place at Cal's school and I eventually cut them because they didn't seem essential and they slowed the pace of the story in the first third of the book. They were essential to me, though, in that I learned about my characters.
book people vision
Before I wrote The Power of Now, I had a vision that I had already written the book and that it was affecting the world. I had a sense there was already a book somehow in existence. I drew a circle on a piece of paper and it said "book." Then I wrote something about the effect the book had on the world, how it influenced my life and other people's lives, and how it came to be translated into many languages affecting hundreds of thousands of people. Eckhart Tolle
boost coming confidence further market rise
The market should rise further in coming sessions as investors' confidence got a boost from today's rally.
boost clinic expertise given honor medical provide time
The medical professionals have given so much of their time and expertise to the clinic that we wanted to honor them and provide a boost to the clinic as well.
booth helped mall people
The mall has always helped us a lot with fund-raisers, ... They will help us set up a booth at the mall to let people know about the foundation. Doug Flutie
boost federal good market positive received reserve rising steadily
The market has been rising steadily all day, but it received a good last-minute boost from the Federal reserve decision, which is very positive for Brazil.
book grows
The newest books are those that never grow old. Holbrook Jackson
book reading drunk
A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement.
book joy forever
Book-love, I say again, lasts throughout life, it never flags or fails, but, like Beauty itself, is a joy forever.
book reading exercise
Past and present, it is all the same, books are necromancers, they exercise an influence more varied, more lasting, than any magic known to man.
book obscenity prove
History proves there is no better advertisement for a book than to condemn it for obscenity.
book writing great-book
Great books conserve time.
book rooms reader
The better the book the more room for the reader.
book home air
A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with "a sort of greedy enjoyment," as Marcel Proust said of those rooms of his old home whose air was "saturated with the bouquet of silence."
book jealous soul
Books are never out of humour; never envious or jealous, they answer all questions with readiness; ... they teach us how to live and how to die; they dispel melancholy by their mirth, and amuse by their wit; they prepare the soul to suffer everything and desire nothing; they introduce us to ourselves.
book knows
What an author doesn't know could fill a book. Holly Black
book writing thinking
I remember everyone telling me I had to think positive when I was writing my first book. If I believed I could do it, then I could! If I pictured myself published, then it was going to happen! Which sounded great, except...could I do it? If I didn't think I could, was I doomed to fail? What if I was almost totally sure I would fail? I am here to tell you-what matters is sticking with it.
book holy-grail firsts
A second book that makes you rethink the first book is the Holy Grail of a series.
book belief living-things
It is my belief that books are living things.
book reading knowledge-and-power
Librarians are hot. They have knowledge and power over their domain...It is no coincidence how many librarians are portrayed as having a passionate interior, hidden by a cool layer of reserve. Aren't books like that? On the shelf, their calm covers belie the intense experience of reading one. Reading inflames the soul. Now, what sort of person would be the keeper of such books?
book character thinking
I think it's a bit like coming to the end of a book. The plot's in its thickest, all the characters are in a mess, but you can see that there aren't fifty pages left, and you know that the finish can't be far off. Herman Wouk
book income fiction
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
book boys ideas
There is truth, my boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should you long for a perfect doctrine, my friend. Rather, you should long for the perfection of yourself. The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught. Hermann Hesse
book ideas taught
The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
book writing humanity
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
book mean writing
"For even the most childish intoxication with progress will soon be forced to recognize that writing and books have a function that is eternal. It will become evident that formulations in words and the handling on of these formulations through writing are not only important aids but actually the only means by which humanity can have a history and continuing consciousness of itself."
book angel ice
All the books of the world full of thoughts and poems are nothing in comparison to a minute of sobbing, when feeling surges in waves, the soul feels itself profoundly and finds itself. Tears are the melting ice of snow. All angels are close to the crying person.
book way gone
The day had gone by just as days go by. I had killed it in accordance with my primitive and retiring way of life.
book herbs bees
As great a store Have we of books as bees of herbs or more. Henry Vaughan
book voyages ships
I know not how it is, but during a voyage I collect books as a ship does barnacles. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow