Famous Quotes & Sayings

Narendra Modi

One should play and sweat. Life shouldn't be bogged down by books.

Narendra Modi

Religion and faith are very personal matters. So far as the government is concerned, there is only one holy book, which is the Constitution of India.

Napoleon Bonaparte

After me, the Revolution - or, rather the ideas which formed it - will resume their course. It will be like a book from which the marker is removed, and one starts to read again at the page where one left off.

Lois McMaster Bujold

For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.

Lois McMaster Bujold

I've always tried to write the kind of book I most loved to read: character-centered adventure.

Lloyd Jones

I had found a new friend. The surprising thing is where I’d found him – not up a tree or sulking in the shade, or splashing around in one of the hill streams, but in a book. No one had told us kids to look there for a friend. Or that you could slip inside the skin of another. Or travel to another place with marshes, and where, to our ears, the bad people spoke like pirates.

Lloyd Jones

You cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe. The house can catch alight and a reader deep in a book will not look up until the wallpaper is in flames.

Logan Lerman

I'm doing 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower'... It was a book I read when I was younger, and it just changed my life, and I just wanted to be a part of it.

Lynn Abbey

My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history.

Lynn Abbey

When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.

Lynn Abbey

I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans.

Lynn Abbey

I'm one of those writers who, when writing, believes she's god-and that she hasn't bestowed free will on any of her characters. In that sense there are no surprises in any of my books.

Lynda Barry

You can't know what a book is about until the very end. This is true of a book we're reading or writing.

Lynda Barry

When we finish a book, why do we hold it in both hands and gaze at it as if it were somehow alive?

Lyndon B. Johnson

Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance.

Luke Bryan

I got my iPad, and I'm trying to buy books on that, but I kind of like a book. At the end of my life, when I'm old, I want to have all these shelves full of books. So I'm just gonna do the book thing.

Ludwig Bemelmans

I don't keep my books around... they would embarrass me. When I finish writing my books, I kick them in the belly, and have done with them.

Ludwig Feuerbach

As we expand our knowledge of good books, we shrink the circle of men whose company we appreciate.

Lucian

I'll be reading books until the next challenger arrives. That will calm my nerves, so that I may deal with all situations without panicking.

Louise Mensch

I like my men to be manly, as you'll see from my books.

Louise Mensch

I like motivational books, because I like the go-getting American spirit - your destiny is in your own hands, life is what you make it, don’t accept your limitations, jump before you’re pushed, leap before you look.

Louise Penny

The women in the room chatted about love, about childhood, about losing parents, about Mr. Spock, about good books they'd read. They mothered each other.

Louise Penny

I turned down all the requests for the rights to the books, for years, mostly because they wanted the rights to the characters, and to turn it into a TV series. This would have allowed them to do anything they wanted with the characters, and that just wasn't an option for me.

Louise Penny

A journalist also needs to be disciplined, and so do I. I am, essentially, lazy. Without discipline I'd be just a mass of gummy bears on the sofa instead of on book tour with my eighth novel.

Louise Penny

Winning doesn't mean my book is better than anyone else's. It means I'm very fortunate. And I should be very, very aware of that. And grateful.

Louis Begley

My views about the safety of Jews in the world have not been changed by the work on the Dreyfus affair or, for that matter, by the work I did on Franz Kafka for the book on him I published a year before the Dreyfus book appeared.

Louis Aragon

I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.

Louis Aragon

The authors of book reviews would consider themselves dishonored were they to mention, as they should, the subject of the book.

Louis Aragon

I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable...

Lori Foster

For writers: If you polish a book too much, it'll be flat and shiny and smooth--and not too interesting. It's the little pits and bumps and whatnot that show voice and make a book unique from all the other super shiny flat surfaces

Loretta Devine

For movies, I usually do an entire book that has all kinds of things about what is happening at the time the movie is going on and try to get into what my character's going to be like, to try to get some consistency, because they shoot movies out of order.

Loretta Lynn

We still lend our old house out to relatives. They keep a guest book for my fans to sign.

Lord Byron

'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.