Quotes about boo
book biblical conquer
The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it. Napoleon Bonaparte
book bird ignorant
A bird in the open never looks Like its picture in the birdie books - Or if it once did, it has changed its plumage, And plunges you back into ignorant gloomage.
book may old-testament
The Book of Revelation, difficult as it may be for "literalists," becomes much simpler when we read it typologically , as a mosiac of allusions to Old Testament prophecy. Northrop Frye
book writing myth
Writing: I certainly do rewrite my central myth in every book, and would never read or trust any writer who did not also do so.
book world patient
The book is the world's most patient medium.
book technology men
The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.
book littles
Every one of my books had killed me a little more. Norman Mailer
book writing wince
When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.
book may novelists
A book of great beauty and manically exquisite insight with a wild and deadly humor . . . The only American novelist who may conceivably be possessed by genius.
book ordinary photograph
I did like Robert Vavra's book not only for its so very good photographs but for the text as well. He's no ordinary fellow, obviously...
book writing married
I always start a book for money. If you're married five times you have to.
book writing men
Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.
book
I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out. Norman MacCaig
book care firsts
I don't care whether a book is a first edition or not. I'm not a bibliophile in that word's natural sense.
book fishing sides
All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you've enjoyed.
book years lucky
There are some friends you don't meet for twenty years and when you meet them again it's as if no twenty years has happened - you're lucky when that happens. I feel the same about books.
book rivers stories
At the time I did not know that stories of life are often more like rivers than books. Norman Maclean
book literature products
Although most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of books on how to fix them. Norman Ralph Augustine
book beer order
Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. Orson Welles
book writing mind
If someone considers the prophetic writings with all the diligence and reverence they are worth, while he reads and examines with great care, it is certain that in that very act he will be struck in his mind and senses by some more divine breath and will recognize that the books he reads have not been produced in a human way, but are words of God. Origen
book writing people
That's why I haven't been so anxious. But now, lots of people write and say, 'I want to find out what you're doing.' So I know that this book will enlighten them. Ornette Coleman
book nursing sick
I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.
book ifs bike
If you read 50 books, I'll get you a motor bike. Orlando Bloom
book feels
I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger. Oriana Fallaci
book opinion written-word
I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all.
book believe responsibility
I believe strongly in an author's moral responsibility. But his first obligation is to write good books. Orhan Pamuk
book hard-work eight
I was at the end of my tether when my first book was published. For eight years I didn't make a penny, I worked so hard, didn't drink, didn't enjoy life.
book thinking way
Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love.
book devil firsts
Let me first state forthright that contrary to what we've often read in books and heard from preachers, when you are a woman, you don't feel like the Devil.
book turkeys long
In his brilliant new book Pankaj Mishra reverses the long gaze of the West upon the East, showing modern history as it has been felt by the majority of the world's population from Turkey to China. These are the amazing stories of the grandfathers of today's angry Asians. Excellent!
book musical different
Sometimes I sensed that the books I read in rapid succession had set up some sort of murmur among themselves, transforming my head into an orchestra pit where different musical instruments sounded out, and I would realize that I could endure this life because of these musicales going on in my head.
book intelligent touching
A letter doesn't communicate by words alone. A letter, just like a book, can be read by smelling it, touching it and fondling it. Thereby, intelligent folk will say, 'Go on then, read what the letter tells you!' whereas the dull-witted will say, 'Go on then, read what he's written!
book character doe
The greatest advantage of books does not always come from what we remember of them, but from their suggestiveness, their character-building power. Orison Swett Marden