Quotes about boo
book
Books are sepulchres of thought. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
book treasure tongue
The pleasant books, that silently among Our household treasures take familiar places, And are to us as if a living tongue Spake from the printed leaves or pictured faces!
book reading judging
Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings.
book reading writing
Authors have a greater right than any copyright, though it is generally unacknowledged or disregarded. They have a right to the reader's civility. There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it, and to these the author has a claim. Yet many people think that when they buy a book they buy with it the right to abuse the author.
book character names
Time has a doomsday book, upon whose pages he is continually recording illustrious names. But as often as a new name is written there, an old one disappears. Only a few stand in illuminated characters never to be effaced.
book heart parting
My Book and Heart Shall never part.
book reading writing
There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it.
book lovers book-lover
I love an author the more for having been himself a lover of books.
book order lovers
It is true, that it is not at all necessary to love many books, in order to love them much.
book reading giving
Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings - as some savage tribes determine the power of muskets by their recoil; that being considered best which fairly prostrates the purchaser.
book believe thinking
I believe that before anything else I'm a human being -- just as much as you are... or at any rate I shall try to become one. I know quite well that most people would agree with you, Torvald, and that you have warrant for it in books; but I can't be satisfied any longer with what most people say, and with what's in books. I must think things out for myself and try to understand them. Henrik Ibsen
book thinking people
...I'm no longer prepared to accept what people say and what's written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.
book people challenges
People have filled an enormously important role in my life - more than books! For me, it's not the formal advising or the therapy that meant so much. It was more the fact that someone committed himself or herself to me. They were really interested in my life; they wanted to know what I was doing; they followed me; they dared to confront and challenge me. Henri Nouwen
book discovery done
If I'd done the discovery before I wrote the book, then there would be nothing to discover. It would feel dutiful instead of exciting. Heidi Julavits
book people marveling
I calmed myself by walking into my nearby bookstore and marveling at all the books other people had written. So many people had finished and published novels; it couldn’t be so hard, right?
book listening new-music
Whether I'm being influenced by new music that I'm listening to, books I've read, my friends, or my faith, I'm learning all the time. Hayley Williams
book cry
I cry in movies a lot, and over books. Hayley Mills
book character breathing
In playing the part of Mammy, I tried to make her a living, breathing character, the way she appeared to me in the book Hattie McDaniel
book expectations skylines
Between the villages of Aubiere and Romagnat in the ancient Province of Auvergne there is an old road that comes suddenly over the top of a high hill. To stand south of this ridge looking up at the highway flowing over the skyline is to receive one of those irrefutable impressions from landscape which requires more than a philosopher to explain. In this case it is undoubtedly, for some reason, one of exalted expectation.
book home gone
At home I've got 1,500 cook books and the spines have all gone, the pages are all torn - it's chaos. Heston Blumenthal
book beer drink
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted. Hesketh Pearson
book pride beer
Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.
book ideas shapes
But my estimates, for instance, based upon book information, were simply ridiculous, fanciful images of African attractions were soon dissipated, anticipated pleasures vanished, and all crude ideas began to resolve themselves into shape. Henry Morton Stanley
book fans action
'Coraline' is Neil Gaiman's book, it sold a lot, it has a big fan base. It was originally conceived to be live action, but I never really wanted it to be. I always thought that it would work better as an animated film. Henry Selick
book mean home
The bookshelf, like the book, has become an integral part of civilization as we know it, its presence in a home practically defining what it means to be civilized, educated, and refined. Henry Petroski
book reality artist
Everyone should have the right to go off and do their music or do their books. The people who are in the position to censor they're really not down to reality where that certain artists are coming from. Henry Rollins
book old-friends age
There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy. Henry Ford
book boys men
A dollar put into a book and a book mastered might change the whole course of a boy's life. It might easily be the beginning of the development of leadership that would carry the boy far in service to his fellow men.
book interesting challenges
I met a bunch of comic-book writers at the Metropolis convention and there was such an interesting discussion about the story of 'Supergirl' and trying to get it right. It can be a challenge, because you don't want it to be the same as the Superman story. Helen Slater
book writing character
I keep thinking of the gifts of my own upbringing, which I once took for granted: I can read any book I choose and comprehend it. I can write a complete sentence and punctuate it correctly. If I need help, I can call on judges, attorneys, educators, ministers. I wonder what I would be like if I had grown up without such protections and supports. What cracks would have turned up in my character? Helen Prejean
book awards office
I use my awards as doorsteps. Others are in the office or in little cubbyholes in our library – they go between the books, because they actually look like arty pieces Helen McCrory
book thinking people
Solitary people, these book lovers. I think it's swell that there are people you don't have to worry about when you don't see them for a long time, you don't have to wonder what they do, how they're getting along with themselves. You just know that they're all right, and probably doing something they like. Helen Oyeyemi
book reading people
Where books are burned in the end people will be burned too. Heinrich Heine