Quotes about boo
book reading read-between-the-lines
To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text. Henry James
book library subscription
The women one meets - what are they but books one has already read? You're a library of the unknown, the uncut. Upon my word I've a subscription.
book artist pages
The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
book beer winning
The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.
book reading liable
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions. Henry Fielding
book giving gentleman
An author ought to consider himself, not as a gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who keeps a public ordinary, at which all persons are welcome for their money.
book mind example
It is a trite but true Observation, that Examples work more forcibly on the Mind than Precepts: and if this be just in what is odious and blameable, it is more strongly so in what is amiable and praiseworthy.
book character college
There is a sort of knowledge beyond the power of learning to bestow, and this is to be had in conversation; so necessary is this to the understanding the characters of men, that none are more ignorant of them than those learned pedants whose lives have been entirely consumed in colleges and among books; for however exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
book white people
The White House used to belong to the American people. At least that's what I learned from history books and from covering every president starting with John F. Kennedy. Helen Thomas
book law organization
The words are strung together, with their own special grammar-the laws of quantum theory-to form sentences, which are molecules. Soon we have books, entire libraries, made out of molecular "sentences." The universe is like a library in which the words are atoms. Just look at what has been written with these hundred words! Our own bodies are books in that library, specified by the organization of molecules-but the universe and literature are organizations of identical, interchangeable objects; they are information systems. Heinz Pagels
book firsts collections
My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint. Helen Dunmore
book doors mourning
Mourning Ruby is not a flat landscape: it is more like a box with pictures painted on every face. And each face is also a door which opens, I hope, to take the reader deep into the book.
book tears reader
I hope that readers will tear through my books because they can't stop themselves - and then, maybe, read them again and find new things there.
book hands research
I always market research my books before I hand them in by showing them to five or six close friends who I trust to be honest with me, so they are very heavily re-written already. Helen Fielding
book panic-attacks comedy
If we can't have comedy books written about aspects of womanhood without going into a panic attack about it, then we haven't got very far at being equal.
book controversy
My books have all generated controversy.
book guy fans
I'm a huge classics fan. I love Ernest Hemingway and J.D. Salinger. I'm that guy who rereads a book before I read newer stuff, which is probably not all that progressive, and it's not really going to make me a better reader. I'm like, 'Oh, my God, you should read To Kill a Mockingbird. John Krasinski
book want narrative
'God' - as revealed in his book of edicts and narratives is practically an idiot. He has nothing to say that any sensible person should want to listen to. Johann Most
book faces deceiving
Faces are as legible as books, only with these circumstances to recommend them to our perusal, that they are read in much less time, and are much less likely to deceive us. Johann Kaspar Lavater
book people mind
Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always so composed, so full of wisdom, that we are able to take in at once the whole scope of a work according to its merits. Do we not mark in a book passages which seem to have a direct reference to ourselves? Young people especially, who have failed in acquiring a complete cultivation of mind, are roused in a praiseworthy way by brilliant passages... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
book artistic teach
Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something.
book order might
Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author knows.
book years people
The dear good people don't know how long it takes to learn to read. I've been at it eighty years, and can't say yet that I've reached the goal.
book judging competent
Properly speaking, we learn from those books only that we cannot judge. The author of a book that I am competent to criticise would have to learn from me.
book communication teaching
Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg is a great book teaching a compassionate way to talk to people even if you (or they) are angry. Joe Vitale
book character mad
I watched so many comic book movies where the actors weren't as built as the characters in the book. It made me mad because they didn't look right. Joe Manganiello
book kids crowds
I grew up a big comic book reader, as a kid, and I love the whole fanboy crowd.
book way going-out
Out of respect to writers, you have to read the book in the way in which the author visualised it going out into the world. Joanna Trollope
book library rooms
You can't love a library of e-books. You can't furnish a room with e-books.
book men dust
Man's books are but a climbing stair, Lain step by step, like stairs of stone; The stairway here, the temple there Man's lampad honor, and his trust, The God who called him from the dust. Joaquin Miller
book soul creeds
The soul that feeds on books alone -- I count that soul exceeding small That lives alone by book and creed, -- A soul that has not learned to read.
book thinking possibility
I think to put death on screen where it isn't that turns it into comic book time and there I think by desensitizing an audience, you really do open the possibility that someone is going to kill . Joe Eszterhas
book pages rhythm
When I'm working on a book, I constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back to page one and just retype what I have. It gets me into a rhythm. Joan Didion