Quotes about boo
book thinking church
The rosary was said every evening. I always liked that sentence about the medieval Churches, that they were the Bibles of the poor. The Church was my first book and I would think it is still my most important book. John McGahern
book issues economics
The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should. I've got Greenspan's book. John McCain
book dozen littles
How could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books? John James Audubon
book believe bird
When the bird and the book disagree, believe the bird.
book kids responsibility
It's magical thinking to imagine that the reason unspeakable things are being perpetrated by younger and younger people is that they've fallen under the influence of seductive, lascivious, prurient, and violent material in books, films, television. A great deal of this type of censorship has to do with absolving parents of responsibility - parents who just plop their kids in front of the television and leave them there hour upon hour. John Irving
book writing long
I write very quickly; I rewrite very slowly. It takes me nearly as long to rewrite a book as it does to get the first draft.
book grandmother finals
There was no manifestation of contemporary culture that did not indicate to my grandmother how steadfast was the nation's decline, how merciless our mental and moral deterioration, how swiftly all-embracing our final decadence. I never saw her read a book again; but she referred to books often - as if they were shrines and cathedrals of learning that television had plundered and then abandoned.
book simple house
You don't want to dwell on your enemies, you know. I basically feel so superior to my critics for the simple reason that they haven't done what I do. Most book reviewers haven't written 11 novels. Many of them haven't written one.
book school shoes
With every book, you go back to school. You become a student. You become an investigative reporter. You spend a little time learning what it's like to live in someone else's shoes.
book people film
I have no respect for the right-to-life position, though I have every respect for an individual who says, "I could never have that procedure, I could never see a film or read a book about that procedure." It doesn't bother me if people feel that way.
book reading school
In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she reading for?
book fans world
All in all, Tolkien fans are as varied, remarkable and marvelous as the books and the worlds that they share. They make me feel a little like a Hobbit who glimpses colourful strangers passing but has never left the Shire. John Howe
book illustration long
I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration became my profession.
book age firsts
There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books. John Hersey
book writing agents
A literary agent is nothing but a cheap salesman (or woman); while a writer is a cheap salesman (or woman) who also has to actually write the books. John Hodgman
book names boss
What I've discovered more recently is copies of books that I didn't represent, but that my boss represented when I assisted her on the dollar pile. I won't mention any names, but it is this profoundly bittersweet time of realizing, "Oh, I had a wonderful time working on this book and now it is a dollar relic on the side of the road."
book good-friend giving
When a good friend gives you his or her book, you don't want to read it, because you're afraid that it's not going be what you hope it can be.
book sorrow defining
This is one of the defining sorrows of books: that we cannot see one another.
book firsts clear
My hope when I wrote the first book was that I would get to do it again. But it was not entirely clear that that would happen.
book writing fake
By the time I was writing the second book, my life had changed rather dramatically, thanks to the intervention of television, and I needed to find a way to discuss that. Otherwise the big, fake book would not be true on some level.
book dining use
I still have a fondness for books. Many a time I will be antiquing, and I'll say, 'What's that old-timey curio over there? What is that, a candlestick telephone, one of those old pull-chain toilets? Oh no, it's a book. I used to help make those things! I will buy it and use it to decorate my chain of casual family-dining restaurants.
book writing thinking
I think that by the time I start writing the third book, of course, I will be President Of The United States, and that also will have something to do with it. I'll probably have to acknowledge that somehow.
book oddities decision
Anyone of conscience could come look at my book and see it as an esoteric oddity or be intrigued by it. It could happen either way on a thousand different little decisions each individual might make.
book reading antiques
A lot of my time is spent reading antique or out-of-print books of reference.
book mean thinking
All books should be trilogies; I mean I think we all agree on that.
book writing people
Everyone wants to write a book. Very few people are able to do it.
book dedicated copies
I actually own a copy of my own book; that's how dedicated I am as an author.
book criticism care
The readers and the hearers like my books, And yet some writers cannot them digest; But what care I? for when I make a feast, I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks. John Harington
book details make-sense
You can read ten books and finally come across one detail, and it's like, "now everything else makes sense. Now I know where I am." John Guare
boosts change girls guys share time
Any time the girls and guys share a change room, it boosts the testosterone.
books books-and-reading bring critical engines invented millions musical recordings search social
Social networks, search engines and things yet invented are critical as we bring millions of movies, books and musical recordings online. Brewster Kahle
boost low needed playing shooting
Sharpe has been playing well and has been consistently shooting in the low 50s all year. That was the boost that we needed today.
boots chapel dress fun incredible overalls people snow watching wedding
That's an incredible wedding chapel out there. And look around in here: You don't often see bib overalls and snow boots at a wedding. But this is the way people dress around here, and this is what people do: They go on the ice. It's not anything fancy, just getting together, having fun and watching two friends get married.