Quotes about boo
book hymns forever
Our hymn-books resound with a melodious cursing of God and enduring Him forever. Henry David Thoreau
book men oracles
For what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers to the most modern inquiry in them as Delphi and Dodona never gave. We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old.
book angel men
What a singular fact for an angel visitant to this earth to carry back in his note-book, that men were forbidden to expose their bodies under the severest penalties!
book reading light
There is always room and occasion enough for a true book on any subject; as there is room for more light the brightest day and more rays will not interfere with the first.
book reading library
The Library is a wilderness of books.
book reading gun
The woodchopper reads the wisdom of the ages recorded on the paper that holds his dinner, then lights his pipe with it. When we ask for a scrap of paper for the most trivial use, it may have the confessions of Augustine or the sonnets of Shakespeare, and we not observe it. The student kindles his fire, the editor packs his trunk, the sportsman loads his gun, the traveler wraps his dinner, the Irishman papers his shanty, the schoolboy peppers the plastering, the belle pins up her hair, with the printed thoughts of men.
book reading men
If men were to be destroyed and the books they have written were to be transmitted to a new race of creatures, in a new world, what kind of record would be found in them of so remarkable a phenomenon as the rainbow?
book reading deaf-and-blind
He who cannot read is worse than deaf and blind, is yet but half alive, is still-born.
book reading hands
It is remarkable, but on the whole, perhaps, not to be lamented, that the world is so unkind to a new book. Any distinguished traveler who comes to our shores is likely to get more dinners and speeches of welcome than he can well dispose of, but the best books, if noticed at all, meet with coldness and suspicion, or, what is worse, gratuitous, off-hand criticism.
book reading believe
After all, I believe it is the style of thought entirely, and the style of expression, which makes the difference in books.
book men unusual
Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution - such call I good books.
book differences self-reliance
In most books, the I, of first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference.
book culture literature
The best books are not read even by those who are called good readers. What does our Concord culture amount to? There is in this town, with a very few exceptions, no taste for the best or for very good books even in English literature, whose words all can read and spell.
book mysterious natural
A truly good book is something as wildly natural and primitive, mysterious and marvelous, ambrosial and fertile as a fungus or a lichen.
book reading dozen
Books that are books are all that you want, and there are but a half dozen in any thousand.
book fate men
The better part of the man is soon ploughed into the soil for compost. By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as it says in an old book, laying up treasures which moth and rust will corrupt and thieves break through and steal. It is a fool's life, as they will find when they get to the end of it, if not before.
book reading ideas
It is one of the signs of the times. We confess that we have risen from reading this book with enlarged ideas, and grander conceptions of our duties in this world. It did expand us a little.
book views clerks
Books of natural history aim commonly to be hasty schedules, or inventories of God's property, by some clerk. They do not in the least teach the divine view of nature, but the popular view, or rather the popular method of studying nature, and make haste to conduct the persevering pupil only into that dilemma where the professors always dwell.
book london wonderland
Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland Gyorgy Ligeti
book character tone
...the characters in my books all resemble each other. They live, with minor variations, the same moments, the same perils, and when I speak of them, my language, which is inspired by them, repeats the same poems in the same tone. Jean Genet
book believe abuse
The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning it. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
book world femme
The world is woman's book. [Fr., Le monde est le livre des femmes.]
book mean simple
Behold the works of our philosophers; with all their pompous diction, how mean and contemptible they are by comparison with the Scriptures! Is it possible that a book at once so simple and sublime should be merely the work of man?
book loud-voices hands
Let the trumpet of the day of judgment sound when it will, I shall appear with this book in my hand before the Sovereign Judge, and cry with a loud voice, This is my work, there were my thoughts, and thus was I. I have freely told both the good and the bad, have hid nothing wicked, added nothing good.
book writing people
People who can write a book usually do. Jilly Cooper
book writing firefighter
I was so flattered that someone wanted me to write a book, I said I would. It was published in 1969.
book london bigs
I'd never have written the big books in London.
book writing thinking
But I always seem to finish a book and then think, oh God, I've got to pay a tax bill, so I'd better write a novel, so I tend not to stop and learn word processing.
book library littles
Nikki Giovanni! I got a book of hers from the library, and there was this woman who could paint me on paper with words - my whole little experience. I thought it was wonderful. Jill Scott
book digital steps
Digital doesn't interest me. It's too many steps removed from the actual tactile thing. I still read books. I don't read online. Jessica Lange
book age entertainment
Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age. Jeremy Collier
book fate despair
I would not despair unless I knew the irrevocable decree was passed; saw my misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and signed and sealed by neces-sity.
book support solitude
Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.