Quotes about boo
book thinking way
That chain of relationships made me think of how connections are made--you read a book, you meet a person, you have a single experience, and your life is changed in some way. No act, therefore, however small, should be dismissed or ignored. Howard Zinn
book opportunity long
I had always insisted that a good education was a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, that each enriched the other. I wanted my students to know that the accumulation of knowledge, while fascinating in itself, is not sufficient as long as so many people in the world have no opportunity to experience that fascination.
book firsts imagine
I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early. Howard Nemerov
book would-be psychologist
Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book. Howard Gardner
book topics abandoned
While I've worked on many topics and written many books, I have not abandoned my interest in multiple intelligences.
book computer whole
Theres my education in computers, right there; this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book. Howard Aiken
book names ancestry
It is better to be the builder of our own name than to be indebted by descent for the proudest gifts known to the books of heraldry. Hosea Ballou
book destiny
Books have their destinies. Horace
book writing fiction
It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from us. Guy Gavriel Kay
book writing trying
After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book I would enjoy.
books dark interested reading seeing structure sunny tourist
He's very in depth, on the dark side. He's interested in structure and how things work. After reading his books you can't just be a tourist in those places, only seeing the sunny side. Margaret Atwood
book college kids life line nice social sports three time
He told those kids if your sports life, your social life, and your book life -- if all those three things aren't going well -- then you're not going to have a nice time in college. But get all three in line and then college is a breeze,
book cheerful effectual faithful loveth wholesome
He that loveth a book will never want for a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter Isaac Barrow
book cheerful divert effectual entertain faithful loves pleasantly wholesome
He that loves a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, as in all fortunes. Arthur Helps
books checks guy jacket leaves library minutes player puts takes
He's the only player I've ever had who checks books out of my library in my office. This guy can read a book in about 15 minutes I think. He checks them out. He takes the jacket off, leaves the jacket, then puts it back on when he comes back. Dusty Baker
book changed marrow time
He said at the time that the book scraped him down to the marrow of his bones. It changed him.
book decided
He said let's go down. We did this book together, so I decided to come down. Paul Hornung
book gary handled quite tough
Gary is a pretty tough cookie. Over the years he has handled quite a bit. I don't know what's in the book and other than that, I'm not going to comment. Brian Cashman
book books-and-reading knew smart spoke
Garth was smart enough that he could have done just about anything. He was book savvy, and the things he knew, he knew well. He spoke with confidence.
books-and-reading few general pioneering served
General histories-there have been a few that have served as pioneering books. Iris Chang
books books-and-reading good reading studying
Good thought can be imbibed by reading and studying good books and by contemplating on them.
book men rising-up
Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and genius as if both were high-spirited freedom, as if man were rising up on tiptoe and simply had to dance out of inner pleasure. Friedrich Nietzsche
book heart character
I can tell by my own reaction to it that this book is harmful." But let him only wait and perhaps one day he will admit to himself that this same book has done him a great service by bringing out the hidden sickness of his heart and making it visible.— Altered opinions do not alter a man’s character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate individual aspects of the constellation of his personality which with a different constellation of opinions had hitherto remained dark and unrecognizable.
book writing greek
It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it better.
book ambition doe
The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of 'eternity'; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.
book men intimate
The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and intimate things.
book grateful done
A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against an author when he praises his second book at the expense of his first (or vice versa) and then expects the author to be grateful for what he has done.
book ink born
Never to read another book that was born and baptized (with ink) at the same time.
book writing long
A book should long for pen, ink, and writing-table: but usually it is pen, ink, and writing-table that long for a book. That is why books are so negligible nowadays.
book doe transport
What good is a book that does not even transport us beyond all books?
book hands way
Writers ought to be regarded as wrongdoers who deserve to be acquitted or pardoned only in the rarest cases: that would be a way to keep books from getting out of hand.
book knows
Ultimately, no one can extract from things, books included, more than he already knows.
book hands shoes
It seems to me that to take a book of mine into his hands is one of the rarest distinctions that anyone can confer upon himself. I even assume that he removes his shoes when he does so-not to speak of boots.