Quotes about boo
book two guy
This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two. George Burns
book reading writing
I'd say that about 82 percent of what I write is bad, but don't go by me; I'm as bad a judge as I am a writer. Look, if it were all good, you'd be paying twice as much for this book. So relax, read it, and if you don't enjoy it, remember that you're saving money.
book dark moon
For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of Genesis was a standard scientific treatise, and that the only additions to it were Galileo'a demonstration of Leonardo da Vinci's simple remark that the earth is a moon of the sun, Sir Humphrey Davy's invention of the safety lamp, the discovery of electricity, the application of steam to industrial purposes, and the penny post. George Bernard Shaw
book people
People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them.
book writing mad
I don't know what to say about this book. The experience on which it is founded is so extraordinary, that an honest record of it should be preserved . . . But it would have driven me mad; and I am not sure that the author came out of it without a slight derangement.
book ignorance good-book
The road to ignorance is paved with good editions. Only the illiterate can afford to buy good books now.
book writing may
You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all.
book reading men
How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?
book hands one-day
While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, George Bernard Shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he himself had inscribed for a friend: "To ----, with esteem, George Bernard Shaw." He immediately purchased the book and returned it to the friend with a second inscription: "With renewed esteem, George Bernard Shaw.
book years twenties
For nearly twenty years I have been a published author... But I have never yet seen a book of mine offered for sale in a shop window.
book play trying
The fact is that the intrinsic worth of the book, play or whatever the author is trying to sell is the least, last factor in the the whole transaction.
book school play
I lay my eternal curse on whomsoever shall now or at any time hereafter make schoolbooks of my works and make me hated as Shakespeare is hated. My plays were not designed as instruments of torture. All the schools that lust after them get this answer, and will never get any other.
book lessons world
The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book.
book beer self
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
book men ideas
Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.
book years names
I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.
book school people
There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But in some respects more cruel than a prison. In a prison, for instance, you are not forced to read books written by the warders and the governor. . . .In the prison you are not forced to sit listening to turnkeys discoursing without charm or interest on subjects that they don't understand and don't care about, and therefore incapable of making you understand or care about. In a prison they may torture your body; but they do not torture your brains.
book perfect mankind
Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.
book censorship logical
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
book way addresses
On way. He OK? Aeron Coming. Something wrong? Lucian Take me out of your address book. William Gena Showalter
book needs plunder
Sighing, she shut the book with a snap. “All right. You need to vent, so I’ll listen to you vent. But do it quickly, because Rydstorm was about to plunder Sabine with his thick, hard—
book home warrior
Replies began arriving seconds after he pressed send, and soon every single one of the warriors (besides William) had agreed to come home. Take me out of your address book, William
book done film
I've always loved comic books, which is why I've done films like Hulk and The Punishers, Gale Anne Hurd
book cake icing
I just like the comic book sensibility. If I can turn them into films and TV series, that's just icing on the cake.
book greatness shining
The prohibition of science would be contrary to the Bible, which in hundreds of places teaches us how the greatness and the glory of God shine forth marvelously in all His works, and is to be read above all in the open book of the heavens. Galileo Galilei
book math science
Nature's great book is written in mathematics.
book character statistics
The Universe is a grand book which cannot be read until one first learns to comprehend the language and become familiar with the characters in which it is composed. It is written in the language of mathematics.
book heaven scripture
Scripture is a book about going to Heaven. It's not a book about how the heavens go.
book math language
The book of nature is written in the language of mathematics.
book writing people
Mostly I'm just writing books for the public, and so I try to describe for the public what the choices are, what they might have to expect in the future and so by warning people ahead of time maybe you have an effect. Freeman Dyson
book writing thinking
Some things go better than you expected, other things go worse, so I'm... I think the only sensible thing is just to wait and see and what I'm doing when I'm writing books - I'm not doing science so much anymore.
book redneck race
Thomas Sowell is America's foremost public intellectual and for good reason. His work covers almost every subject imaginable- race, economics, Marxism, ethnic groups, immigration patterns, just to name a few. He is persuasive and provocative and always scintillating. I've read all his books and never been even faintly disappointed. Black Rednecks & White Liberals is no exception. Fred Barnes
book ice should
A book should serve as an axe to the ice inside us. Franz Kafka