Quotes about boo
book order original-thought
To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost. Barbara Tuchman
book civilization literature-history
Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.
book artist fiction
I have always felt like an artist when I work on a book. I see no reason why the word should always be confined to writers of fiction and poetry.
book communication quality
To be a bestseller is not necessarily a measure of quality, but it is a measure of communication.
book two cooking
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the archive of unpublished papers and documents.
book civilization humanity
Books are the carriers of civilization... .....Books are humanity in print.
book humanity print
Books are humanity in print.
book reading successful
I was not a good doctor, my studies had been too rapid, my hospital training too short, but there is not the slightest doubt that I was a successful doctor. What is the secret of success? To inspire confidence. What is confidence? ... I do not know, I only know that it cannot be acquired by book reading, nor by the bedside of our patients. It is a magic gift granted by birth-right to one man and denied to another. The doctor who possesses this gift can almost raise the dead Axel Munthe
book men long
A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.
book judging lines
We take it for granted we know the whole story - We judge a book by its cover and read what we want between selected lines. Axl Rose
book important democracy
In a well-functioning democracy, the state constitution is considered more important than God's holy book, whichever holy book that may be, and God matters only in your private life. Ayaan Hirsi Ali
book science understanding
The understanding between a non-technical writer and his reader is that he shall talk more or less like a human being and not like an Act of Parliament. I take it that the aim of such books must be to convey exact thought in inexact language... he can never succeed without the co-operation of the reader. Arthur Eddington
book writing army
If I let my fingers wander idly over the keys of a typewriter it might happen that my screed made an intelligible sentence. If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters they might write all the books in the British Museum. The chance of their doing so is decidedly more favourable than the chance of the molecules returning to one half of the vessel.
book writing army
If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.
book men expression
By a man's finger-nails, by his coat-sleeve, by his boots, by his trouser-knees, by the callosities of his forefinger and thumb, by his expression, by his shirt-cuff — By each of these things a man's calling is plainly revealed. That all united should fail to enlighten the competent inquirer in any case is almost inconceivable. You know that a conjurer gets no credit when once he has explained his trick; and if I show you too much of my method of working, you will come to the conclusion that I am a very ordinary individual after all. Arthur Conan Doyle
book names facts
You mentioned your name as if I should recognize it, but beyond the obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a freemason, and an asthmatic, I know nothing whatever about you.
book attention body
Have you tried to drive a harpoon through a body? No? Tut, tut, my dear sir, you must really pay attention to these details.
book mysterious language
As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.
book reading writing
You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.
book musical bells
The great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell.
book character would-be
He foresaw that she would be very much more useful to him in the character of a free woman.
book men hands
The setting is a worthy one, if the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.
book office prosperity
The approach to the offices of Girdlestone and Co. was not a very dignified one, nor would the uninitiated who traversed it form any conception of the commercial prosperity of the firm in question.
book home eye
Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantel-piece, and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case. With his long, white, nervous fingers he adjusted the delicate needle, and rolled back his left shirt-cuff. For some little time his eyes rested thoughtfully upon the sinewy forearm and wrist, all dotted and scarred with innumerable puncture-marks. Finally, he thrust the sharp point home, pressed down the tiny piston, and sank back into the velvet-lined armchair with a long sigh of satisfaction.
book history individual
It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.
book reading writing
I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the people who write about this and made people think about it. I'm rather proud of the fact that I know several astronauts who became astronauts through reading my books. Arthur C. Clarke
book reading boredom
A well-stocked mind is safe from boredom.
book writing should-have
No trilogy should have more than four books.
book thinking ideas
When I start on a book, I have been thinking about it and making occasional notes for some time... So I have lots of theme, locale, subjects and technical ideas... I don't worry about long periods of not doing anything. I know my subconscious is busy.
book dedication three
In accordance with the terms of the Clarke-Asimov treaty, the second-best science writer dedicates this book to the second-best science-fiction writer. [dedication to Isaac Asimov from Arthur C. Clarke in his book Report on Planet Three]
book library together
It doesn't matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put together they make a ruble. Each painting displayed in a gallery and each good book that makes it into a library, no matter how small they may be, serve a great cause: accretion of the national wealth. Anton Chekhov
book wife cigar
It is as acceptable now to love the wives of others as it is to smoke their cigars and read their books.
book tv-shows magazines
When I open many books, or most leading women's magazines, or see almost all TV shows, I don't find myself at all. I am completely anonymous. My value system is not there. Bela Karolyi