Quotes about boo
book moral mines
We get our morals from books. I didn't get mine from books, but I know that morals do come from books- theoretically at least. Mark Twain
book reading thinking
There's nobody for me to attack in this matter even with soft and gentle ridicule-and I shouldn't ever think of using a grown up weapon in this kind of a nursery. Above all, I couldn't venture to attack the clergymen whom you mention, for I have their habits and live in the same glass house which they are occupying. I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked good time.
book writing let-it-go
Well, my book is written-let it go. But if it were only to write over again there wouldn't be so many things left out. They burn in me; and they keep multiplying; but now they can't ever be said. And besides, they would require a library-and a pen warmed up in hell.
book writing use
Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make no judicious use of this capital while it is new.
book reading years
I have no liking for novels or stories - none in the world; and so, whenever I read one - which is not oftener than once in two years, and even in these same cases I seldom read beyond the middle of the book - my distaste for the vehicle always taints my judgment of the literature itself, as a matter of course; and also of course makes my verdict valuless. Are you saying "You have written stories yourself." Quite true: but the fact that an Indian likes to scalp people is no evidence that he likes to be scalped.
book people willing
People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.
book men air
I do not see how astronomers can help feeling exquisitely insignificant, for every new page of the Book of the Heavens they open reveals to them more and more that the world we are so proud of is to the universe of careening globes as is one mosquito to the winged and hoofed flocks and herds that darken the air and populate the plains and forests of all the earth. If you killed the mosquito would it be missed? Verily, What is Man, that he should be considered of God?
book biblical beer
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.
book writing order
Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
book beer men
I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
book writing blood
Experience is an author's most valuable asset; experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood into the book he writes.
book arcs wells
I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well.
book thinking imagination
Anyone who can only think of one way to spell a word obviously lacks imagination.
book writing years
There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the book is not there and worth being written -- it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself.
book wine water
My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
book writing needs
You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention. These are God's adjectives. You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.
book writing successful
A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.
book ideas two
If you invent two or three people and turn them loose in your manuscript, something is bound to happen to them -- you can't help it; and then it will take you the rest of the book to get them out of the natural consequences of that occurrence, and so first thing you know, there's your book all finished up and never cost you an idea.
book somewhere-else people
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
book voice water
The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice. And it was not a book to be read once and thrown aside, for it had a new story to tell every day.
book reading two
One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a book.
book taken inspiration
All men have heard of the Mormon Bible, but few except the "elect" have seen it, or, at least, taken the trouble to read it. I brought away a copy from Salt Lake. The book is a curiosity to me, it is such a pretentious affair, and yet so "slow," so sleepy; such an insipid mess of inspiration. It is chloroform in print. If Joseph Smith composed this book, the act was a miracle — keeping awake while he did it was, at any rate.
book men spirit
Books are the liberated spirits of men.
book character past
As an actor, you're constantly searching for that great character. Also, being a history buff and learning about people in our past and amazing things that they've done, I came across a book about Howard Hughes and he was set up as basically, the most multi-dimensional character I could ever come across. Often, people have tried to define him in biographies, but no one seems to be able to categorize him. Leonardo DiCaprio
book mechanic invention
The Book of the science of Mechanics must precede the Book of useful inventions. Leonardo da Vinci
book medicine drug
Strive to preserve your health; and in this you will better succeed in proportion as you keep clear of the physicians, for their drugs are a kind of alchemy concerning which there are no fewer books than there are medicines.
book hundred written
I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five Oscar Wilde
book reading writing
Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .
book reading writing
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
book reading writing
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
book writing abandoned
Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.
book reading writing
In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.
book reading writing
The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.