Quotes about boo
book greatest-fear
My greatest fear is being somewhere without a book. Patricia MacLachlan
book writing essence
I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope, if you ramble off... As my friend Julius Lester says, A picture book is the essence of an experience.
book years four
Anything that propels me to create, like [my book, Straight Walk]. It kept me inspired for almost four years. Patricia Velasquez
book reading writing
We have to tell the American public that they're missing the boat, that they have to get into writing and reading. Not only that, but books won't crash in the year 2000. Patricia Schroeder
book forgiving should
You and I will always be friends." "Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that. Oscar Wilde
book names common-sense
Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense.
book men may
Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable
book prejudice reviews
I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so.
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Governors are recognizing that the iron is hot for states to move on this, especially as they're coming under increasing (federal) accountability demands to significantly boost student achievement.
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Governor Perry has been the most open book in terms of a long-standing history of releasing his complete tax returns for years so the public is able to totally examine his sources of income.
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Go out and find a copy of 'The Shrinking Of Treehorn' and its sequel, 'Treehorn's Treasure.' Written by Florence Parry Heide and illustrated by the great Edward Gorey, master of the gothic and the macabre, these books are small masterpieces. Chris Riddell
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Granted, a long book can be as daunting as a hard one. I nearly reached for 'Game of Thrones' until I saw the bookshelf sagging under the burden of those other volumes.
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Great books are weighed and measured by their style and matter and not by the trimmings and shadings of their grammer Mark Twain
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For old people and people with disabilities, winter is an enormous problem. We know people who just don't go out in winter, because by the time they've got their coats and boots on, they're exhausted.
books input public purpose
For that purpose alone, we need to find out what's on the books and see what kind of input the public has for this.
book people
For people who like that kind of a book that is the kind of book they will like Abraham Lincoln
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For someone who does as many things as he does -- edits, writes columns, writes books, lectures -- he is calm and very relaxed with a great wry sense of humor about things.
book teaching reading
My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts. Jack Prelutsky
book writing differences
There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that the bigger books take a lot longer to do.
book differences provinces
Anyone who has crossed from the district of Bolkhov into that of Zhizdra will probably have been struck by the sharp difference between the natives of the provinces of Orel and Kaluga. Ivan Turgenev
book fall reflection
He went to bed early, but could not fall asleep. He was haunted by sad and gloomy reflections about the inevitable end- death. These thoughts were familiar to him, many times had he turned them over this way and that, first shuddering at the probability of annihilation, then welcoming it, almost rejoicing in it. Suddenly a peculiarly familiar agitation took possession of him... He mused awhile, sat down at the table, and wrote down the following lines in his sacred copy-book, without a single correction:
book tears trying
We came to say, the Quran is our constitution, we are committed to God and his holy book. God willing, should they try to carry out their crime against the Quran, God will tear their state apart and they will become God's lesson to anyone who tries to desecrate the holy book. Ismail Haniyeh
book rubbish dip
I love to cook. But I'm a bit rubbish. I tend to start something and then dip into a book or have a conversation and come back and everything's burnt. Isla Fisher
book looks dinner
I never have time to cook, so I just look through the books and imagine the dishes I would make if I wasn't going out for a business dinner.
book writing ghetto
Richard Price, who has made a fortune writing fake ghetto books, says he takes a cab into the ghetto, transcribes Black speech for a brief time and returns home. His fake ghetto books have bought him a townhouse in Gramercy Park and home on Staten Island. Ishmael Reed
book night thinking
I have Black guys who tell me they put my books on their bed stands to read at night like something for guidance or information. That really pleases me a lot. I think my work has changed some things. It's changed me.
book writing boxing
My stuff is direct. Critics have compared my writing style with boxing all the way back to 1978 when my first book of essays appeared: it was compared to Muhammad Ali's style.
book ghetto rocks
There would be no Rock and Roll without Ike Turner, James Brown, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Allen Toussaint, etc. Fake ghetto books and fake ghetto music. Elvis Presley, whom they idol, is merely a karaoke makeover of James Brown and Chuck Berry.
book ghetto men
Constance L. Rice, co-director of the Los Angeles of the Advancement Project, told the Times that Seltzer might have been influenced by David Simon's fake ghetto series, "The Wire." It figures. Isn't this sexism? Isn't this a double standard? They're hard on this young woman for her fake ghetto book, yet praise these White guys for theirs. So there's a big market in downing Black men.
book home writing
You know, I think everybody I've seen has come from some other therapy, and almost invariably it's very much the same thing: the therapist is too disinterested, a little too aloof, a little too inactive. They're not really interested in the person, he doesn't relate to the person. All these things I've written so much about. That's why I've made such a practice really, over and over to hammer home the point of self-revelation and being more of yourself and showing yourself. Every book I write I want to get that in there. Irvin D. Yalom
book writing opposites
None of my patients are really troubled by the idea that some part of what they say might be in a book in the future. Some have expressed the very opposite feeling--the fear that they would not be interesting enough to write about.
book going-out kind
I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel. Irvine Welsh
book writing way
Every kind of book I've written has been written in a different way. There has not been any set time for writing, any set way, I haven't re-invented the process every time but I almost have.