Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aldous Huxley

The rush to books and universities is like the rush to the public house. People want to drown their realization of the difficulties of living properly in this grotesque contemporary world, they want to forget their own deplorable inefficiency as artists in life.

Aldous Huxley

Deprived of their newspapers or a novel, reading-addicts will fall back onto cookery books, on the literature which is wrapped around bottles of patent medicine, on those instructions for keeping the contents crisp which are printed on the outside of boxes of breakfast cereals. On anything.

Aldous Huxley

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

Aldous Huxley

Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.

Aldous Huxley

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

Aldous Huxley

Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment.... The world, you must remember, is only just becoming literate. As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures of social life and none of its intolerable tedium.

Albert Pike

The sources of our knowledge of the kabalistic doctrines are the books of Yetzirah and Zohar, the former drawn up in the second century, and the latter a little later; but they contain materials much older than themselves...In them, as in the teachings of Zoroaster, everything that exists emanates from a source of infinite Light.

Albert Einstein

The time comes in life when we have read enough. It's time to stop reading. It's time to lay down the books and write.

Albert Einstein

[Asked about a book in which 100 Nazi professors charged him with scientific error.] Were I wrong, one professor would have been quite enough.

Albert Einstein

About Newton: Nature to him was an open book, whose letters he could read without effort.

Albert Einstein

Anyone can repeat a technical explanation they read in a text-book or blog post.

Albert Einstein

My deep religiosity [...] found an abrupt ending at the age of twelve, through the reading of popular scientific books.

Ali Liebegott

I feel very discouraged with the state of gay and lesbian publishing because I don't feel like we're really welcome in the mainstream and then you get ghettoized and put on some lesbian book club reading list where you don't want to be either.

Ali Liebegott

Sometimes I forget when I read a book that it didn't exist in English first.

Ali Liebegott

In Courtney Moreno's In Case of Emergency the working class save the world and themselves. A wonderful first book!

Ali Smith

All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and be alive to the life in language - on all its levels.

Ali Smith

A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I'd much rather go and read a book.

Ali Smith

We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after reading it just once.

Alexander Kluge

We don't perceive a contradiction between writing books, making films or producing a television program. These days you can't choose how you want to express yourself anymore.

When the parade began, Lloyd came out of the bookstore and was standing on the sidewalk. And when he saw me he called out in a very loud voice: "JOE! Isn't this wonderful! Isn't this a marvelous day! Can you imagine this ever happening?

Neelie Kroes

We want to boost innovation in Europe, but not just by one company.

Adepero Oduye

I was reading the paper and saw a cartoon with Ray Kelly frisking Obama, and I was like "Wait, what's happening?" so I Googled it. For everything Obama stands for and the things he's said in the past in his books, especially with the Trayvon Martin thing - and I'm not sure if he [made his comments on Trayvon] because he was asked a question and he was trying to be diplomatic and neutral - that can't happen.

Adam Ross

I became a writer through drawing first and then a comic book obsession - Marvel Comics, in particular. I invented a world of superheroes starting in third grade with my classmate, Wai-Kwan Wong. In a classroom of forty kids, let's just say there was a lot of undirected time. But this was good because I was a dreamy boy.

Adam Sandler

I finished a big book the other day. 421 pages. That's a lot of coloring when you think about it.

Adam Dunn

Perhaps we should keep our monsters about us, lest we become them ourselves.

When I came back to Washington to be The Times' chief congressional correspondent in 1991, I was looking for a book subject, and Ted Kennedy stood out for two reasons.

Adam Brody

Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.

Adam Carolla

The truth is we're all probably more creative than we realize, except we spend our lives watching TV or reading somebody else's book. We never pick up a brush and stand in front of our own easel.

Adam Carolla

No, I had not read any other comedian's book. Not that I don't enjoy other comedians; I'm just not a reader.

Abraham Pais

One of the things I learned, one of the strangest things, is how to think. There was nothing else to do. I couldn't see people, or go for a walk in the forest. All I had was my head and my books, and I thought a lot.

Abraham Pais

Deliberately or not, every author is of course present in every book he or she writes - even in a scientific text.

Today's data confirmed that big industry is still booming and, of course, that lends support to the big names in that sector.

Maria Shriver

I made the mistake of thinking that external accomplishments would bring me peace. I thought it was about the job or a book or making a name for myself.