Quotes about boo
book writing shoes
When a writer has done the best that he can do, he should then withdraw from the book-writing business and take up an honest trade like shoe repair, cattle stealing, or screwworm management. Edward Abbey
book silence clubs
A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.
book cadavers bed
Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking; namely, life.
book oblivion new-books
Most new books drop immediately into the oblivion they so richly deserve.
book two democracy
There are only two kinds of books -- good books and the others. The good are winnowed from the bad through the democracy of time.
book eggs
Books are like eggs -- best when fresh.
book fate people
Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate.
book graduates best-things
The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.
book focus force
Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.
book would-be higher
I expected higher prices for some books, but [there would be] flexibility for other books, Eddy Cue
book character responsibility
Making 'Birdsong,' on the one hand you have how prestigious it is and the reputation of the book, which is something that's an extraordinary piece of work. Sebastian Faulkes is a genius. So you feel that responsibility when you're portraying that character that he's imagined and millions of readers have pictured. Eddie Redmayne
book luxury attention
This is the great luxury of not working: the moment you read a book that has nothing to do with work, you know you're really relaxed. And I have a sh*t attention span. I can't concentrate for more than five minutes.
book hands paper
If I have the option, I always read the paper or a book or something I can touch and destroy in my own hands. Aubrey Plaza
book air ipads
When I'm on the couch, I usually have the TV on and my MacBook Air nearby. And sometimes, when my ADD is really kicking in, I have my iPad too. And my iPhone. And a magazine that I haven't gotten to. And a book under the pillow to my left.
book fiction impossible
While fiction is often impossible, it should not be implausible. Aristotle
book simple realization
The awesome part about The Book of Awesome is the realization that if you enjoy the simple moments in your life, you will be happier. Ben Huh
book kids world
As a small kid, I came across things like these early Edward Gorey books in department-store bookstores. These were these really unusual objects to me. I didn't know how they fit into the comic world or into newspaper comics. Ben Katchor
book fighting enemy
Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand. Ben Horowitz
book faithful may
Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction. Ben Jonson
book looks reader
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
book escaping play
I loved the movie theater so I always saw a lot of movies. And then there was a play, I saw in the local paper, they were having auditions for a play of a book I had read. Which was One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey. So I said, "oh, I've read this, so I'm perfect for the part of the lead." His name is escaping me. Ed O'Neill
book plot research
I have a book coming out in September, for example, where the plot concerns counterfeiting, and I had to do a lot of research on that. Or on any legal matters, for example, I have to do a lot of research online. Ed McBain
book reading son
Some people act as if it were demeaning to their manhood to wish to be well-read but you can no more be a healthy person mentally without reading substantial books than you can be a vigorous person physically without eating solid food. Books should be chosen, not for their freedom from evil, but for their possession of good. Dr. Johnson said: "Whilst you stand deliberating which book your son shall read first, another boy has read both." Earl Nightingale
book sleep heart
Close, close all night the lovers keep. They turn together in their sleep, Close as two pages in a book that read each other in the dark. Each knows all the other knows, learned by heart from head to toes. Elizabeth Bishop
book pages fingertips
Open the book. (The gilt rubs off the edges of the pages and pollinates the fingertips.)
book reading people
Certain books come to meet me, as do people. Elizabeth Bowen
book blow wind
without fiction, either life would be insufficient or the winds from the north would blow too cold.
book reading mind
the process of reading is reciprocal; the book is no more than a formula, to be furnished out with images out of the reader's mind.
book writing thinking
My writing, I am prepared to think, may be a substitute for something I have been born without - a so-called normal relation to society. My books are my relation to society.
book discovery law
All through the centuries scholars and scientists have been imprisoned, tortured and burned alive for some discovery which seemed to conflict with a petty text of Scripture. Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
book aggravation degradation
We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.
book writing men
Men who can, when they wish to write a document, shut themselves up for days with their thoughts and their books, know little of what difficulties a woman must surmount to get off a tolerable production.
book atheism degradation
I know of no other book that so fully teaches the subjection and degradation of women.