Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Lincoln

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men and women

Books last a really long time if you take care of them.

Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West.

William Godwin

Books have been handed down from generation to generation, as the true teachers of piety and the love of God, that represent him as so merciless and tyrannical a despot, that, if they were considered otherwise than through the medium of prejudice, they could inspire nothing but hatred. It seems that the impression we derive from a book, depends much less on its real contents, than upon the temper of mind and preparation with which we read it.

George Crabbe

Books cannot always please, however good;/ Minds are not ever craving for their food.

Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which othermen have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.

Books are special -- they communicate with us directly, ... movies are made by a bunch of people for a larger bunch of people.

Books are provided by the Reading is Fundamental program.

Joanne Harris

I love it when my books cause controversy, when people argue violently about the ending.

Joanne Harris

Remember, it's the winners write the history books, and the losers get the leavings.

Joanne Harris

I don't tend to do category fiction very well. One of my problems when I was starting off was that publishers were hesitant to handle my books because they were never sure what I was going to do next.

Joanne Harris

The great thing about books is that you can end with a question mark.

Joanne Harris

Some books you read. Some books you enjoy. But some books just swallow you up, heart and soul.

Jo Beverley

When I settled to writing seriously, which would be in my 30s, I did expect to be published eventually, but my aspirations werent very high. A published book and a few appreciative readers was my idea of heaven.

Jo Nesbo

I wasn't that into crime novels at all, but a friend introduced me to the work of Jim Thompson - I loved all his books.

Jo Nesbo

The only pressure I feel is to write good books. And to not replicate the previous book. Whether you have a thousand readers or a million readers it doesn't change the pressure. I never feel tempted to give the reader what I think the reader wants.

Jo Brand

Not many women will go out on a limb to make themselves really unattractive and unfeminine so you can get the laughs, but it's a great thing to do in my book.

Jo Brand

I love everything about books. I love the content, the way they look and even the lovely way they smell. I think a book collection says something about you as a person, and certainly my books are something I'd want to pass on for future generations.

Jo Brand

I read that book 'Fat is a Feminist Issue', got a bit desperate halfway through and ate it.

Jimmy Carter

Always I'm working on some of book. That's the way I make a living.

Jimmy Carter

I don't claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I'm home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, 'Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.'

John C. Maxwell

The Compound Effect is a must-read book for success seekers. You want to know what it takes? You want to know what to do? It's all in these pages. The Compound Effect is a clear and concise success operation manual!

The last part of that book is speculating on what another hurricane like that would be like.

Saint Augustine

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

Philip Roth

The long haul kind of wearies me, the thought of doing a book for two or three or years; and you have to rule so much else out of your life. I always knew that literature satisfied a taste for considering life in a certain way, but that it wasn't a guide to living.

Leon Uris

The Jews struggled and stuck together. Their tenacity kept them alive. The fact that my book was a part of this struggle is my greatest achievement.

Mahatma Gandhi

My heart is drawn backwards and forwards between the spinning wheel and books.

Mahatma Gandhi

Untouchability, I hold, is a sin, if Bhagavadgita is one of our Divine Books.

James Thurber

In an extensive reading of recent books by psychologists, psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, and inspirationalists, I have discovered that they all suffer from one or more of these expression-complexes: italicizing, capitalizing, exclamation-pointing, multiple-interrogating, and itemizing. These are all forms of what the psychos themselves would call, if they faced their condition frankly, Rhetorical-Over-Compensation.

James T. Farrell

Life is sad enough without people writing sad books.

James Surowiecki

Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficiently. But too often it seems to make things harder, leaving us with fifty-button remote controls, digital cameras with hundreds of mysterious features and book-length manuals, and cars with dashboard systems worthy of the space shuttle.

James Otis

MAY it please your Honors: I was desired by one of the court to look into the books, and consider the question now before them concerning Writs of Assistance.