Quotes about book
book thinking way
Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love. Orhan Pamuk
book devil firsts
Let me first state forthright that contrary to what we've often read in books and heard from preachers, when you are a woman, you don't feel like the Devil.
book turkeys long
In his brilliant new book Pankaj Mishra reverses the long gaze of the West upon the East, showing modern history as it has been felt by the majority of the world's population from Turkey to China. These are the amazing stories of the grandfathers of today's angry Asians. Excellent!
book musical different
Sometimes I sensed that the books I read in rapid succession had set up some sort of murmur among themselves, transforming my head into an orchestra pit where different musical instruments sounded out, and I would realize that I could endure this life because of these musicales going on in my head.
book intelligent touching
A letter doesn't communicate by words alone. A letter, just like a book, can be read by smelling it, touching it and fondling it. Thereby, intelligent folk will say, 'Go on then, read what the letter tells you!' whereas the dull-witted will say, 'Go on then, read what he's written!
book character doe
The greatest advantage of books does not always come from what we remember of them, but from their suggestiveness, their character-building power. Orison Swett Marden
book inspiration hands
The inspiration of a single book has made preachers, poets, philosophers, authors, and statesmen. On the other hand, the demoralization of a single book has sometimes made infidels, profligates, and criminals.
book atmosphere breathe
The best books are those which lift us to a higher plane where we breathe a purer atmosphere.
book thinking two
Whoever thinks algebra is a trick in obtaining unknowns has thought it in vain. No attention should be paid to the fact that algebra and geometry are different in appearance. Algebras (jabbre and maqabeleh) are geometric facts which are proved by propositions five and six of Book two of Elements. Omar Khayyam
book writing names
So I be written in the Book of Love. I do not care about that Book Above. Erase my name, or write it as you will. So I be written in the Book of Love.
book important matter
Publishing is no longer simply a matter of picking worthy manuscripts and putting them on offer. It is now as important to market books properly, to work with the bookstore chains to getterms, co-op advertising, and the like. The difficulty is that publishers who can market are most often not the publishers with worthy lists. Olivia Goldsmith
book thinking years
As we grow older we think more and more of old persons and of old things and places. As to old persons, it seems as if we never know how much they have to tell until we are old ourselves and they have been gone twenty or thirty years. Once in a while we come upon some survivor of his or her generation that we have overlooked, and feel as if we had recovered one of the lost books of Livy or fished up the golden candlestick from the ooze of the Tiber. Oliver Wendell Holmes
book delay all-time
It is a good plan to have a book with you in all places and at all times. If you are presently without, hurry without delay to the nearest shop and buy one of mine.
book reading long
What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?
book order shapes
You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed. Oliver Stone
book hopeful brain
Fascinating, Doidge's book is a remarkable and hopeful portrait of the endless adaptability of the human brain. Oliver Sacks
book reading heart
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
book reading ideas
The ideas of the classics, so far as living, are our commonplaces. It is the modern books that give us the latest and most profound conceptions. It seems to me rather a lazy makeshift to mumble over the familiar.
book men advice
The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
book wind fans
I'm not a fan of 'Gone With the Wind.' I didn't like the movie. I didn't like the book. Octavia Spencer
book behavior consequence
To get along with God, Consider the consequences of your behavior. Earthseed: The Books of the Living Octavia Butler
book boredom causes
Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite. Novalis
book past use
In this box are all the words I know…Most of them you will never need, some you will use constantly, but with them you may ask all the questions which have never been answered and answer all the questions which have never been asked. All the great books of the past and all the ones yet to come are made with these words. With them there is no obstacle you cannot overcome. All you must learn to do is to use them well and in the right places. Norton Juster
book boys night
And now," he continued, speaking to Milo, "where were you on the night of July 27?" "What does that have to do with it?" asked Milo. "It's my birthday, that's what," said the policeman as he entered "Forgot my birthday" in his little book. "Boys always forget other people's birthdays.
book good-book distinction
There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.
book character writing
And when I'm writing, I write a lot anyway. I might write pages and pages of conversation between characters that don't necessarily end up in the book, or in the story I'm working on, because they're simply my way of getting to know the characters
book writing kids
I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities, but I kept putting off writing it. Instead I started to write what became The Phantom Tollbooth
book thinking good-book
I think really good books can be read by anybody.
book writing thinking
The only other thing which I think is important is: Don't write a book or start a book with the expectation of communicating a message in a very important way.
book boys littles
AHA!" interrupted Officer Shrift, making another note in his little book. "Just as I thought: boys are the cause of everything.
book car quality
I don't have an interest in any car that isn't good for the environment, other than maybe an aesthetic quality in a picture book. Emile Hirsch
book sleep night
Read day and night, devour books—these sleeping pills—not to know but to forget! Through books you can retrace your way back to the origins of spleen, discarding history and its illusions. Emile M. Cioran
book design causes
A book has to dig through the wounds, more, it has cause a new one, a book it has to be dangerous.