Quotes about book
book names kim
Bizarre as was the name she bore, Kim Ravenal always said she was thankful it had been no worse. Edna Ferber
book dust broken
Stranger, pause and look; From the dust of ages Lift this little book, Turn the tattered pages, Read me, do not let me die! Search the fading letters finding Steadfast in the broken binding All that once was I! Edna St. Vincent Millay
book eye writing
A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public eye with his pants down.
book lines firsts
Oh, friend, forget not, when you fain would note In me a beauty that was never mine, How first you knew me in a book I wrote, How first you loved me for a written line....
book thinking people
This book, when I am dead, will be A little faint perfume of me. People who knew me well will say, She really used to think that way.
book writing years
I knew nothing about the technique of story writing, and now, after eighteen years of writing, I still know nothing about the technique, although with the publication of my new novel, "Tarzan and the Lost Empire", there are 31 books on my list. Edgar Rice Burroughs
book ignorance atheism
Many books have been written to show that Christianity has emasculated the world, that it shoved aside the enlightenment and wisdom of Hellas for a doctrine of superstition and ignorance. Edgar Lee Masters
book comic bigs
I was not a big comic-book reader. Brad Bird
book mind want
I didn't want to do a book just to do a book. I wanted to do a book that, if you should read it, you might take one thing from it. Until that was clear in my mind, I wasn't going to do one. Bobby Orr
book 4th-of-july
Read much, but not too many books. Benjamin Franklin
book library fallen
My father's little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity, most of which I read, and have since often regretted that, at a time when I had such a thirst for knowledge, more proper books had not fallen in my way since it was now resolved I should not be a clergyman.
book library purses
For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head.
book reading knowledge
Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.
book men reader
Women are books, and men the readers be...
book hands littles
All the little money that ever came into my hands was ever laid out in books.
book vegetarianism vegetables
When about 16 Years of Age, I happened to meet with a Book written by one Tryon, recommending a Vegetable Diet. I determined to go into it.... My refusing to eat Flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity....
book wit miscellaneous
Some books we read, tho' few there are that hit the happy point where wisdom joins with wit.
book reading talking
Expose yourself to as much as possible. Attend conferences no one else is attending. Read books no one else is reading. Talk to people no one else is talking to. Ben Casnocha
book romance bookstores
Bookstores see a book by a woman and they put it in the romance section. Barbara Taylor Bradford
book adventure writing
I will never stop writing. People often ask when I will retire, but I say it's none of their business. Writing defines who I am. I love the feeling of holding a finished book in my hands, and then I can't wait to start the great adventure of writing the next one.
book order original-thought
To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost. Barbara Tuchman
book civilization literature-history
Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.
book artist fiction
I have always felt like an artist when I work on a book. I see no reason why the word should always be confined to writers of fiction and poetry.
book communication quality
To be a bestseller is not necessarily a measure of quality, but it is a measure of communication.
book two cooking
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the archive of unpublished papers and documents.
book civilization humanity
Books are the carriers of civilization... .....Books are humanity in print.
book humanity print
Books are humanity in print.
book reading successful
I was not a good doctor, my studies had been too rapid, my hospital training too short, but there is not the slightest doubt that I was a successful doctor. What is the secret of success? To inspire confidence. What is confidence? ... I do not know, I only know that it cannot be acquired by book reading, nor by the bedside of our patients. It is a magic gift granted by birth-right to one man and denied to another. The doctor who possesses this gift can almost raise the dead Axel Munthe
book men long
A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.
book judging lines
We take it for granted we know the whole story - We judge a book by its cover and read what we want between selected lines. Axl Rose
book important democracy
In a well-functioning democracy, the state constitution is considered more important than God's holy book, whichever holy book that may be, and God matters only in your private life. Ayaan Hirsi Ali
book science understanding
The understanding between a non-technical writer and his reader is that he shall talk more or less like a human being and not like an Act of Parliament. I take it that the aim of such books must be to convey exact thought in inexact language... he can never succeed without the co-operation of the reader. Arthur Eddington
book writing army
If I let my fingers wander idly over the keys of a typewriter it might happen that my screed made an intelligible sentence. If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters they might write all the books in the British Museum. The chance of their doing so is decidedly more favourable than the chance of the molecules returning to one half of the vessel.