Quotes about book
book thinking possibility
I suppose what's happened recently has confirmed suspicions I voiced in the book, and I think made clearer some of those things that I point out. For instance I have a section of the book where I talk about the possibility of torture. Peter Singer
book inspiration reading
Your inspiration is better if it comes from many different sources and your sensibilities will transform all those influences and inspiration into your own visual world. It's like reading the book instead of watching the movie. Peter Lindbergh
book eye feelings
My eye is fixed not on the ending of the book but on the feeling of that ending. Peter Matthiessen
book definitions statistics
A definition is death. A definition is the answer to which you must look up the question in the back of your book. Peter Hammill
book school writing
I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn't excite me and didn't even remotely connect to the realities of my life. R. A. Salvatore
book might way
I didn't and don't go to Internet for any business purposes. The book sales for me by this point are way beyond any influence I might have, positively, or others might have, negatively.
book reading writing
Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.
book writing dragons
Whenever you're writing a book or creating a movie or a game, your first task is to get the reader to suspend disbelief, to buy into the logic and boundaries of your world, even though those boundaries might include things like dragons and magic.
book reading way
Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin. Quentin Crisp
book writing django
I was writing a film criticism book on Sergio Corbucci, the director who did the original Django. So, I was kind of getting immersed in his world. Towards the end of the Inglourious Basterds press tour I was in Japan. Spaghetti Westerns are really popular there, so I picked up a bunch of soundtracks and spent my day off listening to all these scores. And all of a sudden the opening scene [Django] just came to me. Quentin Tarantino
book black tonight
Like books and black lives - albums still matter. Tonight and always. Prince
book angel heaven
If English is spoken in heaven. God undoubtedly employs Cranmer as his speechwriter. The angels of the lesser ministries probably use the language of the New English Bible and the Alternative Service Book for internal memos. Prince Charles
book numbers titles
Short chaps evolved naturally, but I didn't title and number them till much later. I like short chaps, like short books too, as a rule. Poe Ballantine
book can-not
There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it, Pliny the Elder
book may use
No book so bad but some part may be of use.
book delight bones
Books delight to the very marrow of one's bones. They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a living and intense intimacy. Plutarch
book latter aim
We ought to regard books as we do sweetmeats, not wholly to aim at the pleasantest, but chiefly to respect the wholesomest; not forbidding either, but approving the latter most.
book firsts talent
There is not less wit nor invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought. Cardinal du Perron has been heard to say that the happy application of a verse of Virgil has deserved a talent. Pierre Bayle
book reading guessing
Memorizing, guessing, looking at pictures, predicting, substituting, and skipping, are not reading; they are very bad habits. Phyllis Schlafly
book holiday holy-days
Its no coincidence that the word holiday suggests a holy day, or that the longest book in the Torah concerns the Sabbath. If you wish to advance in any sphere, the best way is to take a retreat. Pico Iyer
book heart glasses
What more could one ask of a companion? To be forever new and yet forever steady. To be strange and familiar all at once, with enough change to quicken my mind, enough steadiness to give sanctuary to my heart. The books on my shelf never asked to come together, and they would not trust or want to listen to one another; but each is a piece of a stained-glass whole without which I couldn’t make sense to myself, or to the world outside.
book loser winner
Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn't feature. Phillip Noyce
book essence feelings
Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit. Philip Yancey
book writing giving
When I don't know the answer to something, I write a book about it because it gives me a chance to explore it and go to some people who do have the answers.
book writing cities
We preach sermons, write books on apologetics, conduct city-wide evangelistic campaigns. For those alienated from the church, that approach no longer has the same drawing power. And for the truly needy, words alone don't satisfy; "A hungry person has no ears," as one relief worker told me. A skeptical world judges the truth of what we say by the proof of how we live.
book mean saint
The vocation of being a 'protector' [. . .] means protecting all creation, the beauty of the created world, as the Book of Genesis tells us and as Saint Francis of Assisi showed us [. . .] In the end, everything has been entrusted to our protection, and all of us are responsible for it. Be protectors of God’s gifts! Pope Francis
book stories may
A writer of story books! What kind of business in life-what mode of glorifying God, or being serviceable to mankind in his day and generation-may that be? Why, the degenerate fellow might as well have been a fiddler! Nathaniel Hawthorne
book reading men
Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
book twilight sunshine
The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.
book winter doors
Pleasant is a rainy winter's day, within doors! The best study for such a day, or the best amusement,—call it which you will,—is a book of travels, describing scenes the most unlike that sombre one
book should-have america
America is now wholly given over to a d--d mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash - and should be ashamed of myself if I did succeed. What is the mystery of these innumerable editions of the Lamplighter, and other books neither better nor worse? - worse they could not be, and better they need not be, when they sell by 100,000.
book men hands
It will startle you to see what slaves we are to by-gone times-to Death, if we give the matter the right word! ... We read in Dead Men's books! We laugh at Dead Men's jokes, and cry at Dead Men's pathos! . . . Whatever we seek to do, of our own free motion, a Dead Man's icy hand obstructs us!
book taken littles
It is a little remarkable, that - though disinclined to talk overmuch of myself and my affairs at the fireside, and to my personal friends - an autobiographical impulse should twice in my life have taken possession of me, in addressing the public.