Quotes about book
book want individual
I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do. Jack Vance
book influence enormous
But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me.
book fairy-tale tales
Jack Vance's Lyonesse books are the greatest fairy tale of the twentieth century.
book successful film
There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films. Christopher Hampton
book film ifs
If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it right.
book spirit proust
In the spirit of Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot and Alain de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life, Mr. Dyer's Out of Sheer Rage keeps circling its subject in widening loops and then darting at it when you least expect it . . . a wild book. Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
book differences enormous
There's an enormous difference between being a critic and a reviewer. The reviewer reacts to the experience of that book.
book writing people
Every writer has certain subjects that they write about again and again, and . . . most people's books are just variations on certain themes. Christopher Isherwood
book knows
I'm like a book you have to read. A book can't read itself to you. It doesn't even know what it's about. I don't know what I'm about.
book turns
I have suffered for this book; now it's your turn. George Harrison
book years names
In Paul Friedrich's book Proto-Indo-European Trees he identifies the "semantic primitives" of the Indo-European tribe of languages through a group of words that have not changed much through twelve thousand years - and those are tree names: especially birch, willow, adler, elm, ash, apple and beech (bher, wyt, alysos, ulmo, os, abul, bhago). Seed syllables, bija, of the life of the west. Gary Snyder
book civilization western
In Western Civilization, our elders are books.
book reality psychics
Written language must be considered as a particular psychic reality. The book is permanent; it is an object in your field of vision. It speaks to you with a monotonous authority which even its author would not have. You are fairly obliged to read what is written. Gaston Bachelard
book wine age
From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine. Gary Vaynerchuk
book writing add
The thing that I'm most passionate about, I'm writing a book called 'Jab Jab Jab Jab Jab Right Hook,' and it really focuses on how to story-tell in a noisy, ADD world.
book people made
I find it fascinating that a lot of business books that do well are from people who've never made any money in business.
book writing men
Man tends to think that he is a creator, that he is like God. This is especially true of intellectuals, and in the last century, intellectuals tended to forget that they were like everyone else. Writing this book was a description of man going from a state of God back to a state of man, back to being a normal person. Gao Xingjian
book inspire life-is
Any book which inspires us to lead a better life is a good book. Fulton J. Sheen
book rosary blind
The Rosary is the book of the blind.
book ideas wonderful-friends
Books are the most wonderful friends in the world. When you meet them and pick them up, they are always ready to give you a few ideas. When you put them down, they never get mad; when you take them up again, they seem to enrich you all the more.
book oxygen two
Neither theological knowledge nor social action alone is enough to keep us in love with Christ unless both are proceeded by a personal encounter with Him. Theological insights are gained not only from between two covers of a book, but from two bent knees before an altar. The Holy Hour becomes like an oxygen tank to revive the breath of the Holy Spirit in the midst of the foul and fetid atmosphere of the world
book dumb religion
Hey, let's get serious... God knows what he's doin' He wrote this book here And the book says: 'He made us all to be just like Him', So... If we're dumb... Then God is dumb... (And maybe even a little ugly on the side) Frank Zappa
book toilets use
Books Are Good For Lots Of Uses, Not For Dropping In The Toilet.
book instruction situation
I often find myself in situations where it seems to me like everyone else has read the instruction book Jeff Lindsay
book reading doors
Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world. Jeanette Winterson
book home rereading
I'm always nervous about going home, just as I am nervous about rereading books that have meant a lot to me.
book broken begin-again
Part broken - part whole, you begin again. ( from 'Why books seem shockproof against change.' THE TIMES: BOOKS)
book cat garden
I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.
book literature rogues
Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.
book writing left
I fell into the books, and left myself there for safekeeping.
book sentences connected
My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.
book laughing use
The Humans is a laugh-and-cry book. Troubling, thrilling, puzzling, believable and impossible. Matt Haig uses words like a tin-opener. We are the tin.
book goes-on bounds
the power of a text is not time-bound. The words go on doing their work.