Quotes about book
book reading sitting
One of my favorite times was sitting reading quote books, which I did for hours on end ... Hillary Clinton
book thinking written
I don't think I've read any of the books that have been written about me.
book illumination law
There is no other book so various as the Bible, nor one so full of concentrated wisdom. Whether it be of law, business, morals etc...he who seeks for guidance...may look inside its covers & find illumination Herbert Hoover
book writing night
I'm one of those people who go through the world giving other people thrills, but getting few myself except those I read into men on such nights as these. I have the social courage to go on the stage, but not the energy; I haven't the patience to write books; and I never met a man I'd marry. However, I'm only eighteen. F. Scott Fitzgerald
book writing finished
Every author ought to write every book as if he were going to be beheaded the day he finished it.
book writing great-book
Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.
book drunk library
I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.
book mean people
I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway
book ends publishing
Someone ought to publish a book about the doomsayers who keep publishing books about the end of publishing. Evgeny Morozov
book reading listening
The implications are clear: Facebook wants to build an Internet where watching films, listening to music, reading books and even browsing is done not just openly but socially and collaboratively.
book phrases literature
Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases. Evelyn Waugh
book reading differences
If Brideshead Revisited is not a great book, it's so like a great book that many of us, at least while reading it, find it hard to tell the difference.
book firsts opening
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
book worst novel
I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
book believe belief
I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author.
book mind attention
She told me later that she had made a kind of note of me in her mind, as, scanning the shelf for a particular book, one will sometimes have one's attention caught by another, take it down, glance at the title page and saying "I must read that, too, when I've the time," replace it and continue the search.
book hands vases
To see Stephen Spender fumbling with our rich and delicate language is to experience all the horror of seeing a Sevres vase in the hands of a chimpanzee.
book feelings watches
I do everything I watch, whether it's like a big comic book film that I've done or something very serious and raw.I do have that initial feeling like I'm the worst, this is awful, my work is - I've let everybody down. I definitely have that. Eva Mendes
book years forgotten
Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them. Evan Esar
book passion men
But he who truly loves books loves all books alike, and not only this, but it grieves him that all other men do not share with him this noble passion. Verily, this is the most unselfish of loves! Eugene Field
book temptation
Let my temptation be a book, which I shall purchase, hold and keep.
book reading practice
All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed ... No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.
book air perfume
Books do actually consume air and exhale perfumes.
book appreciated book-lover
No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.
book eye heart
GOD made my life complete when I placed all the pieces before him. When I got my act together, he gave me a fresh start. Now I'm alert to GOD's ways; I don't take God for granted. Every day I review the ways he works; I try not to miss a trick. I feel put back together, and I'm watching my step. GOD rewrote the text of my life when I opened the book of my heart to his eyes. Eugene H. Peterson
book media innovation
What's really going on here is, this is a media shift. It's comparable to what happened in the 1950s and the birth of electronic mass media back then.This is the birth of a new kind of personal media, where, instead of we're all watching one program, we're all watching each other. And the history of media makes it really clear. Whenever we have a big innovation, the first wave of stuff we do is pretty crummy. The printing press gave us pornography, cheap thrillers, and how-to books. Television gave us Newt Minow's vast wasteland. Esther Dyson
book winning looks
If you look at the record books, Dale Earnhardt's done everything, except win the Daytona 500. Now they can't have that riding over him. Now they're just going to say, 'Dale Earnhardt, 1998 Daytona 500 winner,' and his shoulders are going to get lighter every time. Ernie Irvan
books-and-movies geek war-games
When someone asks if you're a god, you say YES! Ernie Hudson
book destiny bullets
Habent sua fata libelli et balli [Books and bullets have their own destinies] Ernst Junger
book writing wrecks
The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life - and one is as good as another. Ernest Hemingway
book writing destructive
Having books published is very destructive to writing.
book reading people
In company with people of your own trade you ordinarily speak of other writers' books. The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves. Joyce was a very great writer and he would only explain what he was doing to jerks. Other writers that he respected were supposed to be able to know what he was doing by reading it.
book writing good-friend
When I had finished the book I knew that no matter what Scott did, nor how he behaved, I must know it was like a sickness and be of any help I could to him and try to be a good friend. He had many good, good friends, more than anyone I knew. But I enlisted as one more, whether I could be of any use to him or not. If he could write a book as fine as The Great Gatsby I was sure that he could write an even better one. I did not know Zelda yet, and so I did not know the terrible odds that were against him. But we were to find them out soon enough.