Quotes about book
book reading
In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own. Edgar Allan Poe
book light golden
The sun was slowly setting in the west, casting golden beams of light into the somber old room. Eleanor Porter
book thoughtful men
There was a thoughtful frown on the face of the man who was the possessor of twenty million dollars.
book college academic
Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books. Elbert Hubbard
book thinking importance
No book is of much importance; the vital thing is, What do you yourself think?
book reading doctors
A book on cheap paper does not convince. It is not prized, it is like a wheezy doctor with pigtail tobacco breath, who needs a manicure.
book ideas people
One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted. Eleanor Roosevelt
book reading loss
Of all the nations in the Western world, the United States, with the most money and the most time, has the fewest readers of books per capita. This is an incalculable loss. This, too, is one of the few civilized nations in the world which is unable to support a single magazine devoted solely to books.
book past years
Finding oil is a multidisciplinary science. You need a lot of people - statisticians, engineers, and geologists, of course. And what I have learned in the past 30 years is that I read people better than I read books. Eike Batista
book writing numbers
In this respect a program is like a poem: you cannot write a poem without writing it. Yet people talk about programming as if it were a production process and measure "programmer productivity" in terms of "number of lines of code produced". In so doing they book that number on the wrong side of the ledger: we should always refer to "the number of lines of code spent". Edsger Dijkstra
book laughing ears
When a book is alive, really alive, you feel it. You put it to your ear here, and you feel it breathe, sometimes laugh, sometimes cry, just like a person, a little person. Eduardo Galeano
book greatness trying
Always in all my books I'm trying to reveal or help to reveal the hidden greatness of the small, of the little, of the unknown — and the pettiness of the big,
book ideas smell
Music endures and ages far better than books. Books, made of words, are unavoidably attached to ideas, events, conflict, and history, but music has the power to transcend time. At least for a time. Palestrina sounds as fresh today as he did in 1555, but Dante, only three centuries older, already smells of the archaic, the medieval, the catacombs. Edward Abbey
book hero brave
What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
book sacrifice squares
I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand.
book reviews written
I've never yet read a review of one of my own books that I couldn't have written much better myself.
book enemy lasts
There comes a time in the life of us all when we must lay aside our books or put down our tools and leave our place of work and walk forth on the road to meet the enemy face-to-face. Once and for all and at last
book writing years
How long does it take to write a good book? All of the years that you've lived.
book facts written
My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet.
book reviews reviewers
It is always dishonest for a reviewer to review the author instead of the author's book.
book utah arizona
My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah.
book writing shoes
When a writer has done the best that he can do, he should then withdraw from the book-writing business and take up an honest trade like shoe repair, cattle stealing, or screwworm management.
book silence clubs
A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.
book cadavers bed
Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking; namely, life.
book oblivion new-books
Most new books drop immediately into the oblivion they so richly deserve.
book two democracy
There are only two kinds of books -- good books and the others. The good are winnowed from the bad through the democracy of time.
book eggs
Books are like eggs -- best when fresh.
book fate people
Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate.
book graduates best-things
The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.
book focus force
Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.
book would-be higher
I expected higher prices for some books, but [there would be] flexibility for other books, Eddy Cue
book character responsibility
Making 'Birdsong,' on the one hand you have how prestigious it is and the reputation of the book, which is something that's an extraordinary piece of work. Sebastian Faulkes is a genius. So you feel that responsibility when you're portraying that character that he's imagined and millions of readers have pictured. Eddie Redmayne
book luxury attention
This is the great luxury of not working: the moment you read a book that has nothing to do with work, you know you're really relaxed. And I have a sh*t attention span. I can't concentrate for more than five minutes.