Quotes about book
book school knowledge
Train yourselves. Don't wait to be fed knowledge out of a book. Get out and seek it. Make explorations. Do your own research work. Train your hands and your mind. Become curious. Invent your own problems and solve them. You can see things going on all about you. Inquire into them. Seek out answers to your own questions. There are many phenomena going on in nature the explanation of which cannot be found in books. Find out why these phenomena take place. Information a boy gets by himself is enormously more valuable than that which is taught to him in school. Irving Langmuir
book writing age
At the age of thirty-five, I have just begun to become the kind of person who could understand the kind of book I would want to write.
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'Charlotte's Web,' which I read sitting on my mother's lap, was the most emotional experience: that was when I made the leap from seeing how to untangle words to realizing how books both contain and convey strong feelings. Meg Wolitzer
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Charles Patterson's book will go a long way towards righting the terrible wrongs that human beings, throughout history, have perpetrated on non-human animals. I urge you to read it and think deeply about its important message. Jane Goodall
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Changing the standards on the books is not the same as changing the meals themselves. Mark Epstein
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Certain opuscules, denominated 'Christmas Books,' with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration, or other expansive emotions, incident upon the exodus of the old and the inauguration of the new year
book diet lost ought pounds written
But you know what? My cigarettes-popcorn-whiskey diet worked. The pounds just peeled right off. By Christmas, I'd lost 65 pounds. I probably ought to have written a diet book or something. John Daly
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Hopefully in the future, children will read this book with their quilts and be able to forget about their cancer even for just a moment. That one moment of pure happiness is what makes the whole project worthwhile.
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Hopefully my book will do very well. I'm not in it to sell a million books. I want to get my story out. I want people to know that things have not come easy to me and that I've had to work hard to get where I am. Hopefully this book will inspire other people to follow their dreams.
books continues high hopefully level looking ways
Hopefully my books are improving. One of the ways I find motivation to improve is looking at someone who is already at a high level and continues to get better with each book. That's really what you want to emulate. Michael Koryta
book chapter honesty
Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. Thomas Jefferson
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He's very in depth, on the dark side. He's interested in structure and how things work. After reading his books you can't just be a tourist in those places, only seeing the sunny side. Margaret Atwood
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He told those kids if your sports life, your social life, and your book life -- if all those three things aren't going well -- then you're not going to have a nice time in college. But get all three in line and then college is a breeze,
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He that loveth a book will never want for a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter Isaac Barrow
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He that loves a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, as in all fortunes. Arthur Helps
book interesting next
This book is so interesting. I always wonder what's going to happen next. Neal Shusterman
book school average
Do you know that if you take the books in an average school library and stretched out all those words into a single line, the line would go all the way around the world? Actually, I made that up, but doesn't it sound like it should be true?
book writing creativity
I may have a general broad-based idea of what I want to write about when I sit down to write a book, but I don't have any idea of what it's going to say. I would call my experience of creativity 'inspired by God' to produce certain pieces of information that might be useful to others. Neale Donald Walsch
book teaching sacred
There's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Qur'an, there's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Bible, there's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Bhaghavad Gita, or of the Book of Mormon, or of the other sacred texts of many of those religions.
book writing calling
The new spirituality will bring about what I'm calling the 'end of better.' And that is in fact what is called for in the next of the series of books that I've been writing.
book opportunity helping
There is little disagreement on our planet that the lives of most human beings could be improved immensely. Words pour out of lecturers, articles pour out of magazines, and books pour out of authors, all seeking to help us understand how we can have more peace, security, health, opportunity, happiness, fulfillment, abundance, and love.
book mean space
In design-speak, 'a library' means a room lined with books, floor-to ceiling, but it all depends on the space you have. You may have a free-standing bookshelf of your favorite books if that's all you have room for. Nate Berkus
book design-work television
First and foremost, I'm a decorator and product designer. Everything I do, the television shows, the books, that comes from the design work. It's what I love.
book inspiration home
Books are the heart of any home, and I spend hours going through books for design inspiration.
book matter should
No one should ever finish a book they're not enjoying, no matter how popular or well reviewed the book is. Nancy Pearl
book fall reading
When we want a book exactly like the one we just finished reading, what we really want is to recreate that pleasurable experience--the headlong rush to the last page, the falling into a character's life, the deeper understanding we've gotten of a place or a time, or the feeling of reading words that are put together in a way that causes us to look at the world differently. We need to start thinking about what it is about a book that draws us in, rather than what the book is about.
book reading journey
Whenever I begin reading a new book, I am embarking on a new, uncharted journey with an unmarked destination. I never know where a particular book will take me, toward what other books I will be led.
book reading years
If you're 50 years old or younger, give every book about 50 pages before you decide to commit yourself to reading it, or give it up. If you're over 50, which is when time gets shorter, subtract your age from 100 - the result is the number of pages you should read before deciding whether or not to quit. If you're 100 or over you get to judge the book by its cover, despite the dangers in doing so.
book talking people
I have for a long time felt that our society is becoming more and more fractured and divisive and that you could go a whole day without really talking to another person. If you give people a good book to talk about, you can build a community out of a diverse group. A common language grows out of it.
book play two
On an average day, I have two things to read in my purse: a book and a play. Morgan Saylor
book sleep vacation
I go on vacation strictly to relax - to kick back with a good book and do nothing else but read, sleep and eat. Morgan Freeman
book character names
I thought I would keep the first name Susan and change the last name but I picked up this book and as I opened it the lead character in it was called Morgan Brittany. Morgan Brittany
book experience add
Your own experience keeps taking you towards something. My book adds the hope that it's a better something. Moon Unit Zappa