Quotes about book
book devil firsts
Let me first state forthright that contrary to what we've often read in books and heard from preachers, when you are a woman, you don't feel like the Devil. Orhan Pamuk
book turkeys long
In his brilliant new book Pankaj Mishra reverses the long gaze of the West upon the East, showing modern history as it has been felt by the majority of the world's population from Turkey to China. These are the amazing stories of the grandfathers of today's angry Asians. Excellent!
book musical different
Sometimes I sensed that the books I read in rapid succession had set up some sort of murmur among themselves, transforming my head into an orchestra pit where different musical instruments sounded out, and I would realize that I could endure this life because of these musicales going on in my head.
book intelligent touching
A letter doesn't communicate by words alone. A letter, just like a book, can be read by smelling it, touching it and fondling it. Thereby, intelligent folk will say, 'Go on then, read what the letter tells you!' whereas the dull-witted will say, 'Go on then, read what he's written!
book character doe
The greatest advantage of books does not always come from what we remember of them, but from their suggestiveness, their character-building power. Orison Swett Marden
book inspiration hands
The inspiration of a single book has made preachers, poets, philosophers, authors, and statesmen. On the other hand, the demoralization of a single book has sometimes made infidels, profligates, and criminals.
book atmosphere breathe
The best books are those which lift us to a higher plane where we breathe a purer atmosphere.
book thinking two
Whoever thinks algebra is a trick in obtaining unknowns has thought it in vain. No attention should be paid to the fact that algebra and geometry are different in appearance. Algebras (jabbre and maqabeleh) are geometric facts which are proved by propositions five and six of Book two of Elements. Omar Khayyam
book writing names
So I be written in the Book of Love. I do not care about that Book Above. Erase my name, or write it as you will. So I be written in the Book of Love.
book important matter
Publishing is no longer simply a matter of picking worthy manuscripts and putting them on offer. It is now as important to market books properly, to work with the bookstore chains to getterms, co-op advertising, and the like. The difficulty is that publishers who can market are most often not the publishers with worthy lists. Olivia Goldsmith
book thinking years
As we grow older we think more and more of old persons and of old things and places. As to old persons, it seems as if we never know how much they have to tell until we are old ourselves and they have been gone twenty or thirty years. Once in a while we come upon some survivor of his or her generation that we have overlooked, and feel as if we had recovered one of the lost books of Livy or fished up the golden candlestick from the ooze of the Tiber. Oliver Wendell Holmes
book delay all-time
It is a good plan to have a book with you in all places and at all times. If you are presently without, hurry without delay to the nearest shop and buy one of mine.
book reading long
What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?
book order shapes
You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed. Oliver Stone
book hopeful brain
Fascinating, Doidge's book is a remarkable and hopeful portrait of the endless adaptability of the human brain. Oliver Sacks
book reading heart
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
book reading ideas
The ideas of the classics, so far as living, are our commonplaces. It is the modern books that give us the latest and most profound conceptions. It seems to me rather a lazy makeshift to mumble over the familiar.
book men advice
The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
book wind fans
I'm not a fan of 'Gone With the Wind.' I didn't like the movie. I didn't like the book. Octavia Spencer
book behavior consequence
To get along with God, Consider the consequences of your behavior. Earthseed: The Books of the Living Octavia Butler
book awful
Ive read an awful lot of books, Ive read alot of awful books Michael Caine
book pages way
There are many pages in the book, many kinds of lives we each can live, many ways to be rich, and even more to be poor. Merle Shain
book reading enlightening
Spending one hour with Isaias is far more worthwhile, rewarding and enlightening than reading ten books Meles Zenawi
book school eyebrows
Hey...You.. What's life without eyebrows, freak? Got a new listing for your bingo book right here!! A guyis going to be the next lord hokage of Konohagakure village. Uzumaki Naruto! Konoha-school NINJA! Masashi Kishimoto
book modernism hard
Modernism: the books are as hard to understand as life itself. Mason Cooley
book lessons teach
Every book teaches a lesson, even if the lesson is only that one has chosen the wrong book.
book reading past
Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.
book reading dieting
I alternate between reading cook books and reading diet books.
book meaningless
Unlike life, when books become meaningless, they are making a point.
book people conscious
Good books do not make people wiser or happier--only more conscious.
book way mines
I was once in love with books. Now they go their way and I go mine.
book reading avid
Avid readers are enchanted by meaning, which is available chiefly in books.
book reading here-and-there
I read here and there in books, enjoying the examples and ignoring the argument.