Quotes about book
books bought exist historical lived mostly secret stories
When I lived in China, there were no libraries. My mother bought books for me, and they were mostly the classics. I read 'Peter Pan,' 'The Secret Garden,' the 'Rosemary' books, and Kipling's 'Just So' Stories was one of my favorites. No, I didn't read historical fiction. It didn't exist where I was growing up in China. Jean Fritz
books knew left life publishers ready senate several time
When I left the Senate in 1979, there were several publishers who had approached me about writing an autobiography, and I knew that politicians write books for many reasons, but at that time, I just thought I wasn't ready and my story wasn't over, and I knew I had a new life ahead of me. Edward Brooke
books central city deserves earth history huge humans left moment star thousand travel written
When the history books are written in a thousand years, when space travel would have become routine, the moment that humans first left Earth will be of huge importance. Star City is a central part of this story and it deserves more recognition. Helen Sharman
book use be-careful
You have to be careful not to use anything too colloquial or you date the book. Chris Crutcher
book reading stories
Sometimes a book is better than it ever had a right to be because of the history the reader brings to the reading and because of the methods educators use to bring a particular story alive.
book dark thinking
I think the value in books like mine, and a great number by other talented writers, is in the ability to bring dark subjects into the open where they are not so dark, where they can be talked about and considered by teens and adults alike.
book class long
For a long time all I wanted for Christmas were books about outdoor survival. I was convinced that the woods were calling me. I camped a lot, I took classes. At 18, I told myself if I don't live in the woods by myself by the time I'm 25, I have failed. Chris Evans
book mean people
The comic book world is so dangerous, you know what I mean? You say one thing and people - they're ravenous - they are very opinionated fans. But they're great fans.
books fiction novel several though
I'm omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though I'll read a novel in a day or two.
book cutting pieces
If your creed and Scripture do not agree, cut your creed to pieces, but make it agree with this book. Charles Spurgeon
book thinking complaining
God gave me this great book to preach from, and if He has put anything in it you think is not fit, go and complain to Him, not to me. I am simply his servant, and if His errand that I am to tell is objectionable, I cannot help it.
book good-book
Visit many good books, but live in the Bible.
book technology color
Code is not like other how-computers-work books. It doesn't have big color illustrations of disk drives with arrows showing how the data sweeps into the computer. Code has no drawings of trains carrying a cargo of zeros and ones. Metaphors and similes are wonderful literary devices but they do nothing but obscure the beauty of technology. Charles Petzold
book character writing
The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can set a character in a story that is compelling and has a backbone, you draw people in. Dick Wolf
book goes-on internet
There are other options out there, after all, like read a book, go on the Internet, rent a movie.
book chocolate nerd
Life is like a box of chocolates, I'm a nerd and I read books Dick Van Dyke
book writing luck
I wrote a little autobiography about how luck has to do with everything. It's called 'My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business.' A publisher came to me and said, 'Write a book,' so I did. I wanted to call it 'Everybody Else Has Got a Book.'
book years meat
Years ago on the set of Gunsmoke I read the book The Holy Science. Since then I have not eaten meat. Dennis Weaver
book essays
For books, I don't read much fiction, but like travel essays and good pop-science. Dennis Ritchie
book america keith
America, not Keith Ellison, decides what book a congressman takes his oath on, Dennis Prager
book men intuition
Men need rule books. Women want men to intuit what they want. And only about 2% of men can do that, and most of them are not heterosexual.
book law cities
I will lead you to the City Hall, clean out the police force, hang the Prosecuting Attorney, burn every book that has a particle of law in it, then enact new laws for the workingmen. Denis Kearney
book dark talent
When one compares the talents one has with those of a Leibniz , one is tempted to throw away one's books and go die quietly in the dark of some forgotten corner. Denis Diderot
book learning numbers
As long as the centuries continue to unfold, the number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come when it will be almost as difficult to learn anything from books as from the direct study of the whole universe. It will be almost as convenient to search for some bit of truth concealed in nature as it will be to find it hidden away in an immense multitude of bound volumes.
book my-best-friend i-can
My best friends are books, I can easily read them and take them wherever I go. Deborah Roberts
book secret library
The librarians know the secrets, not the historians Dee Brown
book korea practice
Whenever I visit Korea she [Kang] buys me lunch and takes me to a gallery. As if all this wasn't enough, she has incredible respect for translation as a creative, artistic practice - she insists that each English version is 'our book', offered to share her fees with me when she found out I wasn't getting paid for translating her publicity stuff, always asks the editor to credit me, and does so herself whenever she's interviewed. Too good to be true. Deborah Smith
book views years
I was in the second year of my PhD when I first had the idea - I'd recently started working as a translator, which meant firstly that I was hearing about amazing-sounding books from other translators, and also that I was getting enough of an insider's view of the publishing industry to be aware of all the implicit biases that made it so difficult for these books to ever get published, especially if they weren't from European languages (harder to discover, editors can't read the original, lack of funding programmes, authors who don't speak English).
book people giving
I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari. Dean Koontz
book writing matter
There's still a fascination with somebody who can write at book length, no matter what the book is.
book choices made
I always thought happiness was a choice and I always chose things that made me happy, and books were one of those.
book healing expectations
Awareness-mindfulness-is the first step in healing. In Counterclockwise, Dr. Ellen Langer eloquently describes how becoming more aware of our beliefs and expectations allows us to powerfully transform our lives for the better. A pioneering, beautifully-written book. Dean Ornish
book use paper
I still like paper books. Like, book is a flammable object. After you read it, you could use it to get warm. Or it could become a pile of napkins. Demetri Martin