Quotes about book
book choices library
Books are becoming everything to me. If I had at this moment any choice in life, I would bury myself in one of those immense libraries...and never pass a waking hour without a book before me. Thomas B. Macaulay
book blessing able
What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!
book believe school
It is, I believe, no exaggeration to say that all the historical information which has been collected from all the books written in the Sanskrit language is less valuable than what may be found in the most paltry abridgement used at preparatory schools in England.
book literature western
Western literature has been more influenced by the Bible than any other book.
book language should
The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.
book errors glasses
From whence it happens, that they which trust to books, do as they that cast up many little sums into a greater, without considering whether those little sums were rightly cast up or not; and at last finding the error visible, and not mistrusting their first grounds, know not which way to clear themselves; but spend time in fluttering over their books, as birds that entering by the chimney, and finding themselves enclosed in a chamber, flutter at the false light of a glass window, for want of wit to consider which way they came in. Thomas Hobbes
book reading glue
I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down. Tim Vine
book kevin comic
Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book. And I certainly would never read anything written by Kevin Smith. Tim Burton
book comic know-me
Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book.
book trying stories
Even if you're doing something that the studio sends you, or something that's based on a book or story, at the end of it all, you try to make whatever it is your own. This is based on my love of horror movies. Everything is based on something, in some way.
book years today
I reread Mesrine's book every year because the way the story is told is fascinating. Today, we don't have gangsters like Mesrine - he had humor. Thomas Langmann
book quotations
A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything. Thomas Love Peacock
book quarrels quoting
My quarrel with him is, that his works contain nothing worth quoting; and a book that furnishes no quotations, is me judice, no book,—it is a plaything.
book writing people
Who is writing these screenwriting books? Not actually writing for the studios in Hollywood. These are people that have one or a half of a credit on maybe one movie, or none. So they're all theoretical. Thomas Lennon
book writing crafts
Books are great for if you want to work on the craft of writing for yourself, or, you know, to write novels or indie films, stuff like that.
book imagination listening
I love audio books, and when I paint I'm always listening to a book. I find that my imagination really takes flight in the painting process when I'm listening to audio books. Thomas Kinkade
book taken men
By nature's law, every man has a right to seize and retake by force his own property taken from him by another, by force of fraud. Nor is this natural right among the first which is taken into the hands of regular government after it is instituted. It was long retained by our ancestors. It was a part of their common law, laid down in their books, recognized by all the authorities, and regulated as to circumstances of practice. Thomas Jefferson
book men thinking
[If a book were] very innocent, and one which might be confided to the reason of any man; not likely to be much read if let alone, but if persecuted, it will be generally read. Every man in the United States will think it a duty to buy a copy, in vindication of his right to buy and to read what he pleases.
book data leader
I wonder what really goes on in the minds of Church leadership who know of the data concerning the Book of Abraham, the new data on the First Vision, etc.... It would tend to devastate the Church if a top leader were to announce the facts. Thomas Ferguson
book reading indulge-in
Perhaps dandruff is the excreta of the mind — the quantity of this material being directly proportional to the amount of reading one indulges in. A book on German metaphysics would thus easily ruin a dress suit. Thomas A. Edison
book reading thinking
I was reading the poems of Rochester. Rochester made himself out to be bisexual, but I think that was only to shock. Most of his poetry is sexual, even pornographic. Thom Gunn
book generations wordsworth
We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's book when he gave him a copy.
book men may
Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be/Yet such wherein men may thy judgment see. William Wycherley
book mistress ems
Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.
book men process
One book that has influenced the writer very strongly is Winwood Reade's Martyrdom of Man...It is still an extraordinarily inspiring presentation of human history as one consistent process. William Winwood Reade
book may causes
Open the book of universal history at what period we may, it is always the India trade which is the cause of internal industry and foreign negotiation.
book past lovers
Books are the best type of the influence of the past. William Wordsworth
book wealth
These hoards of wealth you can unlock at will.
book world opinion
It is a pity, in my opinion, that no prize exists for the writer who best refrains from adding to the world's bad books. William Saroyan
book consideration impression
Lionel whispered because he was under the impression that it was out of respect for books, not consideration for readers.
book eight half
To Armenians, half Armenians, quarter Armenians, and one-eight Armenians. Sixteen and thirty-second Armenians, and other winners, are likelier to be happy with a useful book
book names envy
I envy the people who say, 'oh, well, I've got my name in the golden book and I'm going to be entered into the pearly gates.' William Shatner
book fall listening
I used to love 'The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe,' and I can still remember listening to them before I would fall asleep. I can remember the first ten minutes of the book perfectly, but whether I knew the rest of it was slightly more dicey. William Moseley