Quotes about book
book mind enjoy
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds... William Ellery Channing
book men giving
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
book reading past
Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence...Truly good books are more than mines to those who can understand them. They are the breathings of the great souls of past times. Genius is not embalmed in them, but lives in them perpetually.
book phones diversity
I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard. William F. Buckley, Jr.
book philosophical talking
Norman Mailer decocts matters of the first philosophical magnitude from an examination of his own ordure, and I am not talking about his books.
book blind immortality
...if there was anything at all in the Book, anything of hope and peace for His blind and bewildered spawn which He had chosen above all others to offer immortality, THOU SHALT NOT KILL must be it... William Faulkner
book dark two
When I was little there was a picture in one of our books, a dark place into which a single weak ray of light came slanting upon two faces lifted out of the shadow.
book profound turns
...how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
book men thinking
...thinking as he had thought before and would think again and as every other man has thought: how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
book should died
What a writer's obituary should read - he wrote the books, then he died.
book literature nobel
It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000.
book reading men
I learned little save that most of the deeds, good and bad both, incurring opprobrium or plaudits or reward either, within the scope of man's abilities, had already been performed and were to be learned about only from books.
book pride honor
Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency to get the book written.
book
Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
book men old-friends
The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
book burning pouring
Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
book definitions systematic
If pressed to supplement Tweedledee's ostensive definition of logic with a discursive definition of the same subject, I would say that logic is the systematic study of the logical truths. Pressed further, I would say that a sentence is logically true if all sentences with its grammatical structure are true. Pressed further still, I would say to read this book. Willard Van Orman Quine
book men fancy
One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.
book writing soul
I put my soul into every book I write. Wilbur Smith
book biographies backgrounds
I read a lot of biographies and books with an African background.
book may very-good
It's probably true that everyone has a book in them, although it may not be a very good one.
book cozy sitting
You don't turn out as many books as I did then by sitting around, being cozy with the family.
book school white
I wanted to be a great white hunter, a prospector for gold, or a slave trader. But then, when I was eight, my parents sent me to a boarding school in South Africa. It was the equivalent of a British public school with cold showers, beatings and rotten food. But what it also had was a library full of books.
book giving gold
Every time one of my books sells a million copies in paperback, Pan Macmillan gives me a gold statuette of Pan. I have about 20 of them.
book thinking fishing
Usually halfway through a book I have a serious depression, so I go on safari on my ranch in South Africa, or fishing off my island in the Seychelles. When I come back and re-read it, I think: 'What was all that about, Smith? It's fine, just get on with it.'
book adventure romance
I read all of Rider Haggard's books. For me he had the romance of Africa with a little bit of mysticism. I'm delighted to be looked on as his heir and be categorised as an adventure novelist because that's exactly what I am.
book eye writing
I write my books in my head, and not in a specific study with a view. The view is from my inner eyes.
book history committees
You couldn't always trust the history books. They told a diluted truth, a truth by committee. Whoopi Goldberg
book political mind
I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it. Warren G. Harding
book long mind
Here you discover that so long as books are kept open, then minds can never be closed. Ronald Reagan
book home answers
Indeed, it is an indisputable fact that all the complex and horrendous questions confronting us at home and worldwide have their answer in that single book [the Bible].
book reading effort
Life involves effort and growth. You won't grow by watching a situation comedy, though you can grow by reading a book. I hope we aren't becoming a nation of watchers, because what made us great is that we've always been a nation of doers.
book eye order
Some people, in order to discover God, read books. But there is a great book: the very appearance of created things. Look above you! Look below you! Read it. God, whom you want to discover, never wrote that book with ink. Instead, He set before your eyes the things that He had made. Can you ask for a louder voice than that? Saint Augustine