Quotes about book
book writing hands
I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as a dying friend. I hold its hand and hope it will get better. Annie Dillard
book air breathe
She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
book kids dark
I had a book that was given to me as a kid that was called 'Faeries.' It was this dark, sinister book with pictures that used to scare me because they were these creepy little creatures. But, I was always really drawn to that fantasy world, more than a sci-fi world, in terms of outer space stuff. Anna Silk
book luxury space
To me, the nicest luxury would be to have a room where I could keep all my books in one place - and have space for more. Annabelle Selldorf
book information connections
I know I'm old-fashioned, but there's just something about the act of looking at books versus taking in information on a screen, which is so one-dimensional. There's a sense of ownership that you have with books, a physical connection.
book earth study
I have continued systematically to study the Book of Mormon and Bible to understand even more deeply what God expects of me and my family while on this earth. Clayton Christensen
book writing successful
Often they [writers on the study of management] have a point of view based upon intuition and experience. They then offer a cadence of two-paragraph examples carefully selected to "prove" their theory, and then they write "one size fits all" books. The message is, "If you'd do what these companies did, you'd be successful too."
book library clubs
I have this book club, and we don't read one book; we offer up a few suggestions and create a library over time. Claire Danes
book kids thinking
When I was a kid, I always thought that I'd be a comic book artist. It took a long time to start thinking that I could be a musician. Daniel Johnston
book writing son
Here look at me. I'm Charlie, the son you wrote off the books? Not that I blame you for it, but here I am, all fixed up better than ever. Test me. Ask me questions. I speak twenty languages, living and dead; I'm a mathematical whiz, and I'm writing a piano concerto that will make them remember me long after I'm gone. Daniel Keyes
book answers helping
The computer can help us find what we know is there. But the book remains our symbol and our resource for the unimagined question and the unwelcome answer. Daniel J. Boorstin
book messengers slave
Books are messengers of freedom. They can be hidden under a mattress or smuggled into slave nations.
book needs information
It is very unlikely that the computer will displace the books, except in areas where we need information speedily.
book selling wells
A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.
book reading library
A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.
book people looks
When you look at the books about well-being, you see one word - it's happiness. People do not distinguish. Daniel Kahneman
book thinking cases
It's not a case of: 'Read this book and then you'll think differently. I've written this book, and I don't think differently.
book magic
We treat the Bible, not as if it's a magic book that has to be handled like a piece of abracadabra, make sure it's dusted, never put it on the floor, and things like that. D. A. Carson
book thinking people
You who think of us: they lived only in delusion... Know that we the People of the Book, will never die! Czeslaw Milosz
book bird poppies
They used to pour millet on graves or poppy seeds To feed the dead who would come disguised as birds. I put this book here for you, who once lived So that you should visit us no more.
book eye biblical
"Biblical theology" refers to something more precise than theology that is faithful to the Bible. It might be helpful to draw a contrast: at the risk of oversimplification, systematic theology tends to organize theology topically and with an eye cast on its contemporary relevance, while biblical theology tends to organize the same biblical material so that it is easier to see the distinctive contribution of each biblical book and human author, and to trace the trajectories of themes across the Bible so we see how the books of the Bible hold together.
book men fullness-of-life
I would like [the working man] to give me back books and newspapers and theories. And I would like to give him back, in return, his old insouciance, and rich, original spontaneity and fullness of life. D. H. Lawrence
book tree generations
The Brangwens had lived for generations on the Marsh Farm, in the meadows where the Erewash twisted sluggishly through alder trees, separating Derbyshire from Nottinghamshire.
book emotion sickness
One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.
book feelings criticism
Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticising.
book jewels profound
We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realize any more that a book can be valuable, valuable like a jewel, or a lovely picture, into which you can look deeper and deeper and get a more profound experience very time. It is far, far better to read one book six times, at intervals, than to read six several books.
book men alive
The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.
book short-story book-review
I began by doing book reviews on the typewriter and then went over to short stories on the machine, meanwhile sticking to pencil for poetry. Conrad Aiken
book two stories
There was this book I read and loved, The story of a ship Who sailed around the world and found That nothing else exists Beyond its own two sails And wooden shell And what is held within. All else is sure to pass. We clutch and grasp And debate what's truly permanent. Conor Oberst
book drinking giving
i keep drinking the ink from my pen and i'm balancing history books up on my head but it all boils down to one quotable phrase if you love something give it away
book clothes long
As long as I can buy records and books and maybe some clothes, I'm pretty stoked. I don't need a yacht or anything.
book character reality
Seriously, I do not know what to say of this book [ Absalom, Absalom!] except that it seem to point to the final blowup of what was once a remarkable, if minor, talent… this is a penny dreadful tricked up in fancy language and given a specious depth by the expert manipulation of a series of eccentric technical tricks. The characters have no magnitude and no meaning because they have no more reality than a mince-pie nightmare. Clifton Fadiman
book dark ideas
Socrates called himself a midwife of ideas. A great book is often such a midwife, delivering to full existence what has been coiled like an embryo in the dark, silent depths of the brain.