Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roy Blount, Jr.

An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again.

Rachel Cohn

We all just took the bookstore at its word, because if you couldn't trust a bookstore, what could you trust?

William Shakespeare

And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

Reese Witherspoon

And you know, life is a constant learning experience. I learn so much with my kids. I read tons of books and study what they're studying.

Walter Salles

First of all, we wanted to be faithful to the two books that inspired Jose Rivera's screenplay and to the spirit of the original journey.

John Ortberg

Far more books get written about how to get more people in your church than how to get the people already in your church to have more humility and sincere love.

Michael A. Stackpole

Few and far between are the books you'll cherish, returning to them time and again, to revisit old friends, relive old happiness, and recapture the magic of that first read.

Rick Riordan

Every child is different. I think it's important that we don't have maybe just one or two books that we're recommending to all children - but rather we cater the books to fit each individual child.

Tony Blair

At that point we close the chapter or we close the book.

A truce to your volumes, your studies, give o'er: for books cannot teach you love's marvelous lore

A truce to your volumes, your studies, give o'er: for books cannot teach you love's marvelous lore

Kevin Mitnick

At the time the books were released, I was in custody, so I had higher priorities - dealing with my criminal case - than dealing with litigation. There's a lot of information out there that is inaccurate.

Jonathan Zittrain

Digital books and music are often different from their physical counterparts in that consumers buy licences to a work, revocable under an ongoing contract, rather than their own copies.

Documentary has become a kind of new space in the culture. A lot of the films are about social concerns, and in a way, are a new form of media. . . . Making a documentary has become sort of trendy, a little like what writing children's books was a few years ago. But what I've noticed is, once documentary filmmakers get locked in, they really get locked in. They may have started off thinking they're going to do something relatively quick and casual, and then it takes them over.

Hillary Clinton

Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers.

Virgin Books will be publishing an autobiography. But it is relatively early days. We still need to proceed to a final contract.

was at the time thought to be rather bold. Reading these books wasn't quite like being in a secret society or a clique. But it certainly made you feel different from a lot of people in Leeds and they did put you in touch with a wider world.

Bernie Siegel

I decided to become a surgeon named Bernie who writes books and gives seminars to teach people what he has learned and is still learning about how to deal with life's difficulties.

Barry McGee

I read in a weird way. It comes in waves, and then I start, like, five different books at once. It takes me six months to a year to finish them all, since I read mostly on planes.

Gustave Flaubert

Books are made not like children but like pyramids and they're just as useless! And they stay in the desert! Jackals piss at their foot and the bourgeois climb up on them.

Books . . . are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time

Charles Lamb

Borrowers of books --those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.

Sarah Rees Brennan

Books written by boys are given very different treatment to those written by girls: they're even given very different covers. People also expect, in this YA-booming world, girls to be less experimental than boys: girls are achieving a lot of success, but they're confined.

Philip Pullman

Books which satisfy us and feed us and nourish us have to have this substratum of genuine truth in them, ... And I don't see much of that in most fantasy.

Bookstores see a book by a woman and they put it in the romance section. I write mainstream fiction about women.

Rosecrans Baldwin

Bookstores don't exactly dot the American highway in the grand manner of Sbarros.

Abraham Lincoln

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men and women

Books last a really long time if you take care of them.

Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West.

William Godwin

Books have been handed down from generation to generation, as the true teachers of piety and the love of God, that represent him as so merciless and tyrannical a despot, that, if they were considered otherwise than through the medium of prejudice, they could inspire nothing but hatred. It seems that the impression we derive from a book, depends much less on its real contents, than upon the temper of mind and preparation with which we read it.

George Crabbe

Books cannot always please, however good;/ Minds are not ever craving for their food.