A Book Quotes

I got more true knowledge from reading the Book of God in one month, than I could ever have acquired from all the writings of men.

Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote.

We all have life-defining moments. They are like open-book tests, but we don't know we have been examined until it is over.

I jerk off inside books, and give life to words, leaving concepts stuck together you've probably never heard

Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.

In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.

All the ills from which America suffers can be traced back to the teaching of evolution. It would be better to destroy every other book ever written, and save just the first three verses of Genesis.

I think books with weak or translucent plots can survive if the character being drawn along the path is rich, interesting and multi-faceted. The opposite is not true.

The books from which [children] learn must reflect movement and change and all of the infinite possibilities of minds at liberty.

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.

If you remain static and wait for success to come to you it will certainly not happen.

Nothing is as dangerous for the state as those who would govern kingdoms with maxims found in books.

Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.

I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.

Rule books are paper - they will not cushion a sudden meeting of stone and metal.

Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.

We didn’t have Facebook in my day, we had a phone book but you wouldn’t waste an afternoon on it

I just want to stay in my hotel room, read my book. I enjoy that private time.

Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press.

There's so much more to the book than the page you were stuck on.

What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got a bookstore it knows it's not fooling a soul.

There is not some glorious theoretical synthesis of capitalism that you can write down in a book and follow. You have to grope your way

I know why the caged bird sings.

WE'VE BEEN READING THE MÖTLEY CRÜE BOOK. THATS OUR HOLY BIBLE.

You see, one of the best things about reading is that you'll always have something to think about when you're not reading.

Wait, Wikipedia isn't working? Why hasn't someone invented a paper version of it? A set of books organized alphabetically by topic?

I get a warm feeling among my books.

No matter how much we love a book, the experience of reading it isn't complete until we can give it to someone who will love it as much as we do

Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.

Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience or market. It may well have vanished by the time your book's ready.

It is written in the Jewish law book, the Talmud, that only the Jew is human, that Gentiles are only animals.

If you do not like anything in a particular book, then sit and discuss it. Banning a book is not a solution. We have to tackle it ideologically.

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.

A book cover is a distillation. It is a haiku of the story.

Invest your energy in the things you can control.

A book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf - at any rate it is safer from criticism.

What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?

Whatever good works ye send on before [death]... ye shall find with God.

Somebody's boring me. I think it's me.

A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.

God has the Big Book, the beautiful proofs of mathematical theorems are listed here.

What did Napolean do for relaxation? He read a book. What did Lincoln do for relaxation? He read a book. What does Congress do for relaxation? They book a red.

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.

Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading!

My fellow believers, it is time to return to the Book. It is time to look to the one source that holds the answers for how our country should operate, the Bible.

You don't race cars, you race the rule book

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means.

For the writer, there is nothing quite like having someone say that he or she understands, that you have reached them and affected them with what you have written.

If you want intelligent children give them a book. If you want more intelligent children give them more books.

Whoever lacks the initiative to read books stifles his own selfhood.