A Book Quotes

All human activity is prompted by desire.

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

We live for books.

Maintain an attitude of anticipating success!

Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back.

Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.

You don't have to burn books, you don't have to rebel against teachers to rebel; to rebel is to truly own your own self.

Running a marathon is just like reading a good book. After a while you're just not conscious of the physical act of reading.

Take noise-cancelling headphones, a good book, and wear comfy clothes.

There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.

I go to books and to nature as a bee goes to the flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.

A writer who has published as many books as I have has developed, of necessity, a hide like a rhino's, while inside there dwells a frail, hopeful butterfly of a spirit.

Never mind, put any book on the piano, and someone can turn from time to time, so I need not look as though I played by heart.

God be thanked for books! They are the voices of the distant and the dead.

You can't develop character by reading books. You develop it from conflict.

People say that the Bible is a boring book...but they don't say that about Shakespeare, because the people who teach Shakespeare are zealous for Shakespeare.

Are we not like two volumes of one book?

Preposition: An enormously versatile part of grammar, as in 'What made you pick this book I didn't want to be read to out of up for?'

You may go on reading any number of books on Meditation. They can only tell you ‘Realize the Self’. The Self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself in yourself.

The most difficult book I have ever read was a manual on the use of iron bangles by A.J. Thompson.

A divorce lawyer is a chameleon with a law book.

Reading is the basic springboard for learning. And books provide the liftoff. They are the great equalizer, opening up new worlds to everyone.

I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.

At every hour of every day, I can tell you on which page of which book each school child in Italy is studying.

To seek Divinity merely in books is to seek the living among the dead... seek God within your own soul.

I look at my first appointment book from 1965 and I get dizzy. I was constantly in a phone booth calling photographers.

The worst thing in life is boredom. When people don't know what to do with themselves, they are very, very poor.

Aside from comic book heroes, the only real life heroes I had were musicians.

When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.

I slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an old and solid friendship.

... and we will test you with evil and with good; and unto us shall ye be brought back.

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.

Books are really, really hard to write. They represent a kind of a summit of grappling with what one really has to say

This is the book I never read ~ These are the words I never said ~ This is the path I'll never tread ~ These are the dreams I'll dream instead

Instead of sending guns, send books. Instead of sending weapons, send teachers.

My favorite book is my next one. I’m always hoping to make my next book my best one.

Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.

There is no description, no image in any book that is capable of replacing the sight of real trees, and all of the life to be found around them in a real forest.

Those who want to burn books are either afraid of the ideas contained within the covers or they haven't the courage to stand up for the views which they themselves profess to hold.

In the summer of 80, Silhouette bought my first book.

The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire.

A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.

Umberto Eco is the owner of a large personal library of almost 30,000 books that he has not read. [To him] read books are far less valuable than unread ones.

I went through every phone book in Africa, and I didn't find one god damned Pryor!

When I sit in my bedroom with a book and a bottle of vodka, I do it because I'm sad, not because I think it's cool. I do it because I want to forget what I am thinking about.

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

The Bible is not a book of principles to live by but rather a Person to live for.

Spending one hour with Isaias is far more worthwhile, rewarding and enlightening than reading ten books

Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive

Education today is a process of filling the mind with the contents of books, emptying the contents in the examination hall and returning empty-headed.