A Book Quotes

Honey is sweet, "and so is knowledge, but knowledge is like the bee that made that sweet honey, you have to chase it through the pages of a book." (taken from "Thank you, Mr. Falker" )

Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

I'm focusing on the music, but I still got a cold library of books that I've either read or I plan on getting to.

Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.

Destroying things is much easier than making them.

No book ever ends, when it's full of your friends.

When I was training to be a pilot, there was a large section in the book on how to drop mail from the plane.

Some women have a weakness for shoes... I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books.

Every book that is banned is a badge of honor.

Books of apostates, heretics, schismatics, and all other writers defending heresy or schism or in any attacking the foundations of religion, are altogether prohibited.

Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're full of new rewards.

In the opening a master should play like a book, in the mid-game he should play like a magician, in the ending he should play like a machine.

The words and sentences you take into your body from books are no less sacred and healing than communion. Surely at least one such person lives in your zip code.

Books don't harm kids; they arm them.

I love the way that each book -- any book -- is its own journey. You open it, and off you go. You are changed in some way, large or small, by having traveled with those characters.

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.

Science books are letters from God, telling how He runs His universe.

Our hope is that the elementary reading of comics will lead to the joy of reading good books.

A good solo is like a book. It will start out in a phrase, it will go on in paragraphs, and then it will have a great ending.

In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism.

The script is the coloring book that you’re given, and your job is to figure out how to color it in. And also when and where to color outside the lines.

I've got a vendetta to destroy the Net, to make everyone go to the library. I love the organic thing of pen and paper, ink on canvas. I love going down to the library, the feel and smell of books.

Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.

Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?

Nothing prevents boredom like a good book.

Take away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book.

I read books and talked to people. I mean that's kind of how one learns anything. There's lots of great books out there & lots of smart people.

They work now with computers for building buildings and books, but not ever with new ideas.

Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.

Writing a book isn’t an easy process nor is it always enjoyable, but it is one of life’s most satisfying achievements.

God has condescended to become an author, and yet people will not read his writings. There are very few that ever gave this Book of God, the grand charter of salvation, one fair reading through.

Before bed, I read a book or flip on the radio - I'm not picky, I'll just turn it on and see what comes up. I burn a yummy lavender- scented candle.

If I were a teacher, I would recommend that all my students very hurriedly read most of Orwell's books, especially 1984 and Animal Farm, because then they'd begin to understand the world we live in.

Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.

The Bible is the one Book to which any thoughtful man may go with any honest question of life or destiny and find the answer of God by honest searching.

Beware the man of the single book

One half who graduate from college never read another book.

Words mean more than we mean to express when we use them: so a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than the writer meant.

Read properly, fewer books than a hundred would suffice for a liberal education. Read superficially, the British Museum Library might still leave the student a barbarian.

No one I know of has ever had this experience-where you had to sit and wait and wait for a DNA test to come back just so you can write the last page of the book.

My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts.

My own great-grandfather, who said simply enough, "No wicked man could write such a book as this; and no good man would write it unless it were true and he were commanded of God to do so.

To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves: such a prohibition ought to fill them with disdain.

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.

The teacher who allows his scholars the freedom of the city of books is at liberty to be their guide, philosopher and friend; and is no longer the mere instrument of forcible intellectual feeding.

I get over a hundred letters a day from all over the world, from children and parents, and it's a wonder I ever have time to write books, let alone speak!

Old Marley was dead as a doornail... The wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.

It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.

Librarians save lives by handing the right book at the right time to a kid in need.