A Book Quotes

The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one.

You know that place between sleep and awake? The place where you still remember dreaming? That's where I'll always love you... Peter Pan. That's where I'll be waiting.

But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer.

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

The book, the idea of a book or the image of a book, is a symbol of learning, of transmitting knowledge.. I make my own books to find my way through the old stories.

Elvis Presley is all there is. There just ain't no more. Everything starts and ends with Elvis. He wrote the book. He is everything to do and not to do in the music business.

If it weren't for the law, I would steal books; if it weren't for my purse, I would buy them.

I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book.

Thank you industrialization. Thank you steel mill. Thank you power station. And thank you chemical processing industry that gave us time to read books.

The CIA's research program is described in a book called "The Search for the Manchurian Candidate."

The books the Holy Spirit is writing are living, and every soul a volume in which the divine author makes a true revelation of his word, explaining it to every heart, unfolding it in every moment.

I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they must be good.

What better book can there be than the book of humanity.

I remember when I first started being in magazines, I had pretty thin skin. I was this nerd that read books and stayed home and didn't go out.

There's nothin' you can get from a book that you can't get from a television fastah!" -Harry Wormwood

...how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.

With the story of your life, you dont get to write the whole book, just your character.

We collect books in the belief that we are preserving them when in fact it is the books that preserve their collector.

For me, movies should be visual. If you want dialogue, you should read a book.

When a person opens a book, he can never be in prison.

The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library

Whatever books you may read, you cannot realize the Divine merely by intellectual effort. Oneness can only be promoted by the practice of love.

Each book is, in a sense, an argument with myself, and I would write it, whether it is ever published or not.

Most of my inspiration, if that's the word, came from books themselves.

This book, 'Stupid White Men,' has sold now over four million copies worldwide. Probably about half of that may be in the U.S. and Canada, and the rest, overseas.

I recommend...bread, meat, vegetables, and beer.

The information in DNA could no more be reduced to the chemical than could the ideas in a book be reduced to the ink and paper: something beyond physics and chemistry encoded DNA.

The first really important book I read about filmmaking was The Film Technique by Pudovkin. This was some time before I had ever touched a movie camera and it opened my eyes to cutting and montage.

I don't write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me.

As to the book called the bible, it is blasphemy to call it the Word of God. It is a book of lies and contradictions and a history of bad times and bad men.

If there is knowledge, it lies in the fusion of the book and the street.

I'm gonna make sure everybody get their justice. This the year for business, this the year for my book, this the year for the movie and this the year for getting even. I'm on my way.

Life Will Never Be The Same Because There Had Never Been Anyone Like You...Ever in the World.

The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.

While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.

The helpful thought for which you look Is written somewhere in a book.

I have left my book, I have left my room, For I heard you singing Through the gloom.

I am a great admirer of Robert Vavra and love his beautiful photographs and books. He is a wonderful artist, a poet.

The entire Quran is a big joke. If it was not so violent, it would be the biggest comic book ever written.

I’m quite hyper, and my wife would prefer it if I sat down and read a book.

God wrote a book on suffering, and its name is Jesus.

The Bible is one story that unfolds in one book, by one author, about one subject. A story that moves from promise to fulfillment.

If a man is known by the company he keeps, so also his character is reflected in the books he reads.

I am a struggling writer. A middle-aged man with two little kids and I'm just trying to earn a living. So buy this book - or my kids will have to go to foster care.

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.

When people see some things as good, other things become bad.

To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.

At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.

We want to raise a generation of kids who have a mouse in one hand and a book in the other.