A Book Quotes

There is no book on which we can rest in a dying moment but the Bible.

I’m asking the questions tonight.” One day I was going to write a book: How to Dictate to a Dictator and Evade an Evader, subtitled How to Handle Jericho Barrons.

Hitler was a beginner compared to the comic-book industry.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

Every library answers a twofold need, which is often also a twofold obsession: that of conserving certain objects (books) and that of organizing them in certain ways

The books I write because I want to read them, the games because I want to play them, and stories I tell because I find them exciting personally.

A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.

I get so annoyed by famous people who have not actually written the books they slap their names on.

I just wanted to be the first one to fly for America, not because I'd end up in the pages of history books.

I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.

I never commit to memory anything that can easily be looked up in a book

If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered a scholar, and if you steal from thirty or forty books, a distinguished scholar.

Scriptures - The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.

Books mean all possibilities. They mean moving out of yourself, losing yourself, dying of thirst and living to your full. They mean everything.

Books make great gifts because you don't have to plug them in.

How can there be too many typefaces in the world? Are there too many songs, too many books, too many places to go?

I've always said that Watership Down is not a book for children. I say: it's a book, and anyone who wants to read it can read it.

In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not repay some hard thought is not worth publishing.

I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read books.

Love's stories written in love's richest books. To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes.

Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out the side door).

We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.

The speeding reader guts a book the way the skillful clean fish. The gills are gone, the tail, the scales, the fins; then the fillet slides away swifly as though fed to a seal.

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

Read books, listen to tapes, attend seminars-they are decades of wisdom reduced to invaluable hours.

Motherhood is like Albania- you can't trust the descriptions in the books, you have to go there.

There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.

He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?

Borrow my umbrellas, my clothes, my money, and I will likely not think of them again. But borrow my books and I will be on your track like a bloodhound until they are returned.

In other words, the percentage change in book value in any given year is likely to be reasonably close to that year's change in intrinsic value.

In addition, we were unable to meet openly to discuss the progress of the book, for we were both on the list of persons banned from communicating with other banned persons.

Read the Bible and inspirational books for a purpose. Ask for divine guidance. Search for the light.

I wasn't inspired so much by a person as by reading many good books. I loved to write and I wondered if I might be able to write material that others would enjoy reading.

There's all kind of vision in this Book. Just open it up and your people will follow.

I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.

If a man’s house is full of medicine bottles, we infer the man is an invalid. But if his house is full of books, we conclude he is intelligent.

I am not some preaching farmer with a book under my arm; I am a graduate of Harvard College.

The great and good do no die even in this world. Embalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an intellect to which one still listens.

He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.

I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine ... before she realizes she's reading.

The burning soul, the burden'd mind, In books alone companions find.

No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman.

I have disassociated myself from that book.

As you go down the rabbit hole of reading into our history, you realize that there are so many things that history books didn't teach us about ourselves.

You can't really give away anything in your book ... should be exciting, it's my life, and I'm a cool and exciting guy.

We can look high or we can look low in books or in journals, but the result is the same. The scientific literature has no answers to the question of the origin of the immune system.

I think everyone should sit down and write a book. It's a lot like therapy but a lot less expensive.