A Book Quotes
Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.
It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful.
The joy of reading with our children doesn't stop as they, and we, get older; it simply changes.
Engage with the Bible. Meditate on it day and night. Think and rethink about God's Word. Let it be your guide. Make it your go-to book for questions. Let it be the ultimate authority in your life.
There is no devil in the first two chapters of the Bible and no devil in the last two chapters. Thank God for a book that disposes of the devil!
What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion for reading.
You searched through all my poets, From Sappho through to Auden, I saw the book fall from your hands, As you slowly died of boredom.
Man is to become divine by realizing the divine. Idols or temples, or churches or books, are only the supports, the help of his spiritual childhood.
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
There are rainy days in autumn and stormy days in winter when the rocking chair in front of the fire simply demands an accompanying book.
What should a good children’s book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It must be good.
I was sitting in the toilet and I was by myself. I was tired of playing with the roller, so I said I'd better write a book.
Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.
I'm pretty sure lurking in a dark alley to mug me with your apology isn't the usual way to go about saying you're sorry. But I didn't read that Mars-Venus book, so who knows.
As a child, I loved to read books. The library was a window to the world, a pathway to worlds and people far from my neighborhood in Philadelphia.
Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common though is that you must engage your imagination in the process.
I've been tremendously moved by a bunch of odd books. Ross McDonald is very important to me. I love the Lew Archer books.
Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
To be a judge you don't have to know about books, you have to be skilled at picking shrapnel out of your head.
I've got lots of good friends. I could have affairs. I can read a book all night, put the cat on the end of the bed. I can pick up my passport and go to France. I don't have to ask anybody.
I need a stimulating environment to write because my books are driven at 100 miles per hour at a time.
I think too many comic book covers are way too busy, crammed with far too much information, both visual and verbal, that just becomes a dull noise.
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
I've read all the "Game of Thrones" books many times over, so I sometimes find it easier being on set, because it can be hard to get out of character.
I have examined all religions, and the result is that the Bible is the best book in the world.
The Harlem of my books was never meant to be real; I never called it real; I just wanted to take it away from the white man if only in my books.
His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.
I cling to the fantasy that I could have done something more creative. Like actually writing a script, or writing a book. But the awful truth is that I... probably can't!
I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.
At home I've got 1,500 cook books and the spines have all gone, the pages are all torn - it's chaos.
It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.