A Book Quotes
A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.
The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community.
It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.
Lifelong readers continue to read, finding in books the means to enjoy life or endure it
The first chess book that I read was Dufresne's self-tutor, published with Lasker's Common Sense in Chess as an appendix.
I've been to a lot of school and read a lot of thick books, but at my very core there's a made-for-TV-movie mentality I don't think i will ever shake.
I wrote my first book when I was 22 years old. I have a way with words and I love to write. I can write without getting writers block so I knew, it was a gift.
... the desert, where there is the communal book of moonlight. We were among the rumour of wells. In the palace of winds.
People are not in good shape to where they have to question their own belief system because of a book or a story somebody wrote, or a SLAYER song.
This is the point. One technology doesn't replace another, it complements. Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.
The book is there for inspiration and as a foundation, the fundamentals on which to build.
It is a most gratifying sign of the rapid progress of our time that our best text-books become antiquated so quickly.
That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque.
The society in 'The Handmaid's Tale' is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller, to whom the book is dedicated.
What is this obsession people have with books? They put them in their houses like they're trophies. What do you need it for after you read it?
Go through John's Gospel, and study the "believes," the "verilys," the " I ams; "and go through the Bible in that way, and it becomes a new book to you.
Being a stranger was like being dead, and brought to mind how, in a book he had read that most folks misunderstood one common state: The flip side of love is indifference, not hate.
Our ownership in Christ is documented in the Word of God, and our names are registered in the Lamb's Book of Life.
Always in all my books I'm trying to reveal or help to reveal the hidden greatness of the small, of the little, of the unknown - and the pettiness of the big.
Skill sheets, workbooks, basal reader, flash cards are not enough. To convey meaning you need someone sharing the meaning and flavor of real stories with the student.
He was going through one of those moments that you read about in books, when a character reacts in an unexpectedly extreme way to the normal discontents of living.
Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticising.
'Dare to Discipline' was published in 1970 in the midst of the Vietnam War and a culture of rebellion. The book was written in that context, but the principles of child rearing have not changed.
...in my book success and winning are not always the same thing. To me, success is playing - or working - to the best of your ability.
What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily.
'God' - as revealed in his book of edicts and narratives is practically an idiot. He has nothing to say that any sensible person should want to listen to.
Playing a flute is like writing a book. You're telling what's in your heart...It's easier to play if it's right from your heart. You get the tone, and the fingers will follow.
The winter wind is loud and wild, Come close to me, my darling child; Forsake thy books, and mate less play; And, while the night is gathering grey, We'll talk its pensive hours away.
I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
A bibliomaniac is one to whom books are like bottles of whiskey to the inebriate, to whom anything that is between covers has an intoxicating savor.
The tragedy of the Book of Mormon is not what became of the Nephites but what the Nephites became.
A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
Pedantry, in the common acceptation of the word, means an absurd ostentation of learning, and stiffness of phraseology, proceeding from a misguided knowledge of books and a total ignorance of men.
