A Book Quotes

Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.

Do not just seek happiness for yourself. Seek happiness for all. Through kindness. Through mercy.

Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.

The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.

I believe no one can read the history of our country without realizing that the Good Book and the spirit of the Savior have from the beginning been our guiding geniuses.

Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries

You ever talk about a movie with someone that read the book? They're always so condescending. 'Ah, the book was much better than the movie.' Oh really? What I enjoyed about the movie: no reading.

... even in houses commonly held to be 'booky' one finds, nine times out of ten, not a library but a book-dump.

I tell you one thing that's great about children. They don't need a show to have fun. What do they need? A book of matches, some oily rags, a little brother... that's all they need.

If you have a counterculture band, you put a name on it, you call them beatniks, and you can sell something - books or bebop. Or you label them as hippies and you can sell tie-dyed T-shirts.

Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading.

It's not a case of: 'Read this book and then you'll think differently. I've written this book, and I don't think differently.

So you need hardly spell me how every word will be bound over to carry three score and ten toptypsical readings throughout the book of Doublends Jined.

You believe in a book that has sticks turning into snakes, and you say we are the ones that need help?

I imagine the earth when I am no more: Women's dresses, dewy lilacs, a song in the valley. Yet the books will be there on the shelves, well born, Derived from people, but also from radiance, heights.

I think jazz and comic books are probably the two uniquely American art forms.

By God ye shall be called to account for your doings!

What are people going to do? Fire me? I've been fired before. Not book me? I've been out of work before. I don't care.

She is a real bookworm. I think she lives on print. Her whole house is full of books - looks as if she likes them better than human company.

A great thing is a great book; but a greater thing than all is the talk of a great man.

The whole purpose of writing a book is to be understood - if other people write about you, they try to guess why you did things, or they hear things from other people.

We'll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Internet. Uh, sure.

Books ought to have good endings.How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?

An award does not change the quality of a book.

The Book of Proverbs deals very hard blows against sluggards, and Christian ministers do well frequently to denounce the great sin of idleness, which is the mother of a huge family of sins.

I couldn't read. I just scraped by. My solution back then was to read classic comic books because I could figure them out from the context of the pictures. Now I listen to books on tape.

I've always been about honesty, whether on the radio, whether I did a movie, whether I wrote a book. As long as you're honest, you don't lose your edge.

It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one.

Nothing before had ever made me thoroughly realise, though I had read various scientific books, that science consists in grouping facts so that general laws or conclusions may be drawn from them.

Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.

My role was to bring about fairness in the workplace. All I did was implement the laws that were currently on the books.

Who learns most from a good book is the author.

He needed fresh air and sunshine. A walk in the woods and afterward a good book to read by the fire. Yeah, that was the life.

A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.

As a reader, I want a book to kidnap me into its world. Its world must make my so-called real world seem flimsy. Its world must lure me to return. When I close the book, I should feel bereft.

As a kid, I drew cartoon characters and comic book heroes. Spiderman and the X-Men were my favorites.

But for me if I'm gonna read about something I'd rather read a pamphlet or the instructions to a synthesizer than a book on Buddhism.

I'm one of six children. I'd love to sound educated and say I dive into a good book when I'm there, but in truth, I spend time with the kids playing cards, ping-pong, and board games.

I go on many thrilling adventures and wondrous, profound escapades through books.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.

The real history, the one that counts and is not to be found in books, is precisely this one, the one made by simple men; and it is the only one that rules the world.

As a comic book artist, once you become a master, you end up a slave. In fine art you're always free... since I couldn't make it at Marvel, I made my life a carnival.

I'm not the best actor I can be, so I'm just working on it. I'm not the quickest reader in the world but when I get an acting book I can read it in two days.

I am not, sir, a bad person, though in truth I am not lacking in reasons for being one. [Sp., Yo, senor, no soy malo, aunque no me faltarian motivos para serlo.]

In playing the part of Mammy, I tried to make her a living, breathing character, the way she appeared to me in the book

When you meet someone for the first time, that's not the whole book. That's just the first page.

Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.

I didn't even know I was a feminist until I read it on the back of one of my own books.

In the main, there are two sorts of books: those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.

The world is a great book, of which they that never stir from home read only a page.