A Book Quotes

Do not waste your time on light, weak, milk­toast ministries and books

The book forces itself into my mind when I am lugging furniture, or pulling weeds.

Only one hour in the normal day is more pleasurable than the hour spent in bed with a book before going to sleep, and that is the hour spent in bed with a book after being called in the morning.

Before I knew there was going to be a film. I was the biggest Harry Potter fan. I read all the books.

Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.

We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.

Satisfying curiosity ranks No. 2 in my book behind conquering a fear.

A pretty sight, a lady with a book.

If you only ever read one book in your life ... I highly recommend you keep your mouth shut.

For me, a holiday is about taking a book and going to a mountain and reading.

There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys: they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked the sum out for themselves.

The Bhagavad-Gita is a true scripture of the human race a living creation rather than a book, with a new message for every age and a new meaning for every civilization.

True religion comes not front the teaching of men or the reading of books; it is the awakening of the spirit within us, consequent upon pure and heroic action.

Every rule in the book can be broken, except one - be who you are, and become all you were meant to be.

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

This evening, I sat by an open window and read till the light was gone and the book was no more than a part of the darkness.

I was reading the poems of Rochester. Rochester made himself out to be bisexual, but I think that was only to shock. Most of his poetry is sexual, even pornographic.

I've been reading a book lately. That book is Thom Yorke, and the conclusion is that he's brilliant.

May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books.

Hannibal Lecter: We live in a primitive time - don't we, Will? - neither savage nor wise. Half measures are the curse of it. Any rational society would either kill me or give me my books.

You don't write a book to show off.

Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.

We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.

Books always speak of other books.

If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell you it again when you're fifty, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you're reading a whole new book.

Only talent interests me in paintings and books. Not general ideas, but the individual contribution.

A small number of choice books are sufficient.

I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.

Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.

When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man.

It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.

People say that this new generation is so used to the Internet that their heads are already different. They can't read a book from beginning to end. That is not a tragedy. The book changes form.

Too often, people get stuck in a state of over-thinking, the result is that they never reach a decision.

The sprint is like life ... blink and you miss it.

One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries.

Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.'

Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our religion? We have none.

You're only as old as you feel.

Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.

If people are going to be cooking the books, you're in trouble.

This is a great tool for students as the book gets right to the heart of learning how to learn and engaging your whole brain.

I've read hundreds of books about China over the decades. I know the Chinese. I've made a lot of money with the Chinese. I understand the Chinese mind.

I try to teach my students that books are a mirror, reflecting their own lives, and a window, giving them a peek into someone else's.

I never use a score when conducting my orchestra... Does a lion tamer enter a cage with a book on how to tame a lion?

Dirac politely refused Robert's [Robert Oppenheimer] two proffered books: reading books, the Cambridge theoretician announced gravely, "interfered with thought."

Intelligent too, ooh you my sweetheart. I've always liked my women book and street smart. Long as they got a lil' class like half days and the confidence to overlook my past ways.

The number one book of the ages was written by a committee, and it was called The Bible.

I'm not a guy who needs to read motivation books.

How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings!

Having a sense of fun in books is a huge, huge deal, because a lot of times kids - even me when I got to third or fourth grade - don't associate reading with fun.