From Book Quotes

The book of Revelation says that we no longer need the sun or the moon, for Christ is the light of the world.

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.

Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war, is: 'Do not march on Moscow'... Rule 2 is: Do not go fighting with your land armies in China.

A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.

And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

Friendship with the wise gets better with time, as a good book gets better with age.

People think I must have been turning cartwheels on the night I sealed the movie deal - which was only two days after sealing the book deal - but I was really quite terrified.

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

Normally writers do not talk much,because they are saving their conversations for the readers of their book- those invisible listeners with whom we wish to strike a sympathetic chord.

There are a couple of carp fishing books I've been reading. I'm very interested in that line of books, because I think they write very well, carp anglers, about the general environment.

The response to 'The Greatest Generation' and the books that followed has been one of the most satisfying experiences of my life.

A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.

I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer.

Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused.

Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.

The book of Revelation is written largely in symbols.

A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.

Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.

Books are a habit-forming drug.

Ranganathan's 5 Laws: Books are for use. Books are for all. Every book its reader, or every reader his book. Save the time of the reader. A library is a growing organism.

Since we astronomers are priests of the highest God in regard to the book of nature, it befits us to be thoughtful, not of the glory of our minds, but rather, above all else, of the glory of God.

If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.

Don't join the book burners!

One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.

I have read many books, but the Bible reads me.

Culture is everything. Culture is the way we dress, the way we carry our heads, the way we walk, the way we tie our ties - it is not only the fact of writing books or building houses.

He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.

I never got a pass mark in math ... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books.

I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.

Basically, right before college I got into the Guinness book for my feet and started to do local commercials and little radio spots, just little things and found I really liked it.

My alma mater was books, a good library.

I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

Oh, you who are trying to learn the marvel of Love through the copy book of reason, I'm very much afraid that you will never really see the point.

Classroom libraries are not 25 copies of 5 books. Classroom libraries are 1000-2000 copies of different books.

Never memorize what you can look up in a book.

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

As long as you know you gave whatever you did 100% you're considered a winner in my book.

A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only his first book was legitimately published.

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it.

If your life were a book, and you were the author, how would you want your story to go?

The new illiteracy is about more than not knowing how to read the book or the word; it is about not knowing how to read the world.

The more profoundly we study this wonderful Book, and the more closely we observe its divine precepts, the better citizens we will become and the higher will be our destiny as a nation.

I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books.

Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome.

Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.

You know what's fun? You pick somebody at random, like out of the phone book, and send them about 100 'Just Because' cards. They can't even ask you why you did it.