From Book Quotes
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.
If none of us ever read a book that was "dangerous," had a friend who was "different," or joined an organization that advocated "change," we would all be the kind of people Joe McCarthy wants.
As long as we’ve got somewhere to sleep, a bowl of cereal, and a coloring book we’ll be fine.
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
In that part of the book of my memory before which little can be read, there is a heading, which says: ‘Incipit vita nova: Here begins the new life’.
My definition of secularism is very clear. The sole religion of the Government is Nation First, the holy book is the Constitution.
The problem with life is, by the time you can read women like a book, your library card has expired.
JK Rowling created seven Horcruxes. She put a part of her soul in every book and now her books will live forever
The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.
It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.
Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know.
The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.
The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.
I try to make images that have the immediate presence we take for granted in objects - a chair, a shoe, a book, a Judd - and compose them like sentences.
No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.
Ask her what she craved, and she'd get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons. Also freedom.
Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it.
What's the point of having a book club if you don't get to eat brownies and drink wine?
Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.
Reading books everyone died, none became any wise. One who reads the word of Love, only becomes wise.
Why do you read many books? The great book is within your heart. Open the pages of this inexhaustible book, the source of all knowledge. You will know everything.
Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
Read the Bible, read the Bible! Let no religious book take its place. Through all my perplexities and distresses, I seldom read any other book, and I as rarely felt the want of any other.
If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books. The book needs you.
I never take any notes or draw charts or make elaborate diagrams, but I hold an image of the shape of a book in my head and work from that mental hologram.
No, I'm not a comic book guy. I'm pretty fascinated with the subculture though and I do think that the world of comic books is such a natural transition into film.
I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot.
England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.
We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.
The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading.
Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.
A book without potty humor is like a banana split without hot fudge. It can still be good, I suppose, but you kinda get the feeling that something is missing.