From Book Quotes

You know I'm finished with the old chess because it's all just a lot of book and memorization you know.

Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood releases. They cut you a lot more slack if you spend less money, which makes no sense.

The world is not in your books and maps, it's out there.

Second, there are so many magical places in books that you cant go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go.

I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

Let us pick up our books and our pens. They are our most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.

Jesus left a long time ago, said he would return. He left us a book to believe in, in it we've got an awful lot to learn.

Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.

There is no shop, book, or person, that gives you confidence; it comes through reconnecting with your true authentic self.

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.

I love sports, as all Bostonians seem to. I love books and movies, as all writers seem to.

I chose to publish the first 'Shopaholic' book under a pseudonym because I wanted it to be judged on its own merits.

With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?

I don't read such small stuff as letters, I read men and nations. I can see through a millstone, though I can't see through a spelling-book. What a narrow idea a reading qualification is for a voter!

It is illegal to yell “fire” in a crowded theater. If there is a fire, please yell something else instead, like “Flames!” or “Smoke maker!” or “Bad hot!

Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.

Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems.

Though my books are written from a historical perspective, I have goon so far back that I am in the realm of prehistorical speculation rather than simple historical fact to weave my stories around.

There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it.

Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book.

It's just different discipline, just doing the voice over. I guess I've done about 5 or 6 audio books in the past and I do the animated voice for a show called Fatherhood on Nickelodeon.

Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.

I hate to lend a book I love...it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think.

Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it's quite theatrical.

If you were to second guess your decision to book some time to visit an Indian community, that would be a reservation reservation reservation.

Theorists write all the popular books on science: Heinz Pagels, Frank Wilczek, Stephen Hawking, Richard Feynman, et al. And why not? They have all that spare time.

We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.

I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format.

All governments, Books, customs, buildings, railways, ships, and all the stark realities that men have made, Are but imagination's utterances.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

I'm a bad boyfriend. She's a bad girlfriend. We deserve each other.

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

The 'Barnaby' books were always intended to be graphic novels.

There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital.

A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.

To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.

I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.

The essays are very solipsistic and self-absorbed, I'm totally conscious of that. To me, book writing is fun, and I basically just write about things that are entertaining to myself.

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection.

There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.

He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the "Iliad" itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with perfect nobleness; and that book is the Bible.

Many of you might already recognize me as the guy in the question-mark suits appearing in the late night TV commercials and on the cover of educational books and CDs.

My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.

Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.

The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume.