This Is A Book Quotes

My hero in comic books is Jack Kirby: 'Spider-Man,' 'Fantastic Four,' 'Captain America,' Marvel Comics. He was really the basis for Marvel Comics.

I'm guessing whatever 'ways' you have in mind aren't Jill-appropriate either." "Put your books away and I'll show you.

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

And hast thou sworn on every slight pretence, Till perjuries are common as bad pence, While thousands, careless of the damning sin, Kiss the book's outside, who ne'er look'd within?

But I hang on to books. I love them. I even think they're very nice decor in a room - far better than paintings... That's not quite true!

I think Walking Dead is one of the friendliest new reader type books in that every time a new trade is shipped out, a new issue is shipped out at the same time.

It’s time to close the books on infectious diseases, declare the war against pestilence won, and shift national resources to such chronic problems as cancer and heart disease.

The terrible thing about the internet and Amazon is that they take the magic and happy chaos out of book shopping. The internet might give you what you want, but it won't give you what you need.

I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.

Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book.

The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.

One who believes all of a book would be better off without books

Stories make you think and dream; books make you want to ask questions.

My girlfriend bought a cook book the other day called 'Cheap and easy vegetarian cooking'. Which is perfect for her, because not only is she vegetarian.

Books, Cats, Life is Good.

Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep, for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter.

What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books.

It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

And they will ask thee of the spirit. Say: The spirit proceedeth at my Lord's command; but of knowledge, only a little is given to you.

Don't close the book when bad things happen in your life! Just turn the page and start a new chapter!

If God himself has waited six thousand years for someone to contemplate his works, my book can wait for a hundred.

Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf

Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.

The world exists to end up in a book.

Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.

The world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by observation than by reading.

If you don't see the book you want on the shelves, write it.

Treat your past as a book that you learn from instead of a hammer that you beat yourself up about.

Good books are the warehouses of ideas.

I wrote a book on life coaching, because my life became my own reference point how to live.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.

A book can teach you, a conversation can assure you, a poem can seduce you, a genius can inspire you but only you can save yourself.

You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?

Every writer can tell you that a book is only truly alive when it finds passionate readers who bring it alive in their imaginations.

Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.

It is time for conservatives to do what they do best and insist that a wasteful, inefficient government program gets off the books. Small government and the death penalty don't go together.

I'm not interested in creating a book that is read once and then placed on the shelf and forgotten. I am very happy when people have worn out my books, or that they're held together by Scotch tape.

My soul found ease and rest in the companionship of books.

I suddenly had a little epiphany: all the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal.

Better to lose a book to a child, than to lose a child to illiteracy.

For, so long as there are interesting books to read, it seems to me that neither I nor anyone else, for that matter, need be unhappy.

Read a lot - poems, prose, stories, newspapers, anything. Read books and poems that you think you will like and some that you think might not be for you. You might be surprised.

The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity.

You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read.

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

Travel the world, learn other languages, demand liberty, despise violence, read books, and keep a dictionary nearby.

Destroying species is like tearing pages out of an unread book, written in a language humans hardly know how to read, about the place where they live.

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

I've read all the books but one Only remains sacred: this Volume of wonders, open Always before my eyes.