Book Quotes

I did know once, only I've sort of forgotten.

Books are many things: lullabies for the weary, ointment for the wounded, armour for the fearful and nests for those in need of a home.

The physics of undergraduate text-books is 90% true; the contents of the primary research journals of physics is 90% false.

We were fortunate enough to have several good books detailing the camps and the women. Some were by the survivors. I also got to talk to some of the women who had been in the camp, survivors.

Read the most useful books, and that regularly and constantly.

If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

A book worth reading is worth buying.

Who aspires must down as low As high he soar'd.

In my opinion, understanding who your target audience is, and what they want, and writing to them (and only them!) is the most important component of being successful as an author.

This book [March], in my estimation, is a road map. It is a change agent. It is saying to people, "This is a way".

I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pockets. When I have enough, I have a book.

I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.

Does G get angry because it follows F in the alphabet? Does page 68 in a book start a revolution because it follows 67?

Which is why I am writing this book. To think. To understand. It just happens to be the way I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.

How could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books?

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery.

I don't read books, I write them.

In some ways, certain books are more powerful by far than any battle.

Tell me my copy is missing the last twenty pages or something. Hazel Grace, tell me I have not reached the end of this book. OH MY GOD DO THEY GET MARRIED OR NOT OH MY GOD WHAT IS THIS?!

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the maximum.

The bookshelf, like the book, has become an integral part of civilization as we know it, its presence in a home practically defining what it means to be civilized, educated, and refined.

Books belong to their readers.

My hatred of crowds, the obviousness of crowds, of anything en masse. Is this why I like little-known books? A general desire to escape the main world.

I'm certainly not very book smart, but I started traveling at 16, and it has enriched me in ways I could never begin to explain.

Great books are written for Christianity much oftener than great deeds are done for it. City libraries tell us of the reign of Jesus Christ but city streets tell us of the reign of Satan.

I tried to depict the human face of this history, I wanted to write a book that people would actually want to read.

No matter what his rank or position may be, the lover of books is the richest and the happiest of the children of men.

He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter.

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

I am writing to apply for the position of bookkeeper. Attached, you will find my list of qualifications. I have been keeping books for four years now, and I am never going to give them back.

Two things can make life meaningful: books and love. ...I already have books. Now I am setting off in search of love.

Read two old books for every new one.

One can never have enough socks," said Dumbledore. "Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books.

I fantasize about having a manual job where I can come home at night, read a book and not feel responsible for what will happen the next day.

Can there be enough books to answer all your questions?

For me books have always been an incredibly solid part of my life, both as escapism and simply as resource.

Some books you read. Some books you enjoy. But some books just swallow you up, heart and soul.

...the book is a manifesto to make the Web atone for the sins of computers and regain a level of simplicity that can put humanity at peace with its tools once again.

Vegan With A Vengeance is on my kitchen shelf. This fun and creative book is delicious for people like me, who don’t eat pets.

since each child reads only about six hundred books in the course of childhood, each book should nourish them in some way - with new ideas, insight, humor, or vocabulary.

I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.

And so for a couple of years my life was divided between my music and my school books.

I am never going to please all 100 million people who read the book. I'll be lucky if half that number are happy with me playing Christian Grey. I know there are campaigns of hate against me already.

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

A fondness for reading, which, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

Till this moment I never knew myself.

It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.