From Book Quotes

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

I spend so much time on the Internet...I feel like I'm a million pages into the worst book ever, and I'm never going to stop reading.

Don't give me books for Christmas; I already have a book.

Vietnam, me love you long time. All day, all night, me love you long time.

It would be good for religion if many books that seem useful were destroyed. When there were not so many books and not so many arguments and disputes, religion grew more quickly than it has since.

I could dance with you until the cows come home. On second thought I'd rather dance with the cows until you come home.

Life itself is a quotation.

I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

For me, books have been a life-long resource-to learning, laughter, solace, excitement, inspiration. At your library, the world awaits you, free for the asking.

In the eyes of a seer, every leaf of a tree is a page of the Holy Book and contains divine revelation.

Whoever lacks the initiative to read books stifles his own selfhood.

[The writers of the holy books] did not even know the earth revolves around the sun. Why are we listening?

Christianity is based on a book. It centers in a Person. It expresses itself in a message. It authenticates itself in an experience.

When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.

A book can change the world... Every book a child reads creates new neurons in that child's brain.

This book is dedicated to all those who fell by the airside, for nothing is wasted, and every apparent failure is but a challenge to others.

I have this belief that children become readers before they can read. They become hooked on books because they were read aloud to as a child.

You don't have to gaze into a crystal ball when you can read an open book.

I read a book lately by Nietzsche and he says religion is just to dull the senses of the people. I agree.

Destiny gave me only two things: a few accounting books and the gift of dreaming.

Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.

Dance is low on the totem pole of the arts, because you're not left with a painting... a book that will stay there, a score you can read.

If your book doesn't keep you up nights when you are writing it, it won't keep anyone up nights reading it.

I'm sure someone out there has a workable solution. But what do I know? I make comic books and write about jazz. I do know the difference between right and wrong, though.

People who know and love the same books as you, have the road map to your soul.

I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or less fills a niche it's seized on, even when it's a far from perfect fit...

Do you know why I stopped being Delight, my brother? I do. There are things not in your book. There are paths outside this garden.

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

Not to find pleasure in serious reading gives a pastel coloring to the mind.

The poet can only write the poems; it takes the reader to complete the meaning.

I hope my books make statements about our general condition.

I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the passions of their readers.

You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat.

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

The true system of the World has been recognized, developed and perfected...Everything has been discussed and analysed, or at least mentioned.

Every time we read to a child, we're sending a 'pleasure' message to the child's brain. You could even call it a commercial, conditioning the child to associate books and print with pleasure.

There are certain emotions in your body that not even your best friend can sympathize with, but you will find the right film or the right book, and it will understand you.

No book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page turners.

I have found the most valuable thing in my wallet is my library card.

You can predict a person?s future and divine his bank balance if you know two things: the books he reads, the people he associates with.

Only one book is worth reading: the heart.

The only friends who are free from cares are the goblet of wine and a book. Give me wine...that I may for a time forget the cares of the world.

A book is a friend. You can never have too many.

It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.

I'm a project-based photographer; I think in narrative terms, the way a writer thinks of a book, or a filmmaker a film.

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.

The only book that is worth writing is the one we don’t have the courage or strength to write. The book that hurts us (we who are writing), that makes us tremble, redden, bleed

The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.

Sometimes music, movies and books are the only things that let us feel like someone else feels like we do.