From Book Quotes

Whether it is television, radio, newspapers, magazines, books or the Internet, a few giant conglomerates are determining what we see, hear and read.

What I fear is not being forgotten after my death, but, rather, not being enough forgotten. As we were saying, it is not our books that survive, but our poor lives that linger in the histories.

If I begin my book with a review of the coup, it is only to show that my abiding interests for Australia did not end with it. They shall end only with a long and fortunate life.

People die, but books never die.

Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own; it's the freedom to buy any book you want without looking at the price and wondering if you can afford it.

Five years from now, you’re the same person except for the people you’ve met and the books you’ve read.

In between that time, I've done book narrating, you know, books on tape for Dove Audio.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

Youve got to live life to write a book about it.

The snapshots had become almost as dim as memories.

Putting a computer in front of a child and expecting it to teach him is like putting a book under his pillow, only more expensive

Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.

I've often thought that my scruples about stealing books were the only thing that stood in the way of my being a really great scholar.

Words are power. And a book is full of words. Be careful what power you get from it. But know that you do.

The truth is, I can’t read anything with any distance. Every book is a self-help book to me. Just having them makes me feel better.

If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?

All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs.

Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.

If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

When God writes our names in the 'Lamb's Book of Life' He doesn't do it with an eraser handy. He does it for eternity.

If you read 50 books, I'll get you a motor bike.

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book.

The issue I highlight in the book is welfare reform.

It is better to write a bad first draft than to write no first draft at all.

You know people are always putting Ulysses in the top 10 books ever written but I doubt that any of those people were really moved by it.

One Book is enough, but a thousand books is not too many!

At age 19, I read a book [The Intelligent Investor] and what I'm doing today, at age 76, is running things through the same thought process I learned from the book I read at 19.

The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.

Oh, loneliness and cheeseburgers are a dangerous mix.

Each had his own business to think of. Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title.

Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks to be near the candle that infatuates him.

I believe the writer... should always be the final judge. I have always held to that position and have sometimes seen books hurt thereby, but at least as often helped. The book belongs to the author.

Making a book is such a big enterprise.

Since I was eight years old. I didn't have a TV, so comic books were definitely my television, my soap operas, and all that.

I'm 100 percent original, and that's what got me here. My rap music is more understandable, slower. It tells a story. You can write a book on each of my thoughts.

Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little.

Of all things I liked books best.

I never thought that Spider-Man would become the world wide icon that he is. I just hoped the books would sell and I'd keep my job.

I've never been a fast reader. I'm fickle; I don't finish books I start; I put a book aside for five, ten years and then take it up again.

Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That's one of their nicest qualities - their brute persistence.

The Compleat Angler is acknowledged to be one of the world's books. Only the trouble is that the world doesn't read its books, it borrows a detective story instead.

But it is impossible to enjoy a tennis game, a book, or a conversation unless attention is fully concentrated on the activity.

I have written the only diet book that I believe needs to exist, and here it is: CHAPTER ONE: Eat a bit less. CHAPTER TWO: Move about a bit more. THE END.

If you want to learn the craft of war, ponder over this book. The teacher is as a needle, the disciple is as thread. You must practice constantly.

An opinion can be argued with; a conviction is best shot. The logical end of a war of creeds is the final destruction of one, and Salammbo is the classical text-book instance.

Jesus needs neither books nor Doctors of Divinity in order to instruct souls; He, the Doctor of Doctors, He teaches without noise of words.

Nature is man's religious book, with lessons for every day.

God does not give us ready money. He issues promissory notes, and then pays them at the throne. Each one of us has a check-book.

If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?