From Book Quotes

I always feel as if my books came half out of Lyell's brain... & therefore that when seeing a thing never seen by Lyell, one yet saw it partially through his eyes.

When the wind is blowing and the sleet or rain is driving against the dark windows, I love to sit by the fire, thinking of what I have read in books of voyage and travel.

Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking.

If I were a better artist, I'd be a painter, and if I were a better writer, I'd write books.. but I'm not, so I draw cartoons!

A book should be luminous not voluminous.

All the excitements of a prohibited book had their usual effect, one of which, as always, is to expose the fact that the censors don't know what they are talking about.

I read books all the time, I'm always reading. I'm not like somebody that reads really fast or a lot or anything, but I always have a book that I'm reading.

There's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me.

Nothing was solved when the fight was over, but nothing mattered.

I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn't tell it like it was.

In my book, I was trying to get into my own soul.

As Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman document in their book Networked, people who are heavily socially active online tend to be also heavily socially active offline; they’re just, well, social people.

I love graphic design. I love working with design, and I love storytelling, so I've been working on a children's book for a while, and I'd like to see that through.

Promoting his new book, President Bush visited the headquarters of Facebook. Unfortunately, he spent the whole visit on Farmville, clearing brush.

As long as I can buy records and books and maybe some clothes, I'm pretty stoked. I don't need a yacht or anything.

Didn't books say that too: that there is always price to pay for happiness?

Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?

Love wakes men, once a lifetime each; They lift their heavy lids, and look; And, lo, what one sweet page can teach They read with joy, then shut the book.

For me, books are music for my mind and my imagination. When I am stuck in something I'm writing, I simply read my way out of being stuck. You can never waste time reading.

In books, as in life, there are no second chances. On second thought: its the next work, still to be written, that offers the second chance.

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book.

I've got to stop being such a snob about leather-bound books, he reminded himself. E-books do have their moments.

To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books.

The first book that they gave me was Jeannie, a young teenager. I went on with her maybe ten books.

I really want people to read the book, and bookstores never sold an issue of Eightball because nobody knew what it was.

I tend to pull nuggets out of many books - rather than having a handful of books that serve as guiding lights.

I think my funny books are my favorites because I like to laugh so much.

First, a few words about this title. It isn't easy, coming up with book titles. A lot of the really good ones are taken. Thin Thighs in 30 Days, for example. Also The Bible.

I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness.

It would be through individual effort, inspired perhaps by reading Nietzsche's books, that the Overman might emerge, not through social or educational engineering.

The book is a form in which some of the greatest masterpieces that mankind has ever achieved are expressed.

Books fall open, you fall in, delighted where you've never been.

Read. Read. Read. Read. Read great books. Read poetry, history, biography. Read the novels that have stood the test of time. And read closely.

We bask in sermons, conferences, and books that exalt a grace centering on us.

The Kindle is just the razor. The books are the blades - ka-ching!

I've long said that comic books are the modern equivalent of our Greek myths.

I love comic books. I was weaned on them, so it's not like it's a stretch for me, but I have other interests, as well.

Blessed books—they’re a place to be alone, and no one else can come in.

Do I read her books? Of course.

My best friends are books, I can easily read them and take them wherever I go.

My husband, Nick Chiles and I wrote a number of relationship books together, and what we found was that women were thirsty to hear directly from men.

The final and full revelation of God is not a book, it is a person. Jesus Christ.

Now, I had been drawing all this time - especially in France of course - so, when I came back, my father gave me the chance to do a cover for one of the books he published.

Apollodorus says, "If any one were to take away from the books of Chrysippus all the passages which he quotes from other authors, his paper would be left empty.

Don't read a book out of its right time for you.

my life has been saved over and over again by picking up a book in which someone captured the whole experience of being despised and not dying.

I don't want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading.

His books are exciting and powerful and — if I may filch the word from the booksy ones — pulsing.

though the outside of human life changes much, the inside changes little, and the lesson-book we cannot graduate from is human experience.

If children haven't been read to, they don't love books. They need to love books, for books are the basis of literature, composition, history, world events, vocabulary, and everything else.