This Is A Book Quotes
In reading, in literature and poetry, I found an artistic freedom that I didn't see at Woolworth's. I would read everything from Shakespeare to science fiction ... sometimes a book a day.
With the use of psychedelics, it was all based around the Tibetan Book of the Dead, using them to experience enlightenment.
At the same time, I went through college, received a Ph.D. and started to teach. I wrote books.
Miramar, my recording company, has decided to offer a compilation of my music for snowboarding, which will have the same cover as the book does.
Interestingly enough, Aurthur C. Clarke once autographed a copy of his book "Rendezvous with Rama" for me.
I have had several offers to make the book into a film. I don't know if the message could be accurately transmitted, and so I have been somewhat hesitant in granting film rights.
The tantras are ancient sacred books of India and Tibet. The tantras detail specific means for attaining liberation.
Some people, of course, say they're practicing tantra. There are a lot of books on tantric sexual practice in local bookstores. These are usually pretty silly books.
Try to read books about meditation, but not so many different viewpoints that they get confusing. There is no best way. It's just what works for you at the time.
They've got lots of theories, books, sciences - I've read a lot of those books. Most of them are pretty unhappy.
Reading books about enlightenment does not make you enlightened at all. You have to meditate yourself.
We see in meditation that our experiences are endless, that we are endless, eternal spirit, not as a thought or an idea you read in a book. You have the experience yourself, every day.
Enlightenment is the culmination of self-knowledge, pure unadulterated knowledge. Not knowledge you can get from reading a book, it comes from perfecting your awareness, your mind.
In the Bhagavad-Gita, a book that I revere and respect, it's indicated that even women, along with animals, are capable of attaining enlightenment.
I feel like a divorced wife once my book is published and has left me, and hate to be brought back into intimate contact!
Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them.
Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them.
The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and intimate things.
Ultimately, no one can extract from things, books included, more than he already knows.
Writers ought to be regarded as wrongdoers who deserve to be acquitted or pardoned only in the rarest cases: that would be a way to keep books from getting out of hand.
Never to read another book that was born and baptized (with ink) at the same time.
I wrote the book 'Grace, Gold & Glory' because I had to overcome many challenges and hardships. I wanted to share my story to let anyone facing hardships know that your dream is still possible.
The readers are very similar. The books they know, the questions they ask, the characters they like. That is similar.
Brazil and Germany are very similar, but in Brazil we have a much longer career. There are much more books that have been published just there.
The probability of finding a particular book increases in relation to the clarity of the store's focus, the diligence and shrewdness of the bookseller, and the size of the business.
There's an inherent idea that if a Black executive producer and a Black director are going to do a movie based on a Black writer's book that everybody is going to be Black.
Book Everything is Flammable is an odd format though, not quite a diary and not quite a memoir. I was working on it as it was happening. This was gratifying to me.
Covers matter. In my experience, a different cover can make you think you're reading an entirely different book.
Ooo,” said Alexia, fascinated, “it shrinks back down again. The books didn't detail that occurrence.” The earl laughed. “You must show me these books of yours.
Don’t you think every face tells its own story? Like a book? More like a poem. If you study it long enough, you’ll soon find its meaning.
I've always loved comic books, which is why I've done films like Hulk and The Punishers.
This,’ whispered the Doctor to Romana, ‘is going to be like trying to find a book about needles in a room full of books about haystacks.
It may not seem like much, but think of the consequences. One overdue library book today, the collapse of the universe by the end of the week.
Nothing that readers say or do strikes me as a nuisance. Anyone who cracks open a book of mine is, to me, a gem.
I grew up in a house full of books, and we belonged to the Country Lending Service - each month the State Library would send us a parcel of books by train.
I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.
It's a lot of work organizing something, whether it's a show or a book, and I don't want to do it every day.
There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys.
I'm sure you're aware, with the time it takes to put these books together, everything can suddenly start coming out at once even though I wrote anything between one and five years ago.