This Is A Book Quotes

I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.

Books worth reading are worth re-reading.

What a pity when editors review a woman's book, that they so often fall into the error of reviewing the woman instead.

You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.

Story book endings, fairytales coming true.

Reading is a way to take in the difficult situations and understand them. The whole point of reading a book in class is to have discussion about what these situations are like.

Read. It makes you more intelligent. It’s that simple. We all see the universe through the tiny keyhole of our own eyes, and every book is another keyhole from which you can gaze.

Fifty seven million children across the world don't want an iPhone, Xbox or chocolates. They want a book and pen.

Who said time machines haven't been built yet? They already exist. They're called books

No one has ever stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?

Open your eyes at last and see... now I will open the book of the world for you,there are no words in it, just pictures.

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

Algebras (jabbre and maqabeleh) are geometric facts which are proved by propositions five and six of Book two of Elements.

Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.

I had to read Wuthering Heights for English and I never enjoyed a book in all my life as much as that one.

I write my books in my head, and not in a specific study with a view. The view is from my inner eyes.

As an actor, the biggest compliment you can get, in my book is for someone to believe that you're the character.

A lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.

He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.

Books can lift our spirits, heal our wounds, steel our courage and strengthen our religious resolve.

The book that I shall make people read is the book of the heart, which holds the key to the mystery of life

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

I don't want people to think that they can attain realization simply by listening to others or by reading books. They must practice what they read and hear.

I would like to have the superpower of being able to touch a book and then gain all the knowledge out of that book without spending hours and days reading it.

she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane for the dandy a century ago. It differentiated her from others.

The people and successes in your life mirror your beliefs.

Every time a champion makes a decision they have a chance to learn something new, regardless of the outcome.

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence.

There are several books out on punk history, but I haven't read any of them. I was there.

Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.

I love to travel, but when I really want to escape, I read a book.

The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

The only thing worse than not reading a book in the last ninety days is not reading a book in the last ninety days and thinking that it doesn't matter

The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace.

Marking a book is literally an experience of your differences or agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him.

I've been homeschooling for eight years and have always received the best advice and encouragement from other homeschoolers, rather than a book or lecture.

Most people who decide to grow personally find their first mentors in the pages of books.

I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.

Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images.

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

People who have nothing to hide, hide nothing. You should be an open book, be transparent.

The intellectual is, quite simply, a human being who has a pencil in his or her hand when reading a book.

I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not only a book which was once spoken, but a book which is now speaking.

The Bible was the only book Jesus ever quoted, and then never as a basis for discussion but to decide the point at issue.

Books can change your life. Some of the most influential people in our lives are characters we meet in books.

A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships

Books have become products, like cereal or perfume or deodorant.

I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the day.

She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.