This Is A Book Quotes
Though men can cover crimes with bold, stern looks, poor women's faces are their own faults' books.
The happiest youth, viewing his progress through, What perils past, what crosses to ensue, Would shut the book, and sit him down and die.
I'll read enough When I do see the very book indeed Where all my sins are writ, and that's myself.
The painful warrior famous for fight, After a thousand victories, once foil'd, Is from the books of honor razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd
If you read my books, especially the Star Trek books and the Quest for Tomorrow books, you'll see in them the core theme of the basic humanistic questions that Star Trek asked.
I envy the people who say, 'oh, well, I've got my name in the golden book and I'm going to be entered into the pearly gates.'
When self-interest inclines a man to print, he should consider that the purchaser expects a pennyworth for his penny, and has reason to asperse his honesty if he finds himself deceived.
There will come a time when nobody reads my books and no one remembers who I was. And in the meantime, I'll do it my way.
The trouble with the publishing business is that too many people who have half a mind to write a book do so.
Knowledge and increase of enduring joy From the great Nature that exists in works Of mighty Poets.
Books! tis a dull and endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it.
Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be/Yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.
Quotologists encounter happy surprises, bright books by faded authors, treasures hidden under dust.
In books they don't have deleted scenes, like with DVDs. You could have your deleted scene in a book as well!
What with the reviews of critics, the sarcasms of one's friends, the reproaches of one's own taste, there's precious little peace after publishing a book.
If you are rich, you have lovely cars, and jars full of flowers, and books in rows, and a wireless, and the best sort of gramophone and meringues for supper.
Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilisation may be carried triumphantly forward.
No one like crying, but tears water our souls. So, perhaps my thanks should be to allow you to cry for the Chinese women in my books.
The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.
The passion to condense from book to book Unbroken wisdom in a single look, Though we know well that when this fix the head, The mind's immortal, but the man is dead.
I really couldn't say how famous I really am, that's for the history books to decide. But I'll probably be pretty up there.
It really is fascinating stuff, and I've picked it up on Scrubs. Memorizing lines is at least as hard as studying a text book, I mean, by this point I know about as much as most 'real' doctors.
I'd like to think that my scripts are more significant than maybe the Bible or the book that the Jews use, whatever it's called. And that's only when I'm having an off day.
don't mean to sound weird but I get so immersed in the source material when I'm working on a movie that I kind of lose the line between what I thought of and what was in the book.
First rule of writing: When still a child, make sure you read a lot of books. Spend more time doing this than anything else.
I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around.
It's difficult to tell the truth about how a book begins. The truth, as far as it can be presented to other people, is either wholly banal or too intimate.
It has historically been a comfort for the bourgeois and that you can read the most extreme books and not change. You can read A Christmas Carol and not change in any way.
I feel much more comfortable in politics than I did in book writing. Book writing is so hard. Politics felt easy compared to that.
What you do off the job plays a major role in how far you go on the job. How many good books, do you read each year? How often do you attend workshops? Who do you spend must of your time with?
I would not wear any clothes that had a brand name on them, and I only read books that were canonical.
I haven't found it to be particularly enjoyable... ninety percent of the time when I go on dates, I'm thinking, 'I could be reading my book instead.'
In Celan's words a Jew is "a man with a little book under the shoulder." We are the keepers of tradition.
It’s getting a little chilly in here! Why don’t we sit by the fireplace and I’ll tell you the story of how I single handedly killed the Medina boys!
The name of a great writer is usually bigger than the title of his book. Both literally and figuratively.
Out, out brief candle, life is but a walking shadow...a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
The clean book bill will be one of the most immoral measures ever adopted. It will throw American art back into the junk heap.
Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map.
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book!
Somewhere embedded in every ordinary book are the five or six words for which really all the rest will be written.