This Is A Book Quotes

And books which told me everything about the wasp, except why.

Study nature not books

Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.

If we wish to quench our thirst, we must lay aside books which explain thirst and take a drink.

People disagreeing everywhere you look makes you wanna stop and read a book.

Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.

And so I write the way I myself would like the book to be – if I were a child. I write for the child within me.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself.

In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology

A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly.

I would be ashamed to admit to the Indians that, where I come from, the women do not feel themselves capable of raising children until they read the instructions written in a book by a strange man.

Home is where the books are

There is more than one way to burn a book.

A BOOK?! WHAT D'YOU WANNA FLAMING BOOK FOR?...WE'VE GOT A LOVELY TELLY WITH A 12-INCH SCREEN AND NOW YA WANNA BOOK!

Life is our dictionary.

Life is a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself. The end of one physical incarnation is like the end of a chapter, on some level setting up the beginning of another.

Readers themselves, I think, contribute to a book. They add their own imaginations, and it is as though the writer only gave them something to work on, and they did the rest.

I keep writing children’s books, I keep making children’s books, because I still have them inside of me.

Only bad books have good endings. If a book is any good, it's ending is always bad - because you don't want the book to end.

Through the study of books one seeks God; by meditation one finds him.

In books we seek God; in prayer we find him. Prayer is the key which opens God's heart.

No efforts of mine could avail to make the book easy reading.

We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.

Look at Nature. Nature is a book from which we must learn. Each object in it is a page of that book.

Yeah, because I think it's more important just to inspire people to wake up one day and pick up a book and start feeling it out for themselves.

A book… it’s a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while.

If there is a book you want to read but isn't written yet,write it.

I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down.

The trouble with censorship is that once it starts it is hard to stop. Just about every book contains something that someone objects to.

Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.

A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.

In a well-functioning democracy, the state constitution is considered more important than God's holy book, whichever holy book that may be, and God matters only in your private life.

Some people read so little they have rickets of the mind.

Atheists tend to read only each other’s books and not the work of the religious thinkers they are supposedly refuting.

The first book that a child reads has a colossal impact.

My work stops at publication. If the books don't contain in themselves their reasons for being - questions and answers - it means I was wrong to have them published.

I found my voice in books.

Love of books is the best of all.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.

How glad the heathens would have been, That worship idols, wood and stone, If they the book God had seen.

If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times.

I came to New York to see what I could see - that's from a children's book, isn't it? - and to find the living part.

The Book of Mormon is an inexhaustible encyclopedia of knowledge.

No soldier can fight unless he is properly fed on beef and beer.

READ! Books can be as delicious as hot-fudge sundaes, as funny as clowns, as exciting as a baseball game that's tied in the 9th inning, and as beautiful as the best sunset you ever saw.

The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.

I look at life like a big book and sometimes you get half way through it and go 'Even though I've been enjoying it, I've had enough. Give us another book.'

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.