This Is A Book Quotes

I dont like any of them, because they don't read the books. In Kiss Me Deadly my story is better than his story. Anthony Quinn played in The Lond Wait and he didn't read the book either.

Memorization of variations could be even worse than playing in a tournament without looking in the books at all.

Beware that the one who reads is the same as the book, the same as what is read, the same as the speaker and the same as what is spoken without being the word.

Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.

Most of you didn't think that helping people share books would be a subversive act...Yet the fact is that you have chosen a profession that has become radical.

I sip the Dom P watching Gandhi til I'm charged - writing in my book of rhymes, all the words past the margin

We glorify those who left their names in history books at the expense of those contributors about whom our books are silent. We humans are not just a superficial race - we are a very unfair one.

The rain is playing its soft pleasant tune fitfully on the skylight, and the shade of the fast-flying clouds across my book passed with delicate change.

I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful.

Growing up, I took so many cues from books. They taught me most of what I knew about what people did, about how to behave. They were my teachers and my advisers.

Red Hook Road made me happy, and happy to be alive. It took me out of my home on the coast of South Carolina, placed me in the town along Red hook Road, and changed me the way good books always do.

I think that's what turns young men and women into writers - the happiness you discover living in books.

If we consider my latest book, Strategie de la deception, what we need to focus on are the other aspects of the same phenomenon.

They were strange books. They spoke about mercury, salt, dragons, and kings, and he didn't understand any of it.

Songs won't save the planet, but neither will books or speeches.

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.

I don't know who Ozzy is. I wake up a new person every day.

I've never turned into a bee - I've never been chased by a mummy or met a ghost. But many of the ideas in my books are suggested by real life.

The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dreamland; where prose is prowling on the desk and poetry hiding in the heart.

A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?

Make careful choice of the books which you read: let the holy Scriptures ever have the preeminence.

If I don't have the books to read, if I don't have the information to study, how can I succeed? That's a lot of the stuff I would focus on if I was elected because I think knowledge is power.

Some people read books for fun.

We may live without friends; we may live without books But civilized men cannot live without cooks.

I have lived a thousand lives lost within the pages of a book.

Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?

But how do I get to having to write a book?... It was a mother who bore me, not an inkwell!

There is absolutely no point in sitting down to write a book unless you feel that you must write that book, or else go mad, or die.

The Navy is very old and very wise.

I don't like outlining, because books are organic things. Sometimes a book doesn't want to be written in a certain way.

Nature's book always contains the truth; we must only learn to read it.

The lesson of the book is that the universe is governed by the laws of science.

I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order to study the craft; I read because I like to read

I give this book 5 Stars and highly recommend it to all fiction, nonfiction, and poetry writers, aspiring writers, bloggers or journalists.

Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.

Beware of the person of one book.

In books lies the soul fo the whole past time.

Any fool may write a most valuable book by chance, if he will only tell us what he heard and saw with veracity.

Honesty is the first chapter in the Book of wisdom. Let it be our endeavor to merit the character of a just nation.

When I was a kid, a book I read advised young artist to be themselves. That decided it for me. I was a corny kind of guy, so I went in for corn.

To a book collector, you see, the true freedom of all books is somewhere on his shelves.

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

There are books of the same chemical composition as dynamite. The only difference is that a piece of dynamite explodes once, whereas a book explodes a thousand times.

If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?

Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves.

I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.

I just love comic books. I've always loved comic book art, and I just think it's amazing.

Civil disobedience is not accepted by religion and the state does not accept it and there are many verses in the Holy Book that talk of following the ruler.