This Is A Book Quotes

It's very difficult to read a book on your computer.

I hate knowing about illness. Whenever I read a medical book, I immediately start to get all the symptoms.

He had to choose between something he had become accustomed to and something he wanted to have.

But what happens when her beauty is torn from her like a cover from a book? Will he care to read her then, although her pages speak of nothing but love for him?

Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground!

Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death.

There's a picture of the real Coach Gary Gaines in the book and he's sitting in the locker room after a game, and he just looks so much like Billy Bob, that we went to him.

About 75 percent of the crude oil marketed here is sold off the books, and they are doing trades that would be illegal if it was a regulated market, and of course they do not want to regulate it.

Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn't mean having read a few art history books.

It's very inconvenient because every time I finish, let's say, a chapter of a book, I think I'm going to ring Richard and then realize: Oh, Christ, I've buried him. I buried him last year.

What you could say, and what I do argue in the book, is that he doesn't have as much concern for the lives of Iraqis as he does for the lives of Americans, or even frozen American embryos.

Most of my books have caused distribution and printing problems in the past.

One of the characteristics I cherish in my friends is their childlike gullibility, and several excited minutes were spent trying to actually find this book.

I only write books about dead people. They can't sue.

Where are you originally from?” “The planet Lorien, three hundred million miles away.” “Must have been a long trip, John Smith.” “Took almost a year. Next time I’m bringing a book.

I already knew about this friendship between St. John Paul II and this philosopher [Ana Teresa Tymieniecka] when I was in Buenos Aires. It was known. Also her books are known.

This book will not harm you unless someone throws it at you which is a possibilty never to be discounted.

That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England

Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.

A bird in the open never looks Like its picture in the birdie books - Or if it once did, it has changed its plumage, And plunges you back into ignorant gloomage.

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.

Books were my pass to personal freedom.

I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all.

The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.

A raznochinets needs no memory—it is enough for him to tell of the books he has read, and his biography is done.

You really don't have a life when you're working. I always think "oh, I'm gonna see everybody on my days off. I'm gonna read so many books and see so many films" and then three months go by.

Book five of Dork Diaries is one of my favorite books it brings my thoughts deep into the book and think if you haven't read it you should you will probably fell just as I fell.

I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language.

Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.

I have even written a book about Wine called The Grapes of Ralph.

The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour.

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Day, after day, after glorious day, I was falling in love with books.

It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book... it's perfume, it's incense, it's the dust of Egypt.

Those who don't build must burn.

And no book gives a deeper insight into the inner life of the Negro, his struggles and his aspirations, than, The Souls of Black Folk.

If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.

Regarding R. H. Blyth: For translations, the best books are still those by R. H. Blyth. . . .

I didn't read a serious book until I was 19.

It's no secret that in my books I'm trying to make the comic and the serious rub up against each other just as closely and uncomfortably as I can.

Some authors have a very hard time understanding that in order to be faithful to the spirit of the book, it's almost always impossible to remain faithful to the text. You have to make changes.

I judged about a zillion awards this year so Ive been reading a lot of books that just came out.

Major theme of the book ["Hotels of North America"], from my point of view: what is persona, what is self, in the digital sphere, and/or what is the effect of it on self in a prolonged interaction.

Why buy a book when you can join a library?

An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.

The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.

I knew it was going to be enormous because of the number of people who bought the books, but, to be honest, I never thought it would be bigger than Bond. Never in a million years.

Some books are lies frae end to end.

While we may open the books of the past, we may but grant flying glances of the future, through the mist that veils it.