This Is A Book Quotes

Back at his chair he cannot remember what he was reading. He feels the books beside him to find the one that is warm.

A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.

I cannot live without books: but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.

Some of the recipes in the book have evolved for us. Many haven't.

Seventy million books in America's libraries, but the one you want to read is always out.

I would not dare so dishonor my Creator's name by attaching it to this filthy book.

Ah, reader, put thy trust in thy creator, and thou wilt be safe; but if thou trustest to the book called the scriptures thou trustest to the rotten staff of fable and falsehood.

The human race doesn't need more books telling them what to do. They need the power to do what they already know.

I still do some inking here and there and I've actually got a book that I'm going to ink entirely.

I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal.

I was in three of the Harry Potter films without reading one of those book, quite thankfully.

When I was 9 or 10 years old it wasn't the thing to be seen doing - reading a book in your spare time.

I used to have all the Goosebumps books as a kid too.

And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.

I never planned on doing a book about Paul Farmer or his organization. I met him in Haiti when I was on a magazine assignment. It's almost like his story sort of fell in my lap.

A boy has to peddle his book.

We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.

A good friend is like a wonderful book, the inside is even better than the cover!

I have decided that the trouble with print is, it never changes its mind.

Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.

My mother gave me this book called Feature Films at Used Car Prices by a guy named Rick Schmidt. I gotta credit the guy, cuz he gave me the most practical advice. It empowers you.

One of the people that wrote a forward to my book is Gerry Spence, whom I admire. Gerry is a friend of mine, and Gerry's perhaps the leading criminal defense attorney in the country.

It's unbelievable, there's a book out attacking Gore, when he's the most unfortunate loser in political history.

We agreed that people are now afraid of the English language. He [T.S. Eliot] said it came of being bookish, but not reading books enough. One should read all styles thoroughly.

Children's books are written for upbringing...but upbringing is a great thing; it decides the fate of the human being.

I don't belong to any club or group. I don't fish, cook, dance, endorse books, sign books, co-sign declarations, eat oysters, get drunk, go to church, go to analysts, or take part in demonstrations.

A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

Prejudice is opinion without judgement.

W. C. Fields, a lifetime agnostic, was discovered reading a Bible on his deathbed. ''I'm looking for a loop-hole,'' he explained.

Look, don't just stare at the pages," I used to tell my students. "Become the characters. Live inside the book.

I want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at the beach.

Use book value as a starting point to try and establish the value of the enterprise.

Before selling, try to re-evaluate the company again and see where the stock sells in realtion to its book value.

The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible.

You couldn't always trust the history books. They told a diluted truth, a truth by committee.

One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.

My father was an angry and impatient teacher and flung the reading book at my head.

A book exists at the intersection of the author's subconscious and the reader's response.

It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books.

A man will be known by his books.

I didn't read this book--I inhaled it. This a terrific new take on a great old rock n roll story, a clash of the musical titans.

Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.

To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them.

The most important question for me when I begin working on a film is where to start. For a book, what makes you convinced there is a story that is worthwhile?

I love books and going to bookstores. My favorite sound is the sound of the needle hitting the record.

We did a book signing and people came up to me. There was an expectant mother who was like, "I think we might name our child Zach because of your work."

Today I will be a successful sales professional, and I will learn something today that will make me even more professional tomorrow.

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

The way forward is to stop pestering yourself for answers and let it, the creative part of your mind, come up with the solution when the time is right.