This Is A Book Quotes
What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
I was surprised recently to find a book called "Poetry in Persons" that's coming out about visit to poets to a class that Pearl London gave.
A book on cheap paper does not convince. It is not prized, it is like a wheezy doctor with pigtail tobacco breath, who needs a manicure.
There was a thoughtful frown on the face of the man who was the possessor of twenty million dollars.
For the purpose of my life, I don't ask the question. First of all, I believe. I think the Five Books of Moses are inspired. Call it divine. I don't know. But I would certainly call it inspired.
BLINDSIGHT is fearless: a magnificent, darkly gleaming jewel of a book that hurdles the contradictions inherent in biochemistry, consciousness, and human hearts without breaking stride.
I know of no other book that so fully teaches the subjection and degradation of women.
I'm into video games, but only real specific lame video games. In a more traditional nerd sense, I just read lots of books and I enjoyed school.
If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.
Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books-they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future, and a past.
Art is so personal. I'm very comforted by the fact that certain movies that I love, other people hate. Certain books that I love, other people hate. You can't please everybody.
It is difficult sharing and capturing so many years of memories and the people behind the words-and even though that guest book can speak volumes, in between, the pages remain so silent.
The man who doctors himself with the aid of medical books, runs the risk of dying of a typographical error.
I didn't do too much. I came here (to The Magic Castle) and learned about magic. I read a book, but not his father's book. Sorry about that.
Now we not only need to say more about the Book of Mormon, but we need to do more with it.
You really ought to read more books - you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.
People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away.
Every author ought to write every book as if he were going to be beheaded the day he finished it.
Geek and Sundry has an eclectic line-up of shows all targeted around things I love: Comics, Tabletop Games, Books and more.
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about your books than you do!
Things that people will say to me, mostly, is that you shouldn't have all these books. It's too expensive.
To lose yourself in a book is the desire of the bookworm. I mean to be taken. That is my desire.
The New York Times Bestseller 'The Amateur,' written by Ed Klein, former editor of the 'New York Times Magazine,' is one of the best books I've read.
But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.
Solomon warned us not to rush into God’s presence with words. That’s what fools do. And often, that’s what we do.
Christ didn't leave us a book of instructions; He left us a body, a family - a Church. If it were perfectly clear, there wouldn't be any freedom.
The bands I like, they don't sell too many records and the girls I like, they don't kiss too many boys. Books I read will never be bestsellers yeah but come on fellas at least we made our choice.
The gains in education are never really lost. Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth, like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men.
If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it?
Evolution writ large is the belief that a cloud of hydrogen will spontaneously invent extreme-ultraviolet lithography, perform Swan Lake, and write all the books in the British Museum.
It is a good thing to read books, and need not be a bad thing to write them, but in any case, it is a pious thing to collect them.
The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but rather in the reader's head.
When I reviewed Hayek's book, The Pure Theory of Capital, it is my sincere conviction that this work contains some of the most penetrating thoughts on the subject that have ever been published.
The censors don't bother with fantasy books, especially old ones. They can't understand them. They think it's all kids' stuff. They'd die if they knew what The Chronicles of Narnia were really about.
In books and in life, you need to read several pages before someone's true character is revealed.
My wife and I love to read. Were going to have to move out to make room for the books! And we have our dogs.
A romp in the hay lingers like the first line of a song, but your true love is the one you make a life with and write more than a line about, you write a whole book.
Captain Shotover: How much does your soul eat? Ellie: Oh, a lot. It eats music and pictures and books and mountains and lakes and beautiful things to wear and nice people to be with.
I'm a better writer now because I've worked very hard at getting better. My long-range goal will always be to write better books.
Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start with Mount Everest. So if you're starting fantasy, don't start with a nine-book series.