Book Quotes · Page 131

How long does it take to write a good book? All of the years that you've lived.

— Edward Abbey

Al-Qur'an is not a book of Science, ‘S-C-I-E-N-C-E’ but a book of Signs ‘S-I-G-N-S

— Zakir Naik

We should choose our books as we would our companions, for their sterling and intrinsic merit.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Tulsidas's Ramayana is a notable book because it is informed with the spirit of purity, pity and piety.

— Mahatma Gandhi

You can look at my palm and see the storm coming. Read the book of my life and see I've overcome it.

— Mary J. Blige

“Life is an open book as far as potential is concerned.”

— Steven Redhead

[Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns] is not just unique to books, but films and music.

— Khaled Hosseini

“When adults read a book, they're two feet away; when children read it, they're right inside it.”

— Peggy Rathmann

Do you fall in love often?" Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with…

— Jeanette Winterson

Preparation for becoming attentive to Christianity does not consist in reading many books ... but in fuller immersion in existence.

— Soren Kierkegaard

The Henty books provide training in history and in many of the highest aspects of human character... American young people should read…

— Arthur B. Robinson

When I reviewed Hayek's book, The Pure Theory of Capital, it is my sincere conviction that this work contains some of the…

— Fritz Machlup

You must think about building a 'granth-mandir' in your village. Why is your village lacking such a 'granth-mandir'? Start with 50 books...100 books.

— Narendra Modi

Only in the books written in earlier times did she sometimes think she found some faint idea of what it might be…

— Anonymous

There are some books that get huge numbers of positive reviews, but reading them satiates people. They say, 'I've read enough now'.

— Frank Deford

We know, for instance, of "The Book of the Wars of the Lord." It is mentioned in the text [Numbers 21:14]. There…

— Elie Wiesel

I wonder why we always deny love. I remember in middle school, if you were accused of the crime of loving, you…

— Caroline B. Cooney

There are far too many people for us to think about each of them during our short stay on earth—like the thousands…

— Richard Paul Evans

We like to keep the show small. Honestly, where we moved the show to the UCB theater, we moved it to a…

— Scott Aukerman

I was in Los Angeles making 'Dead Again' and the producer, Lindsay Doran , asked me if I'd be interested in adapting…

— Emma Thompson

“The act of true reading is in its very essence democratic. Consider the nature of what happens when we read a book…

— Philip Pullman

My father tried to get me to be around gay people a lot when I was young. He owned a gay bookstore…

— Margaret Cho

I went out into the world when I was about 22. I wrote books and I illustrated books and did book covers,…

— Quentin Crisp

I'd have a stable full of Arabian steeds, rooms piled with books, and I'd write out of a magic inkstand, so that…

— Louisa May Alcott

Before history is written down in books, it is written in courage.

— George W. Bush

“There are few things I like better in life than getting lost in a good book.”

— John Grisham

I did not read Gone with the Wind, although I've seen the movie, and I read every book on Margaret Mitchell.

— Shannen Doherty

When you look at the books about well-being, you see one word - it's happiness. People do not distinguish.

— Daniel Kahneman

I've played D&D for years. I'm a comic book guy. Comic-Con in San Diego is nerd Christmas for me.

— Brian Posehn

When I wrote the Anita Hill book I believed everything I wrote was accurate.

— David Brock

The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.

— Agatha Christie

Until a book starts forming in your head, you always wonder, 'Am I going to be able to do this again?'

— George Pelecanos

The Book of Revelation is such a dream landscape that you can plug any major conflict in it.

— Elaine Pagels

If you ever write a book, I can only give you one piece of advice. Don't let your parents get involved.

— Markus Zusak

I'm kicking myself in the rear end every day, saying, 'Did I really book this many shows? What am I doing?'

— Justin Moore

Books are better than movies because you design the set the way you want it to look.

— Trent Reznor

My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet.

— Edward Abbey

“Life's book is hard to understand; Why couldst thou not remain at school?”

— Charles Hanson Towne

I fell in love with reading when I was allowed to choose whatever books I wanted to check out of the library.

— Adriana Trigiani

Now I don't have anything against Mexican people, but for God's sakes, sign the gust book on the way in.

— Dennis Miller