Book Quotes · Page 162

I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little.

— Voltaire

Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.

— Daniel Clowes

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

— Thomas Jefferson

If I don't book a job, I like to see it not as a rejection but as a redirection to something different.

— Bella Hadid

“When I open a book, I enter a world that no one can take me away from.”

— Anonymous

“Better to find out certain things by living them, not by reading them in a book.”

— Susanna Kearsley

Sometimes you have to decide whether it's worth turning the page, or whether it's time to close the book.

— Anonymous

Every creature in the world is like a book and a picture and a mirror for us

— Alain de Lille

The worst thing in life is boredom. When people don't know what to do with themselves, they are very, very poor.

— Alice Herz-Sommer

Books delight to the very marrow of one's bones. They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a…

— Plutarch

I never read a single book as a child. I did not read as a child. I worked on the farm. I…

— Story Musgrave

“Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them; but as a rule the…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Your response to literature is to do with maturity; if you don't respond to a book or a poem when you are…

— Tim Pigott-Smith

“Because that’s what a book is: a letter from a writer to a reader. It’s connection. Something that reaches across the divides…

— Chris Harrison

I think books find their way to you when you need them. Whenever I feel like I'm not going to live to…

— Rosanne Cash

And Sam Vimes thought: Why is Young Sam's nursery full of farmyard animals anyway? Why are his books full of moo-cows and…

— Terry Pratchett

I teach something called The Law of Probabilities, which says the more things you try, the more likely one of them will…

— Jack Canfield

This perfected body can be compared to a mirror, and the human spirit to the sun. Nevertheless, if the mirror breaks, the…

— Abdu'l-Bahá

I'm not currently into economic textbooks, but my grandchildren tell me that the book by Gregory Mankiw, former head of the white…

— John C. Bogle

Just remember: you're not a 'dummy,' no matter what those computer books claim. The real dummies are the people who-though technically expert-couldn't…

— Walt Mossberg

The boundary between expert and amateur was an imposed social-cultural "protection" which actually exposed a number of women to a fatal disease,…

— Laura Mullen

When I was 40, I wrote my first book, The Pilgrimage, and I said to myself, "why did it take so long…

— Paulo Coelho

Many of the narratives can only tend to excite ideas the worst calculated for a female breast: Every thing is called plainly…

— Matthew Lewis

The Book of Mormon is no fake. I know what I know. I have seen what I have seen and I have…

— Martin Harris

It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.

— Victor Hugo

The book thief has struck for the first time – the beginning of an illustrious career.

— Markus Zusak

You have to sink way down to a level of hopelessness and desperation to find the book that you can write.

— Susan Sontag

Gain some knowledge. If not from the Bible or Koran, get a book from college.

— LL Cool J

I grew up really being a comic book geek, and that was a really big part of my childhood.

— Rob Van Dam

Oh, I think every author is inspired by all of the books that she reads.

— Cornelia Funke

I would love to write a book that opens people's eyes to the more interesting side.

— John Gimlette

It is the best book ever written on the subject. There is nothing like it!

— Thomas A. Edison

“We all fight for money, some for power, but most of all for love. But me, I fight to become a champion.”

— Jonathan Anthony Burkett

If you wish to avoid an unpleasant story you had best put this book down

— Anonymous

If thou trusteth to the book called the Scriptures, thou trusteth to the rotten staff of fables and falsehood.

— Thomas Paine

“Books have a curious effect on those with certain predispositions to fall into obsession.”

— Kane X. Faucher

The last book I read was Noam Chomsky on anarchism; maybe I will become an anarchist.

— Alexander Skarsgard

Every time I've written a book, I'm like, 'Oh, it's so different from the last one. Are they going to like it?'

— Lisa Jewell

Probably all the books I've ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity.

— Fred Saberhagen

One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?

— Alain de Botton