The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books — Paracelsus Copy Share Image
It doesnt matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only time I was ever approached to write a book was when I was most famous. — Justine Bateman Copy Share Image
The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning. — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it. — Nicholas Lea Copy Share Image
I read so many scripts, that I don't do that much leisurely reading of books. — Morris Chestnut Copy Share Image
I really am an open book. I don't keep anything in at all, which is good and bad. — Kaley Cuoco Copy Share Image
The first chess book that I read was Dufresne's self-tutor, published with Lasker's Common Sense in Chess as an appendix. — Vasily Smyslov Copy Share Image
I credit Podiobooks and the free audio podcasts for helping me develop the audience I needed when I started selling my books… — Nathan Lowell Copy Share Image
my life has been saved over and over again by picking up a book in which someone captured the whole experience of… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
I never anticipated that I would be writing a book and never anticipated that people would want to read it and it'd… — Jay Blades Copy Share Image
Living your life is a long and doggy business. . . . And stories and books help. Some help you with the… — Anne Fine Copy Share Image
Tupac gave us validity. Tupac made the kid getting beat up every day realize that it was okay to be smart. Tupac… — Bevy Smith Copy Share Image
Basically, right before college I got into the Guinness book for my feet and started to do local commercials and little radio… — Matthew McGrory Copy Share Image
I have met thousands of children now, and not even one time has a child come up to me and said, 'Ms.… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“There are books, that one has for twenty years without reading them, that one always keeps at hand, that one takes along… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
I think if there hadn't been the one passage of the book that mostly abandons the humor, and focuses very intently on… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
Do something that will last and be beautiful. It doesn't have to be a bridge-or a symphony or book or a business.… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
As somebody who's kind of a technophile, I'm interested in how traditional and digital publishing connect. Maybe ten years ago they were… — Gene Luen Yang Copy Share Image
A very little boy stood upon a heap of gravel for the honour of Rum Alley. He was throwing stones at howling… — Stephen Crane Copy Share Image
Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles is a novel that I have read over and over and over again. Tess is a… — Laetitia Casta Copy Share Image
Some make their worlds without knowing it. Their universes are just sesame seeds and three-day weekends and dial tones and skinned knees… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Book cover, 'Reefer Club' Totalitarianism is when people believe they can punish their way to perfection. — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
A book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf - at any rate it is safer… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Do not waste your time on light, weak, milktoast ministries and books — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
The reading of books, what is it but conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all countries. — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
What the book does as a technology is shield us from distraction. — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy! Pendennis. Book ii. Chap. xxxi. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
The best way to fight terrorism is not through guns. It's through pens, books, teachers and schools. — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
“Every stage of life is a chapter of a book. You must begin writing your life book.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
You don't have to be the best in someones book; As long as your one of the chapters. — Daniell Jabara Copy Share Image
Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living. — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
We're just like a movie based on a book-- almost, but not quite as good. — Pete Wentz Copy Share Image
A good book is never finished—-it goes on whispering to you from the wall. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I breathed the air of deliverance through books, and through books I leapt over the walls of confinement.. — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Open the book. (The gilt rubs off the edges of the pages and pollinates the fingertips.) — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
