Book Quotes · Page 230

Books seem a little old-fashioned, but hey, I can do old-fashioned if it's good.

— Tim Tharp

Success is walking out of here with the title, and anything less is not good enough in my book.

— Pete Sampras

I expect to think that I would rather be author of your book than of any other on Nat. Hist. Science.

— Joseph Dalton Hooker

“Turn the page, your heroine is still there, breathe, relax, life is beautiful: you're in a book!”

— Gabrielle Dubois

I like to be with my friends and my family, listen to music and read books. Things like that relax me.

— Caroline Wozniacki

The Book of Revelation is a description of one path to the New Jerusalem, but this scenario is not inevitable.

— Barbara Marx Hubbard

If you want to get ahead in this world get a lawyer -- not a book.

— Fran Lebowitz

My favorite 'Eloise' book is probably 'Eloise in Paris.'

— Rebecca Serle

The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole…

— Anonymous

The truth is that I hate to think about other people reading my books," Miranda said. "It's like watching someone go through…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“Count calories if you like, but go ahead and gorge yourself on books. What have you got to lose but a small…

— Robin R. Meyers

Growing up, books were my lifeline, and I owe a debt to those writers that can never be repaid. They saved my…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Of course, every time I end a book, I look down at myself and I'm just the same. I'm always disappointed that…

— Jamaica Kincaid

we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the…

— Ernest Hemingway

Many books have been written about what the X-factor is, what separates people who win big matches versus those who struggle. Some…

— Jim Courier

I talk about my daily dozen in the book [ Today Matters]. Twelve things that are certainly attainable by any of us…

— John C. Maxwell

There's that lovely thing for the first month or two of writing a new book: OK, I don't know what that character's…

— Terry Pratchett

“This is how I show my students that I love them - by putting books in their hands, by noticing what they…

— Donalyn Miller

Look, if you have a problem with distilling the Battle of Thermopylae down to freedom versus tyranny, you need to read Herodotus…

— Zack Snyder

To me, the circle and the square where the sky and the earth, as symbolized by the ancient Oriental religions; they formed…

— Michel Seuphor

I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion…

— Lord Chesterfield

I can't imagine a home without an overflow of books. The point of books is to have way too many but to…

— Louise Erdrich

Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems. Books…

— Pseudonymous Bosch

The truth is that even big collections of ordinary books distort space, as can readily be proved by anyone who has been…

— Terry Pratchett

Books are only the shadow and life the real thing. I believe this as strongly as any belief I hold.

— Esther Forbes

A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.

— Anonymous

The child who is being raised strictly by the book is probably a first edition.

— Vikrant Parsai

I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.

— Stephen Fry

Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking.

— Charles Dickens

My mother had a book club that would dissolve into opening wine.

— Tim Federle

I am writing a book and that takes third place of importance.

— John Entwistle

For me, it's writing a book and telling people about this story.

— Rebecca Skloot

I like books. I've always got a literature book going. I'd be in there reading, in my off time.

— Samuel L. Jackson

“Just because the book has sex in it doesn’t mean women are only reading it for the sexy bits.”

— Jenny Trout

When I was young, I kept a book about my performances. It was easier then, because I was not so very busy.

— Mirella Freni

Is there anything better than pussy? Yeah, a really good book.

— Bo Burnham

When I was a kid I ate sports books up, like "Winners Never Quit" by Phil Pepe. That was like my bible.

— David Duchovny

“How do I know a really good book? When, between the pages, I come undone.”

— Marcia Whyte

“A book is tremendously important. Nobody ever paid for the price of a book, they only paid for the printing”

— Anonymous

Now I'm trying to work outside first person. I do plan to write more books.

— Brent Runyon