Book Quotes · Page 271

A book for cheap success will still be expensive because the way to success is always costly.

— Terry Mark

I've chosen Peter Pan by JM Barrie as my favourite children's book.

— Tessa Jowell

I've summarized dozens of books in my literary career; it's become rather second nature.

— Rick Perlstein

The most efficacious secular book that ever was published in America is the newspaper.

— Henry Ward Beecher

I'm a total nerd. I love comic books and video games and most of all zombies!

— Katie Leclerc

I'll never read every single book or go to every single place. But I'll die in the trying of it.

— Jaden Smith

Life is a book, you are the author. Learn to write the book before your mistakes and you shall have wonders.

— Alex RJ Saranpa

“A good book is always good, no matter how many times you've already read it.”

— Osamu Dazai

It would be through individual effort, inspired perhaps by reading Nietzsche's books, that the Overman might emerge, not through social or educational…

— David E. Cooper

Ordinary people simply don't know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements.

— Anne Frank

Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their…

— W. H. Auden

In the modern operas that 'Miss Saigon' and 'Les Miz' are, nobody breaks out into song from conventional book dialogue. Everything is…

— Lea Salonga

I read a lot of research notes about the countries I visit, and my mum and dad bought me a Kindle, but…

— Ross Kemp

Many people who want to be writers don't really want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they…

— James A. Michener

The thing I love most about going to a book store is the self-help section is the biggest section because Americans know…

— Hamza Yusuf

Human rights groups around the world, certainly sees that Saddam Hussein makes Slobodan Milosevic, who is a war criminal, look like a…

— Curt Weldon

I've grown up with girls that are like Precious. I've grown up with people that are like everyone that I read about…

— Gabourey Sidibe

My books should feel like you're getting a peek into a private world: a diary no one was meant to read. As…

— Jeffrey Brown

You know that feeling,” she said, “when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a…

— Cassandra Clare

“The best books... The best books of men are soon exhausted-- they are cisterns, and not springing fountains. You enjoy them very…

— Charles H. Spurgeon

Your house, being the place in which you read, can tell us the position books occupy in your life, if they are…

— Italo Calvino

Lara walked along the tracks following a path worn by pilgrims and then turned into the fields. Here she stopped and, closing…

— Boris Pasternak

Everybody has their own America, and then they have pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they…

— Andy Warhol

Told with rare honesty, My Accidental Jihad is the story of Krista Bremer's lifelong quest for insight and understanding, a search that…

— Maggie Shipstead

Why do you want to read others' books when there is the book of yourself?

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

I saw footage of a well-known pastor holding a Bible and saying, "This book says homosexuals should be killed."

— Roger Ross Williams

“My books usually come from a dream that gives me an idea that turns into an adventure!”

— Jen Golembiewski

You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read...

— Keri Hulme

We generally learn languages for the benefit of reading the books written in them

— Thomas Jefferson

Through books we converse with the wisest and the greatest men of the past.

— Anonymous

My main source of reading is scripts, which doesn't leave a whole lot of room for books.

— Josh Hutcherson

Now I am as big of an [ Georgia] O'Keeffe admirer as Ivy [Wilkes] is, but that came through writing the book.

— Liza Campbell

“Buying books always made me feel better, even if I never read them. - Florence Day”

— Ashley Poston

The way I look at it, movies are a different medium for storytelling than books.

— Josh Hutcherson

Any fool can write a book and most of them are doing it; but it takes brains to build a house.

— Charles Fletcher Lummis

I don't go anywhere without my iPod, laptop and at least one book.

— Michael Urie

I'm as thrilled watching Mark Rylance do Shakespeare as I am watching 'The Book of Mormon.'

— Michael Gracey

Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.

— Stephen King

I love mysteries, and I read them every night before I go to bed.

— David Herbert Donald

Books changed my perception about the sacrifices we make as athletes.

— P. R. Sreejesh