Book Quotes · Page 281

The final and full revelation of God is not a book, it is a person. Jesus Christ.

— Desmond Tutu

“... to lend a book is an incitement to theft." A Reader on Reading p. 281”

— Alberto Manguel

Homework, I have discovered, involves a sharp pencil and thick books and long sighs.

— Katherine Applegate

Life has many different chapters for us. One bad chapter doesnt mean its the end of the book.

— Anonymous

“I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading,”

— Wilkie Collins

You want weapons? We're in a library! Books! The best weapons in the world!

— Steven Moffat

Never to read another book that was born and baptized (with ink) at the same time.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“...books everywhere piled up in heaps, the rare companions of a solitude not self-imposed but sought.”

— Lawrence Durrell

Dynasty was the opportunity to take charge of my career rather than waiting around like a library book waiting to be loaned…

— Joan Collins

“But hereby resolve to write in this book at least twenty minutes a night. (If discouraged, just think of how much will…

— George Saunders

My role was to bring about fairness in the workplace. All I did was implement the laws that were currently on the…

— Hilda Solis

Here's a secret. Many novelists, if they are pressed and if they are being honest, will admit that the finished book is…

— Michael Cunningham

I don't like to write about things that bore me, and that means I steer far clear of writing books that are…

— Kameron Hurley

Unlike the book, with a documentary, you get a chance to show much more texture and color. Film gives you get a…

— Steve Stoute

But I think you have to accept - as I have accepted - that the demands of TV are different than the…

— Ian McElhinney

“I realized right away that books could take us out of ourselves, and make us larger. Even provide us with human connections…

— Masha Hamilton

Our approach to reality, our sense of reality, cannot assume that the text of nature, the book of life, is a cryptogram…

— Peter Redgrove

The only things I read are gossip columns. If I read three pages of a book, I'm out like a light. When…

— Ethel Merman

The difficulty will be to keep her from learning too fast and too much. She is always sitting with her little nose…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Let me begin with a heartfelt confession. I admit it. I am a biblioholic, one who loves books and whose life would…

— Terry W. Glaspey

Before I started writing my album, I didn't tell people many things. But because I'm going to the studio every day and…

— Sam Smith

The Israel stories were really hard for me to write, because I think that my book is very much about politics, but…

— Molly Antopol

Good writing, in my opinion, is writing that looks really easy, so easy that a person who has never written more than…

— Mary J. Miller

I got a parking ticket one time in L.A. and I was furious about it. I was trying to prove a point…

— Rob Huebel

I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world.

— Patti Smith

You can write a book on how to ruin someone’s perfect day.

— Taylor Swift

This must be a gift book. That is to say a book, which you wouldn't take on any other terms.

— Dorothy Parker

The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.

— Thomas Carlyle

... censorship often boils down to some male judges getting to read a lot of dirty books--with one hand.

— Robin Morgan

The Bible isn't a choose your own adventure book where everyone can just make up their own meaning.

— Benjamin L. Corey

Marriage...a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters written in prose.

— Anonymous

I write funny nonfiction adventure books about crazy, serious worlds.

— Jon Ronson

Literature is inexhaustible, with every book a homage to infinity

— Bertrand Russell

I want to check the record books and see how many fathers and daughters have won Grammys together.

— Norah Jones

Oh yeah, 100%, I've been an open book. Even my whole career, I've kind of been like an open book.

— Ricochet

Classic book is a book which people praise, but do not read.

— Abhishek Tiwari

“I have never read a book that didn’t in some way impact my life”

— jenny

You’ll learn that the key to a great book is editing-grindin g, buffing, and polishing-not writing.

— Guy Kawasaki

I wasn't smart enough to read relationship books when I was coming up. I learned everything the hard way.

— Michael Ealy

A book should have an intellectual shape and a heft that comes with dealing with a primary subject.

— William Safire