Book Quotes · Page 282

Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters.

— William Shakespeare

One of the great things about books is you can afford to do anything.

— George R. R. Martin

The Sistine Chapel is an extraordinary work of education - it lays out all the early books of the Bible.

— Peter Greenaway

Never judge a book by its cover, under a rock you might find a diamond :)

— Rachel

Anything that propels me to create, like [my book, Straight Walk]. It kept me inspired for almost four years.

— Patricia Velasquez

“This book of mine has not been manufactured: it has been garnered.”

— Marcel Proust

“Sorry that book doesn’t come on audio, so you’re going to have to sound out all the big words.”

— Sarah Noffke

As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book.

— George MacDonald

I stretched out my hand towards the little bookshelf where I kept cookery and devotional books, the most comfortable bedside reading.

— Barbara Pym

The dear good people don't know how long it takes to learn to read. I've been at it eighty years, and can't…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Gail Godwin has written a book about the heaviest matters of loss, grief, and loneliness with a touch so light that I…

— Frederick Buechner

I thought a book demystifying menstruation and talking about the simple biology of it would go a long way in making young…

— Tisca Chopra

For me, whether it's in a book or on T.V., a recipe has to be simple. I have a short attention span,…

— Al Roker

“A responsible woman doesn’t see opportunities and needs and look the other way pretending not to see them rather she gets to…

— Agu Jaachynma N.E

I read the 'Deadpool' series back in the '90s. I'm not, like, a huge comic book reader, per say, though. I'll check…

— Ryan Reynolds

“When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing a book…

— Dodie Smith

A book , once it is printed and published, becomes individual. It is by its publication as decisively severed from its author…

— James Branch Cabell

One of the greatest things about the book is that everything we know about 'It,' it's pretty speculative. We see it from…

— Andy Muschietti

Traditionally, women didn't have much a role in Buddhism. The books were all written by monks, for other monks. So the general…

— Tenzin Palmo

Homicide is the major leagues, the center ring, the show. It always has been ... It goes beyond academic degrees, specialized training…

— David Simon

A family living at the poverty level is unlikely to be able to afford a computer at home. Even with a computer,…

— Margaret Geller

When the voice of your friend or the page of your book sinks into democratic equality with the pattern of the wallpaper,…

— Anonymous

A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will…

— John Steinbeck

I want my words to survive translation. I know when I write a book now I will have to go and spend…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it.

— Jean de la Bruyere

We sell books, other people sell shoes. What's the difference? Publishing isn't the highest art.

— Michael Korda

What is written beneath this heavy handsome book cover will count, so sayeth this cover…

— Anne Rice

Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.

— Christopher Hitchens

People only become writers if they can't find the one book they've always wanted to read.

— Virginia Woolf

“when you already get in to the book,you'll love that book”

— Nadien me

God be thanked for books! They are the voices of the distant and the dead.

— James A. Baldwin

Damn all expurgated books, the dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

— Walt Whitman

I'm laying down my new audio book. No writing, just spoken words, the old fashioned way. -Kenny Powers

— Eastbound And Down

The Bible in the memory is better than the Bible in the book case.

— Charles Spurgeon

If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.

— Tom Stoppard

A book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The Bible is not a book that's an attack on gay people. It's not a book written to attack gay people.

— Kirk Franklin

“Every action has a reaction,everything we do or say has an effect.”

— Heidi Ayarbe

I'm always nervous about going home, just as I am nervous about rereading books that have meant a lot to me.

— Jeanette Winterson

You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.

— Dale Archer