Book Quotes · Page 294

I've always been religiously inclined, but it doesn't come up in most of my books.

— Emma Donoghue

Do not read good books-life is too short for that-read only the best.

— Ernest Dimnet

Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don't know how mean she looks.

— Chuck Berry

Bonkers doesn't go by the book-he doesn't even know there is a book.

— Jim Cummings

A night journey is essentially a thing of possibilities.

— Katherine Cecil Thurston

“There is beauty in each word of a Book; as once it was just a mere thought in the authors head!”

— Mrudula G B

I predict that this will be the greatest book ever and it will sell more than any other book in history

— Muhammad Ali

Adapting a book doesn't mean the book stops just because you've made a film out of it.

— Julian Barratt

“Ladies, get confident about yourselves, build up your self-worth and esteem, love yourself and be proud of your achievements and your man…

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and…

— Barack Obama

I like the weight, look, and feel of a book. I enjoy turning the pages, and frequently scan the spines of my…

— Al Seckel

Reviewers do not read books with much care . . . their profession is more given to stupidity and malice and literary…

— Anthony Burgess

I appreciate a book intended to be judged by its cover. The insincere readers are often weeded out while the sincere readers…

— Criss Jami

“Just keep her away from bookstores, if you can." Bookstores. Thanks, Grayson. That helps. Apparently whoever said, "no harm ever came from…

— Jena Leigh

Lincoln was known to have walked miles to borrow books, to get the most rudimentary form of education. So what do we…

— Robert Orben

“Writing a book is like raising a child, the only difference is you don’t have the fucking part in writing a book.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

The library...of wisdom is more precious than all riches, and nothing that can be wished for is worthy to be compared with…

— Richard de Bury

I drew the same things that most boys drew - airplanes and cars and fire engines. Then later on I discovered comic…

— Floyd Norman

With 'Seven Deadly Sins,' there was a lot of personal stuff in there that I didn't even realize I'd been carrying around…

— Corey Taylor

I have students that I tell, "If your book doesn't sell or you can't publish it, write another book. Quit sitting around."…

— Natalie Goldberg

I just started trying to figure out how to write [something] which was unlike anything anybody had ever seen, and once I…

— James Frey

It was disconcerting for the novel to seem so different when I re-read it. Of course we are a different person each…

— Ramona Koval

They wouldn’t have believed me, and if they had they would have wanted me to explain. And I had no explanation, no…

— Jennifer Weiner

When I was a child in the Navy during World War II, I was perennially grateful to the armed services libraries for…

— James A. Michener

“Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading.

— Alice James

The more you read, the more you realize there are fascinating books to be read and so little time to do so.

— Caroline Dhavernas

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

— Carl Sandburg

I guess there isn’t a rule book for what might be unacceptable to do to another human being.

— Suzanne Collins

Whoever lacks the initiative to read books stifles his own selfhood,

— Carl F. H. Henry

I never know where I'm headed when I'm working on a book.

— Marisa Silver

I had to find my way of translating the excitement you get when you're reading comic books to the big screen.

— Ang Lee

Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance.

— Anonymous

To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie— True Poems flee—

— Emily Dickinson

Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.

— Joe Frazier

I cranked out a book. I didn't expect it to do much, but it's sold 80,000 copies.

— Anh Do

Every author ought to write every book as if he were going to be beheaded the day he finished it.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The book of Job is pure Arab poetry of the highest and most antique cast.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What's important to me is that I put messages out, whether it's a TED talk, whether it's a book.

— Simon Sinek