Book Quotes · Page 312

There is no book in the world that is so thrilling, stirring and inspiring as the Upanishads.

— Max Muller

Rennie didn't quite dare to answer back, but she looked a whole book and a couple of extra chapters.

— Patricia C. Wrede

Most writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know; I've done it myself.

— Gore Vidal

No one has ever stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?

— Marina Tsvetaeva

It's a very 18th-century thing to have a book broken into several volumes.

— Matthew Tobin Anderson

The joy of reading with our children doesn't stop as they, and we, get older; it simply changes.

— Paul Kropp

I'm probably the only bestselling author you know who's written more books than she's read.

— Suze Orman

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

— Charles Dickens

Writing books is fun because after I do a show for a couple hours, I'm in a bus for 22 hours. It's…

— Willie Nelson

I think James Bond is a spy. He's not superhuman. Calling him a superhero is like calling James Bond movies "comic-book movies."

— Kurt Busiek

I am impressed when I go on the internet and see a lot of young people who've been influenced by the books,…

— Robert Greene

If we are perplexed by an apparent contradiction in Scripture, it is not allowable to say, 'The author of this book is…

— Saint Augustine

What can be better than to get out a book on Saturday afternoon and thrust all mundane considerations away till next week.

— C. S. Lewis

In every age in which books have been produced, the governing class, the respectable, have been opposed to the works of real…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I grew up a fan of comics and hanging out in local comic book stores, talking to the store manager and seeing…

— Aidan Gallagher

I leaned right over to kiss your stoney book A little jealous of the ships with whom you flirt A billion lovers…

— Andy Partridge

The Man Who Never Was,' by Ewen Montagu, remains the best book about wartime espionage written by an active participant - incomplete,…

— Ben Macintyre

The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I think sometimes when people start doing improv there's some regression towards trying to replicate the "good" improvisers that they've read about…

— Zach Woods

Books may not change our suffering, books may not protect us from evil, books may not tell us what is good or…

— Alberto Manguel

I'm grateful for the likes of Kundera, Murnane, Markson, Berger, and, in his recent work, Coetzee. But no matter how celebrated they…

— Teju Cole

The Book of Mormon contains the fulness of the gospel of Jesus Christ (D&C 20:9). That does not mean it contains every…

— Ezra Taft Benson

There's some things that you wouldn't tackle in a children's book because it would be beyond, not the mental capabilities, but the…

— Terry Pratchett

Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years. But while I do,…

— Kate Morton

Movies are not the book. Movies are not even the screenplay. They are the movie.

— Bruce Joel Rubin

“Books. They live their own life in melancholy Happy in their crispy destruction under yellowish tinge.”

— Raj Doctor

“The books I love the most make it harder for me to live.”

— Micheal Silverblatt

All the way through the book I altered details about every one of the characters.

— James Frey

It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.

— Frances Mayes

...how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.

— William Faulkner

Don't buy a book if you think that it can make you educated only by reading it.

— Vikrant Parsai

For books are as meats and viands are; some of good, some of evil sub-stance.

— John Milton

The bibliophile is the master of his books, the bibliomaniac their slave.

— Henry Ward Beecher

From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.

— Mark Haddon

I'm very lucky. I'm very fortunate that my books have never gone out of print - none of them

— Paula Danziger

Let the young know they will never find a more interesting, more instructive book than the patient himself.

— Giorgio Baglivi

A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

There's my education in computers, right there; this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book.

— Howard Aiken

The book that made me cry hardest was 'Stoner,' by John Williams.

— Stephen McCauley

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.

— Arthur Conan Doyle