In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
Clothing left on the bed unfolded. Books stained with coffee spots. Tabs not paid until the last possible second. Boys kissed and… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“The things you're looking for...are in the world, but the only way the average chap will see ninety-nine percent of them is… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends;;they are the most accessable and wisest of counselore, and the most patient teachers.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Occasionally I find a travel book that is both illuminating and entertaining, where vivid writing and research replace self-indulgence and sloppy prose. — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
Dishonest, which is Hillary Clinton in the eyes of the American people, beats crazy. Dishonest loses to normal. So, let's just pick… — Lindsey Graham Copy Share Image
Life is like a book. Some chapters are sad, some happy and some very exciting. But if you never turn the page,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Book of Mormon is the 'keystone' of our religion, and the Doctrine and Covenants is the 'capstone,' with continuing latter day… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
The Spirit of Cities presents a new approach to the study of cities in which the focus is placed on a city's… — Nathan Glazer Copy Share Image
“I didn’t have anyone, but every time I walked through those doors I felt like each of those authors was my family… — J.L. Mac Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it is only in childhood that books have any deep influence on our lives. In later life we admire, we are… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“I suppose it was the worst book any man has ever written. It was a colossal tome and faulty from start to… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The process of reading a book takes a while to get used to (in this future society). It's so slow and laborious.… — Mike A. Lancaster Copy Share Image
When my father passed, I was still an unsuccessful cook with a drug problem. I was in my mid-thirties, standing behind an… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
We're bombarded with liberal propaganda 24/7, from the early morning shows, Hollywood movies, documentaries and sitcoms, all major newspapers, fashion magazines, the… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Our enemies must not deceive themselves-in the 2,000 years of German history known to us, our people have never been more united… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Actually, I'm reading a lot of my scripts. When I'm working on something, it's hard to find time. You're always prepping new… — Justin Theroux Copy Share Image
“She dreamed of a world where books did not rot or give way to green blot, where words and ideas were not… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It’s a fair-sized job to write a book that people can be bothered just to read; when they begin to steal copies,… — Ruth Stout Copy Share Image
A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In spite of Jean-Jacques and his school, men are not everywhere born free, any more than they are everywhere in chains, unless… — Francis Marion Crawford Copy Share Image
Tré on their first tour bus: It's, like, an ok tour bus and all, but people see book mobile on the side… — Green Day Copy Share Image
There are great science books that were conceived as books. Feynman's famous introductory lectures in physics, which have a beginning and an… — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
I don't know how Frank presented the old Mothers, since I never read the book. There might be some opinions on what… — Jimmy Carl Black Copy Share Image
“My experience with public libraries is that the first volume of the book I inquire for is out, unless I happen to… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr Copy Share Image
The thing that I prefer, when I'm working on a book, is to do a seven-day week, because it's easy to lose… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Also, if nothing else, writing this book has really changed the way I experience bookstores. I have a whole different appreciation for… — Jesse James Garrett Copy Share Image
Whenever I'm asked to autograph a copy of 'Nudge,' the book I wrote with Cass Sunstein, the Harvard law professor, I sign… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
After writing 'The Omnivore's Dilemma,' I wanted to write a book that got past the choir, that got to people who didn't… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I've always thought that a good book should be either the entry point inward, to learn about yourself, or a door outward,… — Taylor Jenkins Reid Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of the Pixar movies, and Ed Catmull, who wrote a book about his experiences producing them, talks about… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
The fans of 'The Hunger Games,' of the book, are very passionate. It's funny: Even at my concerts there are people holding… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
Matter of fact, I watch tons of tube, but I also read tons of books so I can figure out what's true… — Rodman Philbrick Copy Share Image
Books and music saved me as a teenager because it was through them that I realized that I wasn't alone in my… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Religious law is like the grammar of language. Any language isgoverned by such rules; otherwise it ceases to be a language. But… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
