Book Quotes · Page 35

Americans like fat books and thin women.

— Russell Baker

“A good book allows the imagination to soar.”

— Clive Maddison

I love story songs because I've always loved books.

— Dolly Parton

I don't remember ever having finished a book.

— Bridget Hall

Books are like bound dreams waiting to be released

— Jocelyn Murray

If you're an open book, there's no allure.

— Alexander McQueen

“Books are uniquely portable magic.”

— Stephen King

I don't like facing books but I like Facebook

— Spy

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

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

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

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

— Chuck Berry

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

— Ernest Dimnet

In a world in which men write thousands of books and one million scientific papers a year, the mythic bricoleur is the…

— William Irwin Thompson

I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding…

— Vera Wang

The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

— Anonymous

I decided to write the book to open the eyes of the people of how corrupt John D. Rockefeller company was and…

— Ida Tarbell

I read Dad's books like I did before, now things are crystal clear. Lock the door in the bathroom, now I just…

— Alice Cooper

Every night, I was read to. Every Friday, we were taken to the library. I always received at least one book for…

— Avi

Writing every book is like a purge; at the end of it one is empty ... like a dry shell on the…

— Daphne du Maurier

I look at 'The New York Review of Books.' It's what it has been for 35 or 40 years, which is a…

— John Podhoretz

We should be wary what persecution we raise against the living labors of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of…

— John Milton

You may read any quantity of books, and you may almost as ignorant as you were at starting, if you don't have,…

— Thomas Huxley

Now, I swore an oath to uphold the laws on the books... Now, I know some people want me to bypass Congress…

— Barack Obama

Diamond, however, had not been out so late before in all his life, and things looked so strange about him! - just…

— George MacDonald

I can think of very few science books I've read that I've called useful. What they've been is wonderful. They've actually made…

— Simon Jenkins

Many of the enchanted things in the book are lamps, carpets, sofas, gems, brass rings. It is a rather different landscape than…

— Marina Warner

I may have a general broad-based idea of what I want to write about when I sit down to write a book,…

— Neale Donald Walsch

If you want to write something completely unique, you will probably fail or at best write something without redeeming value. The mind…

— Janet Morris

I am an open book through the songwriting.

— Lara Fabian

There's more learning than is taught in books.

— Lady Gregory

My only books were women's looks.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

“A book is a garden, only its flowers are ideas.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Don't join the book burners!

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

You can cover a great deal of country in books.

— Andrew Lang

Books are more real when you read them outside.

— Maggie Stiefvater

I don't take drugs, I take books.

— Ingeborg Bachmann