Why are we smiling when we loathe each other?’ ‘Why do we sell happiness to the readers of this magazine when we… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The Vedic literatures reveal that prasadam conveys spiritual realization, just as chanting does, but in a less obvious or conspicuous way. You… — Mukunda Goswami Copy Share Image
“He had gone again and, emboldened by his first successful trip, had chosen a different sort of world to enter, that of… — Alan Ryan Copy Share Image
We're at a point nowhere it has to change. We have characters that are not alive that are alive in the book.… — Scott M. Gimple Copy Share Image
“Madame Magloire sometimes called him ‘Your Highness.’ One day, rising from his armchair, he went to his library for a book. It… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
At the time of Caliph Omar's invasion of Egypt, the Arab officer on duty in the destruction of the library of Alexandria… — Nils Kjaer Copy Share Image
I love his Word and I hope when readers discover how God communicates his love for them through each book of the… — Jennifer Rothschild Copy Share Image
This boy thinks I am not of his species, that I am some other kind of creature, one that can be crushed… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“One of the striking testimonies of the truthfulness of the Bible as God’s revelation is its coherence. Authors separated by centuries of… — Richard D. Phillips Copy Share Image
“Peruse the Christian marketplace, and you will find a plethora of books, songs, and paintings that depict God as a loving Father.… — David Platt Copy Share Image
The book is second only to the wheel as the best piece of technology human beings have ever invented. A book symbolises… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
When I decided I wanted to become an author, I never thought something I wrote would be used as a way to… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
“When I read, I read desperately because I was desperate — desperate to exchange my own anxious thoughts for the calming thoughts… — Sean Norris Copy Share Image
PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. All that is… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Some read books only with a view to find fault, while others read only to be taught; the former are like venomous… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I imagined a book that was both written and curated. I wanted readers to see my research, to explore the archival mix,… — Alexis Coe Copy Share Image
I've had to work hard all my life, and I will never, ever ask a fan or reader to pay for something… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“The literature of war and its strategies is poverty-stricken. Of all the men who have written on the subject of war, I… — J.C. Wylie Copy Share Image
“Our medicines are not something you'll find at the drugstore, but at the bookshop, in the library, or downloaded onto your electronic… — Ella Berthoud & Susan Elderkin Copy Share Image
“Time is a river...and books are boats. Many volumes start down that stream, only to be wrecked and lost beyond recall in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You're ruining that book!" He pointed to the page I'd torn out. "That's a perfectly good book!" Holding his gaze, I reached… — Kate Avery Ellison Copy Share Image
Books I like: John McPhee's 'Coming Into the Country,' Michael Herr's 'Dispatches about the Vietnam War,' and Evan S. Connell's 'Son of… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
I wrote that letter, and the one to Nixon. And I wrote more letters, and I thought it might be a magazine… — Don Novello Copy Share Image
I'm calling my book series the 'with God series.' And this next 'with God' book is Friendship with God, which comes out… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
...if there was anything at all in the Book, anything of hope and peace for His blind and bewildered spawn which He… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“People don't read any more. It's a sad state of affairs. Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination.… — Lemmy Kilmister Copy Share Image
I am absent altogether too much to be a suitable instructor for a law-student. When a man has reached the age that… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We really are living in the era that all this sci-fi literature and cinema was centered around, but it's not anything like… — Alan Palomo Copy Share Image
“...In books there's always somebody standing by ready to say hey, the world's in danger, evil's on the rise, but if you're… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“so cute and quaint. It actually makes me feel so positive about books. That people are still so afraid of books that… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I think some people wished I'd kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
We will expect every pupil by the age of 11 to know their times tables off by heart, to perform long division… — Nicky Morgan Copy Share Image
“Every idea in this book runs against our natural tendency to want to relax, take it easy, reward ourselves for decades of… — Barbara Bradley Hagerty Copy Share Image
“Yes, dear reader, that’s the other reason we cats purr. Arguably, it’s the most important reason: to make you happy. Purring is… — David Michie Copy Share Image
“As an opener, I'd like to state that elves are certainly NOT cliché. It doesn't matter if they all have pointy ears,… — Robert Fanney Copy Share Image
I once made a check of all books in my fourth-grade classroom. Of the slightly more than six hundred books, almost one… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Writers ought to be regarded as wrongdoers who deserve to be acquitted or pardoned only in the rarest cases: that would be… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Finally, the book of Jonah shows how theological understanding is exemplified in a person’s attitudes and actions: what Jonah does flows from… — R.W.L. Moberly Copy Share Image
I recently read in the book My Stroke of Insight by brain scientist Jill Bolte Taylor that the natural life span of… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
“There she sits in the corner of the carriage—that carriage which is travelling, not from Richmond to Waterloo, but from one age… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image