I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after…

A book may only be judged for what it is, not what you'd like it to be.

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

In the words of Agatha Swanburne, founder of Swanburne Academy, 'Every book is judged by its cover until it is read.'

— Maryrose Wood

“Collective achievement, of course, is less appealing both to the participants and to those later reading about it as the human impulse is to…

— Matthew Restall

“..reading a book doesn’t mean just turning the pages. It means thinking about it, identifying parts that you want to go back to, asking…

— Noam Chomsky

“If every book was judged by its cover, very few would be read; education would be limited, and fewer movies would be made.”

— Ellen J. Barrier

Beauty is like a book, it cannot be judged by its cover!

— Anonymous

A book is judged, not by its reference to life, but by its reference to other books.

— Stephen Fry

As a book is judged by its cover, so a fad is judged by its name.

— Ken Hakuta

“How good a book is should be judged by the man who writes it by the excellence of the material that he eliminates.”

— Ernest Hemingway

I love that you can watch a film and 10 years later still be affected.

— Adepero Oduye

Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards…

— Steve Jobs

I was young; I signed with the WWE when I was 24. I was up on the main roster when I was 26 and…

— Jake Hager

A lot of stuff I do, 10 years later it becomes popular.

— David Johansen

I first met my husband when I was 15. He was very cool, in a band, all that kind of thing, but he took…

— Natascha McElhone

Here we are 17 years later. Those agencies never did come through.

— Jeremy Rifkin