A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book. — Moliere Copy Share Image
I write to remind myself of the pain. My words represents the tears that have fell, the paper resembles the words and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When confronted with a birthday in a week I will remember that a book can be a really good present, too. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Copy Share Image
You don't want to be slavishly doing the same thing over and over again that everybody else has done, but at the… — Matt Nix Copy Share Image
Elvis Presley is all there is. There just ain't no more. Everything starts and ends with Elvis. He wrote the book. He… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Another way of saying "put it in the Book" would be that each poem we write pops up in the city of… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of 'eternity'; my ambition is to say in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Thank you industrialization. Thank you steel mill. Thank you power station. And thank you chemical processing industry that gave us time to… — Hans Rosling Copy Share Image
A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine.… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Books, for me, are a home. Books don’t make a home – they are one, in the sense that just as you… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Speech at the Ministerial Conference in Boston (at books.google.com/books?id=LXkYAAAAYAAJ&dq=theodore%20parker%20boston%20kidnapping%20gannett&lr=&pg=PA167&ci=70,748,854,407&source=bookclip#v=onepage&q&f=false) — Ezra Stiles Copy Share Image
If I ever write a book, 'I Should Have Worn Comfortable Shoes' would be the title. — Jacky Rosen Copy Share Image
The Male Factor is the singularly best business book for women I've read in years. This well-researched yet thoroughly readable book is… — Lois P Frankel Copy Share Image
I see my books as a body of work, in my opinion, of singular importance and deeply disrespected in a way that… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
When you meet someone for the first time, that's not the whole book. That's just the first page. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Now, to tell my story--if not as it ought to be told, at least as I can tell it,--I must go back… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
The White Queen in many ways it is representative of the sort of drama that I'm talking about. The books by Philippa… — Colin Callender Copy Share Image
I read every book about Buster Keaton and Chaplin to see how they worked - it's all about dedication, tunnel vision, pursuit… — Paul Merton Copy Share Image
If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“I'm only a kind of book doctor. I can give books new bindings, rejuvenate them a little, stop the bookworms from eating… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
What if the book (of Genesis) is describing a dawning awareness of the world? The anthropologist Edmund Leach has argued that the… — Charles Hampden-Turner Copy Share Image
There are books in rivulets and sermons in stones. You can gather lessons from everything. If a man does nothing whatsoever he… — Kirpal Singh Copy Share Image
“My mission in this book is to shift the way you look at yourself, and to remind you of the power that… — Liz Ryan Copy Share Image
I pledge to set out to live a thousand lives between printed pages. I pledge to use books as doors to other… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
Most great books have been about striving in some sense. In a sense, money is the great topic of the novel. You… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I remember reading in a comedy book very long ago when I first started, a person said there's a difference between a… — Baron Vaughn Copy Share Image
“Writing a book is like washing an elephant. You don't know from where you should start and where you should end.” — Yashvardhan Shukla Copy Share Image
“One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away,… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Religion, it stops people from thinking because they think all the answers are in that one book; it impedes progress; it justifies… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
They judge me like a picture book, by the colors, like they forgot to read. — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
“This book is for a black light, a bottom bunk and a hug, For a doorway, a pair of kicked-off shoes and… — Megan Hart Copy Share Image
“She wanted a book to take her places she couldn't get to herself. She thought a writer should work harder writing a… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
She [my mother] struggled, abusing alcohol for quite some time, and so we just kind of drifted apart. I went to college.… — Hope Solo Copy Share Image