Book Quotes · Page 134

People call books holy, but they are yet to realize that life is holy.

— Jaggi Vasudev

“You are created with a mandate! You have all you need to fulfill it.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Mind your picture uploads cos your face is on the book we are reading!

— Jozenga

“A book for me! I can read it. I can smell it. I can keep it forever.”

— Aliki

No good book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first.

— Thomas Carlyle

In the fall the war was always there but we did not go to it any more.

— Ernest Hemingway

I was a war correspondent in Korea. I did a book on it: 'This is War.'

— David Douglas Duncan

“Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood.”

— Kamand Kojouri

Alfred Hitchcock, Isaac Newton, Elvis Presley, Captain Bligh, they're heroic or pathetic depending on which book you buy.

— Bob Seger

Libraries rock! Not a sermon, just a fact. As a kid I was a library rat and books changed my life. They…

— David Baldacci

...with each new book of mine I have always the feeling that this time I have picked a lemon in the garden…

— Anonymous

... the desert, where there is the communal book of moonlight. We were among the rumour of wells. In the palace of winds.

— Michael Ondaatje

To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment.

— Sally Schneider

The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I’ve never seen anyone get so excited over books before. You’d think they were diamonds.” “Well, they are, aren’t they?”

— Cassandra Clare

People would tell me, especially after my marriage to Prince, 'You need to write a book because you've had a crazy life.'

— Mayte Garcia

I've read over 4,000 books in the last 20+ years. I don't know anybody who's read more books than I have. I…

— Larry Winget

Is it better to go indie and make bigger profits on each book, or stick with a print publisher's 6%-10% royalties? Since…

— Ruth Glick

When I began work on my first book, The River of Doubt, which tells the story of Theodore Roosevelts 1914 descent of…

— Candice Millard

During my second year at Edinburgh [1826-27] I attended Jameson's lectures on Geology and Zoology, but they were incredible dull. The sole…

— Charles Darwin

Which is a wonderful irony, I have property there. I go back every chance I get. One of the main reasons I…

— Sela Ward

It’s not so much that nothing means anything but more that it keeps meaning nothing. there’s no release, just gurus and self-…

— Charles Bukowski

I don't think of myself as fitting into a category. But I had to be careful in all of my books not…

— Melissa Holbrook Pierson

I always have strong feelings when I'm writing a book. Sometimes when I'm writing a book, I even cry when I'm writing.…

— Eve Bunting

If we expose kids to books and art, nothing but good can come from it.

— Kevin Henkes

For some of us, books are intrinsic to our sense of personal identity.

— John Updike

Because to the poor, books are not diversions. Book are siege weapons.

— Joe Queenan

“I don't know, maybe you'd be more interested in me if I were a book.”

— Joe Hill

And the history books forgot about us, and the bible didn’t mention us

— Regina Spektor

It's best to be happy do your favorite thing to do like,reading a book

— Maria Angelica Zabala

Most authors have one idea per book. Shakespeare had two per sentence.

— Lauren Hutton

“I understood books. I did not understand boys—especially alien boys.”

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

Self-help books are for the birds. Self-help groups are where it's at.

— Janice Dickinson

Books open windows to the world and have the power to transform lives.

— Ralph Lauren

Libraries are a consistent and major source of books for free reading.

— Stephen D. Krashen

My parents came to visit every two months and brought plenty of books.

— Mathias Rust

“I like nothing better in this world than a good clean book, brother.”

— Anthony Burgess

A blessing on the printer's art!-- Books are the mentors of the heart.

— Sarah Josepha Hale

When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.

— Mary Higgins Clark

“Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.”

— Heinrich Heine