Book Quotes · Page 122

The young people have read my book. Now I have no chance.

— Efim Bogoljubov

He, who learns and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden, with a load of books.

— Saadi

Beautiful books are always written in a sort of foreign language.

— Marcel Proust

To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text.

— Henry James

Madness, as I understood it from books, meant a person who was open to the high white whine of everything.

— Karen Russell

I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell.

— Antonia Fraser

Growing up I never got into comic books at all. I didn't have any inspiration for it.

— Scarlett Johansson

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled This could change your life.

— Helen Exley

Moreover, a book is not made of sentences laid end to end, but of sentences built, if an image helps, into arcades…

— Virginia Woolf

When you're working on a TV show, your schedule can be very unpredictable, which means it's harder to book shows.

— Baron Vaughn

Reading is a way to take in the difficult situations and understand them. The whole point of reading a book in class…

— Julia Alvarez

People know that when they watch an Ainsley programme or get an Ainsley book it's going to be something that is approachable…

— Ainsley Harriott

We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called…

— Anonymous

Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how…

— Virginia Woolf

“At least in a book I am away from my body for a while. But I want to do things, not just…

— Jackie French

I could write a book describing what differentiates the high performance person from all the rest! Hell, I could write volumes!

— Dan Pena

But knowing that the world had come full circle to our Depression story didn't change the way we worked on it, or…

— James Vance

Take emceeing, one of the foundations of hip-hop culture. A guy grabs a mic, steps up on stage and becomes a spokesman;…

— Ali Shaheed Muhammad

The Psalter is the prayer book of Jesus Christ in the truest sense of the word. He prayed the Psalter and now…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It's learning your craft and understanding what it takes to survive in this industry. On the back of exposure from TV to…

— Gordon Ramsay

If I give a book as a gift, it is invariably a children's book with beautiful artwork and a simple text. I…

— Kim Harrison

Your word determines your day, who you are, where you are and where you are bound. You are headed somewhere and God…

— E. Bernard Jordan

For what I saw at the abbey then (and will now recount) caused me to think that often inquisitors create heretics. And…

— Umberto Eco

I think there are so many books out there written on relationships and romance that women are the authors of. How can…

— Steve Harvey

The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies.

— Andre Maurois

“Don't let any situation intimidate you anymore, don't accept defeat anymore.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

I've always loved comic books, which is why I've done films like Hulk and The Punishers,

— Gale Anne Hurd

An anthology is like all the plums and orange peel picked out of a cake.

— Walter Raleigh

Write the best book you possibly can, then dedicate yourself to getting people to read it.

— J.A. Konrath

With a book, there's no volume to turn up. You're very naked with a book.

— Henry Rollins

How can a rabbi not live with doubt? The Bible itself is a book of doubt.

— Arthur Hertzberg

When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

“Netiquette starts at home. Family values are a good frame of reference for netiquette rules.

— David Chiles

The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity...

— A. Edward Newton

To be a person who loves books is to be half in love with the idea of New York.

— Gwen Cooper

Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.

— Rachel Cusk

One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries.

— Alberto Manguel

I try hard and aim big. People can hate or love my books but they can never accuse me of not trying.

— Markus Zusak

If I wanted to kill somebody, I'd take this book and beat you to death with it, and I wouldn't feel a…

— Charles Manson

Collections of books and other documents, either printed or electronic, are a form of congregation.

— Tom Peters