Book Quotes · Page 124

“The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self-activity. —THOMAS CARLYLE,”

— Anonymous

A book full of brilliance imparts some of it even to its opponents.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.

— Anonymous

“I have books I go to only when I need solace or when I am in pain of body or soul.”

— Gwen E Campbell

When we read the right book generously, it can change the way think about the world around us.

— John Green

Leaving behind books is even more beautiful — there are far too many children.

— Marguerite Yourcenar

Music and movie scripts are books. You want to be literally moved and that's the sort of things I look for.

— Tim McGraw

I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.

— Upton Sinclair

When I was growing up, my house was filled with books. My mother was an educator, and my father was a history…

— Jeff Kinney

“We live and breathe words. (...) It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could…

— Cassandra Clare

“Battling the noise is creating a space for God and acknowledging the space He occupies, which is all of it. Invite God…

— Eric Samuel Timm

Books, for me, are a home. Books don’t make a home – they are one, in the sense that just as you…

— Jeanette Winterson

That's a long way of saying no, I'm always too bound up in thinking about the characters in whatever I'm working on…

— Jonathan Dee

I want to play the Green Lantern. I'd love to do a comic book hero. Go to the gym, get all buff,…

— Matthew Settle

Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same…

— Virginia Woolf

There is no devil in the first two chapters of the Bible and no devil in the last two chapters. Thank God…

— Vance Havner

Prayer and humility, along with a hatred for sin, produces a ‘mind to work.’ ‘So built we the wall; and all the…

— David Wilkerson

Everybody has only a 24-hour day. Most people, if they increase consumption of one medium (like magazines or books) will cut down…

— Ted Nelson

Similarly, knowledge of the future was incompatible with free will. What made it possible for me to exercise freedom of choice also…

— Ted Chiang

We don’t ask why God chose as his prophet a stutterer with a public speaking phobia. But we should. The book of…

— Susan Cain

The book [ One Thousand Gifts] took just over a year to write, on the fringe hours, early and late, around home…

— Ann Voskamp

Former governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, is promoting her new book and she's going to appear on the Oprah Winfrey Show. Sarah…

— David Letterman

Well, I feel that we're kind of fortunate that this book gives the whole world a lesson in economics and how to…

— Jerry Bruckheimer

From the almost total absence of fossil evidence relative to the origin of the phyla, it follows that any explanation of the…

— Pierre-Paul Grasse

“Then I understood. There was no book. My father wasn’t a writer. He wasn’t even a vampire. He was a madman.”

— Kami Garcia

When a person really desire something, the whole universe help that person to realize hi dream.

— Paulo Coelho

I hope in my book [My Beloved World], that the sense that I really feel connected comes through.

— Sonia Sotomayor

“That’s the origin of the number, and how it became a theme for this book.”

— A.R. Wise

It didn’t matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home.

— Lev Grossman

Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

— John Wesley

Only three things are necessary to make life happy: the blessing of God, books , and a friend.

— Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

“if you judge a book by its cover,a fish will be thinking how stupid it looks its whole life.”

— Benjamin Franklin

I bought a book of Mark Twain quotes. That's about my speed. I'll read a couple quotes and put it down.

— Kid Rock

The Book of Mormon exposes the enemies of Christ. It confounds false doctrines and lays down contention.

— Ezra Taft Benson

I dinna trust him," said Slightly Mad Angus. "He reads books an' such.

— Terry Pratchett

“No tea cup is big enough nor book long enough for me to be satisfied.”

— C.S. Lewis

Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me.

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

“I had evoked - and the book was indeed all I had suspected.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

I never really considered 'Quantum & Woody' a comedic book or a funny book. I never thought of it as a satire.

— Christopher Priest

Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.

— G. H. Hardy