Book Quotes · Page 126

The Bible is a supernatural book and can be understood only by supernatural aid.

— Anonymous

There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.

— Evelyn Waugh

In the houses of the humble a little library in my opinion is a most precious possession.

— John Bright

“Every stage of life is a chapter of a book. You must begin writing your life book.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

The best way to fight terrorism is not through guns. It's through pens, books, teachers and schools.

— Malala Yousafzai

How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy! Pendennis. Book ii. Chap. xxxi.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

What the book does as a technology is shield us from distraction.

— Nicholas G. Carr

The reading of books, what is it but conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all countries.

— Isaac Barrow

When I do a novel, I don't really use the script, I use the book; when I did Apocalypse Now, I used…

— Francis Ford Coppola

The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for pastime but not to kill time; who…

— Robertson Davies

You can be obsessed by remorse all your life, not because you chose the wrong thing- you can always repent, atone :…

— Umberto Eco

For whatever reason, when it came out in 1995, 'Infinite Jest' became a cultural event. It was the massive book that was…

— Mark Manson

“I am an open book. It would be best if you only read my pages. Be careful when reading between the lines…

— Jeffrey G. Duarte

I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes…

— Sue Grafton

“reading all kinds of books, in whatever format you choose -- electronic or printed or audio -- is the grandest entertainment, and…

— Will Schwalbe

I went through a whole phase when I was younger of being obsessed with Tolstoy and Kafka and Camus, all those really,…

— Jessica Pare

And that's when she put her book down. And looked at me. And said it: "Life isn't fair, Bill. we tell our…

— William Goldman

Travel books are all sorts - some are autobiographies, some are about falling in love. Some are about having great meals, some…

— Paul Theroux

You could put your confusion and upset and worries into whatever book you were reading. You could sort of set them down…

— Deb Caletti

So far no one had had enough courage and intelligence to reveal me to my dear Germans. My problems are new, my…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There is nothing but water in the holy pools. I know, I have been swimming there. All the gods sculpted of wood…

— Kabir

You should often amuse yourself when you take a walk for recreation, in watching and taking note of the attitudes and actions…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Publishing my book is like giving it away. At first you start talking about it, but you are basically letting go. I…

— Alejandro Zambra

Faithiest resonated with me in many ways-not only because, like Chris, I am a gay former-Christian atheist who still thinks of my…

— John Corvino

Do not waste your time on light, weak, milktoast ministries and books

— Richard Baxter

Book tours are such a little tapas meal of where I could live.

— Sloane Crosley

A book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf - at any rate it is safer…

— Herman Melville

Book cover, 'Reefer Club' Totalitarianism is when people believe they can punish their way to perfection.

— Newt Gingrich

I really am an open book. I don't keep anything in at all, which is good and bad.

— Kaley Cuoco

I read so many scripts, that I don't do that much leisurely reading of books.

— Morris Chestnut

We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it.

— Nicholas Lea

“Not a single person has died of boredom reading this book.”

— Nicole Fende

Open the book. (The gilt rubs off the edges of the pages and pollinates the fingertips.)

— Elizabeth Bishop

I breathed the air of deliverance through books, and through books I leapt over the walls of confinement..

— Bill Ayers

A good book is never finished—-it goes on whispering to you from the wall.

— Anonymous

Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living.

— Carlos Fuentes

We're just like a movie based on a book-- almost, but not quite as good.

— Pete Wentz

You don't have to be the best in someones book; As long as your one of the chapters.

— Daniell Jabara

Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.

— Mary Ann Shaffer

“If a book is made up of things that are hard to believe, then we were like something out of a book.”

— Brock Clarke