Book Quotes · Page 149

I love mysteries, and I read them every night before I go to bed.

— David Herbert Donald

Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.

— Stephen King

I'm as thrilled watching Mark Rylance do Shakespeare as I am watching 'The Book of Mormon.'

— Michael Gracey

I don't go anywhere without my iPod, laptop and at least one book.

— Michael Urie

Life is a book, you are the author. Learn to write the book before your mistakes and you shall have wonders.

— Alex RJ Saranpa

“A good book is always good, no matter how many times you've already read it.”

— Osamu Dazai

I'll never read every single book or go to every single place. But I'll die in the trying of it.

— Jaden Smith

We generally learn languages for the benefit of reading the books written in them

— Thomas Jefferson

Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his…

— Ambrose Bierce

Christianity is based on a book. It centers in a Person. It expresses itself in a message. It authenticates itself in an…

— J. Sidlow Baxter

Frazzled and delirious, as I've just finished a new book of stories. I feel like Moses staggering down the mountainside with the…

— Kevin Barry

Failure Is A Single Paper In A Part Of Life. But Success Is A Book Of Your Own Biography.. Don't Loose A…

— Pacifiersucker

I don't tweet, Twitter, email, Facebook, look book, no kind of book. I have a land line phone at my home -…

— Patti LaBelle

I read the book and I think, "Well, this is the movie we're going to make," and then someone else reads it,…

— Casey Affleck

“When you're in love, you want to tell the world. This book is a personal statement, reflecting my lifelong love affair with…

— Carl Sagan

I like mechanical things; my first book was a mechanics guide - that was what my parents couldn't pry away from me;…

— Philipp Meyer

After the birth of printing books became widespread. Hence everyone throughout Europe devoted himself to the study of literature... Every year, especially…

— Johannes Kepler

What readers ask nowadays in a book is that it should improve, instruct and elevate. This book wouldn't elevate a cow. I…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“Rad had written a two-sentence response for his comparison/contrast between Moby Dick and The Old Man and the Sea: “The fishermen lost…

— Emm Oh

Have you thought of an ending?" "Yes, several, and all are dark and unpleasant." "Oh, that won't do! Books ought to have…

— Anonymous

Writing a book about [Buckminster Fuller] in the sense of deciding how much to - how much biographically to gloss over and…

— Jonathon Keats

Mark Twain was an artist working at the highest level. He wrote a book, his masterpiece, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, that…

— Val Kilmer

Since the purpose of reading, of education, is to become good, our most important task is to choose the right books. Our…

— Oliver DeMille

When you lose the story that's running like a golden stream underneath all the other stories, you're left with the idea that…

— Sally Lloyd-Jones

You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read...

— Keri Hulme

“My books usually come from a dream that gives me an idea that turns into an adventure!”

— Jen Golembiewski

I saw footage of a well-known pastor holding a Bible and saying, "This book says homosexuals should be killed."

— Roger Ross Williams

Why do you want to read others' books when there is the book of yourself?

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

I think the Queen enjoyed my book on her father, George VI.

— Sarah Bradford

I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books.

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency to get the book written.

— William Faulkner

Never Judge A Book By Its Cover You May Miss A Amazing Story

— Kiana JWilson

There are books . . . which rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“But Toulmin and Goodfield's Fabric of the Heavens (1962.), an old book recently reprinted, is my favorite.”

— Peter Godfrey-Smith

I do read, but not as much as I'd like to. I take five books at once and just scan through them.

— James Van Praagh

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

— W. H. Auden

“The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.”

— Harper Lee

I was so long writing my review that I never got around to reading the book.

— Groucho Marx

“The book is open, spine cracked, abused in a way no one with respect for paper should ever do.”

— Erika Swyler

You can't always be by the book every single day of your life.

— Dacre Montgomery