Book Quotes · Page 153

I am not some preaching farmer with a book under my arm; I am a graduate of Harvard College.

— Samuel Parris

I knew that if I was going to write a book, I was going to have to read one, too.

— Michael Showalter

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

— Sherman Alexie

I want to keep publishing books, and writing and spreading my heartsong through the world.

— Mattie Stepanek

Great books don't make great movies. There's too much information in there.

— Casey Affleck

What is more important than reading books; is reading people's faces.

— Anis Mansour

If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.

— Jasper Fforde

My working-class Italian-American parents didn't go to school, there were no books in the house.

— Martin Scorsese

A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.

— Anonymous

I'm a big fan of the Pixar movies, and Ed Catmull, who wrote a book about his experiences producing them, talks about…

— David Copperfield

The fans of 'The Hunger Games,' of the book, are very passionate. It's funny: Even at my concerts there are people holding…

— Lenny Kravitz

Religious law is like the grammar of language. Any language isgoverned by such rules; otherwise it ceases to be a language. But…

— Jonathan Sacks

Books and music saved me as a teenager because it was through them that I realized that I wasn't alone in my…

— Charles de Lint

Matter of fact, I watch tons of tube, but I also read tons of books so I can figure out what's true…

— Rodman Philbrick

It seems to be the way I get jobs - I book a holiday, I get to the other side of the…

— Margot Robbie

If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.

— Arthur Helps

You know, I'm a total perfectionist, and I labor over trying to get things right. Whether we're putting together an opening for…

— Jim Nantz

My take is that there's two ways to approach history. You sit in your armchair and you watch it on the news…

— Tom Morello

Maybe being oneself is an acquired taste. For a writer it's a big deal to bow--or kneel or get knocked down--to the…

— Patricia Hampl

... I soon found an opportunity to be introduced to a famous professor Johann Bernoulli. ... True, he was very busy and…

— Leonhard Euler

In researching this volume, I interviewed veterans who had been at the front during World War II. I read countless books, examined…

— Hiromu Arakawa

This book denounces the cultism in chiropractic but supports the appropriate use of spinal manipulation and the research efforts required to solidify…

— Samuel Homola

I'm happy to entertain kids you know. It's my biggest pleasure to like see a twelve year old picking up a book…

— Marko Djurdjevic

In the United States, they always talk about subtitles, about chapters in a book without taking the main title of the book.…

— Bashar al-Assad

“If your hero's backstory is more interesting than their present story, you're writing the wrong book.”

— Kristen Kieffer

“as a child there was either books or pain. i chose books. -how i became a writer”

— Nayyirah Waheed

“Many chapters in the book of life, you gotta turn the page.”

— K-Rino

Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

One's favorite book is as elusive as one's favorite pudding.

— E. M. Forster

The world of books: romantic, idle, shiftless world so beautiful, so cheap compared with living.

— Nancy Spain

I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself…

— A. A. Milne

“When we are connected to the source, we will not be afraid of any task set before us.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

I don't like to travel. Yet all my books seem to involve a journey.

— Chris Van Allsburg

I've written a book on gangs, taught a course on gangs at Occidental.

— Tom Hayden

I do a lot of books on tape for Beverly Cleary, and another 'Smurfs' shout-out for that demographic.

— Neil Patrick Harris

How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.

— Gore Vidal

Books come in really handy when you need something to put your laptop on.

— Nikhil Saluja

I was a literature major in college and that was my thing, books.

— Jodie Foster

“A book is read one page at a time. A shelf is read one book at a time. A library is read…

— Terry Goodkind

I'd like to make the film of Sam Selvon's book 'The Lonely Londoners.'

— Joe Wright