Book Quotes · Page 159

I am aiming my books at anybody with no economics background.

— Tim Harford

I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say.

— Anonymous

Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise.

— Philip Schaff

I'm the world 'Guinness Book of Records' holder of 1,749 hugs in one hour. My arms fell off.

— Nick Vujicic

I would not wear any clothes that had a brand name on them, and I only read books that were canonical.

— Zoe Kazan

I can't ever think of writing a book or an autobiography. I'm a little private person.

— Randhir Kapoor

A movie is a movie and a book is a book, and they have different rules.

— J. Michael Straczynski

The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

— Anonymous

When you have five little kids, you're not going to open Mindy Kaling's latest book. You're playing with your kids.

— Jim Gaffigan

“I think people need hope when times are tough. I think they also need escape and adventure and fantasy. Books are like…

— Michelle M. Pillow

When kids don't learn about their own heritage in school, they just don't care about school... But you won't see it in…

— Miles Davis

Marvel books also feed into the smaller publishers and the fact that this is happening in the same month we're launching Ultimate…

— Mark Millar

If I'm reading a book and it seems truly interesting, I tend to start reading back to front in order not to…

— David Shields

As for you and your heart and the things you said and didn't say, she will remember them all when men are…

— Peter S. Beagle

There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing.

— Anonymous

There was this billy goat at a movie studio who found and ate a can of film. When a nanny asked him…

— Johnny Carson

This Is Not a Novel memorializes the treasures and detritus of one man's singularly cultured mind. (...) If you don't know Writer's…

— Michael Dirda

Ever heard of anyone executed for distributing copies of Grimm's fairy tales? Imagine people trying to smuggle copies of Hans Christian Andersen's…

— Eric Metaxas

My novels are never truly finished, even if they're published and sitting on the shelf. While I may no longer be interested…

— Jillian Medoff

The biggest hypocrites on gun control are those who live in upscale developments with armed security guards - and who want to…

— Thomas Sowell

Learn by doing. Learn through experiences. And this goes back to Steve Jobs' thing - which is the way you open up…

— Tony Fadell

I think theres just this mystique of writing a book that appeals to people. A person has to really check their motives…

— Max Lucado

I'm listening to Gogol Bordello, which is totally random, but I love him. Just finished the new Joan Didion book, Blue Nights,…

— Pamela Love

We've all had the experience of you pick up a book, you can't get into it, you can't concentrate.Then one day you…

— T.C. Boyle

I wanted to write a book about the stories, ones that you sit around and tell your friends.

— Sean Payton

“The greatest book is one written by your pen, but not exactly from your mind.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Adapting a book is the most difficult thing because half the time you are wondering what to remove.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I thought of writing a summary about you, but when I finished it was a book.”

— Amit Kalantri

Songs of different moods are like keys, which help me enter the world of my book's characters.

— Amish Tripathi

Usually when I'm on a plane, I try to enjoy the fact that I have to be still for eight hours and…

— Michiel Huisman

I'm suspicious of dreams in books too. Because they're boring and too self-serving.

— Jill Alexander Essbaum

“Worship is the marriage of two Spirits - the Spirit of God and the Spirit of man.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

“Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good.”

— William Wordsworth

“People loves Ideas I love books because Ideas can be found in books”

— Abid Hussain Library Officer

I'd love to be involved in the process of adapting a book to a script, but that's simply not my job.

— Hero Fiennes-Tiffin

By the time I finished the book [All Alone in the Universe], Robin Roy was saying, "More pictures!"

— Lynne Rae Perkins

You may be surprised to know that growing up, I wanted to be a writer of children's books.

— St. Lucia

There's something lovely about writing a book, doing what you want. I love the solitariness of it.

— Jane Fallon

We clung to books and to our friends; they reminded us that we had another part to us.

— Annie Barrows