BTW A 24 week old embryo is not a human being. You're not a human being until you're in my phone book. — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
In other words, it's one of those books you thrust on your partner with an incredulous cry of "This is me! — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
This was but a prelude; where books are burnt human-beings will be burnt in the end — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
“Where you read a book and when and with whom can make a big difference.” — Robert Coles Copy Share Image
I often lose myself in the Sudoku-like challenges of making a book work. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Knowledge and increase of enduring joy From the great Nature that exists in works Of mighty Poets. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“What are you reading, my dear? A pretty sight, a lady with a book.” — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
I think reading about black girls if you are a black girl is important. And for those who don't like to read,… — Marley Dias Copy Share Image
Yes, the stories are dangerous, she was right. A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“I wrote this book because I had formed a strong impression that the people currently living were paying insufficient attention to the… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses… — Homer Copy Share Image
“It is through your experience you find out who you really are and who you are is from finding your own experience… — Charleston Parker Copy Share Image
As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
I get absolutely ruthless in my own way about not doing anything else when I am trying to concentrate on writing a… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Sometimes you walk out of an audition and you kind of know you nailed it and you're probably going to book it,… — Michael Cudlitz Copy Share Image
... I'm the fortieth-ugliest man in this bar. But so what! So what! What if someday she lets me kiss each one… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Books are influential in proportion to their obscurity, provided that the obscurity be that of inexpressible Realities. The Bible is the most… — Coventry Patmore Copy Share Image
When you're looking around for metaphor or simile, I do think it's often helpful to keep inside the world of the book,… — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
People who were born alone are defined by feelings like "Who's gonna be with me when I die? Who will ever understand… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
A book may lie dormant for fifty years or for two thousand years in a forgotten corner of a library, only to… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
People do tell a writer things that they don't tell others. I don't know why, unless it is that having read one… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I once knew a house rather like The Land of Smiles - an old house occupied by a varied collection of young… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
I learned little save that most of the deeds, good and bad both, incurring opprobrium or plaudits or reward either, within the… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Gutenberg, your printing press has been violated by this evil book, Mein Kampf! — Friedrich Kellner Copy Share Image
Do not, under any circumstances, put this book down and turn on the teevee. The teevee debilitates our culture. — Inga Muscio Copy Share Image
I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine Corps. — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
“I know no greater bore than the man who insists on lending you a book which you do not intend to read.” — Harold Rabinowitz Copy Share Image
Book-publishing is all about politics. Agents, editors, which books will be puffed, which ignored, etc. — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
Each of my book arrives at a form and a style that is appropriate to the subject. — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
“yes, books are like flypapers. Memories cling to the printed page better than anything else.” — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
One has to live with the ignominy of a garish sticker slapped over one's face, proclaiming '? — Michael Heseltine Copy Share Image
I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I wish life was not so short. Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Sentences must stir in a book like leaves in a forest, each distinct from each despite their resemblance. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I sip the Dom P watching Gandhi til I'm charged - writing in my book of rhymes, all the words past the… — Nas Copy Share Image
