Book Quotes · Page 186

People who judge a book by its cover... That's the shit I don't like.

— Christine

Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland

— Gyorgy Ligeti

“Some books claiming to be exhaustive are only exhausting to read.”

— A.W. Tozer

After all a book can be represented as a conversation with one’s demon.

— Patrick O'Brian

I used my aviation contacts to open a travel agency. I used to book Caribbean flights.

— Joseph Force Crater

I think thy horse will sooner con an oration than thou learn a prayer without book.

— William Shakespeare

Counting the ways the Book of Mormon brings peace to the soul is like counting the sand on the seashore.

— Neil L. Andersen

The best self promotion is your next book. And the book after that and after that …

— Bella Andre

I guess my approach to adapting books is to treat them with a deep respect on one level and at another level…

— Simon Beaufoy

With toilet books, people don't review them that much. They don't really pay much attention to them. It's just like, "Oh, okay.…

— Drew Magary

I think the book struck me in a few ways that I thought very interesting to pick it as my first martial…

— Ang Lee

My first novel, 'John Crow's Devil,' freed me up to write about the past, and 'The Book of Night Women' freed me…

— Marlon James

Every object you see before you at this moment -the walls, ceiling, and furniture, the book, your own washed hands and cut…

— C. S. Lewis

“You took out a book on blow-job technique from the British Library? They shouldn't have books like that in there!”

— Sarra Manning

We'll always need printed books that don't mutate the way digital books do; we'll always need places to display books, auditoriums for…

— Marilyn Johnson

Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcende nce.

— Susan Sontag

Then I celebrated my Wall of Books. I counted the volumes on my twenty-foot-long modernist bookshelf to make sure none had been…

— Gary Shteyngart

It is between fifty and sixty years since I read it (i.e. the Book of Revelations), and I then considered it merely…

— Thomas Jefferson

It's a really common trap to want your life to live up to some standard that you believe in, and then you…

— Will Sheff

Do not use intoxicants of any sort. We who should be serving the world should not ruin our health by smoking and…

— Mata Amritanandamayi

She is never alone when she has Her Books. Books, to her, are Friends. Give her Shakespeare or Jane Austen, Meredith or…

— Anonymous

I happened to write a book about the stuff I've been involved in over the years. It just so happened that my…

— Ralph Sarchie

An immigration violation should not give the government license to rip up the rule book. By restricting judicial oversight and blocking public…

— Jamie Fellner

I write books because I have always been fascinated by stories and language, and because I love thinking about what makes people…

— Lois Lowry

“I want to write a book called “Conversations.” Of course, it’s all talk at this point.”

— Jarod Kintz

I never wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a book illustrator. I used to hurry home from school and…

— Natalie Babbitt

I have a bad habit of reading more than one book simultaneously!

— Celeste Ng

No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman.

— Van Wyck Brooks

“Books are like music. Everyone has their own taste and it's not always for everyone.”

— Michael Benavidez

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.

— Groucho Marx

When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.

— Paul McCartney

Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil O'er books consumed the midnight oil?

— John Gay

I think am the favorite BOOK of BillIONs of Readers and Song for few Blinds!

— Junior Dè Rèál Testament

I first heard of [Orfeo Angelucci] from Giuseppe Conti who gave me some books by him.

— Paul Laffoley

“I was a child who loved books, and I am an adult who is the product of books.”

— John Connolly

“One book, printed in the Heart's own wax / Is worth a thousand in the stack's”

— Jan Luyken

“Also, how could anyone who loves books not love a book that is itself so in love with books?”

— Will Schwalbe

The book which contains my autobiography, is wet since publication.

— Mak_786

Recently, I've really responded to books that bring the magic of childhood back to us as adults.

— Christina Ricci

I read stuff. Books are not my only friends, but we're friendly. So there.

— Maria Dahvana Headley