Book Quotes · Page 199

Experience is the child of Thought, and Thought is the child of Action. We cannot learn men from books.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Life is just a book of chapters written by God which you have to read very carefully before it finishes.

— Vikrant Parsai

What better portrait of a writer than to show a man who has been bewitched by books?

— Paul Auster

Learning hath gained most by those books by which printers have lost.

— Thomas Fuller

I was born in the country of Hogg and Scott between the Yarrow and the Tweed, in the year 1864.

— Margot Asquith

I had no idea that reading it would lead me to a cabin. It's dangerous to open a book

— Sylvain Tesson

“I love reading books. You really get hooked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

— Daniel Radunsky

It's great people still care about books, and it's great you can still fashion a life from literature.

— John Banville

There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life... it's The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I do note with interest that old women in my books become young women on the covers... this is discrimination against the…

— Terry Pratchett

When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same…

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

You could have sex relatively comfortably on a platform of books, but not on a platform of PDA.s. Hardcover books. Paperbacks might…

— William Gibson

It was an hour before dawn. When all the Whos down in Whoville were asnooze in their beds without care. Sorry, wrong…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

I think that today's books, in which every quote, every conversation, is taken from a memoir, an autobiography, an interview, or what-have-you,…

— Russell Freedman

Vee said," I'm trying to read the title he's holding…hang on…How to Be a Stalker." "He is not checking out a book…

— Becca Fitzpatrick

“Not only is a book without conflict something no one wants to read, but a life without conflict is something where nothing…

— A.C. Gaughen

Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with…

— John Grisham

The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. It is said that leaders…

— Mark Twain

What I sought in books was imagination. It was depth, depth of thought and feeling; some sort of extreme of subject matter;…

— Annie Dillard

Maybe it's the remnants of my religious upbringing, but I do try and insert a sense of social justice into the work.…

— Patricia Rozema

I hadn't had a book in my hands for four months, and the mere idea of a book where I could see…

— Stefan Zweig

I've only read three books by Stephen King. When I was 10 I read 'The Long Walk,' one of his pseudonymous Bachman…

— Lev Grossman

I have on my bookshelf a series of books with opposite titles: 'The Alpha Strategy' and the 'Omega Strategy'; 'Asia Rising' and…

— Mark Skousen

Unlike most readers in Antiquity who read their books aloud, we have developed the convention of reading silently. This lets us read…

— Jaroslav Pelikan

Never judge a book by its cover and like wise a lady by her beauty

— Haceasedammy

I was inspired to write this book by those who are sceptical of the power of freedom to change the world.

— Natan Sharansky

I re-read the books I assign to my students. Each time I do, I learn something new.

— Deborah Harkness

I don't thrive on stress. I love lying on the deck on our houseboat reading a book.

— Bear Grylls

“This book is by no means an exhaustive study of human anatomy or the vast science of yoga.”

— Leslie Kaminoff

“You recreate your world to your taste with God's Word in your mouth.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

“There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away...”

— Emily Dickinson

There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.

— Christopher Hampton

Just be a cool grandpa who's creative, and hang out and tell stories and read a book in the library.

— Angelina Jolie

All my books have been titled based on a piece of the prose from inside the book.

— Donald Miller

In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings.

— Rudy Rucker

“Only boring people get bored. Life may be tedious, but not if you brought a book.”

— Robert Mailer Anderson

I don't know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five.

— Haruki Murakami

Remember to get the weather in your damn book-weather is very important.

— Ernest Hemingway

“A good friend of mine once said, "I have never met a bigot who was a reader as a child.”

— Marion Dane Bauer

I've long said that comic books are the modern equivalent of our Greek myths.

— David S. Goyer