Book Quotes · Page 228

I am alone, but never lonely. You have always books around you.

— Khushwant Singh

If I wanted to kill somebody, I'd take this book and beat you to death with it, and I wouldn't feel a…

— Charles Manson

With a book, there's no volume to turn up. You're very naked with a book.

— Henry Rollins

How can a rabbi not live with doubt? The Bible itself is a book of doubt.

— Arthur Hertzberg

When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

“Netiquette starts at home. Family values are a good frame of reference for netiquette rules.

— David Chiles

Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.

— Rachel Cusk

The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity...

— A. Edward Newton

“When you close the book, does the story end? No! That's such a bland way to read. Every story goes on forever…

— Mizuki Nomura

I think of a child's mind as a blank book. During the first years of his life, much will be written on…

— Walt Disney

Look. (Grown-ups skip this paragraph) I'm not about to tell you this book has a tragic ending. I already said in the…

— William Goldman

It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A true critic, in the perusal of a book, is like a dog at a feast, whose thoughts and stomach are wholly…

— Jonathan Swift

Would you buy a book proudly stating on the cover that its reader is a dummy? Or would you think "of course…

— Erik Naggum

I've been reading the books. It's the origination, it's the primary source. You should always go back to the books.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

I've written so many verses and keep on writing so many more that I became afraid that if I didn't write them…

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

“However readers make a book theirs, the end is that book and reader become one. The world that is a book is…

— Alberto Manguel

Peter Montiel has long set the highest standard for lucid textbooks on the macroeconomics of developing countries. Now in this new edition…

— William Easterly

A very bland eleven-year-old, playing computer games. I went to a local primary school but I wasn't anything special or anything insanely…

— Santan Dave

The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots…

— Saul Alinsky

If they burn a book, have no worries. The book will feel NO pain so neither should you! True destruction of the…

— Lupe Fiasco

My interest in society - at times so pronounced that the word 'snob' comes a little to mind - derives from the…

— Frank Crowninshield

I liked painting, very early on, even more than drawing. I used poster paint on posterboard. I would copy images that I…

— Mark Ryden

I think, oh my god, kids are reading, and they care about a book enough to come over and talk to me…

— Kate DiCamillo

To be a person who loves books is to be half in love with the idea of New York.

— Gwen Cooper

I've always loved comic books, which is why I've done films like Hulk and The Punishers,

— Gale Anne Hurd

An anthology is like all the plums and orange peel picked out of a cake.

— Walter Raleigh

Write the best book you possibly can, then dedicate yourself to getting people to read it.

— J.A. Konrath

Growing up I never got into comic books at all. I didn't have any inspiration for it.

— Scarlett Johansson

I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell.

— Antonia Fraser

“Don't let any situation intimidate you anymore, don't accept defeat anymore.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled This could change your life.

— Helen Exley

The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies.

— Andre Maurois

The young people have read my book. Now I have no chance.

— Efim Bogoljubov

He, who learns and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden, with a load of books.

— Saadi

Blessed books—they’re a place to be alone, and no one else can come in.

— Deb Caletti

“Courage is the ability to execute tasks and assignments without fear or intimidation.”

— Agu Jaachynma N.E

Madness, as I understood it from books, meant a person who was open to the high white whine of everything.

— Karen Russell

Beautiful books are always written in a sort of foreign language.

— Marcel Proust

To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text.

— Henry James