Book Quotes · Page 242

If you go to Germany and get drunk, at some point you will try to look up Hitler in the phone book.

— Dave Attell

Books have souls. Or so romantics like me tend to think.

— Douglas Rushkoff

“My book is awful,” I said. “Nonsense,” Dora J. Arod said. “Your book is nonsense.”

— Jarod Kintz

Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn't feature.

— Phillip Noyce

“A great book is a thing of mystery and beauty; it has the power to move you.”

— Neil Leckman

“Chapters - Life has many different chapters for us. One bad chapter doesn’t mean the end of the book.”

— Edenia Archuleta

Everybody wants confidence but you don't find it in self help books. You find confidence in the Holy Spirit.

— Rick Warren

“Books crawl down from the shelves; Read themselves through you; Read themselves at you. - Library of Force ”

— John Cale

Writing books is fun because after I do a show for a couple hours, I'm in a bus for 22 hours. It's…

— Willie Nelson

If we are perplexed by an apparent contradiction in Scripture, it is not allowable to say, 'The author of this book is…

— Saint Augustine

I am impressed when I go on the internet and see a lot of young people who've been influenced by the books,…

— Robert Greene

I think James Bond is a spy. He's not superhuman. Calling him a superhero is like calling James Bond movies "comic-book movies."

— Kurt Busiek

The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of 'Tales from Livy' that I'd found in…

— Gore Vidal

My worldview comes from a collection of the books I have read, the people I have met, and my conversations with my…

— Brian Kilmeade

I want to write some books. Books that have nothing to do with music, just some fiction type of books for a…

— Jhene Aiko

I knew about the music. I got that part but I wanted to know the business, I wanted to know about royalties,…

— Juicy J

“More recently, books, especially paperbacks, have been printed in massive and inexpensive editions. For the price of a modest meal you can…

— Carl Sagan

I spend a lot of time looking at rococo books. And almanacs used to be huge sellers - they were pretty much…

— Ben Schott

For myself, I haven't been content to carry on producing books that merely strain against the conventions - as I've grown older,…

— Will Self

By speech first, but far more by writing, man has been able to put something of himself beyond death. In tradition and…

— Julian Huxley

But you want to know about the influence of books on my life, and as I've said, there was only one. Seneca.…

— Mary Ann Shaffer

In the end, living is defined by dying. Book- ended by oblivion, we are caught in the vice of terror, squeezed to…

— Bernard Beckett

In Fargo, they say, well, that's a job. How well do you get paid? For example, for this book I was written…

— Chuck Klosterman

I'm always conscious of the fact that a book starts, basically, with a kid in a lap, and a parent reading to…

— Jon J Muth

Most of the books call Her a He, but I am able to ascertain what is meant, despite that semantic error.

— Roseanne Barr

Purchasing and downloading a book on to your e-reader won't necessarily protect it from disappearing.

— Jonathan Zittrain

“this book really is interesting that a soon as I got it I couldn't stop reading it.”

— Carolyn Hennesy

Books are menaced by books. Any excess of information produces silence.

— Umberto Eco

Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.

— Alberto Manguel

A book whose sale's forbidden all men rush to see, and prohibition turns one reader into three

— Italian Proverb

I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down.

— Tim Vine

I am Envy...I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.

— Christopher Marlowe

If you're reading it in a book, folks, it ain't self-help. It's help.

— George Carlin

I'm an open book. I share a lot of my life with everybody.

— Kaitlyn Bristowe

It's one thing you aspire to: someday, you'll be able to write a book.

— Thomas Keller

“I am not entirely persuaded that selling a book is like selling a pig.”

— Kathleen A. Flynn

I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer.

— John Boyne

A humane and authentic book written by another voice from the trenches.

— Joanne Greenberg

Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.

— Sally Schneider

Yes, books are dangerous. They should be dangerous - they contain ideas.

— Pete Hautman