Book Quotes · Page 264

The Book of Mormon exposes the enemies of Christ. It confounds false doctrines and lays down contention.

— Ezra Taft Benson

“Then I understood. There was no book. My father wasn’t a writer. He wasn’t even a vampire. He was a madman.”

— Kami Garcia

I hope in my book [My Beloved World], that the sense that I really feel connected comes through.

— Sonia Sotomayor

When a person really desire something, the whole universe help that person to realize hi dream.

— Paulo Coelho

“I have books I go to only when I need solace or when I am in pain of body or soul.”

— Gwen E Campbell

When we read the right book generously, it can change the way think about the world around us.

— John Green

Leaving behind books is even more beautiful — there are far too many children.

— Marguerite Yourcenar

Music and movie scripts are books. You want to be literally moved and that's the sort of things I look for.

— Tim McGraw

But I think you have to accept - as I have accepted - that the demands of TV are different than the…

— Ian McElhinney

Unlike the book, with a documentary, you get a chance to show much more texture and color. Film gives you get a…

— Steve Stoute

“But hereby resolve to write in this book at least twenty minutes a night. (If discouraged, just think of how much will…

— George Saunders

My role was to bring about fairness in the workplace. All I did was implement the laws that were currently on the…

— Hilda Solis

I don't like to write about things that bore me, and that means I steer far clear of writing books that are…

— Kameron Hurley

Here's a secret. Many novelists, if they are pressed and if they are being honest, will admit that the finished book is…

— Michael Cunningham

“I prefer the company of books. When I’m reading, I’m never alone, I have a conversation with the book. It can be…

— Sophie Divry

How deluded we sometimes are by the clear notions we get out of books. They make us think that we really understand…

— Thomas Merton

“Everybody we know surrounds himself with a fine house, fine books, conservatory, gardens, equipage, and all manner of toys, as screens to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I always say, I'm certain I changed 'Watchmen' less than the Coen brothers changed 'No Country for Old Men.' I'm certain of…

— Zack Snyder

Between the covers of the books that no one had ever read again, in the old parchments damaged by dampness, a livid…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“When you stand inside somebody's library, you get a powerful sense of who they are, and not just who they are now…

— Leah Price

Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating…

— Epictetus

Given the challenges and adversity we face in business and life today, Jon Gordon provides a clear road map to navigate the…

— Tom Gegax

In books, day breaks, and night falls. In life, night rises from the ground. The day hangs on for as long as…

— Hugh Laurie

My mother lives in Moscow, and I would like to visit her. Now she always has to travel to Finland or a…

— Garry Kasparov

I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.

— Upton Sinclair

A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male.

— Simone de Beauvoir

“The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self-activity. —THOMAS CARLYLE,”

— Anonymous

A book full of brilliance imparts some of it even to its opponents.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.

— Anonymous

I get to show the reader the essence of the book without giving anything away.

— Mary Grandpre

Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it.

— Ben Elton

I'm a very slow reader, and books of interviews are an absolute favorite of mine.

— Jason Schwartzman

If you plan to read one book this year I encourage you to consider, Find Your Reason to Be Here.

— Jed Diamond

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a mentor, a teacher, a guidepost, a counsellor.

— Henry Ward Beecher

People should be interested in books, not their authors.

— Agatha Christie

I used to do calligraphy, and I'm afraid that has lapsed, but I've always been interested in book printing.

— Alice Waters

Books are to me as homemade tattoos are to an inmate. Can't get enough of them.

— Laurie Notaro

“Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.”

— Ezra Pound

“There is much to discover that's not on the back cover!”

— Anonymous

'Allegiance' is pretty much a book musical. You know, people talk and then they burst out into song.

— Lea Salonga