Book Quotes · Page 266

I really am an open book. I don't keep anything in at all, which is good and bad.

— Kaley Cuoco

I read so many scripts, that I don't do that much leisurely reading of books.

— Morris Chestnut

We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it.

— Nicholas Lea

“Every stage of life is a chapter of a book. You must begin writing your life book.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

The best way to fight terrorism is not through guns. It's through pens, books, teachers and schools.

— Malala Yousafzai

How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy! Pendennis. Book ii. Chap. xxxi.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

What the book does as a technology is shield us from distraction.

— Nicholas G. Carr

This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two.

— George Burns

Dharma is that which is enjoined by the holy books, followed by the sages, interpreted by the learned and which appeals to…

— Mahatma Gandhi

If your life were a book and you were the author, how would you want your story to go? That's the question…

— Amy Purdy

I was engrossed with the book, I was having difficulties with it, and I just didn't notice the years were going by.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking.…

— Mads Mikkelsen

I'm not going to make judgments about what people are reading. I just want them to be reading. And I think reading…

— Kate DiCamillo

People can relate to reading a book for the first time and the world starts to create, even without you prepping for…

— Alicia Vikander

There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to…

— Henry Ford

I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less…

— George W. Bush

You can tell a book is real when your heart beats faster. Real books make you sweat. Cry, if no one is…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

For after all, what is there behind, except money? Money for the right kind of education, money for influential friends, money for…

— George Orwell

There were days when you would get the TV listings from The Globe and The Herald. Video was out, but nobody could…

— William Monahan

Go, little Book! From this my solitude I cast thee on the Waters,--go thy ways: And if, as I believe, thy vein…

— Robert Southey

In my college days, I went wild with my hair. I dyed it every color in the book and, quite naturally, my…

— Kimberly Elise

It is a work of psychogeography, albeit in a less explicit sense than Iain Sinclair's or Will Self's. It had to be…

— Teju Cole

I studied a lot of animal behavior and one of the things I find really interesting is the whole idea that animals…

— Temple Grandin

In American Romances, her new book of essays, Rebecca Brown has a voice that is full of pop references, family stories, and…

— Susan Stinson

When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.

— Rita Mae Brown

When I'm in the midst of finishing a book, I can be working around the clock.

— Gail Tsukiyama

Every life, even the best ones, ends in sadness. Books hold out hope that things may end otherwise.

— Joe Queenan

The Bible is a supernatural book and can be understood only by supernatural aid.

— Anonymous

In the houses of the humble a little library in my opinion is a most precious possession.

— John Bright

There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.

— Evelyn Waugh

A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.

— Anonymous

The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.

— Idries Shah

The only time I was ever approached to write a book was when I was most famous.

— Justine Bateman

It doesnt matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books

— Anonymous

The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books

— Paracelsus

the power of a text is not time-bound. The words go on doing their work.

— Jeanette Winterson

There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.

— Anonymous

A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.

— Erica Jong

Kids are not going to sit and read a slow-paced book. Neither are adults.

— Frank Peretti

“Anybody can write a book. But writing it well and making it sell - that's the hard part.”

— Jay Taylor