Book Quotes · Page 308

Sometimes one must choose between turning the pages and move on and closing the book for a better future

— Mercy Pheona

One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.

— Brit Marling

You can read me like a book. If I'm not having a good time, which is very rare, then you'll know.

— Peter Frampton

Not even anthropologists or intellectuals, no matter how many books they have, can find out all our secrets.

— Rigoberta Menchu

For Christians, the first of books is the Gospel and the Rosary is actually the abridgement of the Gospel.

— Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

None of us, of course, will ever read all the books we'd like, but we can still make a stab at it.

— Michael Dirda

A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.

— Angela Carter

The Big L was cold crazy, A top-notch crook snatchin pocket books from old ladies

— Big L

Id always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get…

— Donald Ray Pollock

When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the…

— Simone de Beauvoir

I'm a 'bound book' kind of girl. I have a Kindle, and I enjoy it for some things, like convenience or instant…

— Lisa Unger

There are as many strata at different levels of life as there are leaves in a book. When on the higher levels…

— Henry David Thoreau

I was in such a creative groove after turning in my last book (The Andy Cohen Diaries: A Deep Look at a…

— Andy Cohen

I have this belief that children become readers before they can read. They become hooked on books because they were read aloud…

— Jacqueline Wilson

If you want to learn the craft of war, ponder over this book. The teacher is as a needle, the disciple is…

— Miyamoto Musashi

Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly…

— Elbert Hubbard

One of the marvelous blessings of the Book of Mormon is that it contains, in clarity, revelations reserved to come forth in…

— L. Lionel Kendrick

Dear book, this is another day in my life. A life is like a book. A book is like a box. A…

— Gia Carangi

I talked late, swam late, did not learn to ride a bike until college - and might never have walked or learned…

— Julia Glass

I guess I'm interested in the behind-the-surface feelings of the human condition, in my own way. I was always struck by the…

— Signe Baumane

I don't like to have a calm, orderly, quiet place to work. I often compose while driving, compose in my head. It…

— Robert Pinsky

Hillary Clinton and her husband, the former president, are of course by all measures quite wealthy as well, having earned tens of…

— Tamara Keith

You may read any quantity of books, and you may almost as ignorant as you were at starting, if you don't have,…

— Thomas Huxley

We should be wary what persecution we raise against the living labors of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of…

— John Milton

Here is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don't leave out a single word.

— Pat Conroy

“If you write a kid's book only for kids, then you have failed.”

— Don Roff

“Manage me, I'm a mess Turn a page, I'm a book Half unread”

— All Time Low

At the same time, as you know, unless you are a comic book reader, Daredevil is not a known thing.

— Avi Arad

I read books. Avidly, ardently! As if my life depended upon it.

— Joyce Carol Oates

“We may not all be on the same chapter, but we should be in the same book". ~R. Alan Woods [2007]”

— R. Alan Woods

Books demand more. You have to be a more active participant.

— Paul Auster

I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.

— O. J. Simpson

I'm confused, and brilliant books help me to be less so.

— Jesse Ball

Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can.

— Sue Grafton

It's extraordinary how many people read a book that's new and weird and befriend it.

— Junot Diaz

In Tereza's eyes, books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood

— Milan Kundera

An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only.

— C. S. Lewis

Our hymn-books resound with a melodious cursing of God and enduring Him forever.

— Henry David Thoreau

“And what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversation?”

— Lewis Carroll

if a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading.

— Paulo Coelho