Book Quotes · Page 321

Through books we converse with the wisest and the greatest men of the past.

— Anonymous

My main source of reading is scripts, which doesn't leave a whole lot of room for books.

— Josh Hutcherson

I love mysteries, and I read them every night before I go to bed.

— David Herbert Donald

Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.

— Stephen King

I don't go anywhere without my iPod, laptop and at least one book.

— Michael Urie

I'm as thrilled watching Mark Rylance do Shakespeare as I am watching 'The Book of Mormon.'

— Michael Gracey

“A good book is always good, no matter how many times you've already read it.”

— Osamu Dazai

Life is a book, you are the author. Learn to write the book before your mistakes and you shall have wonders.

— Alex RJ Saranpa

I'm obsessed with TV. How wrong our parents were when they said we should only watch an hour a day. Stop wasting…

— Jimmy Carr

If the new movies do contradict my books in some way, I can probably come up with some hand-waving story that will…

— Timothy Zahn

What I would do is when I was younger I would draw in a sketch book something that happened in my life…

— Robert Redford

I don't keep my books around... they would embarrass me. When I finish writing my books, I kick them in the belly,…

— Ludwig Bemelmans

“Don't ask me about my book...read it. You will find what you need and what speaks to you in the depths or…

— Ina Brink

I'm pretty grounded on my own passion - writing books, you know, doing programs, speaking around the country. And I love what…

— Stedman Graham

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!”

— Jane Austen

I try to do that in this book without preaching - to try to do as you just said that you really…

— Floyd Abrams

He that loves a book will never want a [close] friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study,…

— Isaac Barrow

“Books can change minds and change worlds, open doors and open minds, plant seeds that can grow into magical or even terrifying…

— Anna James

“She loved books. She loved them with her senses and her intellect. They way they looked and smelled; the way they felt…

— Betty Smith

When I was in college, there were dollar movie nights. I went to see 'The Long Goodbye,' which was based on one…

— Michael Connelly

There are a range of women not represented in the Western fairy tale tradition. Husband-beaters are particularly interesting, as well as male…

— Marina Warner

You may rely on it that you have the best of me in my books, and that I am not worth seeing…

— Henry David Thoreau

I wouldn't say design has become strictly functional. A lot of cars these days look downright comic book to me, and the…

— Scott Westerfeld

Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre. It's a completely different discipline, it exists…

— Nicolas Roeg

I'll never read every single book or go to every single place. But I'll die in the trying of it.

— Jaden Smith

You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read...

— Keri Hulme

We generally learn languages for the benefit of reading the books written in them

— Thomas Jefferson

I saw footage of a well-known pastor holding a Bible and saying, "This book says homosexuals should be killed."

— Roger Ross Williams

“My books usually come from a dream that gives me an idea that turns into an adventure!”

— Jen Golembiewski

Why do you want to read others' books when there is the book of yourself?

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.

— Iain Banks

That heartbreaking moment when you finish an amazing book, and you are forced to return to reality.

— Grace Paley

The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.

— Thomas Paine

Book of Ecclesiastes, God is saying... Write a good story, take somebody with you and let me help

— Donald Miller

“I am fortunate to be a resemblance, rather than a replication of who I was yesterday.”

— The Letters Of Gratitude

Book - Learning : The dunce's derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impertinent ignorance.

— Ambrose Bierce

For reasons which many persons thought ridiculous, Mrs. Lightfoot Lee decided to pass the winter in Washington.

— Henry Adams

A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is…

— George Bernard Shaw

Knowledge without application is like a book that is never read.

— Anonymous

“Come with me,' Mom says. To the library. Books and summertime go together.”

— Lisa Schroeder