“Even a book can be dangerous in the wrong hands, and when that happens, you blame the hands, but you also read… — Erika Johansen Copy Share Image
“Every book of tactics in the regiment was in use from morning until night, and the officers and non-commissioned officers were always… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When we are returned to power we want to put in the statute book an act which will make our people citizens… — Clement Attlee Copy Share Image
I have a book of buildings from 25,000 BC. These are huts built out of mammoth bones. These buildings were beautifully made,… — Ben Nicholson Copy Share Image
“So Matilda's strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
Why do people write books that say it's better to be older than to be younger? It's not better. Even if you… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
As to writing another book on geometry [to replace Euclid] the middle ages would have as soon thought of composing another New… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
We're always quick to judge an open book, sometimes it pays to read between the lines, a lesson to be learnt only… — Jasmina Siderovski Copy Share Image
Now a writer can make himself a nice career while he is alive by espousing a political cause, working for it, making… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Tis to rebuke a vicious taste, which has crept into thousands besides herself, — of reading straight forwards, more in quest of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe my high school book said I was most likely to become a candlestick maker. Guessing I didn't exactly exude confidence… — Arlene Dickinson Copy Share Image
What is fear? Why are you so afraid? Even if everything is known about you and you are an open book, why… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
To exact of every man who writes that he should say something new, would be to reduce authors to a small number;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is easier for the reader to judge, by a thousand times, than for the writer to invent. The writer must summon… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
I really only write about inner landscapes and most people don't see them, because they see practically nothing within, because they think… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
In a movie, you need good actors, whereas in a book, you don't, unless you have a really bad imagination. In a… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
My work stops at publication. If the books don't contain in themselves their reasons for being - questions and answers - it… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
Can we really be friends with those who don't love the books that we do? Of course we can, but can we… — Ramona Koval Copy Share Image
It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Usually for me, the melodic structures come out in the water and the lyrical ideas could come from a book I'm reading. — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
In a few years, men will be able to communicate more effectively through a machine than face to face. That is a… — J. C. R. Licklider Copy Share Image
What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more about them than it does about the… — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
There is actually a great book called Prima Donna by Rupert -Christiansen that deconstructs the myth. In fact, many of the women… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
I feel like my life is pretty much on display. So much of it is working, and that's really all I want… — Cassie Steele Copy Share Image
You take the books, you lie there in the pools of light and you drink life. That is how intensely I have… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I love movies and I like a lot of good television. At the end of the project, I don't care if they… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Nobody ever recognizes themselves unless they are not the character. There are many people who have claimed to be in my books,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
When you come to another bridge in your life to cross, move on. Looking back, It's just a chapter in the past,… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and courageous feelings, seek for no other rule to judge the… — Jean De La Bruyere Copy Share Image
“And yet, old friend, books do not age as you and I do. They will speak still when we are gone, to… — Corrie ten Boom Copy Share Image
At 6:30, which was when the national news began, my father raised the volume and adjusted the antennas. Usually I occupied myself… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
I've never signed a contract, so never have a deadline. A deadline's an unnerving thing. I just finish a book, and if… — Marchette Chute Copy Share Image
Don't consider me too demanding if I ask you once again to set great store by holy books and read them as… — Pio of Pietrelcina Copy Share Image
I would like to have the superpower of being able to touch a book and then gain all the knowledge out of… — Nicholas Brendon Copy Share Image
I read as many books about the psychology of a psychopath as I could and I researched what exactly happens to soldiers. — Patrick Heusinger Copy Share Image
Jesus needs neither books nor Doctors of Divinity in order to instruct souls; He, the Doctor of Doctors, He teaches without noise… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
Everything I know I learned by listening and watching. Nowadays people learn out of books instead. Doctors study what man has learned.… — Vernon Cooper Copy Share Image
When I'm feeling stressed out and overwhelmed, sometimes I'll read a book. But most of the time, I will either listen to… — Ross Lynch Copy Share Image