Religion embarrasses the commentators. It is offbounds. An editor of the old Life magazine once assigned me a book on religion with… — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
I live making comics. Comics is an industrial art but less suffering, because comics are for young people who are more adventurous.… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
All too often education actually acts as a form of aversion therapy, that what we're really teaching our children is to associate… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
The truly great books are always novels: 'Anna Karenina,' 'The Brothers Karamazov,' 'The Magic Mountain.' Just as with 'Shahnameh,' I browse these… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“During the spring break I read a book called Everlasting. It was a really great book to read. It was about how… — Elizabeth Chandler Copy Share Image
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Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable moments in their lives: the time one climbed the Parthenon at sunrise, the summer… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“वक्रतुंड महाकाय कोटिसूर्यसमप्रभ। निर्विघ्नं कुरु मे देव सर्वकार्येषु सर्वदा॥ “Lord Ganesh of curved elephant trunk and huge body, Whose brilliance is equal… — Munindra Misra Copy Share Image
I'm a fan of characters wherever they come from. Truth be told, I wasn't a big comic book fan growing up. Maybe… — Roger Craig Smith Copy Share Image
Dave Wann's recipes from his own experience in Simple Prosperity are a breath of fresh air, and just what we need for… — Hazel Henderson Copy Share Image
Old or new, the only sign I always try to rid my books of (usually with little success) is the price-sticker that… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Vacation time offers the unique opportunity to pause before the thought-provoking spectacles of nature, a wonderful "book" within reach of everyone, adults… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
For my wrap present, Colin Farrell gave me a first edition book. I got so involved with this character and I was… — Salma Hayek Copy Share Image
I had a friend who worked at a hospice, and he said people in their final moments don't discuss their successes, awards… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
My books are shelved in different places, depending on the bookstore. Sometimes they can be found in the Mystery section, sometimes in… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
The old saying of work hard, play hard really works for me. For me it's all about focus. To get the Fire… — Danielle LaPorte Copy Share Image
And when I'm writing, I write a lot anyway. I might write pages and pages of conversation between characters that don't necessarily… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
I often use detective elements in my books. I love detective novels. But I also think science fiction and detective stories are… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
To put it one way, a collection of Shakespeare's plays is richer than a phone book that uses the same number of… — Hans Christian von Baeyer Copy Share Image
The Bible becomes a dead idol when we call the words between its covers inerrant, infallible, to be taken literally. This is… — Mel White Copy Share Image
Stop it. This is serious! (Selena) Serious? Please. I’m standing out here on my twenty-ninth birthday, barefoot and in jeans my mother… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
When I'm following what a character does in a book I don't have to think about my own life. Where I am.… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
The Place of Religion in Chicago is a clearly written account of a little-studied aspect of American landscape. Based on unique field… — Peter Haggett Copy Share Image
So long as the mental and moral instruction of man is left solely in the hands of hired servants of the public--let… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
It had been only through books-at best, no more than vicarious cultural transfusions-that I had managaed to keep myself alive in a… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
When you're young - when I was young - you want your emotions to be like the ones you read about in… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Before I start a project, I always ask myself the following question. Why is this book worth a year of my life?… — David Morrell Copy Share Image
I thought I might get a part as a farmer. I knew about the books but I hadn't read them. A few… — Christopher Timothy Copy Share Image
I particularly love where I work because I was born, raised, and still live in the Bronx. I work in a Bronx… — Sofia Quintero Copy Share Image
Sometimes you change to survive, and some things you don't give up, or you're too prideful, and then you think well, what's… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I think because of these big issues of life and death that maybe sex feels like a crass question. But for Christ… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
Certain I am that every author who has written a book with earnest forethought and fondly cherished designs will bear testimony to… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“I’d like to see a lot of this stuff in print before I die—but not the bulk of it, oh no! I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The truth doesn't change. It was the same when Moses got the Ten Commandments as it is today. That's the thing about… — DMX Copy Share Image
And I take this opportunity to declare, that... I will to my dying day oppose with all the powers and faculties God… — James Otis Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I read a book by Frank Barnaby, this wonderful nuclear physicist - he said that media had a… — Jeremy Gilley Copy Share Image
Don't believe everything you read. It's very difficult to be accepting of our own bodies. This topic deserves it's own book, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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In the past few years I've assigned books to be read before a student attends one of my weeklong seminars. I have… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
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