Book Quotes · Page 83

The volume of Nature is the book of knowledge.

— Oliver Goldsmith

I didn't want to write the same book over and over.

— George Pelecanos

A home without books is a body without soul.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Good books are the warehouses of ideas.

— H. G. Wells

“Books exceed authors' lifespan.”

— Toba Beta

I've never written a book before.

— Keith Emerson

The best teacher teach from heart not from a books.

— Babloo

But for this book we could not know right from wrong.

— Abraham Lincoln

For a long time I would go to bed early. [Fr., Longtemps, je me suis couche de bonne heure.]

— Marcel Proust

Sometimes you don't know what a book is about until you are finished with it and you're talking about it.

— Jenny Han

No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.

— Eugene Field

I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart.

— Gabrielle Zevin

When you read the sacred Scriptures, or any other book, never think how you read, but what you read.

— John Philip Kemble

I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.

— Anonymous

Books are magic: you never know where they're going to end up.

— Dan Savage

“never judge a book by its cover,whats in it is a way of life.”

— Maceo Mays

The true system of the World has been recognized, developed and perfected...Everything has been discussed and analysed, or at least mentioned.

— Jean le Rond d'Alembert

I would define a book as a work of magic whence escape, all kinds of images to trouble the souls and change…

— Anatole France

I have written a book called 'In the Wonderland of Numbers.' It's about a young girl, Neha, who is very poor in…

— Shakuntala Devi

Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start with Mount Everest. So if you're…

— George R. R. Martin

None of my books are best-sellers. In fact, the only thing that's kept me alive is the books that are in paperback.…

— James Purdy

Inevitably you're going to be delayed somewhere. Always have a book. Always have a movie. Always have a notebook. And then always…

— Phil Keoghan

I believe passionately in preemptive pessimism, especially before a book comes out. I expect the worst both from reviewers and sales, and…

— Antony Beevor

I really, really wanted to lose awareness of the here and now. The best way for me to do that was bury…

— Charlaine Harris

In North Korea the math book says, you know, there are four American bastards. You kill two of them. Then how many…

— Park Yeon-mi

You and me will read a book and find three interesting things that we remember. But Colin finds everything intriguing. He reads…

— John Green

Ender's Game is set more than a century in the future and has nothing to do with political issues that did not…

— Orson Scott Card

I once stole a book. It was really just the once, and at the time I called it borrowing. It was 1970,…

— Hilary Mantel

Brian Myers takes a fresh approach. He largely ignores what the regime tells the outside world about itself, but concentrates instead on…

— Andrei Lankov

Books leave gestures in the body; a certain way of moving, of turning, a certain closing of the eyes, a way of…

— Dionne Brand

Never far from a dining table, the characters in Heather A. Slomski's limpid and elegant debut collection are not given to melodramatics.…

— Jaimy Gordon

I source images and ideas from different parts of my experiences, and sometimes they are things that are made-up, or just appear…

— Julia Stone

“These books are as hot as it gets!”

— Richard R.J. Guarino

This book has too much plot and not enough story.

— Samuel Goldwyn

I always have a few different books going at once.

— Miranda Kerr

Of course. You get everything from books.

— Gregory Maguire

Books should cost less and they should be digital.

— Walt Mossberg

A book brings its own history to the reader.

— Alberto Manguel

“Life has always been an open-book exam”

— Jose A. Bowen

I disbelieve all holy men and holy books.

— Thomas Paine