Book Quotes
14007 quotes by 5720 authors
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To what level does your patriarchal blessing reach in your life? Can you recollect the time you received it and recover any of the spirit…
— Truman G. Madsen
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Fatherhood is the best thing I ever did. It changes your perspective. You can write a book, you can make a movie, you can paint…
— Brad Pitt
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When you read the book you see that these guys aren't holding any punches. They're straightforward. They're honest. They're giving you their honest opinion.
— Charles Barkley
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Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations.
— Bernard Cornwell
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Although my book is banned I am still allowed to go to China and travel. There is no longer the kind of control that Mao…
— Jung Chang
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And you know, when you take on something like this, you read a book like this, you know that it's going to be an adventure.…
— Lawrence Kasdan
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Before we had the kids, my husband and I were traveling a lot and working and really enjoying our lives and each other. We both…
— Patricia Heaton
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There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt…
— Peter Straub
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Ender's Game is set more than a century in the future and has nothing to do with political issues that did not exist when the…
— Orson Scott Card
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So many gay jokes tonight about (James) Franco. Apparently if you're clean, well dressed and mildly cultured, you're super gay now. Is that why the…
— Aziz Ansari
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The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.
— James Bryce
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My point here, young couples, is that baby-having is extremely serious business, and you probably don't have the vaguest idea what you're doing, as is…
— Dave Barry
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The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
— Walter Bagehot
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Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author is an alcoholic, then the…
— Stephen Vizinczey
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Sugar Ray and talked about doing some articles together or writing a book together but dealing with Sugar Ray was a lot like fighting him.…
— Dick Schaap
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The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. It is said that leaders are readers. However…
— Mark Twain
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You must know that in any moment a decision you make can change the course of your life forever, the very next person who you…
— Tony Robbins
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Whatever books you may read, you cannot realize the Divine merely by intellectual effort. Oneness can only be promoted by the practice of love.
— Sathya Sai Baba
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To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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