Book Quotes

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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
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
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
Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations. — Bernard Cornwell
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
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
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
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
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
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
The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. — James Bryce
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
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything. — Walter Bagehot
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
A book should be luminous not voluminous. — Christian Nestell Bovee
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
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
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
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
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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