Book Quotes

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The decision for me was whether to have 'The Father' be a book that told a story - from the point of view of this… — Sharon Olds
You come home to find your 17-year-old daughter engrossed in a book. Which would delight you more - if it were 'Twilight' or 'Middlemarch?' — Michael Gove
[If a book were] very innocent, and one which might be confided to the reason of any man; not likely to be much read if… — Thomas Jefferson
By nature's law, every man has a right to seize and retake by force his own property taken from him by another, by force of… — Thomas Jefferson
The biggest hypocrites on gun control are those who live in upscale developments with armed security guards - and who want to keep other people… — Thomas Sowell
That was only the beginning - where one burns books, one will finally also burn people. — Heinrich Heine
Bond's introduction: "Bond. James Bond." Repeated in 17 subsequent Bond films. Number One in the Top Ten Most Famous Movie Quotes. -The Guinness Book of… — Sean Connery
The book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned or where one's… — Norman Cousins
However you look at it, in these books "power" tends to be an expression of the essential nature of the person or being whose power… — Stephen R. Donaldson
The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection... — Carl Jung
We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory. — Theodore Bikel
I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere. — Clifford Geertz
Consider the Koran, for example; this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical need of countless millions for twelve hundred… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself. — Desiderius Erasmus
I want to take my rightful share of life by force, I want to give lavishly, I want love to flow from my heart, to… — Tayeb Salih
Khalif (Caliph) Al-Ma'mun's period of rule (813 - 833 C.E.) may be considered the 'golden age' of science and learning. He had always been devoted… — John Bagot Glubb
Someone once said that middle age is like rereading a book that you haven't read since you were a callow youth. The first time around… — Eda LeShan
Life is not a multiple choice test, it's an open-book essay exam. — Alan Blinder
When I was a young boy, I loved spending hours in St. Franics Xavier's school library at Saint Louis University. The feel of the books… — William Lacy Clay, Jr.

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