Book Quotes

14007 Book quotes by 5720 unique authors

Some years ago, I wrote a book called the Emperor's New Mind and that book was describing a point of view I had about consciousness… — Roger Penrose
People have one of two extreme reactions to my book. They either throw it across the room, or they rush out and buy 10 copies.… — Louise Hay
I'm not in the speech making business. I'm not in the seminar business. I'm not in the writing book business. I'm in the changing lives… — Zig Ziglar
If you read one hour per day in your field, that will translate into about one book per week. One book per week translates into… — Brian Tracy
If you want to learn the craft of war, ponder over this book. The teacher is as a needle, the disciple is as thread. You… — Miyamoto Musashi
Prayer is the preface to the book of Christian living; the text of the new life sermon; the girding on of the armor for battle;… — Austin Phelps
This book fills a much-needed gap. — Moses Hadas
Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it. — Moses Hadas
I have read your book and much like it. — Moses Hadas
Hinduism is a living organism liable to growth and decay subject to the laws of Nature. One and indivisible at the root, it has grown… — Mahatma Gandhi
The Imitation of Christ is a cherished treasure of the Christian world. This great book was written by a Roman Catholic monk. "Written", perhaps, is… — Swami Vivekananda
"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." This sentence alone would save mankind if all books and prophets were lost. This… — Swami Vivekananda
To write a book is for all the world like humming a song. — Laurence Sterne
For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books. — Herman Melville
The Body of B. Franklin, Printer Like the Cover of an old Book Its Contents turn out And Stript of its Lettering & Guilding Lies… — Benjamin Franklin
I'm going to write a book, continue acting, continue motivational speaking and just share with people who I am and what I've learned in my… — J. R. Martinez
A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male. — Simone de Beauvoir
In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books. — Michel de Montaigne
What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less… — Samuel Gompers
An act of justice closes the book on a misdeed; an act of vengeance writes one of its own — Marilyn vos Savant
During the Depression, or back when we were fighting Hitler, people didn't have time to sue a company if the coffee was too hot. There… — Bill Maher
I was so inspired by Dr. King that in 1956 with my brothers and sisters and first cousins, I was only 16 years old, we… — John Lewis
Books may be classed from the Faculties of the mind — Thomas Jefferson
music, drawing, books, invention & exercise will be so many resources to you against ennui. — Thomas Jefferson
No one ever comitted suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one. — Unknown Author

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