Book Quotes

14007 Book quotes by 5720 unique authors

The end of reading is not more books but more life. — Holbrook Jackson
Every time you buy tickets on Ticketmaster, you help to digitize a book. — Luis von Ahn
Very little in science fiction can transcend the gimmickry of a technical conceit, yet without that conceit at its heart a book is not truly… — Janet Morris
It is important to insist on the historical truthfulness of the narrative of the fall of Adam and Eve. Just as the account of the… — Wayne Grudem
I never expected to be in the papers. I personally never expected to be in the papers. The height of my ambition for these books… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Our Children no longer learn how to read the great book of Nature from their own direct experience, or how to interact creatively with the… — Wendell Berry
In five minutes the earth would be a desert, and you cling to books. — Elias Canetti
I don't care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book. — Roald Dahl
Let us answer a book of ink with a book of flesh and blood. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Books worth reading are worth re-reading. — Holbrook Jackson
If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it. — Wally Lamb
Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one. — Brad Paisley
Certain corpuscles, denominated Christmas Books, with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration, or other expansive emotions, incident upon the exodus of the… — William Makepeace Thackeray
The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades… — Francois Fenelon
Government, religion, property, books, are nothing but the scaffolding to build men. Earth holds up to her master no fruit like the finished man. — Wilhelm von Humboldt
In no passage of the holy canonical books there can be found either divine precept or permission to take away our own life, whether for… — Saint Augustine
If you're running a 26-mile marathon, remember that every mile is run one step at a time. If you are writing a book, do it… — Charles R. Swindoll
Schools will change more in the next 30 years than they have since the invention of the printed book. — Peter Drucker
There is one statement I want you to keep after you are finished with this book. It is more of a mantra, really. Nonetheless, let… — Corey Taylor
The world is a great book, of which they that never stir from home read only a page. — Saint Augustine
(Whispered to a novice while standing in front of the convent library) Oh! I would have been sorry to have read all those books...If I… — Therese of Lisieux
If you buy a book on golf instruction buy the thinnest book you can find. The thinner the book, chances are the easier and more… — Chi Chi Rodriguez
There is even - as with no other game - a fascinating detective literature, a wry commentary on the human comedy, implicit in the book… — Alistair Cooke
One of these days I'm going to write a book on drops. That ought to sell. The shot's become more popular than putting. — Jimmy Demaret
The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world. — Benjamin Rush

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