Book Quotes

14007 Book quotes by 5720 unique authors

In general-like not just in fiction but in life-it doesn't work out well when someone imagines someone else as a manic pixie dream girl or… — John Green
That is, to me at least, one of the most helpful and useful things books do for us: They are generous enough to allow us… — John Green
Sometimes, if we are faced with obstacles, be they tangible or not, such as jealousy, worldly sentiment, greed, hatred or obsession, etc., there is no… — Ching Hai
We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because… — Cyril Connolly
Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given a Periclean funeral… — Edward Dahlberg
Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that… — William S. Burroughs
The only objections that have occurred to me are, 1st that you have loaded yourself with an unnecessary difficulty in adopting Natura non facit saltum… — Thomas Huxley
It often requires more courage to read some books than it does to fight a battle. — Unknown Author
The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book learning, which is… — George William Curtis
Oh God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of… — William Shakespeare
Until I became a published writer, I remained completely ignorant of books on how to write and courses on the subject ... they would have… — Isaac Asimov
...She Let Him Just Sit There and Be Happy. — Munro Leaf
Every day after lunch when I was writing my first book, I'd nibble a square of fine chocolate and meditate on all that had gone… — Laura Hillenbrand
When I was a child, ladies and gentlemen, I was a dreamer. I read comic books and I was the hero of the comic book.… — Elvis Presley
Book cover, 'Reefer Club' Totalitarianism is when people believe they can punish their way to perfection. — Newt Gingrich
Where is there any book of the law so clear to each man as that written in his heart? — Leo Tolstoy
Anyone can repeat a technical explanation they read in a text-book or blog post. — Albert Einstein
There is not on the face of the earth-after the Book of Allah - a book which is more sahih than the book of Malik. — Al-Shafiâ€˜i
For example, a few years ago, a great French philosopher, Roger Garaudy, wrote a scientific book. He did not offend, curse, or insult anyone. He… — Hassan Nasrallah
Knowledge is taken from breath, not lives in a book — Hamza Yusuf
Why do you want to read others' books when there is the book of yourself? — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Going to Europe, someone had written, was about as final as going to heaven. A mystical passage to another life, from which no-one returned the… — Shirley Hazzard
My reputation when I was first here was that I had every single answer in the book. I don't know, maybe I portrayed that somehow.… — Mike Holmgren

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