Book Quotes

14007 Book quotes by 5720 unique authors

It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do. — Alain de Botton
I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make them… — Anthony Bourdain
I've been really fortunate in that I guess I was hired to do 'A Cook's Tour;' I was already a known quantity, meaning I had… — Anthony Bourdain
When I'm doing a book tour in the States, I'll wake up in the room sometimes in an anonymous chain hotel, and I don't know… — Anthony Bourdain
I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves -… — Ray Bradbury
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. — Ray Bradbury
A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt. — Ray Bradbury
Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future. — Ray Bradbury
My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have… — Ray Bradbury
I read that book 'Fat is a Feminist Issue', got a bit desperate halfway through and ate it. — Jo Brand
I love everything about books. I love the content, the way they look and even the lovely way they smell. I think a book collection… — Jo Brand
Managers of hospitals over the years have been increasingly recruited from outside the health service, and although their experience of running a supermarket chain might… — Jo Brand
Not many women will go out on a limb to make themselves really unattractive and unfeminine so you can get the laughs, but it's a… — Jo Brand
Man is what he reads. — Joseph Brodsky
Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book,… — Joseph Brodsky
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon. — Bertolt Brecht
The response to 'The Greatest Generation' and the books that followed has been one of the most satisfying experiences of my life. — Tom Brokaw
A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it… — Rupert Brooke
I can't not put humor in a book. — Albert Brooks
There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys. — Garth Brooks
Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and my sister and I had a… — Geraldine Brooks
The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he… — Mel Brooks
Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones. — Terry Brooks
I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view. — Dan Brown
I will not write a lame follow-up. It could take me 20 years. But I will never turn in a book that I'm not happy… — Dan Brown

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