Books Quotes
7412 Books quotes by 3493 unique authors
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I was raised on comic books, and I love science fiction.
— Mayim Bialik
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I wish I had known that education is the key. That knowledge is power. Now I pick up books and watch educational shows with my…
— Mary J. Blige
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The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is…
— Allan Bloom
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I've always thought if we don't want to enforce laws on the books, we should remove them from the books. But when you have laws,…
— Michael Bloomberg
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The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.
— Judy Blume
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When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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Doctoral training is devoted almost entirely to learning to do research, even though most Ph.Ds who enter academic life spend far more time teaching than…
— Derek Bok
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Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
— Unknown Author
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I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution,…
— Unknown Author
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Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.
— Alain de Botton
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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
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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
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You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
— Ray Bradbury
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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
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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
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The response to 'The Greatest Generation' and the books that followed has been one of the most satisfying experiences of my life.
— Tom Brokaw
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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
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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
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I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view.
— Dan Brown
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I got my iPad, and I'm trying to buy books on that, but I kind of like a book. At the end of my life,…
— Luke Bryan
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