Books Quotes

7412 Books quotes by 3493 unique authors

My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter. — Unknown Author
More than a building that houses books and data, the library represents a window to a larger world, the place where we've always come to… — Barack Obama
The truth is that every book we read, like every person we meet, has the capacity to change our lives. And though we can be… — Susan Cooper
The Bible give us a list of human stories on both sides of the ledger. On list of human stories is used examples - do… — Jim Rohn
I do not hesitate to read. all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable-any real insight or broad human… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books. — Gaston Bachelard
Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach… — George Eliot
Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love too much at… — Ernest Hemingway
A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books,… — Horace Mann
For no one, in our long decline,So dusty, spiteful and divided,Had quite such pleasant friends as mine,Or loved them half as much as I did.… — Hilaire Belloc
The winter wind is loud and wild, Come close to me, my darling child; Forsake thy books, and mate less play; And, while the night… — Emily Bronte
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean the bastards aren't out to get you. ... Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half.… — Lorenz Hart
The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as… — Leo Tolstoy
It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many… — Ernest Hemingway
Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away. — Douglas Coupland
In the first book I shall describe all the positions of the spheres, along with the motions which I attribute to the Earth, so that… — Nicolaus Copernicus
Whether I'm at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I'm looking forward to reading. — Bill Gates
Art shouldn't be locked away in galleries and libraries and books. Art should be for everybody and not just art buffs, historians and so-called experts. — Julian Beever
We didn't have a whole lot of money when I was growing up either. I would always ask for magic books or magic tricks for… — Lance Burton
I wanted to understand things and then be free of them. I needed to learn how to telescope things, ideas. Things were too big to… — Bob Dylan
I envy them, those monks of old; Their books they read, and their beads they told. — Unknown Author
In my mind, there is no question that they're out there. My Career is well established. My texts books are required reading in all the… — Michio Kaku
Once upon a time, I thought faeries lived only in books, old folktales, and the past. That was before they burst upon my life as… — Brian Froud
Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease… — R. Buckminster Fuller
And for the citation of so many authors, 'tis the easiest thing in nature. Find out one of these books with an alphabetical index, and… — Miguel de Cervantes

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