Books Quotes
7412 Books quotes by 3493 unique authors
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Osho's books inspire me to meditate. They give me peace of mind.
— Kapil Dev
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The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible.
— Van Wyck Brooks
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Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused.
— Darren Aronofsky
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I know that I am very popular in Holland, in fact I have visited Amsterdam several times to publicize my books. I have a great…
— Jackie Collins
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All of my books have the potential to become movies, it's just a question of finding a studio who wants to get behind me and…
— Jackie Collins
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Authors change publishers because it's like being married for a long time and suddenly you want to go out and have a wild affair! No,…
— Jackie Collins
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I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want to write books but just…
— Jackie Collins
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The bands I like, they don't sell too many records and the girls I like, they don't kiss too many boys. Books I read will…
— Frank Turner
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Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his death, whether we feel…
— Martin Bormann
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More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works.
— Brock Yates
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Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre.
— Nicolas Roeg
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There is a simple way of avoiding excess risk-taking by the managers of our financial institutions. It is to make it a crime ... had…
— Paul Collier
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At Berkshire, I both initiate and monitor every derivatives contract on our books ... If Berkshire ever gets in trouble, it will be my fault.…
— Warren Buffett
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The first bowl sleekly moistened throat and lips, The second banished all my loneliness The third expelled the dullness from my mind, Sharpening inspiration gained…
— Lu Tong
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It is true, that it is not at all necessary to love many books, in order to love them much.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Books have always a secret influence on the understanding.
— Samuel Johnson
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The reading of books, what is it but conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all countries.
— Isaac Barrow
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I love an author the more for having been himself a lover of books.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Seated in my library at night, and looking on the silent faces of my books, I am occasionally visited by a strange sense of the…
— Alexander Smith
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Books are the depositary of everything that is most honourable to man.
— William Godwin
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One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age.
— Jeremy Collier
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Books are the best type of the influence of the past.
— William Wordsworth
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We should choose our books as we would our companions, for their sterling and intrinsic merit.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways.
— William Godwin
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