Books Quotes

7412 Books quotes by 3493 unique authors

I know that I'm already in the history books and that people are going to remember me as the prisoner of war and the fabricated… — Jessica Lynch
A lot of people write books not at the end of their career. Why you gotta wait until then? When you're momentum's going, that's when… — David Ortiz
A friend of mine once told me that I can't screw up when I play my own music. I also take voice lessons, play other… — Lisa Loeb
Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail — Alfred Whitney Griswold
But there are certain books I would never put on a Kindle because you want to be able to look at graphs and photos or… — Lisa See
A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take… — Richard Russo
I began reading everyhing in the family library. Kidnapped, Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe. And of course, if you're running out of books to read you… — Robin Hobb
In a few years, men will be able to communicate more effectively through a machine than face to face. That is a rather startling thing… — J. C. R. Licklider
I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read maybe 150 books… — Alan Kay
The ideal reader of my novels is a lapsed Catholic and failed musician, short-sighted, colour-blind, auditorily biased, who has read the books that I have… — Anthony Burgess
I believe in previous lives and the Muse—and that books and music exist before they are written and that they are propelled into material being… — Steven Pressfield
According to energy medicine, we are all living history books. Our bodies contain our histories- every chapter, line and verse of every event and relationship… — Caroline Myss
Reading old travel books or novels set in faraway places, spinning globes, unfolding maps, playing world music, eating in ethnic restaurants, meeting friends in cafes… — Phil Cousineau
Writing books for me is anyway much like a military campaign. I confess to fighting my way through with military metaphors. There is a strategy,… — James Hillman
Come, my best friends, my best books, and lead me on. — Abraham Cowley
The unique, compelling, and earnest voice that characterizes Jedediah’s weekly columns comes alive with increased vitality in OUTNUMBERED. She shatters leftist stereotypes about conservatives and exposes… — David Limbaugh
I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans. — Lynn Abbey
I'm one of those writers who, when writing, believes she's god-and that she hasn't bestowed free will on any of her characters. In that sense… — Lynn Abbey
Be a life long student, read as many books as possible. — Nelson Mandela
I am a buyer of blank books. Kids find it interesting that I would buy a blank book. They say, Twenty-Six dollars for a blank… — Jim Rohn
Books are what you step on to take you to a higher shelf. The higher your stack of books, the higher the shelf you can… — Jim Rohn
However, I survived and started to read all chemistry books that I could get a hand on, first some 19th century books from our home… — Richard Ernst
Might I give counsel to any man, I would say to him, try to frequent the company of your betters. In books and in life,… — William Makepeace Thackeray
The paradox of the English country house is that its state of permanent decline, the fact that its heyday is always behind it, is part… — Lev Grossman
I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic. — Stephen Cole Kleene

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