Books Quotes

7412 Books quotes by 3493 unique authors

Wondering whether Christianity is real is not the same as wondering whether Christianity is true. If you question the truth of Christianity, you can do… — Gregory A. Boyd
Instead of looking at books and pictures about the New Testament I looked at the New Testament. There I found an account, not in the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I made use of the college library by borrowing books other than scientific books, such as all of the plays by George Bernard Shaw, the… — Linus Pauling
Writing, acting, music, comedy. A deep love of literature and books. Thank God for all the artists who've helped me. — Bill Hicks
Reading is the creative center of a writer’s life. I take a book with me everywhere I go, and find there are all sorts of… — Stephen King
I have friends who read my books in Greek. — Brian Lumley
I think the value in books like mine, and a great number by other talented writers, is in the ability to bring dark subjects into… — Chris Crutcher
I think it’s time to open the books, on questions that have remained in the dark on the question of government investigations of UFOs, it’s… — John Podesta
Designers provide ways into—and out of—the flood of words by breaking up text into pieces and offering shortcuts and alternate routes through masses of information.… — Ellen Lupton
Books leave gestures in the body; a certain way of moving, of turning, a certain closing of the eyes, a way of leaving, hesitations. Books… — Dionne Brand
Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books,… — Gavin Newsom
The romance genre is the only genre where readers are guaranteed novels that place the heroine at the heart of the story. These are books… — Jayne Ann Krentz
I am often asked why I use a variety of pen names. The answer is that this way readers always know which of my three… — Jayne Ann Krentz
Children start off reading in books about lions and giraffes and so on, but they also-if theyre lucky enough and have reasonable privileges of any… — David Attenborough
THE NAME OF THE WIND has everything fantasy readers like, magic and mysteries and ancient evil, but it's also humorous and terrifying and completely believable.… — Tad Williams
As time passed I became an avid reader of popular scientific books, wanting to know as much as I could about the world in which… — Vine Deloria, Jr.
A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent — Logan Pearsall Smith
But all I could think of was taking some books to read in jail. I held everybody up, choosing which ones to take. — John Clellon Holmes
Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again. — Marsilio Ficino
There may be stranger reasons for being alive. There are books There’s interlibrary loan. There are books you can fall into and pull up over… — Jo Walton
Books are nothing but repositories for those lies the author wants his reader to believe. — Glen Cook
I've heard it said that there are men who read in books to convince themselves there is a God. I know not but man may… — James F. Cooper
Love is only surpassing sweet when it is directed toward a mortal object, and the secret of this ultimate sweetness only is defined by the… — Franz Rosenzweig
There are no books in this world that everybody must read, but only books that a person must read at a certain time in a… — Lin Yutang
Books are better than movies because you design the set the way you want it to look. — Trent Reznor

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