Barbarians Quote by Cressida Cowell

Books have been handed down from generation to generation, as the true teachers of piety and the love of God, that represent him as…

— William Godwin

Books seem to me to be pestilent things, and infect all that trade in them...with something very perverse and brutal. Printers, binders, sellers, and…

— John Locke

With 'The Tudors,' I had a huge amount of material - I mean, so many books and so much stuff about what they really…

— Michael Hirst

Unfortunate and wretched are those who have respected a book they did not love and hated those they did.

— Milorad Pavić

People who don't read books a lot are threatened by books.

— Paul Theroux

What makes books - and with them writers - so dangerous that church and state, politburos and the mass media feel the need to…

— Gunter Grass

The Vikings certainly didn't write anything about themselves; it was not a literate, but rather a pagan, culture. So what we get was written…

— Michael Hirst

The BIBLE - banned, burned, beloved. More widely read, more frequently attacked than any other book in history. Generations of intellectuals have attempted to…

— Charles Colson

I love that Viking era, but also they're a fatalistic people and that dictated their fearlessness in battle and approach to life. The idea…

— Chris Hemsworth

People should decide on the books' meanings for themselves. They'll find a story that attacks such things as cruelty, oppression, intolerance, unkindness, narrow-mindedness, and…

— Philip Pullman

“That was the only tragic thing about books: they changed people. All except the truly evil, who did not become better fathers, nicer husbands,…

— Nina George

I've always been fascinated by the Norsemen, their lives, history and cosmology. The more we study them the more interesting they become... breaking their…

— Tracy Hickman