Book Quote by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Download Open image “Many a fervid man writes books as cold and flat as graveyard stones.” — Elizabeth Barrett Browning ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Cold Flats Graveyard Men Stones Writing
“For ordinary books are like meteors. Each of them has only one moment, a moment when it soars screaming like the phoenix, all its… — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
Books are not men and yet they are alive. They are man's memory and his aspiration, the link between his present and his past,… — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
“His novel or book of poems, decent, adequate, arises not from an exercise of style or will, as the poor unfortunate believes, but as… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“He saw a square room furnished as a library. The entire section of the walls which he could spy was covered from floor to… — James Stephens Copy Share Image
It's amazing that a man who is dead can talk to people through these pages. As long as this books survives, his ideas live. — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
“A book is a dead man, a sort of mummy, embowelled and embalmed, but that once had flesh, and motion, and a boundless variety… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Burning books is not as grave as burning people, because books, contrary to men, are not unique and ideas are fireproof! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
My own great-grandfather, who said simply enough, "No wicked man could write such a book as this; and no good man would write it… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
A master of men was the Goodly Fere, A mate of the wind and sea, If they think they ha' slain ourGoodly Fere They… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He that can compose himself, is wiser than he that composes books. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
And lilies are still lilies, pulled By smutty hands, though spotted from their white. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
“The face of all the world is changed, I think, Since first I heard the footsteps of they soul Move still, oh, still, beside… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Wall must get the weather stain Before they grow the ivy. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
With stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right the music of my nature. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
The flower-girl's prayer to buy roses and pinks, held out in the smoke, like stars by day. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
They say that God lives very high! But if you look above the pines You cannot see our God. And why? And if you… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Men of science, osteologists And surgeons, beat some poets, in respect For nature,-count nought common or unclean, Spend raptures upon perfect specimens Of indurated… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
