Book Quote by Georg C. Lichtenberg Download Open image “I look upon book reviews as an infantile disease which new-born books are subject to.” — Georg C. Lichtenberg ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Book review Books Born Disease Infantile Look up Looks Reviews Subjects
The literature of disease is more interesting to me than all the healthy books. — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“The most important thing, I believe, about books for babies and very young children is that they are shared between the child and a… — Jan Ormerod Copy Share Image
It's great that there are so many different kinds of books for kids and adults to choose from. I think an eclectic reader is… — Ann M. Martin Copy Share Image
I don't read young adult or children's books, now that my grandchildren are beyond the age of my reading to them. I read reviews,… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
As a children's author, reviewers are generally very nice to you. I only ever wrote one adult book and received such a kicking for… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
There are some books that get huge numbers of positive reviews, but reading them satiates people. They say, 'I've read enough now'. — Frank Deford Copy Share Image
It actually got me upset reading about adopted children. They become junkies or criminals or actors. I wanted to write a book from the… — Michael Nyqvist Copy Share Image
“I don't think there is such a thing as a bad book for children . . . do not discourage children from reading because… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Having compared the novel-reader with an infant and a primitive, one can go further and call him a psychopath; and this I shall shortly… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
“The Baby Name book can be a very dangerous tool in the hands of a prolific author.” — Michelle M. Pillow Copy Share Image
If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The wisdom of providence is as much revealed in the rarity of genius, as in the circumstance that not everyone is deaf or blind. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not to do… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
It is a great shame; most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
To live when you do not want to is dreadful, but it would be even more terrible to be immortal when you did not… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
He who says he hates all kinds of flattery, and says so in earnest, has undoubtedly not as yet become acquainted with all kinds… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
One can live in this world on soothsaying but not on truth saying. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is… — Georg C. Lichtenberg 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