Books Quote by Robert A. Wilson

“A story tells of Henry Ford’s buying scrapped Ford cars and having his engineers disassemble them to see which parts failed and which were…

— Donald A. Norman

“A book worn out, is a book well used.”

— Kate Ashley

Only in the most unusual cases is it useful to determine whether a book is good or bad; for it is just as rare…

— Robert Musil

“A book worth reading is worth owning.”

— John Ruskin

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of…

— Ernest Hemingway

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of…

— Ernest Hemingway

While a book has got to be worthwhile from the point of view of the reader it's got to be worthwhile from the point…

— Terry Pratchett

“repaired or replaced if the goods fail to be of acceptable”

— Amazon

The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do…

— Norman Cousins

“His treatment of mechanical problems wasn't divorced from the worldly situations in which they arise, and as a result [John Muir's service manual on…

— Matthew B. Crawford

“It’s kind of sad how much value I was placing in the heaps of books I owned. Obviously it was more than their real…

— Joshua Fields Millburn

If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?

— Jerry Seinfeld