Book Quote by Studs Terkel Download Open image “Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.” — Studs Terkel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Religion Roles
Religion is only literature, but luckily literature is not only religion. — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
“A religion is not contained in a single book; there's something religious in almost any book.” — John A. Buehrens Copy Share Image
“Christianity—and Judaism, and Islam, which were also religions of The Book—required” — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
“Not many years before the Happening, one of your country's largest religious bodies officially declared that their book was holier than their God, thus… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
“Snatch religion back from the clerics and literature from the critics.” — Michael Foley Copy Share Image
About the gnostic writers themselves and the setting in which they lived we know little, although gnostic Christians were influential enough to be denounced… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
It is so human a book that I don't see how belief in its divine authority can survive the reading of it. — William James Copy Share Image
“Not matter what your sacred or religious book is, it's not how well you know the book, it's how well you're in alignment with… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
I'm very much a people pleaser, and the first book had such a devoted and loving following. — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
A second book that makes you rethink the first book is the Holy Grail of a series. — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“Authors as diverse as Matthew Arnold and George Orwell have given thought to the serious question: what is to be done about morals and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“It was in ’35—we had this campaign to raise a million tax dollars. In the town of Phillips, one evening, during a blizzard, I… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
I never drove a car. I'm hopeless that way. I press the wrong buttons on the tape recorder. But if the person I'm interviewing… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
To survive the day is triumph enough for the walking wounded among the great many of us. — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
“I’ll never forget that Depression Easter Sunday. Our son was four years old. I bought ten or fifteen cents’ worth of eggs. You didn’t… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
All you need in life is truth and beauty and you can find both at the Public Library. — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
Reading a book should not be a passive exercise, but rather a raucous conversation. — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
“The total cost of the Federal Arts Project was only $23 million. Many of these paintings, sculptures and prints were given to museums, courthouses,… — Studs Terkel 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
