Jules Verne Quotes

What a big book, captain, might be made with all that is known!" "And what a much bigger book still with all that is not known!

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• Yes, there is a terrible moral in 'Dorian Gray' - a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Book
  • Moral
  • Healthy

• Every book I write, the media just keeps punching me in the face.

  

  Tama Janowitz
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  • Me
  • Face

• Everyone's clamoring for the fourth book in the 'Fifty Shades' trilogy, which makes me laugh. Just the part of 'a fourth book in trilogy' that makes me laugh, not the clamoring for the next book.

  

  E. L. James
  • Book
  • Me
  • Laugh

• Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Women
  • Why
  • Book

• Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • World
  • Book
  • Remember

• Just personally, I've been attached to 'On the Road' since 2007 and it was the greatest thing in my life when I got cast in it. I couldn't believe it. When I was 17 and read the book, I looked it up on IMDb and it said that Francis Ford Coppola was going to direct it.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
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  • Up
  • Believe

• My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Book sales and teens reading is always a fantastic thing, but we should also be celebrating and consuming the huge wealth of U.K. and U.K.-based writing and illustrating talent. Authors such as Charlie Higson, Darren Shan, Holly Smale, Tanya Byrne, Catherine Johnson, Sophie Mckenzie, to name but a few.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Reading

• It's interesting that the book publishing industry, on the iPad, has much more flexibility than the music industry had.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
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  • Interesting

• I had always wanted to include images in a novel, and with my first book, 'Telex From Cuba,' I made an elaborate website that is basically all images.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Book
  • Always
  • Cuba

• Traditional television as we have known it will make love to the Internet and have a child. That child will be the future. It's already happening, and it's hot!

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Future
  • Child
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• There's a difference between publicity and marketing. A lot of writers don't realize how much marketing goes on beyond the scenes, with sales reps and advanced reading copies, all that stuff that happens months before a book is published.

  

  Victoria Strauss
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  • Marketing

• I was a book editor for nine years. I'm familiar with the opposite experience, bracing myself for the likelihood that no one would want to publish my book.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
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  • Myself

• You don't judge a book by a cover. I'm not your typical rap look.

  

  Action Bronson
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  • Judge
  • Look

• I've had people turn up to book signings with knives, with guns.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • People
  • Up
  • Book

• THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN CONTROL PEOPLE IS TO LIE TO THEM. You can write that down in your book in great big letters. The only way you can control anybody is to lie to them.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • People
  • Great
  • Book

• Charles Darwin wrote a famous book in 18gibberish. And that book was an interesting book, cuz it was called 'Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-You'.

  

  Eddie Izzard
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  • Interesting
  • Famous

• 'Lean on Pete' is the story of a boy and his horse, but it is never heart-warming - it ranges in tone from desperate to merely painful - and, while fascinating, it is never entertaining or redemptive. But if you want an unadorned portrait of American life (at least in some places) at the beginning of the 21st century, this is the book for you.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Book

• When I go out, it's to have a good time, not to find a man.

  

  Cilla Black
  • Time
  • Good

• I am an Alanis Morissette fan. I think that she has a fantastic voice, and I would love to sing with her someday.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
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• We've always been for women and for biggin' up their self-esteem. That's why we do songs like 'Independent.'

  

  Pepa DJ Spinderella
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  • Women
  • Why

• The code of the road is, if there is anything to eat, eat; if there is a place to sit, sit; if there is a restroom, go.

  

  Jessica Savitch
  • Road

• I adore film, and I adore music.

  

  Jonathan Demme
  • Music

• What a big book, captain, might be made with all that is known!" "And what a much bigger book still with all that is not known!

  

  Jules Verne
  • Book
  • Known