Mike Tyson Quotes
These books ain't window dressing. I think Machiavelli's the most sophisticated writer outside of Shakespeare. Way ahead of his time. Such a manipulative person. Everything he accomplished he did by kissin' ass.Mike Tyson
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar Wilde -
Yes, we're pretty into books around my house. We have lots and lots of books around. We have TV, but really no one ever watches it.
Patrick Carman -
I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.
Frances McDormand -
There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.
Barbara Park -
All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.
Patricia Reilly Giff -
I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
Joanne Rowling
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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
W. H. Auden -
I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.
Pat Conroy -
Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.
Carla Bley -
I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,' 'tender' or 'universal.'
Rachel Kushner -
I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It's OK to say I'm a nerd. That's me.
Samantha Shannon -
My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.
Carl Hiaasen
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I'm a big reader, so when I was in 'Pride and Prejudice,' or, like, in Poirots and Marples, those are all books that I loved, and so it was really exciting for me to inhabit characters from literature that I knew and recognized.
Talulah Riley -
May books spread the world over!
Yann Martel -
My favourite author as a child and teenager, and who I still re-read now, is K. M. Peyton. She writes very truthfully; sometimes I'm not sure if I've actually done things or just experienced them in her books.
Sadie Jones -
I wrote all four of my books at Starbucks.
Rainbow Rowell -
Travel teaches as much as books.
Youssou N'Dour -
There's detailed information on how to assemble a nuclear weapon from parts. There's books about how to build a nuclear bomb.
Irwin Redlener
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Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.
Patricia Cornwell -
The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new.
Nick Cave The Birthday Party -
An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.
Felix Adler -
For St. Thomas Aquinas the problem was rather different. It was a question of how to integrate philosophy into sacred science, not only without allowing either the one or the other to suffer essentially thereby, but to the greater benefit of both. In order to achieve this result, he had to integrate a science of reason with a science of revelation without corrupting at the same time both the purity of reason and the purity of revelation.
Etienne Gilson -
These books ain't window dressing. I think Machiavelli's the most sophisticated writer outside of Shakespeare. Way ahead of his time. Such a manipulative person. Everything he accomplished he did by kissin' ass.
Mike Tyson