Book Quotes

• When I went on to write my next book, Working With Emotional Intelligence, I wanted to make a business case that the best performers were those people strong in these skills.

  

  Daniel Goleman
  • People
  • Business
  • Strong

• A film based on a jolly good John Grisham book is fine, but I like to get a bit under the skin.

  

  Charlotte Rampling
  • Good
  • Book

• Do not study commentaries, lesson helps or other books about the Bible: study the Bible itself. Do not study about the Bible, study the Bible. The Bible is the Word of God, and only the Bible is the Word of God.

  

  R. A. Torrey
  • God
  • Study
  • Helping

• I was born in Darien, Connecticut, but in 1959, when I was four, my parents moved to the suburbs of Toronto. Then, in the late 1960s, they bought a cottage in a resort/trailer park in the Kawarthas region of Ontario, and we moved up there. I wrote a book about it in 2000 called 'Last Resort: Coming of Age in Cottage Country.'

  

  Linwood Barclay
  • Up
  • Country
  • Age

• To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be who have tried it.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Great
  • Book

• Trey Parker did 'Book of Mormon.' It's the best Broadway show I've ever seen. He does 'South Park.' It's wonderful.

  

  Penn Jillette
  • Book

• This is what we've been waiting for: finally, an unprecedented critical analysis of the history of Dutch design. Mienke Simon Thomas's Dutch Design is a book to have and to read: an important and richly detailed study of the cultural, economical and social-political context of twentieth-century design in the Netherlands.

  

  Wim Crouwel
  • Book
  • Design

• Alternative cartoonists have to rely on comic book stores to get their stuff in the hands of readers.

  

  Jim Woodring
  • Book

• A book is not a short-term project. It's essentially your baby, so it takes a lot of work.

  

  Luvvie Ajayi
  • Work
  • Book
  • Baby

• 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
  • Experience
  • Book
  • Myself

• In college, I wrote newspaper articles and songs. Then, on my 21st birthday, I sold my first book. It was a nonfiction book about women pirates - 'Pirates in Petticoats.' After that, I was a book writer for good.

  

  Jane Yolen
  • Good
  • Women
  • College

• Compared to Uber, we have a much local business model. We allow the customers to pay in cash as well as use our prepaid wallet. We allow them to book through call centres and pre-book for future travels.

  

  Bhavish Aggarwal
  • Business
  • Future
  • Model

• We recognize the negro as God and God's Book and God's Laws, in nature, tell us to recognize him. Our inferior, fitted expressly for servitude.

  

  Jefferson Davis
  • God
  • Book
  • Nature

• The types of collection in the book -– microphones and video cameras, TVs that watch us –- are nothing compared to what we have available today. We have sensors in our pockets that track us everywhere we go. Think about what this means for the privacy of the average person.

  

  Edward Snowden
  • Book
  • Today

• The whole paper is like a book, Tales From the Dark Side or something.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Dark
  • Paper
  • Dark Side

• Writing is very good for household tasks. Because you'd rather fix a dripping tap or paint an old wall - you'd rather do almost anything than sit and write. I have to reach a point of obsession in order to write, and so I find starting a book incredibly difficult.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Wall

• Sometimes you don't know what a book is about until you are finished with it and you're talking about it.

  

  Jenny Han
  • Book

• Well, in Angel of Hope, Amber ends up going in her sister's stead. The focus of that book and the next one coming out, Angel of Love, is how she finds her way out of her sister's shadow and into herself. That's really what those two novels are based on.

  

  Lurlene McDaniel
  • Up
  • She
  • Hope

• The presence of hundreds of books had finally convinced Hermione that what they were doing was right.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Book
  • Convinced
  • Hermione

• There's so much more to a book than just the reading.

  

  Maurice Sendak
  • Book
  • Reading

• I read of the Kalamazoo girl who killed herself after reading the book. I am not at all surprised. She lived in Kalamazoo, for one thing, and then she read the book.

  

  Mary MacLane
  • She
  • Girl
  • Reading

• No book can teach you about yourself, no psychologist, none of the professors or philosophers. What they can teach you is what they think you are or what they think you should be.

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • Book

• What kind of scholar was I? Or was I a scholar at all? My ignorance was enormous. Beside it my knowledge was nothing. My hunger for learning, not so much to improve my lot as to understand my world, had led me to study and to thought. Reading without thinking is as nothing, for a book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.

  

  Louis L'Amour
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Important

• I was shy, but I stood up in front of the class and I gave my report.I was reporting on books that I didn't want to read. I was inventing books that I didn't want to read.

  

  Judy Blume
  • Class
  • Shy
  • Reports

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