Books Quotes
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What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism.
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All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words.
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It meant something to see people who looked like me in comic books. It was this beautiful place that I felt pop culture should look like.
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Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.
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Believe nothing because it is written in books. Believe nothing because wise men say it is so. Believe nothing because it is religious doctrine. Believe it only because you yourself know it to be true.
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Sometimes you write and you find yourself almost wondering how it will turn out. I don't think every writer sort of almost admits that at some stage his books can take on their own kind of life it selves and simply lead away into directions that they're not kind of prepared for.
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We would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.
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I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.
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It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless, no refuse save the printed books. It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: he made the books and he died.
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One day, when I own a house, I'll keep a library full of books. Books are different from other possessions-they're more like friends.
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Very wonderful books might be published, and very terrible books might be published.
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Did I collect baseball cards? I've got 10 books full of plastic in my mother's house. All the Upper Decks, the Fleers, the Fleer Ultras. My grandfather brought me to the trade shows. I collected Marvel cards, too.
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The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.
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Most of the titles are quotes from books or movies.
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Books will speak plain when counselors blanch.
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The Harlem of my books was never meant to be real; I never called it real; I just wanted to take it away from the white man if only in my books.
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Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.
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One could get a first-class education from a shelf of books five feet long.
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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
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I am a crazy online shopper. My husband always jokes, Another box arrived! Airplanes used to be my sanctuary for reading books, but now I have to peruse Gilt sales.
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I am a great admirer of Robert Vavra and love his beautiful photographs and books. He is a wonderful artist, a poet...
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Books were despised by the Viking Tribes, as they were seen as a horrible civilizing influence and a threat to the barbarian culture.
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Books are not like people. Books are safe.
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Dear Sir: Yours of the 24th. asking 'the best mode of obtaining a thorough knowledge of the law' is received. The mode is very simple, though laborious, and tedious. It is only to get the books, and read, and study them carefully. Begin with Blackstone's Commentaries, and after reading it carefully through, say twice, take up Chitty's Pleading, Greenleaf's Evidence, & Story's Equity &c. in succession. Work, work, work, is the main thing.
