Books Quotes
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How can anyone become a thinker unless he spends at least a third of every day away from passions, people, and books?
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There are 3 or 4 important things in life: Books, Friends, Women…and Messi.
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As I stepped onto the gloomy landing a word formed in my mind: two syllables, starts with a V and rhymes with dire. I froze in place. Nightingale said that everything was true, after a fashion, and that had to include vampires, didn’t it? I doubted they were anything like they were in books and on TV, and one thing was for certain — they absolutely weren’t going to sparkle in the sunlight.
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Books are great meals for the mind!
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The enormous multiplication of books in every branch of knowledge is one of the greatest evils of this age, since it presents one of the most serious obstacles to the acquisition of correct information by throwing in the reader's way piles of lumber in which he must painfully grope for the scraps of useful matter, peradventure interspersed.
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A ridiculous passion which hath no being but in play-books and romances.
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I do have some books, but in all the distance flights I've made I've never opened the books. I've been too busy.
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My girlfriend has read all the 'Game of Thrones' books - twice.
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A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.
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When I was just writing books and giving lectures, if people disagreed, they just didn't buy your book or attend your lectures. But, if you're leading a congregation, people feel they have the right to tell you what you should or shouldn't talk about. And that hasn't always been easy for me.
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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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Most of his books are geared for teenagers. Kids really love reading his stuff. He's been called the speaker and author of the ADD generation. He definitely keeps kids' attention and they just love him.
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Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
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I can easily do without people (there are days when I could easily do without myself), and ... in the country of books where I dwell, the dead can count entirely as much as the living.
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It's not an accident that successful people read more books.
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Few authors are so interesting as their work - they generally reserve their wit or trenchant sarcasm for their books.
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Hamid Gul is an actor who is definitely not in our good books. Hamid Gul is somebody who was never appreciated by our government.
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Your criticism sounds to me as if you have read too many critical books and are too smart in an artificial, destructive, and very limited way.
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It drives me crazy to do readings of my books, because if I read anything I've written in the past, I'd like to almost rewrite everything. If I could, I'd completely rewrite Fargo Rock City, and every sentence would be just slightly different. In all likelihood, most of them wouldn't be any better. Some of them would just be changed back to whatever form they used to be, before I second-guessed myself the first time.
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The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and intimate things.
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When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books.
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E-books are impervious to analogy.
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The seed of an idea laying dormant in an old sketchbook is fed the missing ingredient from a new experience. Trying to share some of these experiences, some of the wonders, is one of the reasons why I do books.
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I lived like a bear, in a little room, with books for my only friends . . . These were the joys and debaucheries of my youth.
