Books Quotes
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Rule books are paper - they will not cushion a sudden meeting of stone and metal.
Ernest K. Gann -
Books are the greatest and the most satisfactory of recreations. I mean the use of books for pleasure. Without books, without having acquired the power of reading for pleasure, none of us can be independent, but if we can read we have a sure defence against boredom in solitude.
Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon
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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.
Andrew Roberts -
I just thought it was so fitting, because my husband was an editor and loved books and because his father's weaponry collection is there as well.
J. M. Roberts -
If I were rich I would have many books, and I would pamper myself with bindings bright to the eye and soft to the touch, paper generously opaque, and type such as men designed when printing was very young. I would dress my gods in leather and gold, and burn candles of worship before them at night, and string their names like beads on a string.
Will Durant -
Angle of Repose is one of my favorite books. I fell in love with it in college. When I submitted The Night Journal to my agent she got very excited because she said it reminded her of Angle of Repose.
Elizabeth Crook -
Homework, I have discovered, involves a sharp pencil and thick books and long sighs.
Katherine Applegate -
I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so I made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.
Joshua Slocum
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Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next. Books save lives.
Laurie Anderson -
Books are great meals for the mind!
Jen Selinsky -
The fate of the singers who, like my songs, went up in flame was also the fate of the books which I later wrote. All of them went up in flame to Heaven in a fire which broke out one night at my home in Bad Homburg as I lay ill in a hospital.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon -
I feel lucky that I read so many books as a kid because I know that no matter how much I appreciate a book now, and I can love a book very much, it's never going to be that childhood passion for a book. There's some element, something special about the way they're reading books and experiencing books that's finite.
Rebecca Stead -
It was a complete dream to work with David LaChapelle. I collected his books as a teenager, and I fantasised that he would direct the video for 'Spectrum' from the moment the song was written. I still can't believe it actually happened, and I'm completely overjoyed that he felt such a connection with the song.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
I cannot think of any work that could be more agreeable and fun than making books for children.
Arnold Lobel
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“If you’re like most of our readers, you’re probably wondering where we get all the ideas for our books from. Well, sometimes we think them up. Other times they are based on stuff that actually happens. Like this book, for instance. It all started one morning when I got up and went down to get some breakfast.
Andy Griffiths -
I think it's so important for all of us to be able to see ourselves represented in the books we read and the movies and TV shows we watch.
Hillary Clinton -
These books are all refreshingly clear-headed and unfashionable, free of cant and free of Kant;
Edward Feser -
Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
William Faulkner -
I have always made films simultaneously, so they go hand in hand. I think that my books are like films.
Ari Marcopoulos -
In books I converse with men, in the Bible I converse with God.
William Romaine
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The world is a library of strange and wonderful books, and sometimes we just need to go prowling through the stacks.
Michael Dirda -
I've always been interested in science - one of my favourite books is James Watson's 'Molecular Biology of the Gene.'
Bill Gates -
Books ought to have good endings.How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?
J. R. R. Tolkien -
Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
William Faulkner