Books Quotes
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Reading student papers, blue books, etc., a form of torture ... a matter of rubbing an iron file over one's teeth, or holding urine in one's mouth, or having the racket of a bulldozer in one's ear for an hour or two on end.
Newton Arvin -
However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.
Eugenio Montale
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Books fall open, you fall in, delighted where you've never been.
David McCord -
I love books that give you space to climb inside there. And you have to run to keep up in places, and you have to fill in a lot of blanks yourself. So it almost becomes your story.
Steven Hall -
I grew up in Greeley, Colorado, in a house without a television set. I was a very nerdy kid: I used to play 'astronaut' and eat bouillon as astronaut food. We also had tons of books.
Harper Reed -
There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.
Martin Luther -
I like medicine. Even if I was selling a million books a year, I would still be a doctor.
Ethan Canin -
Books were in my family - books were my family.
Joshua Cohen
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I wouldn't necessarily have been making books about how to make comics if I'd really felt I knew how to make comics.
Scott McCloud -
They were steaming out of the station before Maia asked, 'Was it books in the trunk?' 'It was books, admitted Miss Minton. And Maia said, 'Good.
Eva Ibbotson -
I believe in books.
Carole Maso -
If I had the money I'd pay people to have them read accurate books or posts about our own religion. It is very important not only for their self-image, but also for the future of Europe - as a biological term.
Varg Vikernes Burzum -
“Books are precious things and cannot be selected like tinned peas in Tesco.”
Colin Bateman -
You can tell a lot about people from the kind of books they steal.
Bella Bathurst
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In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.
Thomas Carlyle -
Whether I'm at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I'm looking forward to reading.
Bill Gates -
You can cover a great deal of Countries in books.
Andrew Long -
I'm going to go do this crazy thing. I'm going to start this company selling books online.
Jeff Bezos -
Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.
William Shakespeare -
Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.
Thomas Carlyle
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I think as a writer one of the benefits is that you can put things that you're interested in into your books. I always have put a lot of food and restaurants because I was a waitress and I love to eat.
Sarah Dessen -
You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all.
George Bernard Shaw -
Yet the companions of the Muses will keep their collective nose in my books And weary with historical data, they will turn to my dance tune.
Ezra Pound -
I think that we did a really good thing when we elected Barack Obama. I read his books. He is absolutely and totally qualified for the job. He's proven himself to be not only qualified for the job, but very good at it. The things that he's managed to get accomplished in the face of so much push-back is amazing, and I think - this is Morgan Freeman's personal thought - we're going to be in a lot of trouble if we don't reelect him, because the people on the other side of the fence scare me.
Morgan Freeman