Books Quotes
-
She never managed to find herself in these books no matter how hard she tried, exhuming traits from between the pages and donning them for an hour, a day, a week. We think in some ways, we have all done this our whole lives, searching for the book that will give us the keys to ourselves, let us into a wholly formed personality as though it were a furnished room to let. As though we could walk in and look around and say to the gray-haired landlady behind us, "We'll take it."
-
We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.
-
Books and bullets have their own destinies.
-
Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.
-
The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
-
Places of the imagination are visited in books. Seen in reality they may be hard to recognize; they are disappointing, they might even seem fake.
-
The first time I saw a review of one of my permaculture books was three years after I first started writing on it. The review started with, "Permaculture Two is a seditious book." And I said, "At last someone understands what permaculture's about."
-
Most of my books have caused distribution and printing problems in the past.
-
I don't publish the books to make money, not at all.
-
I believe in books.
-
I love books. I've always been involved with books and I wanted to help the library in any way possible. I'm an avid reader.
-
I have my books and my poetry to protect me.
-
For books are as meats and viands are; some of good, some of evil sub-stance.
-
But the fundamental reason for taking the time to read is because books (good books, that is; books that matter) are the best aid to extended thought and imaginative reflection we have invented. In our own time, this is particularly important, as an antidote to the segmentation of thought encouraged by digital technologies. Cruising among the infinite quanta of data offered on the internet is fine for finding out information; but the disparate fragments we look at on our various screens rarely cohere into continuous thought, or a deepening of knowledge.
-
I gauge success in years, not weeks. The weekend box-office approach to book launches is short sighted and encourages crappy books.
-
For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone.
-
Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.
-
What you are is a complicated girl with simple needs. You need your books and time to read, and you need a few friends and you need someone-not to take care of you, but to care for you. If you have all those things, you'll always be alright.
-
Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as it is generally in books the worst sort of reading.
-
I do not think reading the mystics would hurt you myself: you say you must avoid books which deal with 'feelings' - but the mystics don't deal with feelings but with love which is a very different thing. You have too many 'feelings,' but not nearly enough love.
-
A man will be known by his books.
-
I had studied history at Brown and didn't feel like doing anything with it. What does one do with a history degree besides become a historian? And the professors in school, it seemed like they were just writing books for other professors to comment on, and vice versa - it was the most self-referential, boring world you could ever imagine.
-
I've always been interested in science - one of my favourite books is James Watson's 'Molecular Biology of the Gene.'
-
The comic-book industry today is not what it was back then, unfortunately. Kids are no longer interested in reading comic books; they've got television and the electronic games that they can bury themselves in like ostriches. They don't have to pay attention to what's going on in the world around them.
