Book Quotes - Page 10

After a time he found and opened a book he had been reading that he had expected to end well, a romance which he wanted to end well, with the hero and heroine finding love, with peace and joy and redemption and understanding.Love is two bodies with one soul, he read, and turned the page.But there was nothing - the final page had been ripped away and used as toilet paper or smoked, and there was no hope or joy or understanding. There was no last page. The book of his life just broke off. There was only the mud below him and the filthy sky above. There was to be no peace and no hope. And Dorrigo Evans understood that the love story would go on forever and ever, world without end.

Richard Flanagan

The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer,the wheel. Once invented it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoonthat is better than a spoon

Umberto Eco

The good thing of TV movies/books... TV series... audiobooks is that you can choose the genre and you have plenty of choice.

Deyth Banger

Michelle felt that if people didn’t like the way they looked in her book then they should have behaved differently.

Michelle Tea

With each day he felt the barriers melting. He let them melt. Because of her genuine laugh, because he caught her one afternoon sleeping with her face in the middle of a book, because he knew she would win.

Sarah J Maas

Don't be afraid to go to your library and read every book as long as any document does not offend your own ideas of decency.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

«A book can't take the place of a man!»«I disagree. A book can give you most things a relationship can. It can make you laugh, it can make you cry, it can transport you to different worlds and teach you things. You can even take it out to dinner. And if bores you, you can move on. Which is pretty much what happens in real life.»

Sarah Morgan

A book has neither object nor subject; it is made of variously formed matters, and very different dates and speeds.

Gilles Deleuze

It was the literary equivalent of a brown paper bag.

C. Robert Cargill

If you've never experienced something and don't know how to write about it, then make it a fantasy book. It gives you a lot of freedom.

B.A. Gabrielle

Why books...audiobooks... stories are created?...Films and Games!?- The answer, is very simple it 's in the name of patience.

Deyth Banger

Success is not about what you have; instead, it is about who you are becoming.

-Farshad Asl “No Excuses Mindset”

This is not your standard “How to restore” your VW Beetle book. It’s also not a workshop manual. Aside from a basic rundown on the differences between various bug models through the years, there is a section on some things you can do to preserve your bug. Mostly however, what I’ve done is reviewed all the things I did to my bugsand put those ideas together as cheap, skillful, cheap, d.i.y, cheap means of enhancing your grocery getter’s performance and handling.

Christina Engela

Everybody thinks I'm this delicate little girl.

Haruki Murakami

Your very eyes. How they have always been for me the command to obey, the inviolable and beautiful commandment. No, no, I'm not telling lies. Your appearance in the doorway!...You have been my body's health. Whenever I have read a book, it was you I was reading, not the book, you were the book. You were, you were.

Robert Walser

An appetite for knowledge is apt to rush one off one's feet, like any other appetite if not curbed. I often stand in the in the centre of the Library here and think despairingly how impossible it is ever to become possessed of all the wealth of facts and ideas contained in the books surrounding me on every hand.

W.N.P. Barbellion

It was cliche, he knew, but he meant it classic.

S.E. Hinton

A book is a dead man, a sort of mummy, embowelled and embalmed, but that once had flesh, and motion, and a boundless variety of determinations and actions.

William Godwin

People who think that love, sex, marriage, work, play, life and death are serious matters are urged NOT to read this book. Buy it, yes, but don't read it. [Regarding "The Fool's Progress"]

Edward Abbey

A book, too, can be a star 'explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly.

Madeleine L'Engle

And the book (#7) is for whenever the hunt involves a lot of waiting around. Entertainment that won't eat up my batteries is always worth bringing.

Marie Lu

Even the most beautifully written, perfectly edited and well-designed books will fail if people aren't made aware of them!" ––Linda Radke, President of Five Star Publications, on the importance of public relations and marketing.

Linda F. Radke

AuthorZoom- You do the writing, let us do the rest.

Christopher Seufert

A man who writes a book, thinks himself wiser or wittier than the rest of mankind; he supposes that he can instruct or amuse them, and the publick to whom he appeals, must, after all, be the judges of his pretensions.

Samuel Johnson

Trial and error open the portal to perfection.

Vicki Perry

There are some people in this world who can emotionally disconnect like a light switch. It’s like a mental defense mechanism.

Annie

. ."Isn't Chief worried about the Dan Rather-James Brady syndrome? Getting the news first -- if it's incorrect? And if that wasn't enough, then in 2004, Rather turned around and did it again when he didn't confirm President George Bush's military records and broadcast a bogus story about President Bush." -- excerpt from "Love Thy Neighbor" ©2012. by Diane Moore

Diane Moore

There are literally hundreds of other micro-experiences and incredible experiences that help shape the book. But what really drove it home for me was not only hundreds of years of history that I went through to help formulate the concept of starting something stupid, but practicing it for myself and with hundreds of my own clients.

Richie Norton

The books must be read, not seen in a movie.

M.Z.Riffi

As the boat drew nearer to shore, and tiny dots in the distance became seagulls, she opened the book across her lap and gazed at the beautiful black-and-white sketch of a woman and a deer side by side in the clearing of a thorny forest. And somehow, though she could not read the words, the little girl realized the she knew this picture's tale. Of a young princess who traveled a great distance across the sea to find a precious, hidden item belonging to someone she dearly loved.

Kate Morton

Fpr years I thought we were on the same page... then I discovered we were NOT even in the same book...

kjforce

For years I thought we were on the same page...then I discovered we were NOT even in the same book...

kjforce

Every book of tactics in the regiment was in use from morning until night, and the officers and non-commissioned officers were always studying the problems presented at the schools.

Theodore Roosevelt

But I was also told to hold doors for women and children, to shake hands with a firm grip, to remember people's names, and to always give the customer a little more than expected.

Nicholas Sparks

Disaster was an avalanche, gathering speed with such acceleration that you worried more about getting out of its path, not finding the pebble at its center.

Jodi Picoult

We love books because they are the greatest escape. That is because our own minds eye is the purest form of virtual reality.

M.R. Mathias

But life never lets you go, does it? You can't put down life the way you put down a book.

Julian Barnes

The wonderful thing about books--and the thing that made them such a refuge for the islanders during the Occupation--is that they take us out of our time and place and understanding, and transport us not just into the world of the story, but into the world of our fellow readers, who have stories of their own.

Annie Barrows

a book is a box of words until you open it.

Ursula K Le Guin

The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned or where one's devotion to the bound book is expressed in ritual. A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.— Cited in ALA Bulletin, Oct. 1954, p.475

Norman Cousins

Books exceed authors' lifespan.

Toba Beta

As we passed his table, I saw that the device that imprisoned the book was clever but wicked-looking, as though the critic were holding the work - and it's author - in bondage.

Dean Koontz

Books aren't just booksthey're a completely different worldin the palm of your hands

Charlotte

Stay gold Ponyboy. Stay gold.--Johnny quoting Robert Frost

S.E. Hinton

To put a city in a book, to put the world on one sheet of paper -- maps are the most condensed humanized spaces of all...They make the landscape fit indoors, make us masters of sights we can't see and spaces we can't cover.

Robert Harbison

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

Philip Dormer Stanhope

The broken spine of the book shows the webbing of binder's string, and my fingers have worn white spots in the cover.

Susan Straight

This is terrific. What a gorgeous kitchen. You’ve decorated it so beautifully. Now you’re going to have to clear all the counters. Vases. Books. Knickknacks. Get rid of all that stuff. I mean, it is just beautiful. Beautiful. I love what you’ve done with this house. Make sure you put it all away.” ~Real estate agent (p.76)

Dominique Browning

If a book is not alive in the writer's mind, it is as dead as year-old horse-shit

Stephen King

And as he watched them walk out of the orphanage, Thomas Carter would think of their lives as the blank pages of a book in which he had written the initial chapters of a story he would never be allowed to finish.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Never in our silent moments of illusion do we sense the dark parallel that lives next to us. Nor do we suspect the carrier.

Kris Courtney

But here, two thousand miles from home, there was a real shipwreck, a real hope. A choice big enough to change our lives forever.

Gordon Korman

I chew the inside of my lip, considering for a second what it would be like to slap this skinny little witch right across her tight-lipped little face. ~Kelly about Suni

Bill Blais

‎"Sarge, mr. Nurd here is threatening to turn me to jelly.""really?" said Sarge. "what flavor?

John Connolly

Librarians save lives: by handing the right book, at the right time, to a kid in need

Judy Blume

From the beginning, she had sat looking at him fixedly. As he now leaned back in his chair, and bent his deep-set eyes upon her in his turn, perhaps he might have seen one wavering moment in her, when she was impelled to throw herself upon his breast, and give him the pent-up confidences of her heart. But, to see it, he must have overleaped at a bound the artificial barriers he had for many years been erecting, between himself and all those subtle essences of humanity which will elude the utmost cunning of algebra until the last trumpet ever to be sounded shall blow even algebra to wreck. The barriers were too many and too high for such a leap. With his unbending, utilitarian, matter-of-fact face, he hardened her again; and the moment shot away into the plumbless depths of the past, to mingle with all the lost opportunities that are drowned there.

Charles Dickens

There are fewer answers in the world than questions, and if you ask me now why that is so, I must tell you that there is no answer to that question.

Antonia Michaelis

Plus as she put it, Prince Eric was far too hairy and peach colored for her taste. I always thought he was pretty hott, but then again, I am a mammal.

Kiersten White

She stood up and took the book from him, and as he smiled over his shoulder at some other kids, she threw it away and kicked him as hard as she could in the vicinity of the groin.Well, as you might imagine, Ludwig Schmeikl certainly buckled, and on the way down, he was punched in the ear. When he landed, he was set upon. When he was set upon, he was slapped and clawed and obliterated by a girl who was utterly consumed with rage. His skin was so warm and soft. Her knuckles and fingernails were so frighteningly tough, despite their smal

Markus Zusak

A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

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