Book Quotes

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

~ Philip Dormer Stanhope

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

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

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

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

Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force.

~ Gustave Flaubert

You can't change where you came from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you make up a new one.

~ Sarah Addison Allen

Being with her always felt like gazing the stars and into the infinity, reading a book which never ends. She had no boundaries, all she knew was to shine, and live without any walls around her on every page.

~ Akshay Vasu

What in this fucking world are you going to tell me?...One book has been written by You so far... you have read few books and you are spreading what!?

~ Deyth Banger

God has wrought many things out of oppression. He has endowed his creatures with the capacity to create and from this capacity has flowed the sweet songs of sorrow and joy that have allowed man to cope with his environment and many different situations. Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties, and if you think for a moment, you will realize that they take the hardest realities of life and put them into music, only tocome out with some new hope or sense of triumph. This is triumphant music. Modern Jazz has continued in this tradition, singing the songs of a more complicated urban existence. When life itself offers no order and meaning, the musician creates an order and meaning from the sounds of the earth, which flow through his instrument.

~ Dr. Martin Luther King

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