Book Quotes

My mother says I was two-and-a-half when I started playing. My father was a minister, and when he went to church in the morning, she would put on Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole and Cole Porter records. I'd crawl up on the piano stool, sit on a phone book and play.

~ Tori Amos

I was never a comic book guy. I like the movies when I see them, especially the origin stories. I never felt like I could be on the set, at 3 o'clock in the morning, tired, with 10 important decisions to make, and know, intuitively, what the story needs. For me, I'd be copycatting and not inventing. I've never said yes to one.

~ Ron Howard

I get up in the morning. I usually do a radio interview early in the morning. I usually do a book signing, because I'm also a cookbook author, so I'm at some store, at a Walmart or a Williams Sonoma, for three hours, standing up, signing autographs, and taking pictures for three hours.

~ Trisha Yearwood

I work all day, morning and afternoon, just about every day. If I sit there like that for two or three years, at the end I have a book.

~ Philip Roth

There's a popular concept of 'intelligence' as book smarts, like calculus or chess, as opposed to, say, social skills. So people say that 'it takes more than intelligence to succeed in human society.' But social skills reside in the brain, not the kidneys.

~ Eliezer Yudkowsky

For something that's supposed to be secret, there is a lot of intelligence history. Every time I read one book, two more are published.

~ Alan Furst

An intelligence officer and historian, Rayburn published a 2014 book, 'Iraq After America,' which is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand how Iraq descended into chaos in the years after the American troop withdrawal at the end of 2011.

~ Peter Bergen

What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.

~ Harlan Coben

The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.

~ Ron Reagan

Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, eh, people don't read it. But if you make bad architecture, you impose ugliness on a place for a hundred years.

~ Renzo Piano

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

~ Victor Hugo

Living in Edinburgh, I consider myself particularly lucky - we have the biggest book festival in the world, a plethora of fascinating libraries and museums, and some of the greatest architecture in Europe.

~ Sara Sheridan

The oldest book I have is a treatise on architecture from the 17th century.

~ Michael Graves

The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.

~ Ian Hamilton Finlay

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

The person doing the learning is the person writing the book as much as the person reading it.

~ Geoff Dyer

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

~ Edward Gibbon

There is a great book out called 'Everything I Needed to Learn I Learned in Kindergarten,' and I believe that everything I ever needed to learn on guitar was in my first two years of hungry learning: Scotty Moore, Hank Marvin, Chet Atkins, Lenny Breau, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley.

~ Randy Bachman

A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning.

~ Laura Bush

Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our religion? We have none.

~ Joseph Smith

I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book.

~ Joseph Smith

I believe that a government has only one religion - India first. A government has only one holy book - our Constitution. A government has only one kind of devotion - towards nation.

~ Narendra Modi

Civil disobedience is not accepted by religion and the state does not accept it and there are many verses in the Holy Book that talk of following the ruler.

~ Pope Shenouda Iii

There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent.

~ Malcolm X

So far as the government is concerned, there is only one holy book, which is the constitution of India. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

~ Narendra Modi

There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed.

~ James Larkin

And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or you're going to repeat it; and if you're burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling, you don't get it, you're missing the whole point.

~ Michael Berryman

Oh, I just want what we all want: a comfortable couch, a nice beverage, a weekend of no distractions and a book that will stop time, lift me out of my quotidian existence and alter my thinking forever.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

A lot of things have been thrown at me in life, and I've got through it all without a rule book, taking it one day at a time.

~ Yoko Ono

Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.

~ Barbara Ehrenreich

The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.

~ Agatha Christie

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?

~ César Chávez

Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.

~ Mark Haddon

Well, there's nothing better than putting your feet up on a Sunday afternoon and grabbing a good book.

~ Chris Klein

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

~ Groucho Marx

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

~ Stephen King

As long as your intentions are solid and about growth and progression and being productive and not being idle, then you're doing good in my book.

~ Frank Ocean

The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.

~ Melody Beattie

Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.

~ Maya Angelou

It's a very good historical book about history.

~ Dan Quayle