Book Quotes - Page 347

There was a thoughtful frown on the face of the man who was the possessor of twenty million dollars.

Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.

The Book of Revelation is the strangest book in the Bible, and the most controversial. Instead of stories and moral teaching, it offers only visions - dreams and nightmares, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, earthquakes, plagues and war.

As a reader I feel included a lot in Julie Carr’s hard and beautiful book. I can pretty much hear its author speak—a whispering that enables us into its world . . . a masterfully sutured journey, painfully useful. Sarah—Of Fragments and Lines is a book I know I will return to. And urge it on my friends who have lives too and write in them.

A man of letters is often a man with two natures,--one a book nature, the other a human nature. These often clash sadly.

Books -lighthouses erected in the great sea of time -books, the precious depositories of the thoughts and creations of genius -books, by whose sorcery times past become time present, and the whole pageantry of the world's history moves in solemn procession before our eyes, -these were to visit the firesides of the humble and lavish the treasures of the intellect upon the poor.

Unlearned men of books assume the care, As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy.

The 'inquests' which resulted in the compilation of the Domesday Book made a vivid and unfavorable impression on the country. A similar effect was produced by the inquests of 1166 and 1170, before alluded to. Even to this day, the word 'inquisitorial' bears the burden of historical unpopularity.

A book of verses underneath the bough, A jug of wine, a loaf of bread-and thou.

Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given a Periclean funeral oration in a hundred and fifty words, or interred in the potter's field of the newspapers back pages.

Laws die, books never.

Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.

I am not a historian. I am a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past

Bizarre as was the name she bore, Kim Ravenal always said she was thankful it had been no worse.

In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.

With wisdom fraught; not such as books, but such as practice taught.

Only what touches us closely preoccupies us. We prepare in solitude to face it. (The Little Book of Unsuspected Subversion)

God, on the other side of my table, composes His book whose smoke envelops me: for the flame of my candle is His pen.

A people's literature is the great text-book for real knowledge of them.

The enormous multiplication of books in every branch of knowledge is one of the greatest evils of this age, since it presents one of the most serious obstacles to the acquisition of correct information by throwing in the reader's way piles of lumber in which he must painfully grope for the scraps of useful matter, peradventure interspersed.

In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own.

As for the largest-hearted of us, what is the word we write most often in our cheque-books? "Self.

I came in on the decline. Phil Elliot was in first, he got his book out, he sold thirteen thousand, I think he got two issues out before I got mine in, this was March '87. He was out in December '86.

It's a bit scary to see my book come true: the recent (if minor) LA earthquakes, Hurricane Sandy, the Boston bomber, and so on - much of it stoppable, I think, and yet I, too, am also guilty of passivity.