Book Quotes

"All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care"

Bart Stupak, Politician

"Not being a comic book fan, being thrown into that and seeing the extreme - it's taken very seriously. So I tried to do as much learning as I could about it so I wasn't mean or anything"

Ashley Scott, Actress

"How can a rabbi not live with doubt? The Bible itself is a book of doubt"

Arthur Hertzberg, Theologian

"Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge"

Anne Rice, Novelist

"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?"

Cesar Chavez, Activist

"Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises"

Beverly Cleary, Author

"I read my books aloud before they were published"

Beverly Cleary, Author

"If I don't tell it all now, the story in the history books will always be imperfect and that would be wrong"

Christine Keeler, Model

"One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since"

Beverly Cleary, Author

"Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books"

Alvin Lee, Musician

"Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books"

Anton Seidl, Musician

"This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two"

George Burns, Comedian

"November is Jewish book month, so Jewish Community Centers all around the country have book fairs where they invite authors and sell books in advance of the holidays"

Anita Diament, Author

"I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn't get reviewed in any major outlets"

Anita Diament, Author

"First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success"

Anne Rice, Novelist

"I don't think that Slaughterhouse-Five was successful movie material. In fact, Vonnegut's books mostly I don't feel are movie material"

Jerry Garcia, Musician

"All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value"

Carl Sagan, Scientist

"If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer"

Anne Frank, Writer

"What I try to do in the book is to trace the chain of relationships running from elementary particles, fundamental building blocks of matter everywhere in the universe, such as quarks, all the way to complex entities, and in particular complex adaptive system like jaguars"

Murray Gell-Mann, Physicist

"In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them"

John Selden, Statesman

"At each of these northern posts there were interesting experiences in store for me, as one who had read all the books of northern travel and dreamed for half a lifetime of the north; and that was - almost daily meeting with famous men"

Ernest Thompson Seton, Leader

"If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed"

Lily Tomlin, Actress

"Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious"

Ramakrishna, Leader

"I've got a book coming out soon so I just must get some weight off"

Jilly Cooper, Author

"I'd never have written the big books in London"

Jilly Cooper, Author

"I was so flattered that someone wanted me to write a book, I said I would. It was published in 1969"

Jilly Cooper, Author

"But I always seem to finish a book and then think, oh God, I've got to pay a tax bill, so I'd better write a novel, so I tend not to stop and learn word processing"

Jilly Cooper, Author

"Now, I'll tell you something that might interest you. Casino Royale was the first Bond book that Ian Fleming ever wrote. And he couldn't get anybody to touch it, to publish it - he couldn't do anything about it at all. Nobody wanted to know"

Val Guest, Director

"I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity"

Vera Wang, Designer

"We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living"

Tryon Edwards, Theologian

"Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written"

Arthur Helps, Historian

"Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book"

Arthur Helps, Historian

"A man's action is only a picture book of his creed"

Arthur Helps, Historian

"One man is as good as another until he has written a book"

Benjamin Jowett, Theologian

"You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft"

Alan Shepard, Astronaut

"I went to school, I went to college. I know how to read. Even though I lack common sense sometimes, I am book smart"

Nicole Polizzi, Celebrity

"He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter"

Isaac Barrow, Mathematician

"I will write another book if I feel like it"

James Herriot, Writer

"We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's book when he gave him a copy"

Thom Gunn, Poet

"Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God"

George Washington Carver, Scientist

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