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Quotes About Pages

Congratulations. The fact that you're reading this means you've taken one giant step closer to surviving till your next birthday. Yes, you, standing there leafing through these pages. Do not put this book down. I'm dead serious—your life could depend on it.
~ James Patterson
A significant number of pages and sentences that the administration wants to keep in a classified status have already been released publicly, some of it by public statements of the leadership of the CIA and the FBI.
~ Bob Graham
The largest two books I've ever read more than once are 'Bleak House' by Charles Dickens and 'The Stand' by Stephen King, about 1,200 pages each.
~ Simon Toyne
The book she had been reading was under her pillow, pressing its cover against her ear as if to lure her back into its printed pages.
~ Cornelia Funke
Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else.
~ Cornelia Funke
Das Buch wird anfangen, deine Erinnerungen zu sammeln. Du wirst es spaeter nur aufschlagen muessen und schon wirst du wieder dort sein, wo du zuerst darin gelesen hast. An nichts haften Erinnerungen so gut wie an bedruckten Seiten.
~ Cornelia Funke
My voice had bayou gut them slipping out of their story like a bookmark forgotten by a reader between the pages
~ Cornelia Funke
A nada se pegan tan bien los recuerdos como a las páginas impresas.
~ Cornelia Funke
Shut not your doors to me proud libraries,   For that which was lacking on all your well-fill'd shelves, yet       needed most, I bring,   Forth from the war emerging, a book I have made,   The words of my book nothing, the drift of it every thing,   A book separate, not link'd with the rest nor felt by the intellect,   But you ye untold latencies will thrill to every page.
~ Walt Whitman
Numbers in roman type refer to illustrations in the Photos section; numbers in italics refer to book pages.
~ Walter Isaacson
each page was ranked by the number and quality of links coming into it, and the quality of these links was determined by the number and quality of links to the pages that originated them, and so on. "It's all recursive," Page explained. "It's all a big circle.
~ Walter Isaacson
There's a book called "A Dictionary of Angels." No one has opened it in fifty years, I know, because when I did, The covers creaked, the pages Crumbled. There I discovered The angels were once as plentiful As species of flies. The sky at dusk Used to be thick with them. You had to wave both arms Just to keep them away. Now the sun is shining Through the tall windows. The library is a quiet place. Angels and gods huddled In dark unopened books.
~ Charles Simic
He had written in cheap ballpoint ink that had blotted... in many places. His handwriting was a looping but legible scrawl, and he must have been bearing down hard, because the words were actually engraved into the cheap notebook pages; if I'd closed my eyes and run my fingertips over the backs of those torn-out sheets, it would have been like reading Braille.
~ Stephen King, 11/22/63, 2011
she carries a book but it is not the tome of the ancient wisdom, the pages, I imagine, are the blank pages of the unwritten volume of the new.
~ H.D.
Most sites need to prevent breadth — many many pages that are organized cohesively. A site that presents a single webpage is unlikely to present sufficient depth of content to justify extensive SEO." The SCO trick is to draw traffic with desirable content, and to 'seduce' the traffic into portions of the site that may not directly have anything to do with the content — this is the ultimate goal of the SEO campaign.
~ Harold Davis
It never occurred to us to save any of those things. We never thought they'd have any value later on. We worked in a very small office, and the printer would send back all the original pages of artwork, but we had no place to put them. So when we ordered food, we told the delivery guy, "Hey, would you mind taking these pages and dropping them in the trash on the way out?"
~ lee stan iii
There are those who say that life is like a book, with chapters for each event in your life and a limited number of pages on which you can spend your time. But I prefer to think that a book is like a life, particularly a good one, which is well to worth staying up all night to finish.
~ Lemony Snicket
I stayed up all night reading.
~ Lemony Snicket
The anxiety, which in this state of their attachment must be the portion of Henry and Catherine, and of all who loved either, as to its final event, can hardly extend, I fear, to the bosom of my readers, who will see in the tell-tale compression of the pages before them, that we are all hastening together to perfect felicity.
~ Jane Austen
documents out of RAND. As Ellsberg wrote in his 2002 book, Secrets, "What I had in my safe at RAND was seven thousand pages of documentary evidence of lying, by four presidents
~ Jane Fonda
Then she spent her evenings curled up in her small boardinghouse room, poring over the pages. It was her only escape to a bigger, more interesting world. There are no prison walls if one has books, she had read someplace. But even so, her days and nights often were lonely.
~ Janette Oke
Even a casual reader of the financial pages knows that microcaps are a perennial headache for regulators and, above all, for investors because they have been prone to abuse by stock manipulators.
~ Gary Weiss
Success is a finished book, a stack of pages each of which is filled with words. If you reach that point, you have won a victory over yourself no less impressive than sailing single-handed around the world.
~ Tom Clancy
Do you know the Bhagavad Gita? No, sir, not really; though my eyes and mind have run through its pages many times.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda