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Quotes About Pages

We are thickly layered, page lying upon page, behind simple covers. And love - it is not the book itself, but the binding.
~ Deb Caletti
Exactly. I'm almost done. Last pages." "I shouldn't interrupt, then." "Hey! You know rule number one. You must be a reader." "I thought rule number one is 'Don't tell the ending.' " "Wait. Rule number one: Hate the movie version." "Probably, all our rules are rule number one. We can get a little hard-core." "Always judge a person by their shelves. To fold or not to fold the pages.
~ Deb Caletti
God is writing His story on the pages of our lives.
~ Rick Anderson
I was going to buy a book on hair loss, but the pages kept falling out.
~ Jay London
Sheet music circles on the water, silent, open pages, weighted and wet. I train the beam of the flashlight over the words. "Meet Me in St. Louis" drifts by, and "My Funny Valentine.
~ Jayne Anne Phillips
So my sister dances and the dead house burns, and I scrawl these few last words by the light of its burning. I know I should toss this story, too, on those flames. But I am still too much a storyteller -or at least a storykeeper-still too much my father's daughter to burn these pages.
~ Jean Hegland
In the Middle Ages, as in antiquity, they read usually, not as today, principally with the eyes, but with the lips, pronouncing what they saw, and with the ears, listening to the words pronounced. hearing what is called the "voices of the pages." It is a real acoustical reading.
~ Jean Leclercq
I flipped through the rest of the pages—when you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.
~ Elizabeth Kostova
Fire is a speed reader, which is why the ignorant burn books: fire races through pages, takes care of all the knowledge, and never bores you with a summary.
~ Elizabeth McCracken
This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book -- it makes a very poor doorstop.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
Learning is often spoken of as if we are watching the open pages of all the books which we have ever read, and then, when occasion arises, we select the right page to read aloud to the universe.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
In comparison, Google is brilliant because it uses an algorithm that ranks Web pages by the number of links to them, with those links themselves valued by the number of links to their page of origin.
~ Michael Shermer
Many company policies restrict use of E-mail, limit access to offensive Web sites and prohibit disclosure of confidential information. Few policies, if any, directly address personal Web pages.
~ Bill Dedman
When it broke out in the mid 1990s, the web was society's first at-scale digital artifact. It spread in orders of ten, first thousands, then millions, then hundreds of millions of pages - and on it went, to the billions it now encompasses.
~ John Battelle
Even companies that do big business online struggle to be noticed by Google users. The Web, after all, is home to some 120 million Internet domains and tens of billions of indexed pages. But every company, big or small, can draw more Google traffic by using search-engine optimization - SEO, for short.
~ Jason Fried
When you close a tab or when you finish an article on the web, it's gone unless you go back into your history or search for it or explicitly try to find it. Apps on your phone have this special property: they hang around. In some ways, they're more like a book on a bookshelf than they are like web pages.
~ Robin Sloan
PR and marketing doesn't sell books. It gets attention for them. It sends readers to bookstores and websites to read a few pages.
~ M. J. Rose
I once set myself a deadline: half a chapter a week, 20 minutes a day. The thought froze me instantly, like literary Botox. I returned to my non-schedule: sleeping, writing 20 minutes, and then back to sleep. Breakfast in bed, with juice congealing on the sill: pages and pages began to pour out again.
~ Siddhartha Mukherjee
Take my advice, don't appreciate any man too highly. In the book of every man's life there is a page which he would wish to keep turned down.
~ Richard Marsh
I figured I could read more than five pages tonight since I'd been deprived for the last couple of days. When I finished the fifteenth, I discovered I was three pages from the next chapter. Might as well end with a clean break. After I was done, I sighed and leaned back, feeling decadent and spent. Pure bliss. Books were a lot less messy than orgasms.
~ Richelle Mead
Each copy is guaranteed—or double your money back—to be printed on genuine paper of enough pages to hold the covers apart.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Memories, pressed between the pages of my mind. Memories, sweetened through the ages just like wine.
~ Elvis Presley
We will paste upon the curled pages words Like charming and romantic and sentimental Forgetting that charming is witchcraft Romantic is love And sentiment is what makes us human
~ Emilie Autumn