Quotes About Book

Too many words for one book--truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.

Religion is not a book, it is not an institution, and it is not even a person. True Religion is realization of the self.

The terrible thing about the internet and Amazon is that they take the magic and happy chaos out of book shopping. The internet might give you what you want, but it won't give you what you need.

I love to travel, but when I really want to escape, I read a book.

But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer.

'God' - as revealed in his book of edicts and narratives is practically an idiot. He has nothing to say that any sensible person should want to listen to.

Anna Freud's book The Ego and Mechanisms of Defense (1936) was a partial response to this problem. It became a psychoanalytic field marshal's handbook, documenting and illustrating various unconscious defensive strategies of the ego, alerting the clinician to telltale signs of their operation in the patient's psyche. Reorienting

Taking a nap looks more refined when holding a book

I believed this book could transform more marriages more deeply than nearly any marriage book I could think of.

A full and painstaking account of the day's fighting, from which this summary is largely derived, is given by Alfred Price in the work which gave this day its name. First published in 1979, it remains one of the best books yet written about the Battle of Britain.

the Christian monastic Anthony the Abbot referred to "created nature" as a "book," one always at his "disposal" whenever he wanted "to read God's words.

and in the deep, dreaming hours I am easily moved by the stories of the real men and women who have lived out their passions on a scale so much greater than my own. It is at night, with a book open and these noble ghosts rising from the page, that I believe most strongly in the grandeur of life and feel most alone.

The pages gather in his left hand, thin out in his right.

And even though these words are moving into you through a visual medium—the printed words on this page—as you became immersed in this book, you no longer saw the words as a visual input. You'd left that surface orientation behind. You began, then, to work with, and experience, the meanings that these words are only the containers for.

Although I have had offers of wireless installation for the Fram," he said in one rambling interview, "that also I declined. I don't care for it. It is very much better to be without news when you cannot be where the news comes from. We are always more contented if we get no news. A good book we like, we explorers. That is our best amusement and our best time killer.

A sentence in a book may be the thing that changes your life.

The good thing about a self-help book is that if you misunderstand something then it won't mock you.

Thirteen years have past since 1993, and I still have not seen one single book, documentary or anything to the biggest epidemic in Scottish, British prison history. I would go as far and say, no other prison in the world had fourteen men catching the HIV virus at the same time.

Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination.

I was going to write a book on procrastination, but I kept putting it off.

This short book is an attempt to explain from first principles how and why ChatGPT works. In some ways it's a story about technology. But it's also a story about science.

A lot of people ask me if I were shipwrecked, and could have only one book, what would it be? I always say, "How to Build a Boat.

I am writing a book. I have got the page numbers done.

That, and one last detail. Recommend Taylor undergo a three month psychiatric evaluation following his discharge." "What for?" "Credibility. Years from now, when he decides to write a book slamming the Navy, I want to make sure the world knows that Jonas Taylor was deemed a nutcase by the medical establishment.