Quotes About Book

I like the pages to turn. I like the bookness of the book.

C is not a big language, and it is not well served by a big book.

I opened the book to the title page, which said the book was "A Fictional Memoir." I had no idea what this meant, except that maybe it was one of the ways that Exley was crazy: maybe when he called his book a fictional memoir, it meant that he couldn't make up his mind, which is one of the things people really mean when they call someone crazy.

John Calvin had labored for more than twenty years to find that 'order,' an explanation of Christian doctrine that not only instructed readers in the faith but also moved their hearts and minds to accept the truth of the Gospel. Through those years of writing, revision, and additions, Calvin created one of the great books of his age." Bruce Gordon ?#?CalvinsInstitutes?

Independent inquiry is need in your search for truth, not dependence on anyone else's view or a mere book

Readers may recall that Empire, a book by Michael Hardt and Tony Negri ended curiously by praising St. Francis.

The most notable book to support this hypothesis, Andrew J. Torget's groundbreaking 2015 Seeds of Empire, proved enormously influential

That chain of relationships made me think of how connections are made--you read a book, you meet a person, you have a single experience, and your life is changed in some way. No act, therefore, however small, should be dismissed or ignored.

a good education is a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, because each enrich the other. The accumulation of knowledge, while fascinating in itself, is not sufficient without action

I have tonight begun reading a stupid, shitty book by Kerouac called Big Sur , and I would give a ball to wake up tomorrow on some empty ridge with a herd of beatniks grazing in the clearing about 200 yards below the house. And then to squat with the big boomer and feel it on my shoulder with the smell of grease and powder and, later, a little blood.

But insecurity remains the hallmark of Pakistan's political and intellectual conversation. Even a comment about, say, Pakistan's relatively low ranking among nations for book readership, is portrayed as an attack on the idea of Pakistan.

He always had a paperback book, usually history, in his jacket pocket in case he found himself in a queue or a waiting room. He marked what he read with a pencil stub.

I know it's late, but could you find a book for me? It's called The Slavs: Study of Pagan Tradition by Osvintsev. Barabas sighed dramatically. Kate, you make me despair. Let's try that again from the top, except this time pretend you are an alpha. I don't need a lecture. I just need the book. Much better. Little more growl in the voice? Barabas! And we're there. Congratulations!

I got a dog-training book. It says Grendel needs mental stimulation, so I tried to train him, but I think he must be retarded.

What's the deal with the hair?" Curran tore his gaze from the book and grimaced. "Grows every flare. Can't help it. We stared at each other. "Waiting for the Fabio joke," he said.

Jim wasn't just a badass. He was a badass who wrote a book for badasses on how to be a badder badass.

'Holes' was my favorite book ever. So you know when you love a book and you hear it's being made into a movie and it makes you a little annoyed at first? But I would've loved to play the Shia LaBeouf role in that movie when I was younger. I just wanted to be the rebellious kid on the old digging camp.

Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basically has the same sensibility as me.

Whenever you take a general meeting, inevitably you run out of things to talk about, they'd always say, 'What's your dream project?' I would always pull out 'Gerald's Game.' If they knew the book, they'd say, 'Well, that's unfilmable.' If they didn't know the book it would take about 30 seconds of my pitch to say, 'That's not a movie.'

One of my favorite books was 'The Book of Immortality' by Adam Leith Gollner, which talks about cheating death and life extension and frames with a story that David Copperfield finds a fountain of youth on an island he bought.

YouTube is so quick and so instant, and you make a video, and you can upload it the same day, whereas with a book, you have to go through a lot of time and a lot of people and a lot of processes. So it was weird to sit down and work with other people on projects, because I'm so independent with YouTube.

On YouTube, you know, if you say something, you know, that triggers somebody, it becomes a whole controversy, a whole thing - and all the comments and everybody's upset, whereas a book, there's no comment section. There's no - there's nowhere for the audience to, you know, get mad at you for saying something.

When somebody keeps telling you, 'This book is amazing,' you sort of have this pleasing instinct to say, 'Oh, let me make you happy again; let me do that trick again.'

I feel luck plays a vey crucial role in determining the success of the book. Marketing a book is also very important. You need to try all tricks in the trade.