Quotes About Book

The reason is that there are two possible relationships between the brain and the book, not just one, and these two relationships are illustrated by the two different experiences that can be had when reading the book.

An expository book is one that conveys knowledge primarily, "knowledge" being construed broadly.

In either case, you are not doing the job of reading that the book requires. That is done in only one way. Without external help of any sort, you go to work on the book. With nothing but the power of your own mind, you operate on the symbols before you in such a way that you gradually lift yourself from a state of understanding less to one of understanding more.

I offer this advice without fee; it is included in the price of this book.

Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.

The pictures in this book are not of people suffering gender dysphoria but rather expressing gender euphoria. This book is about new possibilities and transcendence. The people in these pictures are truly revolutionary; they are the real winners of the battle of the sexes because they have stepped out of the ring.

Just at the moment he's writing a book on famine - goodness! it's sad - and there's a dear little Chinese comrade who comes and tells him what famine is like, you never saw such a fat man in your life.

I wondered what on earth she saw in me that could make her want to befriend me, other than a pale reflection of herself, an echo of solitude and loss. In my ..reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and second hand dreams

I started off for home, where I planned to recruit a good book and hide away from the world.

And as he watched them walk out of the orphanage, Thomas Carter would think of their lives as the blank pages of a book in which he had written the initial chapters of a story he would never be allowed to finish.

Cuando llovía con fuerza, Max sentía que el tiempo se detenía. Era como una tregua en la cual uno podía dejar de hacer cualquier cosa que le ocupase en aquel momento y sencillamente acercarse a contemplar el espectáculo de aquella infinita cortina de lágrimas del cielo desde una ventana, durante horas. Dejó de nuevo el libro sobre la mesita y apagó la luz. Lentamente, envuelto en el sonido hipnótico de la lluvia, se rindió al sueño.

Jednog Boži?a Sempere mi je darovao najljepši dar koji sam ikada dobio. Bila je to stara knjiga, temeljito pro?itana i proživljena. 'Velika o?ekivanja Charlesa Dickensa...' pro?itao sam na naslovnici. Znao sam da Sempere poznaje neke pisce koji su ?esto posje?ivali njegov du?an i, sude?i po ljubavi kojom je rukovao tom knjigom, pomislio sam da je možda i taj don Charles jedan od njih. 'Vaš prijatelj?' 'Još od djetinjstva. Od danas i tvoj.

Bea dice que el arte de leer se está muriendo muy lentamente, que es un ritual íntimo, que un libro es un espejo y que sólo podemos encontrar en él lo que ya llevamos dentro, que al leer ponemos la mente y el alma, y que esos son bienes cada día más escasos.

Fewer things leave a deeper mark on the reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart.

I HEARD A REGULAR CUSTOMER SAY that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart.

Julián Carax's book was waiting for me, as it always did, its spine just visible at the end of a shelf. I took it in my hands and pressed it against my chest

I had never heard of the title or the author, but I didn't care. The decision had been taken. I took the book down with great care and leafed through the pages, letting them flutter. Once liberated from its prison on the shelf, it shed a cloud of golden dust. Pleased with my choice I tucked it under my arm and retraced my steps through the labyrinth, a smile on my lips.

Desde que no vendemos una escoba se pasa los días emparedado en la trastienda con ese libro egipcio de los muertos. -Es el libro de contabilidad - corregí.

we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and secondhand dreams.

Fumero laughed again, that forced, affected laugh that seemed to sum him up like the blurb on a book jacket.

Bea dice que el arte de leer se está muriendo muy lentamente, que es un ritual íntimo, que un libro es un espejo y que sólo podemos encontrar en él lo que ya llevamos dentro, que al leer ponemos la mente y el alma, y que ésos son bienes cada día más escasos

Quizá fue aquel pensamiento, quizá el azar o su pariente de gala, el destino, pero en aquel mismo instante supe que ya había elegido el libro que iba a adoptar.

Bea dice que el arte de leer se está muriendo lentamente, que es un ritual íntimo, que un libro es un espejo y que sólo podemos encontrar en él lo que ya llevamos dentro, que al leer ponemos la mente y el alma, y que ésos son bienes cada día más escasos.

His curiosity about Africana--insatiable. Arturo had what he called the book hunting disease. No one volume told the whole story, and no library specialized in the subject.