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Quotes About Book

I don't know if I officially proofread my father's book, but I read it. I did get some conception of grammar in general from that.
~ Noam Chomsky
I envy the people who say, 'oh, well, I've got my name in the golden book and I'm going to be entered into the pearly gates.'
~ William Shatner
The oldest book I have is a treatise on architecture from the 17th century.
~ Michael Graves
I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.
~ Mickey Spillane
Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.
~ Carly Fiorina
Doing 'Life Without Makeup' onstage is what inspired me to do a book in the first place.
~ Rita Moreno
A book is a gift you can open again and again.
~ Garrison Keillor
Interviews don't go to the core of my life. Everybody knows my life - it's an open book.
~ Michael Moriarty
I love to write a book out of questions; in fact, I think it's the only way my writing can operate, if there's something I don't understand.
~ Kate Grenville
Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense.
~ Oscar Wilde
As for being poisoned by a book, there is no such thing as that. Art has no influence upon action.
~ Oscar Wilde
I remember having read somewhere, in some strange book, that when the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
~ Oscar Wilde
Major-General Sir Wilfred Bosher came to distribute the prizes at that school', proceeded Gussie in a dull, toneless voice.'He dropped a book. He stooped to pick it up. And, as he stooped, his trousers split up the back'. 'How we roared!
~ p g wodehouse
I went into the kitchen ten minutes back. The cat was sitting on the mat. Beale's narrative style closely resembled that of a certain book I had read in my infancy. I wish I could remember its title. It was a well-written book.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Ah, well,' I said resignedly, 'if that's that, that's that, what?' 'So it would appear, sir.' 'Nothing to do but keep the chin up and the upper lip as stiff as can be managed. I think I'll go to bed with an improving book. Have you read The Mystery of the Pink Crayfish by Rex West?
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Jeeves. Sir? Are you busy just now? No, sir. I mean, not doing anything in particular? No, sir. It is my practice at this hour to read some improving book; but, if you desire my services, this can easily be postponed, or, indeed, abandoned altogether.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
I sank into a c. and passed an agitated h. over the b.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
A book, a book full of human touches, of shirts, a book without loneliness, with men and tools, a book is victory.
~ Pablo Neruda
Book beautiful book, miniscule forest, leaf after leaf your paper smells of the elements. . . .
~ Pablo Neruda
He closed his grade book and asked hopefully, What inspired you? Was it Hawthorne? I stared at him. He had to be kidding.
~ Patricia A. McKillip
This book is primarily about the armed conflicts that followed 9/11, but UN sanctions may have killed more Iraqis than any of the wars that followed.
~ Patrick Cockburn
asesor editorial de esta revisión recibió la difícil tarea de determinar qué partes del material original debían cambiarse. Para ayudarse en el trabajo, les pidió a varios de los maestros de los Cursos de Dale Carnegie que entregaran ejemplares del libro a estudiantes y graduados
~ Dale Carnegie
a vida é como um livro a cujo fim você não quer chegar. Talvez isso seja verdade, mas você está realmente interessado na leitura ou apenas com medo de que algo ruim lhe aconteça caso chegue à última página?
~ Dale Carnegie
So central, however, is reading to feminist reality that it is not unusual to find women acknowledging that a particular book changed my life; and so central is writing to feminist experience that it is not unusual to find a feminist defined as a woman who writes.
~ Dale Spender