Quotes About Book

Yo no he escrito un libro sobre verdades y mentiras. Simplemente, un libro que ha despertado la curiosidad de la gente en el pasado

What truth do these people possess? What proof, damn it! A book of ancient fables? Promises of miracles to come?

Langdon joined her at the book, peering down at the text. Now that he knew the line, he was able to make out the faint handwritten letters: The dark religions are departed & sweet science reigns.

It's always terrible when you realize that you've married the wrong book.

I can tell you that the writing of a book, no matter how deeply, profoundly personal-if it is literature, if you have attended to the formidable task of illumination the human heart in conflict with itself-will do the opposite of expose you. It will connect you. With others. With the world around you. With yourself.

It didn't last, it wasn't clear for much longer, and that's why we broke up, but when I close this book and give it to you, I don't think about that, just us holding the book it our hands to buy it and take it here with us, because damn it Ed, that's not why we broke up. I love it, I miss it, I hate to give it back to you, this complicated thing, it's why we stayed together.

No lo sabes…? Pero acabas… acabas de gastarte cincuenta y cinco dólares en este libro. —Lo sé —respondiste—. No pasa nada. —Pero ¿no sabes por qué? —Para hacerte feliz —fue lo único que dijiste, y de repente, Ed, tus palabras me dejaron sin respiración.

"No wonder the teacher knows so much; she has the book."

One night, I wrote down all the things I was waiting to do with my little granddaughter, and it became a book, 'I Already Know I Love You.' It was one of those really lovely things in life.

Reading is a joy for my kids, and to swing in a hammock on a lazy summer day reading a good book just goes with summer.

At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead of the class to the end of the book.

The Age of Reason was responsible for making more people into infidels than any other book except the Bible.

Children are receptive to talking about gender creativity, confirming the importance of the book as a means to instigate this dialogue at an early age.

I am not alone in bearing grudges against reviewers who have doomed a book's chances because they've missed the point, the tone, everything.

There's an indie movie I did called 'Fat Kid Rules the World, ' which was based on a teen book, and it's a fabulous story, and hopefully it'll go to theaters because it is an amazing story.

a book, a real book, language incarnate, becomes a part of one's bodily life.

Here is one more book that depicts the struggle of a human creature, under those opposing influences of Good and Evil

When he sent to Voltaire his Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, with its arguments against civilization, letters, and science, and for a return to the natural condition as seen in savages and animals, Voltaire replied: "I have received, sir, your new book against the human species, and I thank you for it . . . . No one has ever been so witty as you are in trying to turn us into brutes; to read your book makes one long to go on all fours.

The binding of a book is the dress with which it walks out into the world. The paper, type and ink are the body, in which its soul is domiciled. And these three, soul, body, and habilament, are a triad which ought to be adjusted to one another by the laws of harmony and good sense.

We ought to recollect ... that a book consists, like man, from whom it draws its lineage, of a body and a soul.

I do not, in short, myself believe it is in the least bit undignified to confess to having been critically influenced in one's thinking by a teacher, or a faculty, or a book; but the accent these days is so strong on atomistic intellectual independence that to suggest such a thing is, as I have noted, highly inflammatory.

thinking as he had thought before and would think again and as every other man has thought: how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.

Burden … began to read to the child in Spanish from the book which he had brought with him from California, interspersing the fine, sonorous flowing of mysticism in a foreign tongue with harsh, extemporized dissertations composed half of the bleak and bloodless logic which he remembered from his father on interminable New England Sundays, and half of immediate hellfire and tangible brimstone of which any country Methodist circuit rider would have been proud.

Now to be precise. I had seen the whole building as an image of living, praying man. But inside it was a richly written book to instruct that man.