Quotes About Book

His fame is great; and it will, we have no doubt, be lasting; but it is fame of a peculiar kind, and indeed marvellously resembles infamy. We remember no other case in which the world has made so great a distinction between a book and its author. In general, the book and the author are considered as one. To admire the book is to admire the author. The case of Boswell is an exception, we think the only exception, to this rule.

There are no coincidences, Silette wrote. Only mysteries that haven't been solved, clues that haven't been placed. Most are blind to the language of the bird overheard, the leaf in our path, the phonographic record stuck in a groove, the unknown caller on the phone. They don't see the omens. They don't know how to read the signs. To them life is like a book with blank pages. But to the detective, it is an illuminated manuscript of mysteries.

Clearly she knew that between book lovers, a novel is not a novel is not a novel. It's a symbol, an offering -- and sometimes a test

When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not yet completed.

ireally think that the Book Life,After is the best book i've read this year because i really got into it and actually read at home and liked it

This is the derivation of that old Yankee proverb that if you can sell a book, you can move sixty tons of weaponry three hundred miles in winter

His early book, not much noticed when it was published, was now on many reading lists, and the younger generation of historians accepted it as a model of the new sort of history, "history that interests us"—personal, engagée—and looks at the past with an intense need for contemporary relevance.

I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply there is a book.

Whether the Koran is of eternity I don't ask about that That it is the book of books I believe it to be so as muslim's duty.

Il libro era uno di quelli che tengono avvinto un animo delicato e non lo lasciano più andare.

A religion is not contained in a single book; there's something religious in almost any book.

book, In the Name of Science, Martin Gardner defines the characteristics of the common crank or pseudoscientist.

I have heard him [William Harvey] say, that after his book of the circulation of the blood came out, that he fell mightily in his practice, and that 'twas believed by the vulgar that he was crack-brained; and all the physicians were against his opinion.

Off thaim I thynk this buk to ma: Now God gyff grace that I may swa Tret it, and bryng it till endyng, That I say nocht bot suthfast thing!

The history of the Bible is thus the story of the interplay between the religion and the book Ã¢â'¬â€œ neither mapping exactly onto the other.

I want to write a book which is the history of comedy.

we are not "the People of the Book." We are "the People with the Book," but even more importantly, we are "the People of the Person.

Our soules, (which to advance their state, Were gone out,) hung 'twixt her, and mee.... When love, with one another so Interinanimates two soules.... Loves mysteries in soules doe grow, But yet the body is his booke....

He that desires to print a book, should much more desire, to be a book.

The World is a great Volume, and man the Index of that Booke; even in the Body of Man, you may turne to the whole world.

My God, my God, I find in thy book that fear is a stifling spirit, a spirit of suffocation; that Ishbosheth could not speak, nor reply in his own defence to Abner, because he was afraid.

and go look and see the book was missing from that back room.

The research in Ralph Keyes' The Quote Verifier is impressive, and each conclusion is like the solution to a real-life historical mystery. Who knew a reference book could be so entertaining?

I'm doing 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower'. It was a book I read when I was younger, and it just changed my life, and I just wanted to be a part of it.