Quotes About Book

I was a little nervous backstage. But I had this book, Gandhi. I just read his quotes, closed my eyes and focused my thoughts. Presently, this book is my prized possession.

'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell' by Susanna Clarke is a big, thick book. About a thousand pages in paperback. I've heard several people say the size alone intimidated them.

In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.

Don't ever trust anyone who's writing a book. They make up lies for a living.

As a book for sight, Revelation becomes a frustration; as a book for faith, it becomes a joy and a comfort.

Aunt Hattie, when you wrote that book, I imagine you were thinking of something radical: the abolition of slavery itself. You were only one small woman, and you were looking up at an enormous edifice, towering and monolithic, but what you wrote made the whole structure start to tremble and shudder, and finally, it all came down, thundering and crashing. It wasn't just because of your book, of course, but your book made it impossible for people to think of slavery in the old way.

Eats, Shoots & Leaves

El libro es fuerza, es valor, es fuerza, es alimento; antorcha del pensamiento y manantial del amor

The Shapiras brought me the book "The Road to Miltown" by S.J. Perelman, and I still have it. It's moved with me across the country, put up in innumerable bookshelves, for almost fifty years. It's showing signs of wear. (Hell, so am I, but we're both still good to take to bed.)

The result is a book that cannot be read easily. It requires study. We hope that some will have the patience and inclination to do so.

It was a philosophy which was supposedly fully expounded in Excalibur, an unpublished book Ron was first said to have written in 1938.

He's reading a book called Great Warlocks of the 18th Century, and to get this ball rolling before Dean Devlin shows up and rains on our private parade, I snort and ask, "Good book?" I forget I'm pretending to be sitting behind my two-thousand-ninety-eight-page Highlights of Modern Chemistry book, so he snorts back. "Better than yours.

I was touched by the honesty and courage that I felt it took for you, an academic, to write a book as personal as this one.

Before you get your hopes up, Doctor Doom's suit is both enchanted and powered by magic, and thus sadly beyond the scope of this book. It's too bad though. It's a flying suit that fires energy blasts out of its hands, and it has a cape built in.

From my point of view, a book is a literary prescription put up for the benefit of someone who needs it.

There is a technical term for someone who confuses the opinions of a character in a book with those of the author. That term is idiot.

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

Marcus Borg's book Conflict, Holiness, and Politics in the Teachings of Jesus.

Huston Smith's book Why Religion Matters

Williams James, in his magnificent book The Varieties of Religious Experience—now one hundred years old.

theologian Dorothee Soelle, who died in April 2003. It's a book I really commend to you. The main title is The Silent Cry. The subtitle is Mysticism and Resistance. The

Amplified by the still of night, the book opened -- a gust of wind.

Comfort was the author of The Joy of Sex, an illustrated 1972

What the book does as a technology is shield us from distraction.