Quotes About Book

He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. "Eglow, Eglonitz—here we are, Egria. It

What are you reading, my dear? A pretty sight, a lady with a book.

If I am spared," he always said to Constance, "I will write the book myself. If not, see that my notes are entrusted to some worthy cynic who will not be too concerned with the truth.

The first thing he does when he comes home from the study room in the synagogue, is pick up a book. He reads it and sighs quietly. That means he's hungry.

I just read a review of a book about some lab worker who purposely unleashes a pandemic flu virus in the hopes of killing enough humans to save the environment

Academic joke making the rounds: Professor A: Have you read that book? Professor B: Read it? I haven't even taught it yet.

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You haven't been home before eleven this week!" This is what I mean by an insatiable interest. She probably has all my details logged somewhere in a little book.

Our life is a book to which we add daily, until suddenly we are finished, and then the manuscript is burned.

Some good souls found The Candidate cynical. I wonder what they'll think when they read this portrait of the real-life Jerry Brown... This is the book that could force the little fox into the open.

Pause while reading a book only in case of two things:1. To kiss2. To sip coffeeToo bad both are a luxury.

Life is a book that someone else is reading—and you, a key character—hence the need for continual conflict and resolution. We can't have any boring books.

The Baby Name book can be a very dangerous tool in the hands of a prolific author.

I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time......why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time, my greatest regret is how much I believed in the future.

A life is similar to a book. Some chapters are boring, a few emotional, a handful memorable, others saddening, one or two thoughtful and many full of smiles.

Education is helping people understand something they don't already understand. Or, more accurately, education is helping people (young or old) learn how to get an understanding that they didn't already have. Education is cultivating the life of the mind so that it knows how to grow in true understanding. That impulse was unleashed by God's inspiring a book with complex demanding paragraphs in it.

Nothing about the figure alludes to its identity apart from the book, which remains embedded in the rough-cut rock like the rest of its body. Only the apostle's left knee projects sufficiently to raise the shape of breaking out.

You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book.

I want to know one thing, the way to heaven; how to land safe on that happy shore. God Himself has condescended to teach the way; for this end He came from heaven. He hath written it down in a book. Give me that book! At any price give me the Book of God!

He felt himself at last beginning to be a teacher, which is simply a man to whom his book is true, to whom is given a dignity of art that has little to do with his foolishness or weakness or inadequacy as a man.

It hardly mattered to him that [his] book was forgotten and that it served no use; and the question of its worth at any time seemed almost trivial...He let his fingers riffle through the pages and felt a tingling, as if those pages were alive… The fingers loosened, and the book they had held moved slowly and then swiftly across the still body and fell into the silence of the room.

He felt himself at last beginning to be a teacher, which was simply a man to whom his book is true, to whom is given a dignity of art that has little to do with his foolishness or weakness or inadequacy as a man. It was a knowledge of which he could not speak, but one which changed him, once he had it, so that no one could mistake its presence.

When he held it in his hands his fingers seemed to come alive; they trembled so that he could scarcely open it. He turned the first few pages and saw the dedication: "To W.S.

I suppose a book is still a book, even if no one but the author and his wife reads it," she said.