Quotes About Book

It was all so crazy... as weird as finding out that someone had written a book about my life or something.

But Dr. Stadler, this book was not intended to be read by scientists. It was written for that drunken lout. What do you mean? For the general public. But, good God! The feeblest imbecile should be able to see the glaring contradictions in every one of your statements. Let us put it this way, Dr. Stadler. The man who doesn't see that, deserves to believe all my statements.

And even with the book closed, the voices do not stop--there are echoes and reverberations that seem to leap off the pages and mischievously leave the novel tingling in our ears.

I had never intended the book to serve as a campaign manifesto; I just wanted to present my ideas about the current state of American politics in an interesting way and sell enough copies to justify my sizable advance.

Yeah, Erik. You're about as sensitive as a toilet seat, Horatio said. Angie giggled. That's not original. I got it from Holden Caulfield. Who's he? Angie asked. A character in a book. [i]The Catcher In The Rye[/i]. (pg. 69)

The notebook from the tobacco stand was the beginning of hope: a prisoner's plan for escape. Its empty pages would be the book of everything, miraculous and unending like the sea at night, a heartbeat that never stops. Salomé for her part was not worried about running out of books, only of having her clothes go out of fashion.

A book deal, Christ on a bike, quote unquote.

a book called the Golden Legend, compiled by the Dominican monk Jacobus of Voragine in 1265. Prior to the Protestant Reformation, this was the most widely read book in all of Christendom

I have been referring to a man named Apollonius, who came from the town of Tyana. He was a pagan—that is, a polytheistic worshiper of the many Roman gods—and a renowned philosopher of his day. His followers thought he was immortal. We have a book written about him by his later devotee Philostratus.

Having written extensively about the practice of mindfulness in A Gradual Awakening I suggest that you refine your practice with this book as well as Jack Kornfield's excellent A Path with Heart. We

The term paradigm shift was introduced by Thomas Kuhn in his highly influential landmark book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.

Groucho Marx once said he found television very educational. "Every time someone turns it on," he said, "I go in the other room to read a book.

If you occasionally wonder how I know about some of the events I describe in this book, I don't. I have found that--just as in real life--imagination sometimes has to stand in for experience.

And now Dr. Phil's latest book, Here's Some More Advice I Pulled Out of My Ass. —David Letterman

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All printed forms and tools in this book are readily downloadable

The tradition of the commonplace book contains a central tension between order and chaos, between the desire for methodical arrangement, and the desire for surprising new links of association.

I feel as if when you love a book it becomes a part of you whether you have it on your shelves or not.

A bad book about the love of God remains a bad book.

Being a stranger was like being dead, and brought to mind how, in a book he had read that most folks misunderstood one common state: The flip side of love is indifference, not hate.

I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.

There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over.

I've always wanted to write a song that goes, "I love you" and a book that goes, "Something happened." Something very direct.

That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it.