Books And Reading Quotations | Page 3

Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable.

Four years at West Point and plenty of books and schooling will learn a man a great deal, It won't learn him the river.

It integrates everything that is important to them: games, friends, sports, e-mail, music, books, movies and, when they have time, homework,

It includes 200 recipes all in one book and saves having to cut recipes from magazines and storing them somehow.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations.

It is a great thing for him to have read so many books. You just don't usually hear that about a first-grader.

I think the newspaper headline might have over-exaggerated the comments in the book,

I think the image I had in my head from the book -- they've captured it.

We did wine-tasting in the morning and spent night after night looking at books of wallpaper.

Most of the untranscribed and unpublished manuscripts in the book popped out of boxes at me when I wasn't looking for them; I picked them up out of the corner of my eye.