Books And Reading Quotations

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

I mean to say, this is the book and I really loathe it and I can't imagine what a nice Jewish boy like me ever, how I ever got into this dreadful trade.

Many women have told me they remember where they were when they read the book, and how they felt suddenly that what they really thought or felt about things made sense.

My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine - everybody drinks water.

They lard their lean books with the fat of others work.

The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.

The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.

Ulysses could have done with a good editor. You know people are always putting Ulysses in the top 10 books ever written but I doubt that any of those people were really moved by it.

Books are a finer world within the world.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

The point of this book was to explore the paradoxes and difficulties of the period.

There are books on HTML, JavaScript, Java, ActiveX, and all sorts of other geeky subjects. But not only don't you need to understand these things in order to set up a Web site; you can read a dozen such books, and you still won't know everything you need to do.

We're in favor of any program that can give our books more exposure.

Where one burns books, one will soon burn people.

When I was a cook and 24 years old... I read the kinds of books that were the inspiration to understanding the value of simplicity in cooking.

We're going to find the best books for Pasco County. I'm not foreseeing any issues.

What's not to like? I love fantasy books. I love magic and dragons.

We're going to have the first one, and then we'll see how it goes. We started the Texas Book Festival six years ago in Austin, and it's become institutionalized as an annual event at the Texas capitol. So I expect this will be very successful here.

Usually it's someone who's taking rare books where they have some marketability and hope for huge profits.

We're basing our negotiation on what the company is providing us. We're continually monitoring the books and their bookings.

We're basing our negotiation on what the company is providing us, ... We're continually monitoring the books and their bookings.

Would I expect anything different from the Bush administration? No. They will cook the books for whatever they want.

We are going to look at the books and try to make the adjustments for tomorrow.

There are a lot of revelations in this book. The proposals discussed here provided an early glimmering of how the white South would treat blacks for the next century.

The reality is, just like with adult books, a big name makes for an easier booking. Any time you're booking an author for a four-and-a-half to five-minute segment, if you're dealing with someone who's done television or comes with a track record, they are a known quantity. They know they have to have a funny or a touching story.

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.

When I explained the premise of the book -- that it wasn't going to be a quickie kiss-and-tell but a serious work where I use his life in baseball to tell a larger story ... he said he didn't have any interest in taking part,

This program will help users discover more books, publishers sell more books and authors to ultimately write more books.

There are very good laws on the books. What's important is that those laws are enforced aggressively.

When you read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in YOU than there was before.

When I was a ten-year-old book worm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love

When you count all the obscure monographic books, there have been many. I probably have most of them in my library.

We're looking at books, movies and TV shows that have strong characters from the past that we can take and build upon.

Let's be direct here. These books were cooked by Lay and the other top executives who put hundreds of millions of dollars in their pockets, while the employees of Enron were victimized and hundreds of thousands of other investors lost billions of dollars.

Libraries and books have always been a part of my life and have made a difference in my life. I have always had a passion for books, both reading and collecting.

Librarians are an essential and vital bridge to the reader, ... As book lovers, librarians introduce readers to books every day. I think it's essential that librarians accentuate reading for pleasure and have a solid understanding, respect, even affection for popular fiction.

Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books

Many professors don't realize they can just buy the book. We need to create a reminder system for faculty.

Several times I concluded that there was too much detail; always I returned to continue and enjoy the book.

Several of our trading books were on the wrong side of interest rates. It was a bunch of positions that didn't work out.

She told us she was in suspense (while writing the book) too, as if she was reading it.

She's very young. Already, she's becoming famous for the number of books she's written. Her latest book got starred reviews in the journals, so people are beginning to know her.

So many teenage books say, 'This is in your voice, this is about you,' and that's great. We really need that. But we also need books that say, 'This is also for you, but you need to come up here, to step up to this.

Since they are nonperforming assets, banks generally want to get them off their books as quickly as possible.

She is here every Saturday, helping with services for over 20 years. She passes out prayer books, helps people in wheelchairs. If someone has a problem or acts out, she is there to calm them down.

She read a lot of books on it.

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.

Most of the titles are quotes from books or movies.

Mike Royko, of course a famous local journalist, in one of his books about Mayor Daley claimed that not only did the mayor not want the expressway going through Bridgeport, but he also wanted to keep a specific divider between the whites and the blacks. Of course the Daley administration at the time denied that and said they wanted to get rid of an inelegant turn in the expressway.

My four-year-old daughter is soon going to be old enough to look at the children's books upstairs. I don't want her to accidentally read something she's not supposed to.

One of the Walsh tenets that he says repeatedly in his book, is that in his offense 50 percent of all the passing yardage should come on yards after the catch. So, if that's what you're banking on, if there's not much yards after catch, then you have a lot of short throws, a lot of catches for minimal yardage that don't amount to a great deal of production.

Obviously, we've only seen parts of things. And the book itself doesn't come out until the end of the month, but we'll review everything that there is to look at.

My first day here, just like my first day at Alabama, I went and got the record books and looked it all up. It was like, 'OK, how hard is it going to be for me to get this thing?' I started setting goals to get them fast.

My dad was fascinated with sundials. He photographed hundreds of them and wrote a book about them. He designed a Nye family dial that kept time at our house in Washington, DC.

More people play video games than watch movies, read books, listen to music and watch TV combined. We're doing everything we can to have the industry come of age.

My heart is a gypsy - continuously searching for a home, fighting within itself, wondering whether it is weak or even right for that matter to be searching in the first place. Lonliness is what it feels like...

My grandparents had a house full of books. They were both fluent in several languages. My grandfather was a scholar in biblical literature, and my grandmother was a poet. They planted a seed that grew when I went to college and took some classics classes.

My dad has a book shop in England, and some people came in there the other day to buy books who were from Ozona. There can't be many people from Ozona.

Now you understand the Oriental passion for tea," said Japhy. "Remember that book I told you about the first sip is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy.

Now who do you think cooked these books? Some janitor or low-level employees?

Obviously, I'm not gonna read the book. Hey, I didn't even want to read my book.

Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators.

Nobody's taught me. I read ... some poker book I checked out of the library. I read about it so I'd have some idea of the rules of the game, so I wouldn't make a fool out of myself.

REVELATION, n. A famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing.

Permutation after permutation has been tried. We have tried, and I have tried every move -- in the book and outside it -- to make sure this agreement worked.

On the Road' is a seminal book that gave voice to a whole generation -- capturing its hunger for experience, unwillingness to accept imposed truths and dissatisfaction with the status quo. It is as modern today as it was four decades ago.

I was so sad to read recently that 32 percent of fourth- graders say they never read a book for pleasure,

I wouldn't want to see people giving one company hundreds of thousands of books and thinking it doesn't matter, when in fact it does.

I would encourage people to get a copy of the book. It's a good book to have.

If we don't do this, the books that will get written will be wrong, like the books that have been written so far. I am innocent of all of these charges and I will fight for that for a long time.

If we had stuck with that cover concept for the remaining books in the series, I think it would have failed. But we were quick to respond, and it's been successful.

If they read two books then two books will be given to 'First Book,'

If they want to be someone who is not loathsome, they'll have to wait till the next book.

I didn't write the book in sequence. If I got stuck I started a new chapter. I didn't know where it was going, but eventually I figured it out,

I didn't want to make the book as it was, I wanted to make the book as I remembered it.

I didn't want to just go from memory. So I did research, getting Emily Post books and making notes. I really wanted to know that what I was sharing with the girls was correct. Every year they invite me back, and every year the program becomes more elaborate. I keep adding more subjects.

I bring in books that are interesting to the students but I also try to challenge them a little bit. I love this program because my grandchildren are too little to read to me yet.

Bud's kind of a perfectionist. He was always changing his swing, reading golf magazines and books to get tips on ways to improve.

Because of the Olympics, we decided the books had to have something to do with competition, teamwork and sportsmanship.

I'm amazed that Fitzgerald's books now sell millions, ... Nobody believed in him then. It was so sad. He was about 40, but I thought of him as an old man.

I'm also a fan of the books, long before I got into the movie.

I look forward to Alex's return to the races. The book isn't over ... there are still more chapters to be written to this story. As always, the health of the horse is most important.

I love books. I've always been involved with books and I wanted to help the library in any way possible. I'm an avid reader.

I have a piece of evidence the book doesn't have with regards to the Knights Templar. You'll have to come to the lecture to see what it is.

I had written several books about Kansas railroads and related places to see.

I feel like every other book has been a small piece of me. This is every piece of me.

I forgot it. I'm happy and excited. I'm honored to have my name in the books with some other great players.

From comic books to radio to TV to the movies, everyone knows this character. And they have an idea of who he should be. Those can be big expectations.

If a person desires to understand clearly the sacred books and scriptural texts of India, to imbibe their message, he must learn the Sanskrit language; he cannot avoid that responsibility and that duty.

From the German verb tinzelle- literally, "to book a turkey into 1,200 theaters and make one's money before word of mouth hits.

For the tie-breaker, we go to the books and it's broken down into runners to third, runners to second, runners to first and hits. We were tied at third base 5-5, then won it 7-5 at second.

If it's not in the books, then they become something that's simply hard and harsh and violent and quite unrelenting. That's neither the kind of book that I would like to read, nor that I would like to write. It's people's feelings that interest me.

He has a small 13-inch TV, eight CDs, six books.

He himself has said you can follow the patterns and real events in his life by reading his books, which doesn't mean you can figure out his life by reading his books. Simply that the events in his life are the starting points for the books that he writes. But that's just the beginning.

He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays -- cynical but hopeful.

Having book smarts versus street smarts seemed like a great idea but it changed the tenor of the show, ... It affected the reaction among the show's usually wealthy and well-educated audience. I don't think people wanted to see potty-mouthed competitors.

He might be a very clever man by nature for aught I know, but he laid so many books upon his head that his brains could not move

Whatever books you may read, you cannot realize the Divine merely by intellectual effort. One must put it into practice. That sense of oneness can only be promoted by the practice of love and not by any other means.

The people who are always monkeying with these great books to make them fully (comprehensible) have no friend in me, for in their realm the fully comprehensible is not worth comprehending

We've been underdogs most of the season. We had books ranking us 15th (in the Big East), saying we had the worst backcourt in the nation and look what we did. If they select us, I have no doubt that my team will go to the tournament ready to play.