Book Quotes

You’re forgetting… we never get in trouble in that class. Remember I gave Mr. Hendry that lap dance last year. I’m thinking he’s expecting one this year as well. - Carol

You see, one of the best things about reading is that you'll always have something to think about when you're not reading.

Motherhood doesn't have a nationality

Some people say, ‘Do not judge the book by its cover!’ Well, I say not to judge at all. People can say anything they want to say, but for me, cover does matter.

The function of a book is to provide a reading experience.

Koto taka AC second class?

I will write one book that will change entire humankind if only you have enough guts to read my previous ones.

I love the longueurs of a book even if they seem pointless because you can get a peek into the author’s mind, a glimpse of their creative soul.

Ultimately, the universe doesn't care about us. Time doesn't care about us. That's why we have to care about each other.

When you go into the psych ward, you can’t have anything with you except colored pencils. You can’t have any electronics. If you have a drawstring on your pants, a belt, shoelaces, a hood, or extra-long fabric, your very clothes are ripped off your back. They search you with a metal detector like you’re a criminal, doing everything short of putting their hand up your butt. Before you go through those cold, automatic, barred doors, you know your life is not your own. This is especially true during the first week, while you stare at florescent lighting and wait impatiently for your meds to kick in. I wish I had remembered the psych ward prison cell a week ago. If I had, maybe I wouldn’t be wearing this hospital gown that they gave me until I can get more compliant clothes.

Loosers want it but only through the easy way. If action taking were like reading a story book, loosers would only love to open the picture pages

It is everything that makes a man. It is everything that makes this man. And that is who I am alive, and that is who I am dead.

I hated the place, Tommy. I hated every second of every day. And it was all … your … fault!

Wake up. Be thankful. For whatever happens on this day, you are endlessly given the chance to start again-to be alive. And all of us should wish for that.

Getting married early is like wrestling with calculus on a merry trip to Las Vegas!

Spiritual assets make us more resilient to the trauma and difficult experiences life inevitably throws at us.Since spiritual assets bring us closer to our Higher Power, we do not face the difficulties alone, and we may find a greater purpose and meaning within the stress & trauma. When we lean on our spiritual assets to get us through, the traumatic event becomes less destructive. Instead, it becomes transformative; we see the difficulties in a new light.

Turning a manuscript into a book is easy getting the manuscript ready to become a book is hard.

I always thought 'love at first sight' was silly and incredibly irresponsible. Then, you came along and you flipped it on me. I understand it now. I do! ~Sheriff Derrick Decker

You are a success and nothing will stop your shining!

Lost in a book is a great place to be found.

Life's like the piano and the violin, it's about how smart you could play the melodies to make a good harmony.

Things change, friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody.

Yes, its hard to write. But its harder not to.

A good man lives for the joy in life and the happiness of being alive, not shackled to the wants of the future or the regrets of the past.

Now, go, wirte it before them in a table and note it in a book, that it may be fore the time to come for ever and ever. Isiah 30:8

Henry had written a novel because there was a hole in him that needed filling, a question that needed answering, a patch of canvas that needed painting—that blend of anxiety, curiosity and joy that is at the origin of art—and he had filled the hole, answered the question, splashed colour on the canvas, all done for himself, because he had to. Then complete strangers told him that his book had filled a hole in them, had answered a question, had brought colour to their lives. The comfort of strangers, be it a smile, a pat on the shoulder or a word of praise, is truly a comfort.

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it or offer your own version in return.

I have an idea for a new book. It's a novel about a beautiful yet sensitive author whose spirit is crushed by her domineering editor. Do you like it?

I am not afraid of giving bad reviews. If I don't like a book, I don't like it. Period. I don't do promotion

We are different, my friend. We are visionaries. A monkey looks up and sees and banana, and that is as far as he looks. But a visionary looks up and sees the moon.

she thought that 9Am was in the middle of the night

There’s something about the amount of time that has gone by that makes her feel like a survivor. There’s something in the way that following her heart, despite it being perpetually broken, has made her feel like a success. And something about letting go of pain and letting love in has made her feel happy again.

If you don't write, then read.

Well, everything's a lesson, isn't it? Learning all the time, as you could say.

To me, many of what seemed to be Bible contradictions only pointed to the grace of Christ. It is not so much a rule book on how to be holy as it is a prophecy of the One who can make you holy. In this, I see God as the least bigoted of all in existence: While men always, in their hearts, delight in vengeance for being wronged, God is the only Being who wants to free you from the penalty of His own laws.

A book is a product of a pact with the Devil that inverts the Faustian contract, he'd told Allie. Dr Faustus sacrificed eternity in return for two dozen years of power; the writer agrees to the ruination of his life, and gains (but only if he's lucky) maybe not eternity, but posterity, at least. Either way (this was Jumpy's point) it's the Devil who wins.

Once upon a time, you dragged a part of me into the world of the dead, and now Naoko has dragged another pat of me into that world.

Destruction wasn't when you chose to destroy me.It was when i let you.

Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems.

A child's imagination can be found in the heart of a good book.

Everyone has honour and a good name. It is the only sacred thing that every person has.

I spend money on convenient, comfortable and luxurious things; I spend money on books too.

If you write a kid's book only for kids, then you have failed.

If a book doesn’t inspire you to read more, it was not worth read.

«A book can't take the place of a man!»«I disagree. A book can give you most things a relationship can. It can make you laugh, it can make you cry, it can transport you to different worlds and teach you things. You can even take it out to dinner. And if bores you, you can move on. Which is pretty much what happens in real life.»

I know that when I read the Bible, my life is transformed. I think differently. I act differently. I talk differently.

I’d stare up at the sky, reminding myself that Caleb and I were both underneath it. That wherever he was, whatever he was doing, we would always share something.

Although I was so big, and so rough in many ways, loved hunting, fighting, horseback riding, I loved the piano above everything else...The mountain man's obsession is to get a glimpse of the sea.

Faithfulness is my promise to love you forever

Often something looks, or is felt to look, "better" in a photograph. Indeed, it is one of the functions of photography to improve the normal appearance of things. (Hence, one is always disappointed by a photograph that is not flattering.)

Once in a very long time you come across a book that is far, far more than the ink, the glue and the paper, a book that seeps into your blood. With such a book the impact isn't necessarily obvious at first...but the more you read it and re-read it, and live with it, and travel with it, the more it speaks to you, and the more you realize that you cannot live without that book. It's then that the wisdom hidden inside, the seed, is passed on.

Any change that shortens the path between a writer and reader is a win for the book world.

In a well-ordered universe...camping would take place indoors.

How can I survive without a book to read?

I’m proud to be a writer. I’m doing the job all my heroes did.

I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves.

Don't let any situation intimidate you anymore, don't accept defeat anymore.

A book is not complete till it reaches a reader.

An idea can change your fate in a wonderful way but you must first let the idea to touch your mind and your heart! No closed book can ever be your hero!

If you surround yourself with the good and righteous, they can only raise you up. If you surround yourself with the others, they will drag you down into the doldrums of mediocrity, and they will keep you there, but only as long as you permit it.