A book cover is a distillation. It is a haiku of the story. — Chip Kidd
Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn't catch their eye they won't bother to read what's inside". — Marilyn Monroe
Standardization, instead of individualization. Cheap books, instead of private press editions. Active literature, instead of passive leather bindings. — Jan Tschichold
The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait. — Anatole Broyard
One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures. — George W. Bush
Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development. — Dorothy L. Sayers
The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous. — Antonia Fraser
Sometimes people wrap long books around simple ideas. — Naval Ravikant
Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head. — Jasper Fforde
The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book. — Mickey Spillane
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. — Gilbert Highet
When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. — John Berger
Books are humanity in print. — Barbara Tuchman
Open books, not legs. Blow minds, not guys — Drake
Don't judge a book by its cover 'til you've read the book. — Jamie Lee Curtis
My life is an open book. With illustrations. — Hugh Hefner
Book Covers Image Quotes
There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's book and write your own.
Book Covers Quotes
Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
We take it for granted we know the whole story - We judge a book by its cover and read what we want between selected lines. — Axl Rose
You can't judge a book by its cover, can you? — Cao Cao
There comes a day when you realize turning the page is the best feeling in the world, because you realize there is so much more to the book than the page you were stuck on.
Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people-- people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book. — E. B. White
We should never judge a day by its weather. — Dick Van Dyke
We judge ourselves by our intentions. And others by their actions. — Stephen Covey
Kindness is like snow - it beautifies everything it covers.
The best evidence of the Bible's being the word of God is to be found between its covers. It proves itself. — Charles Hodge
Many of you might already recognize me as the guy in the question-mark suits appearing in the late night TV commercials and on the cover of educational books and CDs. — Matthew Lesko
Those who want to burn books are either afraid of the ideas contained within the covers or they haven't the courage to stand up for the views which they themselves profess to hold. — Tommy Douglas
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. — Albert Schweitzer
The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done. — Jean Piaget
Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way. — Martin Luther King
Each time you read a book, a tree smiles knowing there's life after death.
We must use our lives to make the world a better place to live, not just to acquire things. That is what we are put on the earth for. — Dolores Huerta
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. — Soren Kierkegaard
There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be. — Fulton J. Sheen
The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.
It's okay not to be perfect. Your imperfections are what make you YOU. And at the end of the day, people like real people, flaws and all. At least I do. — Camila Cabello
For what we are about to see next, we must enter quietly into the realm of genius! — Gene Wilder
I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn't matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together. — Julia Roberts
You alone are the judge of your worth and your goal is to discover infinite worth in yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks. — Deepak Chopra
Cover Song Quotes
Marc Almond has done a couple of covers, a few people in Europa have done them. I own all the publishing. It's never really been addressed, as I haven't had the time to go out and tout the songs. — Peter Hammill
It's not fun to get out of bed early in the morning. When the alarm goes off, it doesn't sing you a song: it hits you in the head with a baseball bat. So how do you respond to that? Do you crawl underneath your covers and hide? Or do you get up, get aggressive, and attack the day? — Jocko Willink
Sinatra was pretty astute - he used the best songwriters around, he used all the resources, he covered every song from the era basically. — Martin Fry
You dont have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
I want to find out more about how the Backstreet Boys get their incredible sound. I've got both their albums and I would love to cover one of their songs — Tom Jones
It was just a mercy f**k, as it was our 30th anniversary. They gave Grammy to us for a cover of somebody else's song. It would have a lot more meaning if it had been for one of our songs. — Lemmy Kilmister
The Master said, If out of the three hundred songs I had to take one phrase to cover all my teachings, I would say 'Let there be no evil in your thoughts.' — Confucius
The tiny seed knew that in order to grow it needed to be dropped in dirt, covered in darkness, and struggle to reach the light.
I try to explain that to my kids - the experience of going to a record store, flipping through racks and finding that album cover that intrigues you - but my kids don't want to know about it. They download the one song on the album they like, and pay their 99 cents. — Jon Bon Jovi
It's very helpful to start with something that's true. If you start with something that's false, you're always covering your tracks. Something simple and true, that has a lot of possibilities, is a nice way to begin. — Paul Simon
Bob Dylan's first couple of records in the 60's weren't considered cover records, but he only wrote one or two original songs on each album. — John Mellencamp
David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music. — Eddie Van Halen
What Are Book Quotes
Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence. — Edmond de Goncourt
Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are. — Fernando Pessoa
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go. — Dr. Seuss
I went away in my head, into a book.
No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves - but what the teachers are themselves. — Rudyard Kipling
We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become. — Ursula K. Le Guin
I am very happy to be alive. There is much fun to be had. Music, movies, books, paintings, drawingsI hope you have these things where you are. If you have them, what does the real world matter anyway? — John Frusciante
That's what books are for... to travel without moving an inch. — Jhumpa Lahiri
Even today, what to study and how to study it are more important than where to study it and for how long. The best teachers are on the Internet. The best books are on the Internet. The best peers are on the Internet. The tools for learning are abundant. It’s the desire to learn that’s scarce. — Naval Ravikant
No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness against our inner judge, who keeps book on our shortcomings and transgressions. We need people to convince us that we are not as bad as we think we are. — Eric Hoffer
Our children are watching us all the time. They learn much more by what they see than what they hear. Moral science is never learnt from books, but from watching those who live around us. The world will follow your example and not your advice. — Mahatria Ra
Judging A Book By Its Cover Quotes
Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Never judge someone
By the way he looks
Or a book by the way it's covered;
For inside those tattered pages,
There's a lot to be discovered — Stephen Cosgrove
Impute
People DO judge a book by its cover. We may have the best product, the highest quality, the most useful software etc.; if we present them in a slipshod manner, they will be perceived as slipshod; if we present them in a creative, professional manner, we will impute the desired qualities. — Mike Markkula
A book is a dream that you hold in your hand.
We can't keep thinking of gay people as being ostracised; we can't keep thinking of Muslim people as being [ostracised] because of the fundamentalism that occurs in Islam. Muslim people have to do something about speaking up about it. We can't judge a book by its cover. — Elton John
Many times I have learned that, you never judge a book by its cover. Like people, it is the inside that counts. — Shannon Hale
If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone? — E. A. Bucchianeri
WIth freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy.
You can't judge a book by its cover, though. People think I'm bad because I got tattoos or snort a little cocaine here and there. They think I'm a killer. But what if I wasn't a killer? Then what? Don't be tripping on me. I pay my damn taxes, OK? Chill. — Gunplay
You cannot judge a book by its contents. — Jon Stewart
I don't know who Ozzy is. I wake up a new person every day. — Ozzy Osbourne
Books are not like people. Books are safe. — Kathryn Erskine
Album Covers Quotes
'American Horror' goes for a very specific kind of Seventies suburban downer ambience - 'Flowers in the Attic' paperbacks, Black Sabbath album covers and late-night flicks like 'Let's Scare Jessica to Death.' It even has 'Go Ask Alice'-era urban legends. — Rob Sheffield
I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination. I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention. — Bruce Springsteen
I met The Beatles and Stones at the same time, because Michael Cooper was doing several of their album covers. — Terry Southern
It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. Bet it is never gone.
Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized. — James Wolcott
The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover. — Bruce Dickinson
Michael Giles the first drummer of King Crimson, never agreed to the name King Crimson. But then, if you'd knew Michael, you would know he didn't agree to the album cover either. So maybe Michael didn't agree to the point of definition with many things. — Robert Fripp
Like all bands, the first two albums are always the ones most written about, and the most covered. When a band gets to their third of fourth album, the story of the band has already been told. — Kelly Jones
Just like zillions of children, album covers educated and informed me, and certainly did I later transpose organically, rather than by intent, those principles both in fashion design and photography. — Hedi Slimane
I hate album covers where people are just smiling so big. It's like a neon sign that says PLEASE COME BUY ME. — Kenny Chesney
I believe that music is another form of news. Music is another form of journalism to me so I have to cover all the areas with my album. — Lil Wayne
Magazine Covers Quotes
While it may be difficult to get on the front cover of a major magazine, you can create marketing strategies and opportunities by being featured in a popular niche blog. — Lewis Howes
Every video I'm in, every magazine cover, they stretch you; they make you perfect. It's not real life. — Lady Gaga
It was never something I had in my mind to do – a show on Nickelodeon, let alone being consider a teen idol. It’s odd. I remember my mom picking up a magazine with me on the cover and saying, ‘You don’t know how weird this is for me.’ I told her, ‘You don’t know how weird it is for me!’ — Logan Henderson
You see someone on the street wearing an outfit and then it's on the cover of a magazine. I love. But, you know, I'm Australian, so I'm not too flashy or glitzy. — Rose Byrne
I have had more magazine covers in the last 25 years than I have had in my whole elongated career. [...] Today I am in a territory that business considers unmarketable: age and white hair. Slowly, however, I started to own that territory little by little because I stood up for age. — Carmen Dell'Orefice
I think women see me on the cover of magazines and think I never have a pimple or bags under my eyes. You have to realize that's after two hours of hair and makeup, plus retouching. Even I don't wake up looking like Cindy Crawford. — Cindy Crawford
My very first magazine cover was the National Enquirer. — Carrie Underwood
The Rockwell magazine cover was more a part of the American reality than a record of it. — Arthur Danto
He is not someone who went off to play in Europe and only a few Americans follow. He has the potential to be on magazine covers and more newspaper coverage. — Lamar Hunt
There are so many negatives in our society. To be on the cover of a magazine these days, you have to have been through drug rehab three times. What message is this giving to young people? But there are positives in our society. And I try to surround myself with good-natured, positive people. — Mary Lou Retton
I just read a book on how to get control of my time and therefore of my life. My time has always had a tendency to slip away from me and do as it pleases. My life follows it, like a puppy after an untrained bird dog. Come night, my life shows up, usually covered with mud and full of stickers, exhausted but grinning happily. My time never returns. — Patrick F. McManus
A library is where ideas sleep between covers, waiting for you to discover them. — Lois Ehlert
Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve. — Carol Shields
When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own. — John Berger
I believe that the Bible is to be understood and received in the plain and obvious meaning of its passages; for I cannot persuade myself that a book intended for the instruction and conversion of the whole world should cover its true meaning in any such mystery and doubt that none but critics and philosophers can discover it. — Daniel Webster
The dog always dies. Go to the library and pick out a book with an award sticker and a dog on the cover. Trust me, that dog is going down. — Gordon Korman
People come, people go – they’ll drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favorite book. When you finally close the cover, the characters have told their story and you start up again with another book, complete with new characters and adventures. Then you find yourself focusing on the new ones, not the ones from the past. — Nicholas Sparks
Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain. — Eckhart Tolle
George W. Bush was passionate about AIDS. And we had a 10-minute talk at the interval of a concert at the Kennedy Center about AIDS. And I was astonished about how well-informed he was and his commitment to AIDS. And so it's the typical thing of don't judge a book by its cover until you have read the book. — Elton John
I had already done a lot of research for Rough Riders, keeping notebooks and old photographs. Some of the books were antiques for that time period, with the covers falling off. — Tom Berenger
I think too many comic book covers are way too busy, crammed with far too much information, both visual and verbal, that just becomes a dull noise. — Chip Kidd
I had always been told the bible was a book about love, but I couldn't find enough love in it to fill a salt shaker. God is not love in the bible; God is vengeance. There is no other book between whose covers life is so cheap. — Ruth Hurmence Green
I still have a steady stream of book cover work. I'm grateful for it. Viva le book! — Chip Kidd
I’m interested in so many different things and I’d like to cover a lot of territory. I’m trying to see my show as the Sunday Times. You have the Arts & Leisure section, you have the Op-Ed page, you have the Book Review...even the Style section has those wonderful essays about relationships. — Joy Behar
The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter. — Dave Mustaine
People are going to wonder why you're trying to be different; it's just a natural instinct. If I was to walk down the street in a kilt, then dudes would wonder why I'm doing that, they'd think I was different or gay. It's natural for people to point fingers. That's my whole reason for trying to switch things up; don't judge a book by it's cover. — Kid Cudi
What art can paint or gild any object in after life with the glow which nature gives to the first baubles of childhood? St. Peter's cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Story of O is a fairy tale for another world, a world where some part of me lived for a long time, a world that no longer exists except between the covers of a book. — Anne Desclos
You never forget the books you loved as a kid. You never forget the poems you memorized, the first book you read until the cover fell off, the book you read hidden from your mother. What an honor to hold hands with a child's imagination in this way. — Meg Medina
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