A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. — Robertson Davies
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors. — Charles Baudelaire
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors. — Henry Ward Beecher
In a good book the best is between the lines. — Swedish Proverbs
A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. — Indian Proverbs
Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable. — Louisa May Alcott
A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful. — Maurice Sendak
There's so much more to the book than the page you were stuck on. — Zayn Malik
A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way. — Caroline Gordon
Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly. — Francis Bacon
Short Great Book Quotes
Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly. — Cornelia Funke
Only one book is worth reading: the heart. — Ajahn Chah
A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. — Henry Miller
A book is a gift you can open again and again. — Garrison Keillor
To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. — Herman Melville
The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. — James McCosh
A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it. — Mark Twain
Reading is very good. And you can quote me! — Stan Lee
A book is a magical thing that lets you travel to far-away places without ever leaving your chair. — Katrina Mayer
A library book, I imagine, is a happy book. — Cornelia Funke
Top 10 Great Book Quotes
The great book, always open and which we should make an effort to read, is that of Nature. — Antonio Gaudi
We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement. — B. F. Skinner
Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature. — Antonio Gaudi
One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world. — Malala Yousafzai
A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world. — Louis Pasteur
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing. — Moliere
That Book, the Bible, accounts for the supremacy of England. England has become great & happy by the knowledge of the true God through Jesus Christ. — Queen Victoria
Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused. — Darren Aronofsky
A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it. — Edward P. Morgan
Great Book Image Quotes
Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood. — John Green
We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. — B. F. Skinner
A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone.
Great Gatsby Book Quotes
Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
You can read any book you may like, but a great one would change the way you look at life.
That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
My mother and my father were illiterate immigrants from Russia. When I was a child they were constantly amazed that I could go to a building and take a book on any subject. They couldn't believe this access to knowledge we have here in America. They couldn't believe that it was free. — Kirk Douglas
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Life is a book, and every day that we live is a new page, so paint every page of your life with amazing colors of good deeds and amazing adventures. — Prince Ali Salman Aga Khan Aly Khan
Every time I got 'Amazing Spider-Man' or 'Fantastic Four' or another book firmly on the rails, we got pulled into some big event book or crossover and it cost momentum and messed badly with the pacing and structure of the book. — J. Michael Straczynski
People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of. — Paulo Coelho
Everyone needs some time to unwind. There are even coloring book clubs popping up in every state now, so it's not such an isolating experience. People are getting together specifically to color. It's amazing. — Alan Robert
Everyone praises Sachin Tendulkar. He may be a genius in his own right but in my book, Rahul Dravid is the artist. Dravid's defence tactics, his strokes, his cuts, his grace are truly amazing. I'd like to meet the chap sometime and take my hat off to him. — Peter O'Toole
They say there is no 'free lunch' in life. But there are free books! I still can't believe I can go to my local library and get just abut any book in the world - and I don't have to pay a dime!! It's amazing! The library is truly the greatest invention of our civilization. — Dan Gutman
I am always amazed by the novel angles that people come up with for kids' Christmas books. Even if a family is not religious, who could resist, say, "Olive, the Other Reindeer," about Olive the dog who thinks the song refers to her and heads for the North Pole to help Santa out? — Jabari Asim
I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from The Savior of the world is communicated to us through this Book. — Abraham Lincoln
There are a lot of good books around. People don't read any more. It's a sad state of affairs. Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. When you watch films it's someone else's vision, isn't it? — Lemmy Kilmister
One Best Book is Equal To Hundred Good Friends But One Good Friend is Equal To A Library. — Abdul Kalam
The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed. — Leo Tolstoy
I want to open myself. ... I want the light of God, I want the sweet love of Jesus. I danced for the Devil; I saw him, I wrote in his book; I go back to Jesus; I kiss His hand. I saw Sarah Good with the Devil. I saw Goody Osburn with the Devil. I saw Bridget Bishop with the Devil! — Abigail Williams
The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this. — Sandra Cisneros
Too much study of the scriptures does more harm than good. The important thing is to know the essence of the scriptures. After that, what is the need of books? One should learn the essence and then dive deep in order to realize God. — Ramakrishna
And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good. — John Steinbeck
Interesting Book Quotes
Everything interests me, but nothing holds me. — Fernando Pessoa
There are a couple of carp fishing books I've been reading. I'm very interested in that line of books, because I think they write very well, carp anglers, about the general environment. — Tom Felton
My advice for people interested in rucking: Start. Get any backpack you have. Fill it with something that weighs something. Water jugs, books, a dumbbell wrapped in a towel, etc. Walk. You'll get more out of every step. — Michael Easter
When I find something really interesting, I’ll reflect on it, research it, and then when I’m bored of it, I’ll drop it or I’ll flip to another book. — Naval Ravikant
In his book Modern Times, the historian Paul Johnson referred to Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini as the three devils of the twentieth century. Interestingly, Nietzshean dogma influenced each of them. — Ravi Zacharias
REGARDING THE MARCHING BAND: How much more interesting it would be to see a creeping band. — Demetri Martin
This time, there have been a lot of interesting discussions about the subject matter, and I've had a good time talking about it. And in some of the cases, I'm not just signing books - I'm showing slides and talking about the work — Leonard Nimoy
Now, I'll tell you something that might interest you. Casino Royale was the first Bond book that Ian Fleming ever wrote. And he couldn't get anybody to touch it, to publish it - he couldn't do anything about it at all. Nobody wanted to know. — Val Guest
My favorite books are a constantly changing list, but one favorite has remained constant: the dictionary. Is the word I want to use spelled practice or practise? The dictionary knows. The dictionary also slows down my writing because it is such interesting reading that I am distracted. — Beverly Cleary
I'm not interested in creating a book that is read once and then placed on the shelf and forgotten. I am very happy when people have worn out my books, or that they're held together by Scotch tape. — Richard Scarry
Great Author Quotes
If someone writes a great story, people praise the author, not the pen. People don't say, 'Oh what an incredible pen...where can I get a pen like this so I can write great stories?' Well, I am just a pen in the hands of the Lord. He is the author. All praise should go to him. — Keith Green
I have asked some of the great white chiefs where they get their authority to say to the Indian that he shall stay in one place, while he sees white men going where they please. They cannot tell me. — Chief Joseph
In Great Britain, an author published a book in which he claimed that Jesus Christ had children. Such statements don't trigger civil unrest and bloodshed in Europe. But write similar statements about Islam in Syria and you might see bloody uprisings. — Bashar al-Assad
Becoming an authority in your industry can be a great way to promote your business and help you better serve your clients. — Lewis Howes
I can’t write five words but that I change seven. — Dorothy Parker
All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Remarriage is or is not approved in shastra; I have no authority to speak on this subject. But I surely cannot go on without saying this much, that remarriage has helped a great deal in stopping crime in Fiji. — Totaram Sanadhya
Authority comes from creating remarkable content that actually helps people. — Brian Clark
For a servant of God to have authority in every sentence he utters, he must first suffer for the message he is to deliver. Without great tribulation, there is no great illumination. — John Sung
Great History Quotes
There is that great proverb — that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter. — Chinua Achebe
Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood. — Joseph Stalin
Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination. — Mae Jemison
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. — Harriet Tubman
Now is the time to understand more, so we fear less. — Marie Curie
It is the intense spirituality of India, and not any great political structure or social organisation that it has developed, that has enabled it to resist the ravages of time and the accidents of history. — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
In the history of the human race, those periods which later appeared as great have been the periods when the men and the women belonging to them had transcended the differences that divided them and had recognized in their membership in the human race a common bond. — Haile Selassie
The flags of the Confederate States of America were very important and a matter of great pride to those citizens living in the Confederacy. They are also a matter of great pride for their descendants as part of their heritage and history. — Winston Churchill
A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti. — Anthony Hopkins
The best images are the ones that retain their strength and impact over the years, regardless of the number of times they are viewed. — Anne Geddes
I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti — Thomas Harris
Since Star Wars, that film's success led to bigger budgets, more hardware, that the great movies like the ones I did, which were studio movies, are now independent movies. They range from half a million to several million, and a lot of those have very interesting roles. — Faye Dunaway
Kodak sells film, but they don't advertise film; they advertise memories. — Theodore Levitt
The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation. — Louise Brooks
To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script. — Alfred Hitchcock
Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die. — Francois Truffaut
I had seen the films out of World War II, the great 82nd Airborne, the 101st, and all of those of you in the greatest generation and the service that you had provided. — Hugh Shelton
Favourite Book Quotes
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand. — Mark Twain
He often envied people who hadn't read his favourite books. They had such happiness before them. — Charles Finch
When I was a child I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I loved losing myself in colourful and dramatic stories - and my absolute favourite was 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.' Everything about it electrified me, and when I re-read Roald Dahl's books as an adult it surprised me. — David Walliams
A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. — Roald Dahl
Successive generations of middle-class parents used to foist their own favourite books on their children. But some time in the late Eighties it began to wane - not because children had lost interest in adorable animals but because most of it was available on useful, pacifying video. — Peter York
I've always been interested in science - one of my favourite books is James Watson's 'Molecular Biology of the Gene.' — Bill Gates
Favorite Book Quotes
The Notebook ... that’s my favorite one. I’ve read that book 30 times. It gives a true depiction of two people that are in love. — Kevin Gates
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
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not. — Dr. Seuss
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book. — Marcel Proust
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book. — Marcel Proust
Pity the man who has a favorite restaurant, but not a favorite author. He's picked out a favorite place to feed his body, but he doesn't have a favorite place to feed his mind! — Jim Rohn
You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book? — Gabrielle Zevin
I was the biggest Harry Potter fan. I read all the books. Ron was always my favorite character, because I feel like I relate to him, like weve both got red hair, we both like sweets, weve both got lots of brothers and sisters. Ive got one brother and three sisters, and both scared of spiders. — Rupert Grint
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved. — Jack Kerouac
A WRINKLE IN TIME is one of my favorite books of all time. I've read it so often, I know it by heart. Meg Murry was my hero growing up. I wanted glasses and braces and my parents to stick me in an attic bedroom. And I so wanted to save Charles Wallace from IT. — Meg Cabot
Great Design Quotes
A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable. — Louis Kahn
To live our lives and miss that great purpose we were designed to accomplish is truly a sin. It is inconceivable that we could be bored in a world with so much wrong to tackle, so much ignorance to reach and so much misery we could alleviate — William Wilberforce
A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success. — Otto von Bismarck
We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can. — David Brainerd
One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again. — Renzo Piano
You can do a good ad without good typography, but you can't do a great ad without good typography. — Herb Lubalin
If you can design one thing, you can design everything. — Massimo Vignelli
The most important thing to remember is that you can wear all the greatest clothes and all the greatest shoes, but you’ve got to have a good spirit on the inside. That’s what’s really going to make you look like you’re ready to rock the world. — Alicia Keys
Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are. — Gianni Versace
I am going to design, in a great hurry, and I believe to build a station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc. etc. It is at Paddington, in cutting, and admitting of no exterior, all interior and all roofed in. — Isambard Kingdom Brunel
The prohibition of science would be contrary to the Bible, which in hundreds of places teaches us how the greatness and the glory of God shine forth marvelously in all His works, and is to be read above all in the open book of the heavens. — Galileo Galilei
I read when I get up in the morning, when I can during the day and every single evening. Most of my weekends are spent reading great books. Books are my constant companions. If you eat three times a day you'll be fed. But if you read three times a day you'll be wise. — Shimon Peres
We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre. — Dick Gregory
Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books, a distant memory of an offshore island, lost in the mist of time like Camelot, remembered kindly for its noble past. — Margaret Thatcher
In regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this Book. But for it we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare, here and hereafter, are found portrayed in it. — Abraham Lincoln
It’s better to read a great book slowly than to fly through a hundred books quickly. — Naval Ravikant
Why do you read many books? The great book is within your heart. Open the pages of this inexhaustible book, the source of all knowledge. You will know everything. — Sivananda
I believe it was God's will that we should come back, so that men might know the things that are in the world, since, as we have said in the first chapter of this book, no other man, Christian or Saracen, Mongol or pagan, has explored so much of the world as Messer Marco, son of Messer Niccolo Polo, great and noble citizen of the city of Venice. — Marco Polo
Ninety percent of the book variations have no great value, because either they contain mistakes or they are based on fallacious assumptions; just forget about the openings and spend all that time on the endings. — Jose Raul Capablanca
We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books. — Robert Maynard Hutchins
We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books. — Robert M. Hutchins
In the world of books, the mindset of the reader is of great importance. — Zimbabwean Proverbs
Wonderful!Hold Me Tight blends the best in research findings with practical suggestions from a caring and compassionate clinician. This fabulous book will be of great benefitto couples trying to find their way to better communication and deeper, more fulfilling ways of being with each other. Bravo! — Daniel J. Siegel
People read newspapers far more than they read the Word of God and then we wonder way America is in the mess she's in today. This is the Book that made America great, but since it's been kicked out, we've seen America go under and down. — Lester Roloff
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend. — Moliere
It is a great feeling to know that from a window I can go to books to cans of beer to past loves. And from these gather enough dream to sneak out a back door. — Gregory Corso
If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, "There lived a great people-a black people-who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The comic book world is so dangerous, you know what I mean? You say one thing and people - they're ravenous - they are very opinionated fans. But they're great fans. — Chris Evans
Don't settle. Don't finish crappy books. If you don't like the menu, leave the restaurant. If you're not on the right path, get off it. — Chris Brogan
The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty. — Theodore Parker
And when the book of Daniel was showed to him (Alexander the Great) wherein Daniel declared that one of the Greeks should destroy the empire of the Persians, he supposed that himself was the person intended. — Josephus
We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things. — Joseph Joubert
When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories. — Danica McKellar
The Structure of Magic I by Richard Bandler and John Grinder is a delightful simplification of the infinite complexities of the language I use with patients. In reading this book, I learned a great deal about the things that I've done without knowing about them. — Milton H. Erickson
What this power is, I cannot say... All I know is that it exists. — Alexander Graham Bell
I have two rules for a great book: make me think and make me smile. — Adam Grant
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