Quotes on Book

Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcende nce.

A book has got to smell. You have to hold it in your hands and pray to it.

When the record book on you is finished, let it show your wins and losses. But don't let it show you didn't try.

The millionaire says to a thousand people, 'I read this book and it started me on the road to wealth.' Guess how many go out and get the book? Very few. Isn't that incredible? Why wouldn't everyone get the book?!

A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.

It is a writer's greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one of their books

When I was a child I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies, and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I have ever dreamed has come true a thousand times.

It's just like sex; when [a book is] finished, it's finished.

That’s one of the things books do. They help us talk. But they also give us something we all can talk about when we don’t want to talk about ourselves.

In our dreams we have seen another world, an honest world, a world decidedly more fair than the one in which we now live. We saw that in this world there was no need for armies; peace, justice and liberty were so common that no one talked about them as far-off concepts, but as things such as bread, birds, air, water, like book and voice.

I tried to make sense of the Four Books,_x000D_ until love arrived,_x000D_ and it all became a single syllable.

Your people smarts will prove ten times more valuable than all the book smarts you can't get.

The Bible in the memory is better than the Bible in the book case.

When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.

The Book of Proverbs deals very hard blows against sluggards, and Christian ministers do well frequently to denounce the great sin of idleness, which is the mother of a huge family of sins.

This is the first teaching of the Knights: You will erase everything you had written in the book of your life up until now: restlessness, uncertainty, lies. And in the place of all this you will write the word courage.

What are people going to do? Fire me? I've been fired before. Not book me? I've been out of work before. I don't care.

A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.

Those of us raised in the Christian tradition need to choose to either see God in Jesus or to continue to let the Bible define God. Our tradition says that Jesus is God. Maybe we should act as if we think he is instead of worshipping a book. Maybe we should be brave enough to admit that we are compelled to either become blinded ideologues or we need to forthrightly pick and choose what we follow in the Bible. Most Christians do that anyway, many just don’t admit it.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...

There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.