Quotes and Sayings About Book
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It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down.
-- Agatha Christie -
I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.
-- Agatha Christie -
The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.
-- Agatha Christie -
People should be interested in books, not their authors.
-- Agatha Christie -
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I admit," I said, "that a second murder in a book often cheers things up." - Hastings
-- Agatha Christie -
You know, I've been thinking: all the women in the books you like -- Sartre and Camus and all that -- they don't really exist. Not as people. They're only there to wait for the men. To love them and be loved back or not -- mostly not; to be beaten up or killed; to appear as a face on the wall of Meurseault's cell--
-- Ahdaf Soueif -
When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.
-- Ahmet ZappaSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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I've always wanted to have a book published - it was a dream of mine, but the thought of actually writing a book made me feel really sick.
-- Ahmet ZappaSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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I picked books by their covers - the worse the cover, the more I wanted to read it.
-- Ahmet ZappaSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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Fame, money and the size of the market are not very important to me. What is, is writing a book that is worth doing and then publishing it. I don't write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
-- Aidan Chambers -
The books, the authors who matter the most are those who speak to me and speak for me all those things about life I most need to hear as the confession of myself
-- Aidan Chambers -
You know, it's about getting out there and having a good time. Not about worrying - all these young books for women are like I'm 29 with a closet full of Prada shoes and I can't get a date. Come on.
-- Aisha Tyler -
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Read yourself, not books. Truth isn't outside, that's only memory, not wisdom. Memory without wisdom is like an empty thermos bottle - if you don't fill it, it's useless.
-- Ajahn Chah -
Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one... ...I had wanted to make The Idiot long before Rashomon. Since I was little I've liked Russian literature, but I find that I like Dostoevsky the best and had long thought that this book would make a wonderful film. He is still my favourite author, and he is the one - I still think - who writes most honestly about human existence.
-- Akira Kurosawa -
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There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital.
-- Al Capp -
Forget about every other lesson in the book. You have to be able to tap your foot or else none of what you doing you are not gonna have any control of your symptom.
-- Al Di Meola -
There's no comparison between NPR and the propaganda that you hear from Rush or from Sean Hannity, the news movement conservatives that are just laying out, slathering out the disinformation and the lies, as I discuss in my book, 'Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.'
-- Al Franken -
Book dedication To myself, without whose inspired and tireless efforts this book would not have been possible.
-- Al Jaffee -
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Pitches are like pages of a book; they're so important. The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I'll do it differently later.
-- Al Leiter -
I like the weight, look, and feel of a book. I enjoy turning the pages, and frequently scan the spines of my many books on the wall, each title a reminder of the stored information and creative thoughts contained therein.
-- Al SeckelSource : "Kindle or Kindling?" by Al Seckel, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 17, 2009.
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I have to admit that I am really partial to the look and feel of a book. I have been that way my entire life.
-- Al SeckelSource : "Kindle or Kindling?" by Al Seckel, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 17, 2009.
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They recite their sacred books, although the fact informs me that these are a fiction from first to last. O Reason, thou (alone) speakest the truth. Then perish the fools who forged the religious traditions or interpreted them!
-- Al-MaʿarriSource : "Studies in Islamic Poetry (The Meditations of Al-Ma'arri)". Book by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson, 1921.
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There is not on the face of the earth-after the Book of Allah - a book which is more sahih than the book of Malik.
-- Al-Shafi‘i -
A fascinating book and a great pleasure to read: Betool Khedairi is a talented new voice in fiction.
-- Alaa Al Aswany -
Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.
-- Alain de Botton -
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Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own - but that we could never have described on our own.
-- Alain de BottonSource : Twitter post from Oct 13, 2013
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One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?
-- Alain de Botton