Quotes and Sayings About Book
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A colleague once described political theorists as people who were obsessed with two dozen books; after half a century of grappling with Mill's essay On Liberty, or Hobbes's Leviathan, I have sometimes thought two dozen might be a little on the high side.
-- Alan Ryan -
You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft.
-- Alan Shepard -
I just wanted to be the first one to fly for America, not because I'd end up in the pages of history books.
-- Alan Shepard -
I've written books on advertising-cheque books.
-- Alan Sugar -
Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.
-- Alan Turing -
That's a waste of time. If you really understand Zen... you can use any book. You could use the Bible. You could use Alice in Wonderland. You could use the dictionary, because... the sound of the rain needs no translation.
-- Alan Watts -
Think of Florence, Paris, London, New York. Nobody visiting them for the first time is a stranger because he's already visited them in paintings, novels, history books and films. But if a city hasn't been used by an artist, not even the inhabitants live there imaginatively.
-- Alasdair Gray -
I want to write more books, see my first novel made into a film, fight more campaigns, work in more countries. I want to be able to recall experiences that have endured for their pleasure and range and intensity.
-- Alastair Campbell -
A singer can quit once he or she has made ten great songs; a director can finish once he or she has made five amazing films; a writer just needs to write three great books.
-- Alber Elbaz -
What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are black or white: It's either a utopia or it's misery. The real truth is that there's going to be both things in any future, just like there is now.
-- Albert Brooks -
I've always enjoyed stories that take place in the future but my one disappointment was that the future books described never came. We're not on other planets, there are no flying cars, and the only robots we have in our homes just sweep the floor. So I wanted to write about a future that I thought could really happen. People ask me when I tell them the title of the book, 'Are we all dead?' The good news is, no. We're still here. And I even think the future in my book is strangely hopeful, although I'm sure there will be people who strongly disagree.
-- Albert Brooks -
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
-- Albert Camus -
History has shown that the less people read, the more books they buy.
-- Albert Camus -
Freedom of teaching and of opinion in book or press is the foundation for the sound and natural development of any people.
-- Albert Einstein -
Never memorise what you can look up in a book.
-- Albert Einstein -
Einstein was once asked how many feet are in a mile. Einstein's reply was "I don't know, why should I fill my brain with facts I can find in two minutes in any standard reference book?
-- Albert Einstein -
I never commit to memory anything that can easily be looked up in a book
-- Albert Einstein -
If you agree with me that a poem can be as bountiful as a rich Victorian narrative, and as wise... then you'll want to join me here in the Wow, I Like No Need of Sympathy Club. Your membership fee is the same as your membership privileges: this book.
-- Albert Goldbarth -
If the college you visit has a bookstore filled with t-shirts rather than books, find another college.
-- Albert Mohler -
Man's real genius and knowledge remains preserved in books
-- Albert Pike -
It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.
-- Albert Pike -
The sources of our knowledge of the kabalistic doctrines are the books of Yetzirah and Zohar, the former drawn up in the second century, and the latter a little later; but they contain materials much older than themselves...In them, as in the teachings of Zoroaster, everything that exists emanates from a source of infinite Light.
-- Albert Pike -
Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.
-- Alberto Manguel -
Libraries, whether my own or shared with a greater reading public, have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as I can remember I've been seduced by their labyrinthine logic, which suggests that reason (if not art) rules over a cacophonous arrangement of books.
-- Alberto Manguel -
Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.
-- Alberto Manguel -
Books may not change our suffering, books may not protect us from evil, books may not tell us what is good or what is beautiful, and they will certainly not shield us from the common fate of the grave. But books grant us myriad possibilities: the possibility of change, the possibility of illumination.
-- Alberto Manguel -
I like to imagine that, on the day after my last, my library and I will crumble together, so that even when I am no more I'll still be with my books.
-- Alberto Manguel -
Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.
-- Alberto Manguel -
Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted.
-- Alberto Manguel
