Victor Hugo Quotes, Religious Quotes, Book Quotes

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Religious Quotes , Book Quotes

One of the things I learned, one of the strangest things, is how to think. There was nothing else to do. I couldn't see people, or go for a walk in the forest. All I had was my head and my books, and I thought a lot.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Abraham Pais Quotes , Book Quotes , Thinking Quotes

Man, that's the only kind of book I like one that's so real you want to find out everything there is to know about the person who wrote it, like how tall he is and what kind of music he likes and whether or not he really went through all the stuff he was writing about.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Rapp Quotes , Real Quotes , Book Quotes

We should be wary what persecution we raise against the living labors of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man, preserved and stored up in books, since we see a kind of homicide may be thus committed, sometimes a martyrdom; and if it extend to the whole impression, a kind of massacre, whereof the execution ends not in the slaying of an elemental life, but strikes at the ethereal and fifth essence, the breath of reason itself; slays an immortality rather than a life.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : John Milton Quotes , Book Quotes , Men Quotes

Any good history book is mainly just a long list of mistakes, complete with names and dates. It's very embarrassing.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : A. Whitney Brown Quotes , Mistake Quotes , Book Quotes

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Book Quotes , Writing Quotes

Why does one write these books after all? The drudgery, the misery, the grind, are forgotten everytime; and one launches another, and it seems sheer joy and buoyancy.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Book Quotes , Writing Quotes

Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alain de Botton Quotes , Book Quotes , Done Quotes

The pleasant books, that silently among Our household treasures take familiar places, And are to us as if a living tongue Spake from the printed leaves or pictured faces!

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Book Quotes , Tongue Quotes

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.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Rain Quotes , Book Quotes

I make it a rule not to clutter my mind with simple information that I can find in a book in five minutes.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Book Quotes , Simple Quotes

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

I would welcome a friendship with Lynne Hinton. I would welcome an invitation to sit down at her table, but mostly I would welcome her next book.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Book Quotes , Tables Quotes

I have dwelt ever in realms apart from the visible world; spending my youth and adolescence in ancient and little-known books, and in roaming the fields and groves of the region near my ancestral home. I do not think that what I read in these books or saw in these fields and groves was exactly what other boys read and saw there; but of this I must say little, since detailed speech would but confirm those cruel slanders upon my intellect which I sometimes overhear from the whispers of the stealthy attendants around me.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Book Quotes , Home Quotes

We never tire of the friendships we form with books.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a book.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : John Milton Quotes , Book Quotes , Men Quotes

Alas! it is not till time, with reckless hand, has torn out half the leaves from the Book of Human Life to light the fires of passion with from day to day, that man begins to see that the leaves which remain are few in number.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Life Quotes , Book Quotes

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Book Quotes , Taken Quotes