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  • There are many books which we think we have read when we have not. There are, at least, many that we think we remember when we do not. An original picture was, perhaps, imprinted upon the brain, but it has changed with our own changing minds. We only remember our remembrance.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Memories Quotes , Book Quotes
  • When you're tied to one show, you are very much at the mercy of the writers so you can suddenly get a script where you have a heart attack and die. I've got to be in The Guinness Book of World Records for having the most heart attacks on television.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Alan Dale Quotes , Book Quotes , Heart Quotes
  • Every new book is a challenge. I could, of course, have stopped many years ago if it was only for money. But no, it is about building bridges among cultures, different cultures... When you want someone to understand something that is not forcefully in your culture, you use stories.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Book Quotes , Years Quotes
  • The effort to make financial or political profit out of the destruction of character can only result in public calamity. Gross and reckless assaults on character, whether on the stump or in newspaper, magazine, or book, create a morbid and vicious public sentiment, and at the same time act as a profound deterrent to able men of normal sensitiveness and tend to prevent them from entering the public service at any price.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Book Quotes , Character Quotes
  • Whoever, therefore, thinks that he understands the divine scriptures or any part of them so that it does not build on the double love of God and of our neighbor does not understand it at all. Thus a man supported by faith, hope, and charity, with an unshaken hold upon them does not need the scriptures. . . And many live by these three things in solitude without books.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Book Quotes , Men Quotes
  • I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself, actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to Africa as a sophomore or something, no maybe junior and wrote a book of poems. And that was my beginning. I published that book.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Children Quotes , Book Quotes
  • When I was twelve, the passage from silent film to the talkies had an impact on me-I still watch silent films. I don't think that there is any such thing as an old film; you don't say, 'I read an old book by Flaubert,' or 'I saw an old play by Moliere.'
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Alain Resnais Quotes , Book Quotes , Thinking Quotes
  • Come indoors then, and open the books on your library shelves. For you have a library and a good one. A working library, a living library; a library where nothing is chained down and nothing is locked up; a library where the songs of the singers rise naturally from the lives of the livers.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Song Quotes , Book Quotes