Quotes of: Book Keyword

If you teach a boy, you educate an individual; but if you teach a girl, you educate a community.

Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Too trying, this is all far too trying, Parma thought. An ogre I may outwit or a Rahg I may defeat, but a horde of frightened villagers? Auay! How does Brandegan put up with it?

Strife Of The Mighty: Book One Of The Chronicles Of Vrandalin

All I wanted to do was go back inside to the library and read a book.I used to spend all my time reading books, or watching television. It was safe. Nobody ever was hurt or teased or looked stupid while reading books or watching television.

Sweetie

My book contains texts that I wrote during college, medical school and during my residency of neurosurgery. I could set the book �Thoughts from the hospital" as clippings thoughts

THOUGHTS FROM THE HOSPITAL: 1

Librarians are essential players in the information revolution because they level that field. They enable those without money or education to read and learn the same things as the billionaire and the PhD.

This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All

I stood in the library admiring the huge book collection. There was something inherently calming about being surrounded by books, even their smell and texture was comforting.

A Thousand Miles from Nowhere: A Hippy Trip of Discovery

Tall men are the most romantically successful group on earth, bar none: more successful than rich people, accomplished people and educated people.

The Tall Book: A Celebration of Life from on High

I’m building a hot air balloon out of my love for you. I’m starting with the hot air, and then I’m going to surround that with saran wrap, because after all, I’m only using leftovers.

This Book Title is Invisible

I wouldn’t want the guests at my birthday party confusing my celebration with the Oscars. That’s why I’m having the awards ceremony after we eat cake and I open my presents.


This Book Title is Invisible

A shadow is midnight’s whisper, I thought as I shouted at my invisible clone. Killing your own clone is the only time you could commit murder and suicide at the same time by killing just one person.

This Book Title is Invisible

A smile, a smirk, and a wink walk into a bar, and the bartender asks them what they’ll have to drink, and I didn’t hear what they ordered because I was onstage giving an exciting lecture with a yawn.


This Book Title is Invisible

If you mean to scare women away from you, that speech can’t possibly work. Those threats? If I weren’t trying to hire you I’d be taking my clothes off right now.

Othernaturals Book One: Possessed

Good units walk a thin line between indiscipline and ineffectiveness. Ignore the rules too often and you’ve got a mob, but enforce the rules too strictly and you’ve got a herd.

Orphan Brigade: The Sim War: Book Two

No waiting the beyond, no peering toward it, but longing to degrade not even death; we shall learn earthliness, and serve its ends, to feel its hands about us like a friend's.

Poems from the Book of Hours

Last night at Bingo, Sylvia won the last prize. 'What am I going to do with a mermaid?" "Learn to swim in the murkiest water, reinvent yourself," the mermaid said #149

The Persistence of Yellow: A Book of Recipes for Life

You can always count on the promise of forever that He made when He died on that cross and rose again three days later. He did that for you.

The Promise of Forever: Book One: Part One

Pleasing things: finding a large number of tales that one has not read before. Or acquiring the second volume of a tale whose first volume one has enjoyed. But often it is a disappointment.

The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon

(about organizing books in his home library, and putting a book in the "Arts and Lit non-fiction section) I personally find that for domestic purposes, the Trivial Pursuit system works better than Dewey.

The Polysyllabic Spree

I have done what people do, my life makes a reasonable showing. Can I go back to my books now?

Ruined By Reading: A Life in Books

My impulse now, as then, is to disagree. The majority of people in this country who haunt bookstores, go to readings and book festivals or simply read in the privacy of their homes are not traumatized exiles.

The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books

I once had a dream about a woman, and the next day she died. I stopped sleeping for three days after that to try to save some lives, but then my body relented and I went back to being a murderer.

This Book is Not FOR SALE