Quotes of: Book Keyword

I'm the classic example of alienation: I grew up in a middle-class household without art or books. I was going to be a chemical engineer until I went to the theatre for the first time at 16 and was blown away by it.

Richard Eyre

If you're creating something that has some sort of cultural currency - if the idea is getting out there - then that will probably yield money in some form, whether it's through selling art or selling books or being asked to give a lecture.

Shepard Fairey

For me, learning is a continuous process and an all-inclusive one - reading a book, learning a musical instrument or learning the martial art called taekwondo. Teach myself something new - that's my prayer.

Sonu Nigam

The wonderful thing about a book is that you have a canvas that is 300 pages wide, and it's all free space. You can make a piece of art as big as you want and whatever shape you want.

Stephan Pastis

My philosophy is that I'm an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perform with bodily movement. Instead of exhibiting my art in a museum or a book or on canvas, I exhibit my art in front of the multitudes.

Steve Prefontaine

I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try.

Steven Spielberg

The judge said he was going to throw the book at me. I hoped it was an ebook in the cloud, and not a heavy dictionary.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

Of course, of course. Drugs, music, a new age dawning … and you came for an old book.

Ajax Penumbra 1969

Man, you should write a book.’ ‘I know. You couldn’t make this stuff up, could you?

Aegean Sun: Room 101

Take all of this Book upon reason that you can, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man.

Abraham Lincoln : Theologian of American Anguish

The Psalms wrap nouns and verbs around our pain better than any other book.

Anger: Aim It in the Right Direction

Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it.

The Angel's Game

One bright day in the last week of February, I was walking in the park, enjoying the threefold luxury of solitude, a book, and pleasant weather.

Agnes Grey

Authors write books for one, and only one, reason: because we like to torture people.

Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians

Books of value are just like people of value-they try only to elevate others, to help them to rise and to grow.

Angel Land

This book belongs to the most rare of men. Perhaps not one of them is yet alive. First the day after tomorrow must come for me. Some men are born posthumously.

The Anti-Christ

I care more about the people in books than the people I see every day.

Among Others

In certain books—some way in the first few paragraphs you know that you have met a brother.

The Art Spirit

Do you look like the photograph on your book jackets? Authors, I find, seldom do.

The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher

Love is all the dirty little tricks you taught me that you probably got out of some book.

To Have and Have Not

I've lived the lives of all the characters in all my books, and all their mighty wisdom thunders in my head.

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality