Quotes of: Book Keyword

Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is.

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Remember iron sharpens iron. People inspire people, therefore, always ensure that you read books that can easily guide you to discover strategies of making a good name.

Shaping the dream

Where Eckhart Tolle meets Jack Kerouac meets Buddha. A free consciousness expanding book to kill Ego, sexual boredom & lack of excitement in life.

Sex & Ego Death

Oooo wee! You see that chump go flying? Look’eah, nothing like charred demon to make a brotha feel right. - Calvin Freeman (Sineaters‬:Devotion Book One)

Sin Eaters

Literature suffers because writers give their books to colleagues who will then write glowing reviews or saccharine introductions.

In Search of the Word: Selected Essays

That's how you have to read this book, you see. You wade through a few sentences, then stop and think about them, then wade through a few more.

The Splendour Falls

Most critics agree with the seventeenth-century printer who gave them to the world, that the Mutabilitie Cantos seem to be part of some following book of The Faerie Queene.

Spenser's Faerie queene: An interpretation

...he had to comfort himself with the firm conviction that most of what he objected to in Mohawk and the world at large was not the result of people reading the wrong books, but rather of not reading any at all.

Mohawk

An author, whether good or bad, or between both, is an animal whom every body is privileged to attack: for though all are not able to write books, all conceive themselves able to judge them.

The Monk

I have decided to change something. I am thinking I may want to go by Aimee again.”- Aimee (Marked Book #1) page 102

Marked

...I tell myself it does not matter what one reads--favorite authors, particular themes--as long as we read something. It is not even important to own the books.

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

I got a dog-training book. It says Grendel needs mental stimulation, so I tried to train him, but I think he must be retarded.

Magic Slays

I miss being a student," said Abdul Wahid. "I miss the passionate discussions with my friends, and most of all the hours among the books.

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

So Matilda's strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea.

Matilda

Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.

Northanger Abbey

It’s not enough to fill your head with wondrous ideas—you must initiate action.

No Excuses, The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book

People rise to the occasion without hesitation when they feel inspired and challenged.

No Excuses, The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book

We want books that are written for those of us who doubt everything, who cry over the least little thing, who are startled by the slightest noise.

A Novel Bookstore

I don't ever want to be a fair-weather anything. Playing through the elements is always better than sitting on the sidelines.

No Excuses, The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book

Your success is your responsibility. Take the initiative, do the work, and persist to the end.

No Excuses, The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book

Struggle strengthens the human bond and lightens the burden of the human condition.

No Excuses, The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book