Quotes of: Book Keyword

For the record, folks; I never took a shit on stage and the closest I ever came to eating shit anywhere was at a Holiday Inn buffet in Fayetteville, North Carolina, in 1973.

The Real Frank Zappa Book

Definition of rock journalism: People who can't write, doing interviews with people who can't think, in order to prepare articles for people who can't read.

The Real Frank Zappa Book

For where books, for instance, always offer a thousand times more than they are, television offers exactly what it is, its essential immediacy, its ever-evolving, always-in-progress superficiality.

Television

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.

Time Regained

The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.

The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

I dont write books so that you can be fascinated with me. I write them so you can be fascinated with YOU!

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.

The Uncommon Reader

My idea of a fun night was diving into a massive pile of To Be Read pile of books stacked near my dresser... I was the girl who loved everything geeky.

Vesper

I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.

The Vicar of Wakefield

It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much.

The Well of Ascension

Five minutes in an old book quickly reveals that most of what is being sold today as new insights into human behavior is merely the rediscovery of knowledge we have had for centuries.

Wizard of Ads

It felt good to be surrounded by books, by all this solid knowledge, by these objects that could be ripped page by page but couldn't be torn if the pages all held together.

Wide Awake

Presidents don't make new friends. That's why they've got to keep their old ones." Adm. Fitzwallace

The West Wing Script Book

It's an election year. We would prefer that voters didn't use common sense.

The West Wing Script Book

The broadest possible exercise of imagination is the thing most conducive to human health, individual and global

When I Was a Child I Read Books

I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.

The writings of John Burroughs

I don't understand the whole thrilling verse, but I love the way poetry turns ordinary words into winged things that rise up and soar!

The Wild Book

When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].

The Woman Destroyed

In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she reading for?

The World According to Garp

I'm not a stranger," I said, and pointed to his book. "I'm someone who reads the same authors you do.

When Did You See Her Last?

One day, she ventured to the palace library and was delighted to find what good company books could be.

We Were Liars