Quotes of: Comic-book Keyword

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

Barbara Tuchman

Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death.

Peter Ackroyd

I can't go into Oklahoma without thinking about Larry Clark's photography book 'Tulsa.' It's a great book about how life works.

Buzz Osborne

I went on a Buddha jag. I read 'Confession of a Buddhist Atheist' by Stephen Batchelor and Karen Armstrong's biography of Buddha, which is a great book.

Denis O'Hare

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.

Fran Lebowitz

I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.

Harold Kushner

Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.

Abraham Cowley

From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.

Mark Haddon

I read a lot of books to my children, and they all seem really good. I think people have gotten really good at children's books.

Penn Jillette

At present, however, I don't think the Net is a very good medium for books, books should really be inexpensive lightweight paperbacks you can bang around.

Rudy Rucker

If you're going to buy a real book, a paper book, there better be a good reason. Perhaps scarcity is one of those reasons.

Seth Godin

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't.

Julian Barnes

With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.

Madeleine L'Engle

A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning.

Laura Bush

I love books so much. I've read more books than anyone else I know.

Daniel Tammet

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read.

G.K. Chesterton

Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.

C.S. Lewis

What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects--with their Christianity latent.

C.S. Lewis

How could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books?

John James Audubon