Quotes of: Comic-books Keyword

...books were portals into worlds she yearned to know, whether they be ponderous volumes crammed with accumulated knowledge or whimsical fantasies featuring magical creatures.

Jagannath

It's not an old book, or a treasure map. Nope. Staring up at me was a pile of rocks.

Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life

I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them.

Jacob's Room

The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens

The Kitab-i-Aqdas: The Most Holy Book

You are the author of your lives book. While there may be fixed chapters ahead, you choose how to fill the pages within each one.

The Reiki Teachers Guidebook

Life is too short to waste time on books that end badly

Running Hot

To live in books is cowardly---but people are not worth investigation.

The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life Through the Pages of a Lost Journal

So much is yet to come. Soon will be blankets and pillows, and books by the bed to make the stuff of dreams. And then tomorrows.

Return of the Dapper Men

When you feel that unpleasant darkness invading your mind, read this book and these stories will help you return to the light and warmth of life.

The Reengineers

They lack suggestive power. And when a book lacks suggestive power, however hard it hits the surface of the mind it cannot penetrate within.

A Room of One's Own

To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.

Steal This Book

...architects (should) involve themselves continuously in anticipatory design as recommended by Buckminster Fuller

The Square Book

Architecture must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment.

The Square Book

The Word is alive. We have always known it. But it needs to be uttered, aloud or in the mind of a reader. Without a consciousness to tickle them into life, those books were dead.

Strange Bodies

Corporate strategy is usually only useful if you get people engaged with helping you to make it work.

The Strategy Book

Without patience, magic would be undiscovered - in rushing everything, we would never hear its whisper inside.

Sandry's Book

For a moment I was distracted. Books always did that to me... I liked the creamy pages, the smell of ink, all the secrets locked inside.

Star Crossed

The cover of a book is akin to the door of a home; if it is welcoming and enticing, it beckons you and your visit will be all the more pleasurable and desirable.

The Sword of Demelza

I generally give the title-page a fair chance," Roger said. "Once can't always judge books merely by the cover.

Shadows of Ecstasy

What was the point of having a situation worthy of fiction if the protagonist didn't behave as he would have done in a book?

The Sense of an Ending

The dusty library air is electric with secrets/ almost palpable in the thick quiet that bounces between/ Cal and those books and me

The Sound of Letting Go