Quotes of: Holy-book Keyword

Afternoon tea should be provided, fresh supplies, with thin bread-and-butter, fancy pastries, cakes, etc., being brought in as other guests arrive.

Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management

I loved going to the library. It was the first time I ever saw Black newspapers and magazines like JET, Ebony, the Baltimore Afro-American, or the Chicago Defender. And I’ll never forget my librarian.

March: Book One

A hat should be taken off when greeting a lady, and left off the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.

Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People

Brooke?" he finally found the sense to ask. "What are you doing here?" "I need a gun." This was not how his dream was supposed to go.

The Mammoth Book of Special Ops Romance

Laura smiled a little wanly in the twilight. "Far more afraid of flesh and blood than ghosts," she murmured.

The Mammoth Book of Modern Ghost Stories

On the way home Mary Lou said, "Some things are so sad you can't say them." But I pretended not to hear.

The Mammoth Book of Modern Ghost Stories

God walked out the book to walk into the temple.. And I walked back home.. For the Book had Rules and Temples had timings...

Nucleus - Power Women: Lead from the Core

Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world.

The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard

Once I had opened a book and read its pages, those characters could never be taken away from me. Even if the books were burned, they would still live on in my mind.

New World: Rising

We live in bad times. People do harm to those they don’t understand. There is nothing worse than a closed mind and the blind trust that you are the only person to be right.

Nirupa and the Book of Shadows

All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed ... No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.

The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac

The question concerning Jesus: do you want to know the real story, or just the allegory?

The Little Book of Revelation: The First Coming of Jesus at the End of Days

Get someone-anyone-to read books to you. Having books read to you at any age is the supremo ultimato of living.

The Legacy Letters: His Wife, His Children, His Final Gift

Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine;—they are the life, the soul of reading;—take them out of this book for instance,—you might as well take the book along with them;

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Spray a book with insect spray, drop it in a bag, add some mothballs and seal it. Put it in another bag and seal it. Another. The packages piled up on the floor, each a book sealed in four plastic envelopes.

Lucifer's Hammer

Don't forget, a person's greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated.

Life's Little Instruction Book: 511 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life

Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with tempting titles and tantalizing covers.

The Library at Night

Style comes from knowing who you are and who you want to be in the world; it does not come from wanting to be somebody else, or wanting to be thinner, shorter, taller, prettier.

The Little Black Book of Style

Her voice faltered to a stop. Fear and confusion clutched at her throat like some terrible beast, and suddenly she was finding it difficult to breathe.

Lie to me: Deception: Book Two

She made him feel guilty at times. The problem was that she was so honest herself, almost transparent. It seemed criminal to be deceiving her.

Lie to me: Deception: Book Two

I'm thinking maybe letting the latches burn is the right idea. Let everything burn until there's nothing left but ashes and cool rain.

The Last Book in the Universe