Quotes of: Holy-book Keyword

He cleared his throat and reminded himself that if you pissed Her Holiness off, they'd need barbecue tongs to pick up your steaming pieces.

J.R. Ward

And in the end, bin Laden died in a squalid suburban compound surrounded by his wives and children and far from the front lines of his holy war.

Peter L. Bergen

The Book of Us. I’m writing it. And you’re in it.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.

John Ruskin

It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.

Among Others

My life is an open book; at least this photo album". ~R. Alan Woods [2013]

The Journey Is the Destination: A Book of Quotes With Commentaries

A book, a book full of human touches, of shirts, a book without loneliness, with men and tools, a book is victory.

Odes to Common Things

Last night I read two books back to back. Tonight I’ll probably read both of those books’ front covers.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

There are certain books in the history of the world that should never have been written. This book makes all those look like masterpieces.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

My book is awful,” I said.
 “Nonsense,” Dora J. Arod said. “Your book is nonsense.

This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

Pluto will always be a planet in my book. That’s because my book was published before Pluto was blacklisted by planetary scientists.

This Book Has No Title

Some books have too much tennis. Some books have too much baseball. Some books have too much boxing. Some books have too much horse.

A. Cretan

Real life is physical. Give me books instead. Give me the invisibility of the contents of books, the thoughts, the ideas, the images. Let me become part of a book. . . . an intertextual being: a book cyborg, or, considering that books aren't cybernet...

The End of Mr. Y

There are books that one reads over and over again, books that become part of the furniture of one's mind and alter one's whole attitude to life, books that one dips into but never reads through, books that one reads at a single sitting and forgets a...

Books v. Cigarettes

I am fun, friendly, and I know how to use the third comma in a list of three distinct items or things. In my book that makes me a better lover, because I wrote it. The book, I wrote the book, so of course I’d make myself a better lover.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

To see what books were available for my older students, I made many trips to the library. If a book looked interesting, I checked it out. I once went home with 30 books! It was then that I realized that kids' novels had the shape of real books, and I...

Cynthia Voigt

All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.

John Ruskin

If I am alive this is my book, and my father lives now in the afterlife that is a book, a thing not vague or virtual but something you can hold and feel and smell because to my mind heaven like life must be a thing sensual and real. And my book will ...

History of the Rain

Rachel Lapp: [Book and Carter are driving around a rough neighborhood looking for a suspect that fits Samuel's description, with Rachel and Samuel in tow] Where are you taking us? John Book: I'm sorry... we're looking for a suspect in the area, we'd ...

Witness

[A]ll who are smitten with the love of books think cheaply of the world and wealth; as Jerome says to Vigilantius: The same man cannot love both gold and books... The hideousness of vice is greatly reprobated in books, so that he who loves to commune...

Richard de Bury

For the benefit of those half-dozen people who will see a name like Gwillim and put this book down in order to go look it up to see where it comes from — it is the Welsh version of William

The Phone Book: The Curious History of the Book That Everyone Uses But No One Reads