Quotes of: Long-book Keyword

Good man and bad man with money goes a long ways." ~ Amunhotep El Bey

The Quotations Book of life and Death

Once in a very long time you come across a book that is far, far more than the ink, the glue and the paper, a book that seeps into your blood.

Travels With Myself

There’s a lot of June birthdays in June. There’s also a few in May and July. Reminds me of that one night with April. That was a long month.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

The darkness has ink eyes, and if you stare long enough, you’re going to see it blink black. That’s the moment to start writing.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

I’ve long suspected myself of being a suspicious person. But that’s OK, because suspicious people make better lovers, right?

This Book is Not FOR SALE

I didn’t make two mistakes all day yesterday. I just made one long one that lasted 24 hours. 

This Book is Not FOR SALE

In the long run, even a marathon looks like a sprint. This is how I can love with such Roger Bannisteresque intensity.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

I’ve felt alone, cold, and clothed in shame for too long. Let the sunlight be my blanket, wardrobe, and toilet paper.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

The best part about love is it’ll still be around long after I’m dead. That’s also the worst part.

This Book Has No Title

Her legs are so long and sexy that I can see them 26.2 miles away. Gatorade. 

This Book Has No Title

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

Thomas Jefferson

It's true, too, that I'm tired of using books as political bullets and grenades. Books are too precious and wonderful to be used for long in such a fashion.

Yann Martel

As long as they're making beloved books into movies, people are going to be like, 'That's not my mental image of them.' It takes that moment for it to click and become their mental image.

Cassandra Clare

God is not many. God is one. But many and divers are yet men's shadows. So long as men cast shadows on the earth, so long as each man's god no greater than hi shadow. The shadow-less only are all in the light. The shadow-less only know one god. For g...

The Book of Mirdad: The Strange Story of a Monastery Which Was Once Called the Ark

Well, right now I'm dead. But when I am, it's like...I don't know, I guess it's like being inside a book that nobody's reading. [...] An old one. It's up on a library shelf, so you're safe and everything, but the book hasn't been checked out for a lo...

The Things They Carried

Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.

A Long Way Down

Every author believes that the book which he is placing before the public will 'fill a long-felt want,' and success or failure depends very much on how closely he has been able to gauge the nature of the 'long-felt want.'

Will C. Barnes

You know, now it's sinking in. It's taken me a long time to realize - and it is sinking in - how important this book is. And I have a certain distance now. I've done it such a long time ago.

Eric Carle

I read a lot of books. Here are the books I'm using for my 9/11 project. [Wright gestures to three six-foot-long shelves of books.] As I read them I highlight certain passages. Then I have an assistant write down each quote on an index card and note ...

Lawrence Wright

I had written a book. For various reasons, the publishing industry had decided that my book was going to be 'important.' The novel had taken me 12-and-a-half years to write, and after being with the book for so long, I had no real perspective on the ...

Akhil Sharma

Do you lend books and DVDs to people? If so, don't you always regret it? All my life I have forced books on to people who have subsequently forgotten all about it. Meanwhile, on my shelves sit many orphaned books loaned to me over the years by trusti...

Lynne Truss