Quotes of: Old-books Keyword

How can you be one of the stars of heaven, when the stars are innumerable? What star number do you have?

Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom

We pass through Time from birth in order to have from where to come, together with death.

Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom

I know none of Time’s cardinal pillar on which it says forever just because eternity is not Time anymore.

Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom

Blessed is he who believes in the illusion because thus he can find his great truth!

Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom

You can just be your self’s stranger, never its friend, because you are mortal and it is immortal!

Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom

Nothing can be more painful than the cry of the word which gave us the inspiration to dream of love.

Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom

30% of the time I am successful 70% of the time. That’s 100% in my book—a book that happens to have a page count that’s 21% Reduced Fat.

Xazaqazax

Love, it’s overrated in my book. Really, in my book I gave it 11 out of 10 stars. But stars are like political votes. Who’s really counting?

Xazaqazax

Force me to choose my best book, and I always come back to 'Gorilla.' It was the first time I felt I understood what picture books could do.

Anthony Browne

You are always working on your worst book and your best book at the same time. The praise does not make you write better, and it shouldn't make you write worse, either.

Aleksandar Hemon

A friend suggested that I get a job at a children's book store so I could meet kids and read books, and that turned out to be the single best bit of advice I've ever gotten.

Brian Selznick

I was never a great reader, but there were two stories I loved best: Kipling's 'The Elephant's Child' and 'The Jungle Book.' Deep down, I've always wanted to write a book about a wild child and an elephant.

Michael Morpurgo

At least I'm at peace with myself. I have done my best to write a book about what really happened there and why it happened and it's done, it's published. I won't write another book on Vietnam.

Neil Sheehan

I came from a house full of books, so I took reading for granted. I was an outdoorsy little kid, too, so I got the best of both worlds by taking books up trees and reading there.

Tana French

I think there's a difference between having a bestselling book - meaning through marketing, PR and buying that first wave of customers - and writing a bestselling book. The second implies that the product propels itself to the best seller list.

Timothy Ferriss

Leaders are usually a reflection of the people they lead. How can a leader be moral if his people are immoral?

The Secret Red Book of Leadership

A great leader is almost always a great follower for he knows what to learn and from whom.

The Secret Red Book of Leadership

Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

Hands Full of Living

It was actually a very nice little book done by a gift book company. They illustrated it with pictures from 1920s football, before there were face guards.

Gregg Easterbrook

I love staring at my books for hours just trying to decide which book to read next. Doing that is almost as fun as actually reading them.

Love The Stacks Bookstore

In my own book-signings, I find humility. It’s always humbling when people go out of their way to come visit with me and by some of my books.

Nicholas Trandahl