Quotes of: Open-book Keyword

When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.

Paul McCartney

Is an audience open to seeing a film that isn't what they expect when they see a film that's been adapted from a children's book?

Spike Jonze

To excavate is to open a book written in the language that the centuries have spoken into the earth.

Spyridon Marinatos

At 20 and 30, we are like travelers in a foreign country, reading the guide book to learn how to behave, to learn when the post office is open. Trivia looms important; critical issues fade into a pastel background, unrecognized.

Karen DeCrow

Paris and Nicky Hilton? Those girls will show up to the opening of a phone book. It's like a big joke.

Rachel Perry

I thought I would keep the first name Susan and change the last name but I picked up this book and as I opened it the lead character in it was called Morgan Brittany.

Morgan Brittany

I feel like my life is pretty much on display. So much of it is working, and that's really all I want to do. I'm an open book.

Cassie Steele

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

Helen Hayes

Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.

Vera Nazarian

I think with one exception I've never changed an opening sentence after a book was completed.

William Gibson

Every time you open a book for the first time, there is something akin to safe-breaking about it. Yes, that's exactly it: the frantic reader is like a burglar who has spent hours digging a tunnel to enter the strongroom of a bank. He emerges face to ...

Phantoms on the Bookshelves

I finally found my way to the Really Restricted Section, where they keep the kind of books most scholars aren't even supposed to know exist. I knocked on the closed door, said the proper passwords, and the door opened before me. I walked in, and the ...

The Bride Wore Black Leather

It had a crisp paper jacket, unlike the paper-covered library books I was used to, and the way the pages parted, I could tell I was the first to open it ... I valued that half-dream state of being lost in a book so much that I limited the number of p...

The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession

The right books are like crowbars for our imaginations. When we find ourselves stuck at some place in life, the right book can pry open our inner idea banks. You know those moments: life has become so routine you could do it in your sleep-in fact, yo...

Pat Williams

I don't think it is enough appreciated how much an outdoor book the Bible is. It is a "hypaethral book," such as Thoreau talked about - a book open to the sky. It is best read and understood outdoors, and the farther outdoors the better. Or that has ...

The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page

Chains

But between now and then, there was Life; and Bod walked into it with his eyes and his heart wide open.

The Graveyard Book

I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves.

Anne of the Island

Books can break a man open, even ones about a panda, maybe especially so.

Ab morgen ein Leben lang

Love is a wonderful thing, my dear, but it leaves you wide open for blackmail.

Lost in a Good Book

Synergy between thoughts and feelings reads the universe like an opened book.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut