Quotes of: Picture-book Keyword

It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, the desk and chairs were shaped out of books. It looked as though many of them were frequently referred to, because they lay open with other books used...

Going Postal

A lecture has been well described as the process whereby the notes of the teacher become the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either.

How to Read a Book: The Classic Bestselling Guide to Reading Books and Accessing Information

My book, Ambassador Book one: how to take on the world and win will help to illuminate many of the obstacles that we all must face in order to succeed. You are invited on a journey of personal discovery.

Ambassador Book One: How to Take on the World and Win

I sped-read through a book that probably weighed a pound, though I only gleaned about nine ounces of information. That's because it was a book on love that I read while making love. I multitask like I pay by the hour.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

No one really knows the value of book tours. Whether or not they're good ideas, or if they improve book sales. I happen to think the author is the last person you'd want to talk to about a book. They hate it by that point; they've already moved on to...

Rosecrans Baldwin

A book is not necessarily made of paper. A book is not necessarily made to be read on a Kindle. A book is a collection of text, organized in one of a variety of ways. You could say that words printed on paper and bound between cloth covers will somed...

James Gleick

My favorite comic book growing up was 'Thor.' It was one of my three, favorite comic books. Obviously, Marvel is such a huge name, but for me, to book a role in a Marvel movie, and for it to be 'Thor.' When my manager told me I booked 'Thor,' I liter...

Joseph Gatt

I think I had a particular moment when I was 15 years old. I read 'Crime and Punishment,' and that book just, I think, more than any other book made me want to be a writer, 'cause it was the first time that I hadn't just entered a book, but a book ha...

Ron Rash

My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because the kids who read who are 12 years old are reading books for adults. I read all of the James Bond books when I was about 11, which was approx...

Terry Pratchett

Books may not change our suffering, books may not protect us from evil, books may not tell us what is good or what is beautiful, and they will certainly not shield us from the common fate of the grave. But books grant us myriad possibilities: the pos...

Alberto Manguel

I never tired of picturing sharks.

Flash Warden and Other Stories

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

Betrayed

I get such lovely gifts from fans... amazing pictures, handmade jewellery. I'm very lucky!

Leona Lewis

I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.

Chuck Berry

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The picture is a self-sufficient work of art. It is not connected to anything outside.

Kurt Schwitters

Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.

Peter Wright

The sleeping and the dead are but as pictures. Lady Macbeth

Macbeth

Look at you, all Rocky Horror Picture Ho.

Stakes & Stilettos

--here, now, always-- T.S. Eliot

The Quiet Eye: A Way of Looking at Pictures

Pictures can be pretty deceptive.

Where She Went