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If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that's what one calls a detail.

Quote by Jean-Marie Le Pen about war, concentration, world, people, contentment

In the book, I make the point that here we have string theory and here we have twistor theory and we don't know if either one of them is the right approach to nature.

Quote by Roger Penrose about books, nature, rightness

This book is about physics and its about physics and its relationship with mathematics and how they seem to be intimately related and to what extent can you explore this relationship and trust it.

Quote by Roger Penrose about books, physics, mathematics, contentment

And that's why I wrote the book, because our country really needs to understand, if people in this nation understood what our foreign policy is really about, what foreign aid is about, how our corporations work, where our tax money goes, I know we...

Quote by John Perkins about politics, companies, nation, change, country, money, work, people

I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't work or the measurements look strange.

Quote by Martin Lewis Perl about teaching, students, work

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire about books, garden, companies

Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency to get the book written.

Quote by William Faulkner about literature, proudness

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

Quote by Henry Ward Beecher about books, longing, conversation, companies, good, good luck, contentment

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

Quote by George Sand about life, fire, fire brigade

A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.

Quote by Mary Barbara Hamilton Cartland about books

The newspaper is the natural enemy of the book, as the whore is of the decent woman.

Quote by Edmond de Goncourt about literature, enemies, woman

I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine Corps.

Quote by Leon Uris about literature, writing

Research to me is as important or more important than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built.

Quote by Leon Uris about literature, research, writing

A book begins with an image or character or situation that I care about deeply.

DQuote by Danielle Steel about literature, character

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

Quote by Italo Calvino about literature

A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.

Quote by John Milton about books, spirit, good, good luck

Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason its self.

Quote by John Milton about crime, self-control, reason, god, good, good luck, man

I believe that each human being has within himself or herself at least one poem or short story, or perhaps even a full length book.

Quote by Dee Brown about literature, faith, human imperfections, being

You just don't give up. There have been times when everything seemed to conspire against getting a book done or printed, and I would feel like turning my back on the whole thing. But I came back and persisted.

Quote by Dee Brown about perseverance, things, contentment

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.

Quote by William Shakespeare about books, eyes