Quotes about Books, page 4

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.

Quote by Charles W. Eliot about books

Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.

Quote by John Witherspoon about books

You won't find the books you checked out for that big project until after either the project or the books were due.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about books

Some savage faculty for observation told him that most respectable and estimable people usually had a lot of books in their houses.

Quote by Flann O'Brien about books

To see this place would truly be worth a trip to India in itself, and from the spirit of the religion that lived here one can learn more in an hour of viewing than from all the books ever written.

Quote by Rudolf Otto about books

Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.

Quote by Camille Paglia about books

I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears.

Quote by Chuck Palahniuk about books

In 1986 we were trying to help women get in print, stay in print, and come to the attention of booksellers and libraries. At that time, books by men mystery writers were reviewed seven times as often as books by women.

Quote by Sara Paretsky about books

Most people don't have the money to spend on advertising to create awareness among readers, nor do they have the contacts at newspapers or magazines to get their books reviewed.

Quote by Sara Paretsky about books

No agent wants to see a book until he or she has decided whether to pursue the relationship.

Quote by Sara Paretsky about books

The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.

Quote by Theodore Parker about books

And all of those things: my religion, my politics, my family, my friends, the books I read, everywhere I travel that influences everything I do.

Quote by Mandy Patinkin about books

The last time I played a bad guy was in Black Books and it is always fun to play a bad guy, particularly if they are really smilingly nasty.

Quote by Simon Pegg about books

I think the people who would be the least interested in my work would be people who read lots of comic books.

Quote by Harvey Pekar about books

People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books.

Quote by Harvey Pekar about books

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

Quote by William Penn about books

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

Some years ago, I wrote a book called the Emperor's New Mind and that book was describing a point of view I had about consciousness and why it was not something that comes about from complicated calculations.

Quote by Roger Penrose about books

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

I don't believe in personal immortality, the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.

Quote by Isaac Asimov about books