All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.Quote by Ernest Hemingway about common sense, books, things, good, good luck
I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.Quote by Billy Joel about books
If you are given an open-book exam, you will forget your book.Quote by Edward A. Murphy about education
When a student asks for a second time if you have read his book report, he did not read the book.Quote by Edward A. Murphy about education, time
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, people
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 religion, books, spirit
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 television, reality, books, human imperfections, life
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 advertising, books, money, people
The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.Quote by Theodore Parker about books, help
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 opinion, politics, religion, family, books, things
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 time, bad luck, bad, magic, 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 opinion, books, people, work
My work looks like a comic book in form, but it's not a typical comic book in content. I write autobiographical stuff.Quote by Harvey Pekar about work
People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books.Quote by Harvey Pekar about fiction, books, people
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, mind
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 immortality, books, things
They lard their lean books with the fat of others work.Quote by Richard Burton about teaching, books, work
And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about literature, silence, books, being
It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: He made the books and he died.Quote by William Faulkner about life, books, history
Perhaps they were right in putting love into books... Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.Quote by William Faulkner about opinion, books, rightness, love