Bill Vaughan Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.

  Bill Vaughan

  Country, Book, Countries Of The World

• My son, who's on the spectrum is a very rigid thinker. He needs clear-cut definitions of right and wrong. Anything hazy or gray confuses him. For instance, if I try to get him to see that a friend behaved badly, he'll often get upset with me because a friend is a 'good guy' by definition, in his book.

  Bill Vaughan

  Book, Son, Cutting

• The Wise (Minstrel or Sage,) out of their books are clay; But in their books, as from their graves they rise. Angels--that, side by side, upon our way, Walk with and warn us!

  Bill Vaughan

  Wise, Book, Angel

• You'll accidentally find in barrows of books wrought-iron lines of long-buried poems, handle them with the care that respects ancient but terrible weapons.. .

  Bill Vaughan

  Book, Iron, Long

• All books grow homilies by time; they are Temples, at once, and Landmarks.

  Bill Vaughan

  Book, Temples, Landmarks

• In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature.

  Bill Vaughan

  Book, Reading, Age

• There is no Past, so long as Books shall live!

  Bill Vaughan

  Book, Past, Long

• Historical investigation and literary criticism have taken the magic out of the Bible and have made it a composite human book, written by many hands in different ages.

  Bill Vaughan

  Bible, Book, Taken

• I never thought I would just be doing Arkady books.

  Bill Vaughan

  Book

• The easiest books are generally the best; for, whatever author is obscure and difficult in his own language, certainly does not think clearly.

  Bill Vaughan

  Book, Thinking, Doe

• Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who's reading it.

  Bill Vaughan

  Fun, Book, Reading

• I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.

  Bill Vaughan

  Book, Greek, Bed

• Do not believe a thing because you read it in a book! Do not believe a thing because another has said it so! Find out the truth for yourself.

  Bill Vaughan

  Believe, Book, Experience

• Every day that goes by shortens our opportunity of booking it successfully. Whether it's members pulling their condos for personal use, whether it's a convention booking our conference center, whether it's golf packages being booked .. not hearing makes it that much harder to accommodate them.

  Bill Vaughan

  Book, Golf, Opportunity

• Most people - and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all - are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right.

  Bill Vaughan

  Book, Ideas, People

• The guru, if he is gifted, reads the story as any bilingual person might. He does not translate-he understands.

  Bill Vaughan

  Book, Reading, Understanding

• We buy them (books) as our budget allows. But eighth grade has four trade books (individual-title books), and you have time to do more than that during the school year.

  Bill Vaughan

  Book, School, Years

• Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class.

  Bill Vaughan

  Fashion, Book, Years

• I'm a novelist who read a lot as a kid. When you grow up on books and then grow up to write books, famous authors are a lot more meaningful to you than TV and movie stars.

  Bill Vaughan

  Meaningful, Stars, Growing Up

• Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate. depend upon books.

  Bill Vaughan

  Art, Book, Adversity

• Someday there is going to be a book about a middle-aged man with a good job, a beautiful wife and two lovely children who still manages to be happy.

  Bill Vaughan

  Beautiful, Jobs, Children

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