Book Quotes - Page 37

• Ordinary people don't know how much books can mean to someone who's cooped up.

  Anne Frank

  Inspirational, Mean, People

  Anne Frank (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.60, Hamilton Books

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• I had many wonderful experiences, received beautiful letters, and my Christian books received substantive and thoughtful reviews. But there was always argument, dispute, questions as to what I "really" believed, lectures from here and there on "the real truth," etc.

  Anne Rice

  Beautiful, Christian, Real

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• In fact, books are still being published by the lunatic fringe with the same explanation. In case this book should be read by some fundamentalist searching for straws to prop up his prejudices, let me state categorically that all my experience (such as it is) has led me to an unqualified acceptance of evolution by natural selection as a sufficient explanation for what I have seen in the fossil record.

  D. V. Ager

  Acceptance, Science, Unqualified

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• I think that by the time I start writing the third book, of course, I will be President Of The United States, and that also will have something to do with it. I'll probably have to acknowledge that somehow.

  John Hodgman

  Writing, Thinking, President

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 21, 2008.

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• Anyone of conscience could come look at my book and see it as an esoteric oddity or be intrigued by it. It could happen either way on a thousand different little decisions each individual might make.

  John Hodgman

  Oddities, Decision, Different

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 21, 2008.

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• 50 is a great person. I was a little intimidated when I met him for the first time in 2006. I didn't know what to expect. It ended up we got along really well. That's why we decided to do a book together, The 50th Law of Power.

  Robert Greene

  Law, Together, Littles

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• You do not have to protect people's pocket books. They'll do a better job of that than you will.

  Johnny Hunt

  Leadership, Christian, Jobs

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• In my opinion, what makes a great book is something that is universally specific.

  Anne Hathaway

  Opinion, Great Book

  "New Anne Hathaway Image from ALICE IN WONDERLAND and Studio Provided Interview". Walt Disney Pictures Interview, collider.com. February 2, 2010.

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• Most writers can write books faster than publishers can write checks.

  Richard Curtis

  Writing, Faster, Checks

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• The book is almost always better than the movie. You could have no better case in point than FROM HELL, Alan Moore's best graphic novel to date, brilliantly illustrated by Eddie Campbell. It's hard to describe just how much better the book is. It's like, "If the movie was an episode of Battlestar Galactica with a guest appearance by the Smurfs and everyone spoke Dutch, the graphic novel is Citizen Kane with added sex scenes and music by your favourite ten bands and everyone in the world you ever hated dies at the end." That's how much better it is.

  Warren Ellis

  Sex, Bad Ass, Band

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• If you're a fan of it, there's a lot of things that plays into what the fans of the series want. If you've never seen them before, a lot of people who have seen it tell me that it's the most accessible of the three. It's a solid story, by itself, and it's more of a sort of action film. When I was watching Twilight the other day, I realized that you do need to read the book to get it.

  Robert Pattinson

  Twilight, Play, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I read comic books and stuff but I didn't know a lot about it.

  Josh Brolin

  Stuff, Comic, Knows

  "Josh Brolin On Set Interview JONAH HEX – Read or Listen Here" by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. May 13, 2010.

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• It is no more necessary that a man should remember the different dinners and suppers which have made him healthy, than the different books which have made him wise. Let us see the results of good food in a strong body, and the results of great reading in a full and powerful mind.

  Sydney Smith

  Wise, Strong, Powerful

  Sydney Smith (1849). “Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy: Delivered at the Royal Institution in the Years 1804-1806”, p.102

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• There can be no be no better instruction... than that every man who is to deal with his neighbor to follow these commandments. 'Whatsoever ye would that others should do unto you, do ye also unto them,' and 'Love thy neighbor as thyself.' If these were always followed, then everything would instruct and arrange itself; then no law books nor courts nor judicial actions would be required. All things would quietly and simply be set to rights, for everyone's heart and conscience would guide them.

  Martin Luther

  Communication, Heart, Men

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• Our enemies must not deceive themselves-in the 2,000 years of German history known to us, our people have never been more united than today. The Lord of the Universe has treated us so well in the past years that we bow in gratitude to a providence which has allowed us to be members of such a great nation. We thank Him that we also can be entered with honor into the ever-lasting book of German history!

  Adolf Hitler

  Gratitude, Past, Years

  Adolf Hitler (1944). “Hitler's Words”

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• Books demand more. You have to be a more active participant.

  Paul Auster

  Demand, Active, Participants

  Paul Auster, James M. Hutchisson (2013). “Conversations with Paul Auster”, p.194, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Often it's true that films just go right through us. You see the film, you might be entertained, and if it's not a great film, it loses its power very quickly. I think even simply acceptable books stay with us a lot longer.

  Paul Auster

  Thinking, Might, Film

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 6, 2008.

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• A book is a friend whose face is constantly changing. If you read it when you are recovering from an illness, and return to it years after, it is changed surely, with the change in yourself.

  Andrew Lang

  Years, Faces, Return

  Andrew Lang (1892). “The Library”, p.11, Library of Alexandria

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• No book so bad but some part may be of use.

  Pliny the Elder

  Use, May

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• What havoc has been made of books through every century of the Christian era? Where are fifty gospels, condemned as spurious by the bull of Pope Gelasius? Where are the forty wagon-loads of Hebrew manuscripts burned in France, by order of another pope, because suspected of heresy? Remember the 'index expurgatorius', the inquisition, the stake, the axe, the halter and the guillotine.

  John Adams

  Christian, Order, Religion

  John Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.479

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• The Lord does not show Himself to a proud soul. The proud soul, no matter how many books it reads, will never know God, since by its pride it does not give place for the grace of the Holy Spirit, while God is known only by the humble soul.

  Silouan the Athonite

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet - if one wants to extract the full flavor of their content.

  Henry Miller

  Funny, Reading, Done

  Henry Miller (2007). “Black Spring”, p.48, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• By speech first, but far more by writing, man has been able to put something of himself beyond death. In tradition and in books an integral part of the individual persists, for it can influence the minds and actions of other people in different places and at different times: a row of black marks on a page can move a man to tears, though the bones of him that wrote it are long ago crumbled to dust.

  Julian Huxley

  Moving, Writing, Men

  "The Individual in the Animal Kingdom" by Julian Huxley (1912) as quoted in Connie Barlow "From Gaia to Selfish Genes: Selected Writings in the Life Sciences", 1991.

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• Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself.

  Richard Cecil

  Character, Men, Originality

  Richard Cecil, Josiah PRATT (the Elder.) (1854). “Remains of the Rev. Richard Cecil ... With a view of his character, by the Rev. Josiah Pratt ... To which is prefixed a memoir of his life signed: J. Cecil . Tenth edition”, p.53

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• Some men have only one book in them, others a library.

  Sydney Smith

  Reading, Men, Library

  Sydney Smith, Sarah Austin, Lady Saba Smith Holland Holland (1855). “A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith”, p.353, London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans

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