Book Quotes - Page 38

• 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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• And they will ask thee of the spirit. Say: The spirit proceedeth at my Lord's command; but of knowledge, only a little is given to you.

  Elijah Muhammad

  Littles, Spirit, Lord

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• If you're following the news, you know that the major religions differ in their interpretation of the holy books. For example, one way to interpret God's will is that you should love your neighbor. An alternate reading of the holy books might lead you to rig a donkey cart with small mortar rockets and aim it at a hotel full of infidels. In summary, po-tay-to, poh-tah-to. Religions are very flexible.

  Scott Adams

  Love You, Reading, Religion

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• Let no one think or maintain that a person can search too far or be too well studied in either the book of God's word or the book of God's works.

  Francis Bacon

  Thinking, Study, Wells

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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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• A book is a part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a star. It obeys its own rhythms, its own laws, whether it be a novel, a play, or a diary. The deep, hidden rhythm of life is always there - that of the pulse, the heart beat.

  Henry Miller

  Horse, Stars, Reading

  Henry Miller (1961). “The Cosmological Eye”, p.273, New Directions Publishing

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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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• Books seem to me to be pestilent things, and infect all that trade in them...with something very perverse and brutal. Printers, binders, sellers, and others that make a trade and gain out of them have universally so odd a turn and corruption of mind that they have a way of dealing peculiar to themselves, and not conformed to the good of society and that general fairness which cements mankind.

  John Locke

  Reading, Mind, Peculiar

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• I dont like any of them, because they don't read the books. In Kiss Me Deadly my story is better than his story. Anthony Quinn played in The Lond Wait and he didn't read the book either.

  Mickey Spillane

  Kissing, Waiting, Stories

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• Our great mistake in education is ... the worship of book-learning-the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of cultivating the mind. ... We ought to follow exactly the opposite course with children-to give them a wholesome variety of mental food, and endeavour to cultivate their tastes, rather than to fill their minds with dry facts.

  John Lubbock

  Education, Memories, Children

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• Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing.

  Henry Miller

  Writing, Thinking, Want

  Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

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• Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book.

  Mickey Spillane

  Writing, Literature, Pages

  "Writers on writing". Book by Jon Winokur, 1986.

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• In life, as in Chess, ones own Pawns block ones way. A mans very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help him to win, more often checkmate him

  Charles Buxton

  Children, Block, Winning

  Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1873). “Notes of Thought”, p.277

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• This is the Book. I have read the Bible through many times, and now make it a practice to read it through once every year. It is a book of all others for lawyers, as well as divines; and I pity the man who cannot find in it a rich supply of thought and of rules for conduct. It fits man for life--it prepares him for death.

  Daniel Webster

  Men, Years, Practice

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• I cannot help leaving my books behind me whenever God calls me hence; but in every other respect, my own hands will be my executors.

  John Wesley

  Hands, Generosity, Leaving

  John Wesley (1831). “The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.”, p.254

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• I have examined all religions, as well as my narrow sphere, my straightened means, and my busy life, would allow; and the result is that the Bible is the best Book in the world. It contains more philosophy than all the libraries I have seen.

  John Adams

  Philosophy, Mean, Library

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• For a long time all I wanted for Christmas were books about outdoor survival. I was convinced that the woods were calling me. I camped a lot, I took classes. At 18, I told myself if I don't live in the woods by myself by the time I'm 25, I have failed.

  Chris Evans

  Christmas, Class, Long

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• You know, when you get to the New World and you develop your three branches of government and you have a civil society, you can just jettison all the barbarism I recommended in the first books.

  Sam Harris

  Government, Three, World

  "Religion, Terror, and Self-Transcendence". CSPAN-2, November 16, 2005.

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• With a novel, which takes perhaps years to write, the author is not the same man he was at the end of the book as he was at the beginning. It is not only that his characters have developed-he has developed with them, and this nearly always gives a sense of roughness to the work: a novel can seldom have the sense of perfection which you find in Chekhov's story, The Lady with the Dog.

  Graham Greene

  Dog, Writing, Character

  Graham Greene (1973). “Collected Stories”

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• Prejudice is opinion without judgement.

  Voltaire

  Beer, Judgement, Prejudice

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• ... and we will test you with evil and with good; and unto us shall ye be brought back.

  Elijah Muhammad

  Evil, Tests, Holy

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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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• The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of religion, of special revelation from God; but it is also a book which teaches man his own individual responsibility, his own dignity, and his equality with his fellow - man.

  Daniel Webster

  Responsibility, Men, Special

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• I read all the time... I read a lot of history books.

  Mickey Spillane

  Literature, History Books

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• It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds.

  William Ellery Channing

  Mind, Enjoy, Intercourse

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