Great Book Quotes - Page 8

• I definitely have a spiritual outlook. I don't usually read self-help books, but I read a great book by a guy called Wayne Dyer, 'The Power of Intention,' which I loved. I'm not a religious guy, in fact I'm probably agnostic but I thought what this writer had to say was really powerful.

  Chris Pine

  Spiritual, Religious, Powerful

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Making really great music, making really great films, writing great books is an antidote to all of that. And, as people, as artists, some of the massive disruption that technology is causing is so exciting, the way that people can share creativity now.

  Edward Norton

  Book, Writing, Creativity

  Interview with Bennett Miller, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 3, 2014.

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• Read. Read. Read. Read. Read great books. Read poetry, history, biography. Read the novels that have stood the test of time. And read closely.

  David McCullough

  Book, Biographies, Tests

  Source: belmontvision.com

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• The shortest distance between where we are today as a nation and an effective return to increasing our freedoms and widespread prosperity is for regular American citizens to read and study the great books.

  Oliver DeMille

  Distance, Book, Citizens

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• Hillary Clinton has gotten rich, and she's made a lot of speeches, and she's get great book deals and so forth. But they don't love her like they loved Bill [Clinton], and they don't love her like they loved Barack [Obama], and they don't love her like they love Michelle [Obama]. The love they have for her is related to the fact that right next to her name is a big capital D on the ballot.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Book, Names, Speech

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• There's a great book about that, "The Breaking Point" by Stephen Koch . It won't improve your opinion of [Ernest] Hemingway.

  George Packer

  Book, Point Break, Opinion

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• I was in a store in Halifax, Nova Scotia that I love, sort of like an environmental friendly sort of store. But they had a great book section. So I went in there all the time. The woman who worked there - which I feel so bad; I've forgotten her name - she handed me the book and she said, "Hey, you should read this. I think it would make a good movie." I remember reading the back of it and I was like, "Huh." Then I just devoured the book and I was so moved by it and said, "Why don't we start developing this into a film?" So that's how it ['Into the Forest'] all started.

  Ellen Page

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  "Into The Forest: Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood Survive a Quiet Apocalypse". Interview with Don Kaye, www.denofgeek.com. July 28, 2016.

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• There is a wonderful book called "Gandhi's Truth," by Erik Erikson, the psychologist. It is a great book. And I remember reading that and thinking about this connection between what we think in our personal lives and how that manifests itself in our politics. Those are two books, just off the top, that I think are sort of representative of reading that I did at that time. I never get a chance to read anymore.

  Barack Obama

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  "Obama discusses inspiration for book, life". Interview, www.duluthnewstribune.com. December 3, 2006.

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• I have read some great books recently: "Heaven is For Real," "Bud Not Buddy," and my favorite, "Tiger Eyes."

  Coco Jones

  Real, Book, Eye

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I buy the odd book. There's a great book out at the moment called Ego Is the Enemy.

  Natalie Dormer

  Book, Ego, Enemy

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I don't necessarily think I look to books for ideas, but sometimes when I'm in the process of reading a great book, I just think about it all of the time.

  Dan Mangan

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  Source: www.songfacts.com

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• I love it when people ask who my influences are... or what my favorite part of my last book was... or the last great book I read.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Book, People, Lasts

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• [There is] a great book from Ravi Zacharis, a scholar from India, and its called Jesus Among Other Gods. I havent read that one, but I know Ravi really well, and I know its a good book.

  Max Lucado

  Jesus, Book, India

  Source: www.crosswalk.com

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• I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Book, Writing, Years

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• Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're full of new rewards.

  Martin Amis

  Book, Years, Different

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• Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead in the dictionary, but the language put together into a most significant and universal sense. I wish to learn this language - not that I may know a new grammar, but that I may read the great book which is written in that tongue.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Book, Taken

  "Emerson: The Mind on Fire" by Robert D. Richardson, University of California Press, (p. 155), March 6, 1995.

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• great books are the ones we need

  Charles Bukowski

  Book, Needs

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “The Last Night of the Earth Poems”, p.43, Harper Collins

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• There is something called the rapture of the deep, and it refers to what happens when a deep-sea diver spends too much time at the bottom of the ocean and can't tell which way is up. When he surfaces, he's liable to have a condition called the bends, where the body can't adapt to the oxygen levels in the atmosphere. All of this happens to me when I surface from a great book.

  Nora Ephron

  Ocean, Book, Oxygen

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• Everybody is different. Some writers can write reams of great books and then J. D. Salinger wrote just a few. Beethoven wrote nine symphonies. They were all phenomenal. Mozart wrote some 40 symphonies, and they were all phenomenal. That doesn't mean Beethoven was a lesser writer, it's just some guys are capable of more productivity, some guys take more time.

  Billy Joel

  Book, Writing, Mean

  "Billy Joel on Not Working and Not Giving Up Drinking". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.nytimes.com. May 24, 2013.

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• I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Book, Grateful, Knack

  Kurt Vonnegut (1998). “Timequake”, p.138, Penguin

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• Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

  Joseph Addison

  Inspirational, Education, Book

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1837). “The Tatler: With Notes and a General Index ; Complete in One Volume”, p.270

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• Two must-haves for me are a great book and my iPod.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Book, Two, Ipods

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• It's absolutely philistine not to recognize what a great book 'An American Dream' is. Norman Mailer is his own worst enemy, and if you don't catch him in a defensive position, he'll admit it. I'd really like to help that man.

  Germaine Greer

  Dream, Book, Men

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• Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature.

  Antonio Gaudi

  Book, Humans, Human Beings

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• I'll force myself to sit down and read a couple of chapters of a great book or I'll force myself to sit and listen to some amazing music or I'll go see a play. I find that watching or experiencing other forms of art gets my brain in action. It makes me feel connected to the creative energies and then that tends to get things going.

  Dan Mangan

  Art, Couple, Book

  Source: www.songfacts.com

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