Interesting Book Quotes

• The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Education

  Mark Twain (2015). “The Prince and the Pauper (StoneHenge Classics)”, p.154, StoneHenge Classics

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• Sing like there's nobody listening,
  And live like it's heaven on earth.

  William Watson Purkey

  Inspirational, Life, Dance

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• You know, I once read an interesting book which said that, uh, most people lost in the wilds, they, they die of shame. Yeah, see, they die of shame. 'What did I do wrong? How could I have gotten myself into this?' And so they sit there and they... die. Because they didn't do the one thing that would save their lives. Thinking.

  David Mamet

  Book, Thinking, People

  "The Edge". www.imdb.com. 1997.

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• There are very interesting books about these events, for instance one by a very well-known American historian named William R. Polk called Violent Politics. It's a record of what are basically guerrilla wars from the American Revolution right up through the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Book, Iraq

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• There's an interesting book about that called The Third Reich and the Ivory Tower, written by Stephen H. Norwood. It has a long discussion about Harvard, and indeed the school's president, James Conant, did block Jewish faculty. He was the one who prevented European Jews from being admitted to the chemistry department - his field - and also had pretty good relations with the Nazis.

  Noam Chomsky

  Block, Book, School

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• [Arthur Koestler] wrote some other very interesting books, but that book - I mean, if I were teaching, I don't care what the course is, I would say you really have to read "Darkness at Noon".

  Nat Hentoff

  Book, Teaching, Mean

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• There's an interesting book called The Fugu Plan, written by Marvin Tokayer and Mary Swartz, which describes the circumstances when European Jews came to Japan, a semi-feudal society.

  Noam Chomsky

  Book, Japan, Interesting

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• It was very interesting [book Fast Food Nation] because all my friends who were in college, [and] this book became almost mandatory for them to read.

  Wilmer Valderrama

  Book, College, Interesting

  Source: www.thehollywoodgossip.com

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• Nothing beats love. Love is the greatest healing power there is; nothing else comes close. Not ancient cures, modern medicines and technologies, or all the interesting books we read or the wise things we say and think. Love has a transformational power.

  Naomi Judd

  Love, Wise, Book

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• I really don't know but I would quote for a book from JACQUELINE WILSON which is a very interesting book of her childhood.

  Jacqueline Wilson

  Book, Interesting, Childhood

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• I am the most interesting book of all.

  Marie Bashkirtseff

  Book, Interesting, Most Interesting

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• Suppose there were an experience machine that would give you any experience you desired. Superduper neuropsychologists could stimulate your brain so that you would think and feel you were writing a great novel, or making a friend, or reading an interesting book. All the time you would be floating in a tank, with electrodes attached to your brain. Should you plug into this machine for life, preprogramming your life experiences?...Of course, while in the tank you won't know that you're there; you'll think that it's all actually happening...Would you plug in?

  Robert Nozick

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Robert Nozick (1974). “Anarchy, state, and utopia”

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• I think the books are the books. They were conceived as books. They weren't conceived as movies. When I write scripts, that's an idea and a situation that I think is a really good idea for a movie. When I'm writing a book, I'm not thinking, "Oh, this would be a great movie." This would be a very interesting book. And I think the books are things that cannot really be adapted into another medium.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. April 22, 2009.

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• As sheer casual reading matter, I still find the English dictionary the most interesting book in our language.

  Albert J. Nock

  Book, Reading, Interesting

  Memoirs of a Superfluous Man ch. 1 (1943)

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• For, so long as there are interesting books to read, it seems to me that neither I nor anyone else, for that matter, need be unhappy.

  Selma Lagerlöf

  Book, Long, Interesting

  Selma Lagerlöf (1975). “Memories of my childhood: further years at Mårbacka”, Kraus Reprint. Co.

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• Charles Darwin wrote a famous book in 18 [gibberish]. And that book was an interesting book, cuz it was called "Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-You".

  Eddie Izzard

  Funny, Book, Interesting

  "Eddie Izzard: Stripped". Documentary, Comedy, 2009.

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• It is so very easy and so very pleasant, too, to read only books which lead to nothing, light and interesting books, and the more the better, that it is almost as difficult to wean ourselves from it as from the habit of chewing tobacco to excess, or of smoking the whole time, or of depending for stimulus upon tea or coffee or spirits.

  Charles Francis Adams, Sr.

  Coffee, Book, Light

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• [Among the books he chooses, a statesman] ought to read interesting books on history and government, and books of science and philosophy; and really good books on these subjects are as enthralling as any fiction ever written in prose or verse.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Philosophy, Book, Science

  Theodore Roosevelt (2013). “Bully!”, p.257, Simon and Schuster

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• Shouldn't schools be the place where students interact with interesting books? Shouldn't the faculty have an ongoing laser-like commitment to put good books in our students' hands? Shouldn't this be a front-burner issue at all times?

  Kelly Gallagher

  Book, School, Commitment

  Kelly Gallagher, Richard L. Allington (2009). “Readicide: How Schools are Killing Reading and what You Can Do about it”, p.30, Stenhouse Publishers

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• I did some reading to prep for Expelled. I read one book cover to cover, From Darwin to Hitler , and that was a very interesting book - one of these rare books I wish had been even longer. It's about how Darwin 's theory - supposedly concocted by this mild-mannered saintly man, with a flowing white beard like Santa Claus - led to the murder of millions of innocent people.

  Ben Stein

  Reading, Book, Men

  "Ben Stein is Expelled!". Christianity Today Movies, April 15, 2008.

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