Quotations
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Books
«We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.»
Author: Edith Lovejoy Pierce
| About:
Books,
New Year,
Opportunity
| Keywords:
blank, blanked, blanker, blanks, chapter, chapters, first book, pages, the book, The New Year
«When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.»
«What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to speak to each new generation.»
Author: Lawrence Clark Powell
(Critic, Librarian, Writer)
| About:
Books,
Generations
| Keywords:
author, classic, continuing, Great A, so-called, The Classics
«When I was a ten-year-old book worm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love»
Author: Erica Jong
| About:
Books
| Keywords:
amaze, authors, dust jacket, icon, icons, jacket, jackets, picture book, provoke, remote, worm
«What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| About:
Books,
Education
| Keywords:
after all, books, collection, collections, depends, finished, Great Books, professors, The Professor, university
«When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Books,
Reading
| Keywords:
across, come across, eyes-only, now and then, passage, phrase, phrased, phrasing
«When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and courageous feelings, seek for no other rule to judge the event by; it is good and made by a good workman»
Author: Jean de la Bruyere
| About:
Books,
Feelings
| Keywords:
courageous, inspires, raises, rule book, workman
«When I see throughout this book, called the Bible, a history of the grossest vices and a collection of the most paltry and contemptible tales and stories, I could not so dishonor my Creator by calling it by His name»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
Books
| Keywords:
calling, collection, contemptible, dishonor, dishonored, dishonoring, dishonors, grossest, gross out, History of the, paltry, tales, throughout