Famous Quotes: Book

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
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A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel.
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I've published one book before, and now I'm writing a book of essays and stories about life in Tokyo. And I have one book coming out in May in Germany, about fitness.
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I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting.
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I was inspired to write this book by those who are sceptical of the power of freedom to change the world.
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I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history.
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We saw what happened in Jimmy Carter's administration. President Carter was a good man with the best of intentions. But he came to Washington without a good working relationship with Democratic members of Congress, which played a big part in his administration's problems.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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I like to walk around my apartment naked. I like sitting around in the nude watching sports, actually.
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This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom.
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When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.
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Moby Dick - that book is so amazing. I just realized that it starts with two characters meeting in bed; that's how my book begins, too, but I hadn't noticed the parallel before, two characters forced to share a bed, reluctantly.
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The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.
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I was never a girl who dreamed about what her wedding day would be like, but I've always dreamed about decorating my baby's nursery.
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We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.
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Most of my relationships have been like that - with record companies. I've never had a legitimate business relationship with a company. I've always had a personal relationship with someone in the company.
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Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it.
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
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To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
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People say women shouldn't have long hair over a certain age, but I've never done what everyone says.
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