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Booked Quotes (page 103)

Ashley Montagu quote: "The Good Book" - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever..."
The Good Book" - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined. Ashley Montagu
I always thought the name of Utah’s major newspaper was some sort of weird misspelling of the word “desert.” But no, Deseret is the “land of the honeybee,” according to the Book of Mormon. I guess I should have figured they would have caught a typo in the masthead after 154 years. A. J. Jacobs
L. Ron Hubbard quote: "Learning locked in mildewed books is of little use to anyone..."
Learning locked in mildewed books is of little use to anyone and therefore of no value unless it can be used. L. Ron Hubbard
I remember the feeling. Whenever my father got so absorbed in a book that we might have been in visible I felt like taking a pair of scissors and cutting it up. Cornelia Funke
C. S. Lewis quote: "I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it..."
I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once. C. S. Lewis
Stephen Colbert quote: "I am no fan of books."
I am no fan of books. Stephen Colbert
What in me is dark. Illumine, what is low raise and support, That to the height of this great argument. I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men. 1 Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 22. John Milton
Oscar Wilde quote: "Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap..."
Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable Oscar Wilde
William F. Buckley, Jr. quote: "I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the..."
I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard. William F. Buckley, Jr.
Comparing what we're looking for misses the point. It's wanting to know that makes us matter. Otherwise we're going out the way we came in. That's why you can't believe in the afterlife, Valentine. Believe in the after, by all means, but not the life. Believe in God, the soul, the spirit, the infinite, believe in angels if you like, but not in the great celestial get-together for an exchange of views. If the answers are in the back of the book I can wait, but what a drag. Better to struggle... Tom Stoppard
We had more fun waiting in line together at the Department of Motor Vehicles than most couples have on their honeymoons. We gave each other same nickname, so there would be no separation between us. We made goals, vows, promises and dinner together. He read books to me... Elizabeth Gilbert
Madeleine L'Engle quote: "A book, too, can be a star 'explosive material, capable of..."
A book, too, can be a star 'explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly. Madeleine L'Engle
It's true though: time moves in its own special way in the middle of the night," the bartender says, loudly striking a book match and lighting a cigarette. "You can't fight it. Haruki Murakami
A mismatched outfit, a slightly defective denture, an exquisite mediocrity of the soul-those are the details that make a woman real, alive. The women you see on posters or in fashion magazines-the ones all the women try to imitate nowadays-how can they be attractive? They have no reality of their own; they're just the sum of a set of abstract rules. They aren't born of human bodies; they hatch ready-made from the computers." ~The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Milan Kundera
There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street. There are images tucked away in books that live more vividly than many men and women. There are phrases from literary works that have a positively human personality. There are passages from my own writing that chill me with fright, so distinctly do I feel them as people, so sharply outlined do they appear against the walls of my room, at night, in shadows….. I've written sentences whose sound, read out loud or silently... Fernando Pessoa

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