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Booked Quotes (page 161)

These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been the birds themselves, when they sang to them, the sun when it left a glow of crimson behind it at setting, the very trees, and wild herbs. Anton Chekhov
I had always insisted that a good education was a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, that each enriched the other. I wanted my students to know that the accumulation of knowledge, while fascinating in itself, is not sufficient as long as so many people in the world have no opportunity to experience that fascination. Howard Zinn
Clive Barker quote: "Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red."
Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red. Clive Barker
Cal: “I’m not presuming. I know exactly what you think about me. You think I’m an anal-retentive Armrest Nazi . . . an arrogant Modelizer. You can’t stand the way I talk, any of the subjects I choose to talk about, the imperious manner I order food in restaurants or tell cab drivers how much we owe them. You find my taste in women odious, the fact that I don’t own a television an unforgivable sin, and the fact that I would choose to write a book about Saudi Arabia completely unfathomable.... Meg Cabot
Kin Hubbard quote: "Everything comes to him who waits, except a loaned book."
Everything comes to him who waits, except a loaned book. Kin Hubbard
Marguerite Yourcenar quote: "Leaving behind books is even more beautiful? there are far too..."
Leaving behind books is even more beautiful? there are far too many children. Marguerite Yourcenar
Aiden Wilson Tozer quote: "The best book is not one that informs merely, but one that..."
The best book is not one that informs merely, but one that stirs the reader up to inform himself. Aiden Wilson Tozer
Just like heaven. Ever’body wants a little piece of lan’. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It’s just in their head. They’re all the time talkin’ about it, but it’s jus’ in their head. John Steinbeck
Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they have no patience with pretence. Orson Scott Card
Orhan Pamuk quote: "I read a book one day and my whole life was changed."
I read a book one day and my whole life was changed. Orhan Pamuk
Alan Bennett quote: "A book is a device to ignite the imagination."
A book is a device to ignite the imagination. Alan Bennett
Horace Mann quote: "A house without books is like a room without windows."
A house without books is like a room without windows. Horace Mann
What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do. Alan Bennett
Jerry Seinfeld quote: "If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?"
If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success? Jerry Seinfeld
J. K. Rowling quote: "Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I..."
Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy J. K. Rowling

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