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"Because he did not have time to read every new book in his field, the great Polish anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski used a simple and efficient method of deciding which ones were worth his attention: Upon receiving a new book, he immediately checked the index to see if his name was cited, and how often. The more "Malinowski" the more compelling the book. No "Malinowski," and he doubted the subject of the book was anthropology at all." »Neil Postman
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"Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts--the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art." »John Ruskin
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"I send no agent or medium, offer no representative of value," »Walt Whitman
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"Knowledge always desires increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterward propagate it." »Johnson
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"He is a teenager, after all-a strange agent with holes in his jeans, studs in his ear, a tail down his neck, a cap on his head (backward)." »Ellen Karsh
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"Why would they have book covers if we aren't supposed to judge the book by them? It makes no sense." »Ingrid Weir
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"The book is here to stay. What we're doing is symbolic of the peaceful coexistence of the book and the computer." »Vartan Gregorian
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"Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book..." »Dwight D Eisenhower
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"Each time we re-read a book we get more out of it because we put more into it a different person is reading it, and therefore it is a different book." »Muriel Clark
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"book dedication To myself, without whose inspired and tireless efforts this book would not have been possible." »Al Jaffee
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"When a book and a head collide and there is a hollow sound, is it always from the book?" »Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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"Friendship is constant in all other things
Save in the office and affairs of love:
Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues;
Let every eye negotiate for itself
And trust no agent." »William Shakespeare, "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 2 scene 1
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"Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent." »William Shakespeare
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"You know what I say to people when I hear they're writing an anti-war book?… I say, "why don't you write an anti-glacier book instead?"
What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too." »Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughter-House 5
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"There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not worth preserving, if its existence may be tolerated; as there may be some men whom it may be proper to hang, but none should be suffered to starve." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"A bad book about the love of God remains a bad book." »Thomas Merton
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"'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't." »George Gordon Byron
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"There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read." »G. K. Chesterton
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"God has not any Holy Book; but Man has many Holy book writers! Producing Holy Books is a cosmic crime against God! God has not spoken yet! He has been silent for billions of years, because He is out of this universe!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf -that work I abhor- then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us." »Katherine Paterson
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"The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland but that's because it's the best book on anything for layman." »Anonymous
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"In every fat book there is a thin book trying to get out." »Unknown
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"If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skulls, then why do we read it Good God, we also would be happy if we had no books and such books that make us happy we could, if need be, write ourselves. What we must have are those books that come on us like ill fortune, like the death of one we love better than ourselves, like suicide. A book must be an ice axe to break the sea frozen inside us." »Franz Kafka
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"When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul." »Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, The Crazy Ape
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"Christ is the Master the Scriptures are only the servant. The true way to test all the Books is to see whether they work the will of Christ or not. No book which does not preach Christ can be apostolic, though Peter or Paul were its author. And no book which does preach Christ can fail to be apostolic though Judas, Ananias, Pilate or Herod were its author." »Martin Luther
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"agent Smith I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area, and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet, you are a plague, and we are the cure." »Matrix, The
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"There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them." »Elie Wiesel
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"A book is a friend a good book is a good friend. It will talk to you when you want it to talk, and it will keep still when you want it to keep still and there are not many friends who know enough to do that." »B. A. Billingsly
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"A big book is a big bore." »Callimachus (c. 260 B.C.)
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"Beware the man of one book." »Saint Thomas Aquinas
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