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Book Quotes - IV

Book Quotes - IV

1. I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write. - George W. Bush

2. I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties. - Agatha Christie

3. You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends. - William Butler Yeats

4. It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it. - Salman Rushdie

5. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. - Oscar Wilde

6. Every night, I have to read a book, so that my mind will stop thinking about things that I stress about. - Britney Spears

7. Therefore, in the course of the work I have followed this plan: I describe in the first book all the positions of the orbits together with the movements which I ascribe to the Earth, in order that this book might contain, as it were, the general scheme of the universe. - Nicolaus Copernicus

8. A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book. - Ernest Hemingway

9. One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it. - E. M. Forster

10. When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you, and it is cool or cold, and you come to your work and warm as you write. - Ernest Hemingway

11. Twenty years ago, I wrote a book called 'It Takes a Village.' And a lot of people looked at the title and asked, 'What the heck do you mean by that?' This is what I mean. None of us can raise a family, build a business, heal a community or lift a country totally alone. - Hillary Clinton

12. I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

13. Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital. - Thomas Jefferson

14. At Somerset I played with Marcus Trescothick who has spoken very openly about his battle with depression and anxiety. I had a few conversations with him about his problems but I also read his book which provided me with a great insight into what he went though. - Jos Buttler

15. It sounds so geeky, but I really do like studying and reading, and if I'm not working on 'Harry Potter,' then my greatest relaxation is to sit with a book. - Emma Watson

16. It's important for moms to have alone time. However, that's the first thing that goes on a busy day. Fortunately for me, because of my job, I have to find the time to do it. At least that's the way my mind sees it. I have to exercise to be able to fit the clothes and book the jobs. - Cindy Crawford

17. Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing. - Mike Tyson

18. What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature. - W. Somerset Maugham

19. Publishers see free downloads as threatening the sales of the book. - Paulo Coelho

20. When I was 10 years old, I loved - I loved books, and I used to haunt the secondhand bookshop. And I found a little book I could just afford, and I bought it, and I took it home. And I climbed up my favorite tree, and I read that book from cover to cover. And that was Tarzan of the Apes. I immediately fell in love with Tarzan. - Jane Goodall.

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