A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It's a creator of inwardness.”
“A good book is an event in my life.”
Source: The Red and the Black: Easyread Edition
“A good book is called a page turner. Surely that is the minimum you expect from any book.”
“A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers.”
Source: Tablets
“A good book is like a first kiss, you can taste the expectation”
“A good book is like a guest. They stay with you for a while, and when they leave, you are still smiling, and thinking they left a little too soon. You will always remember their pleasant company; things they said that moved you and maybe changed your perspective You plan to invite them again so you can spend quality time together and when you invite them in, you are full of anticipation about the new discoveries you will make when you are together.”
“A good book is like a seed: it produces fruit that has in it seed for more fruit. It is not a picture on the wall; it is a window that invies us to wider horizons.”
Source: 10 People Every Christian Should Know (Ebook Shorts)
“A good book is like an unreachable itch. You just can't leave it alone.”
“A good book is never exhausted. It goes on whispering to you from the wall. Books perfume and give weight to a room. A bookcase is as good as a view, as the sight of a city or a river. There are dawns and sunsets in books - storms, fogs, zephyrs.
I read about a family whose apartment consists of a series of spaces so strictly planned that they are obliged to give away their books as soon as they've read them. I think they have misunderstood the way books work.
Reading a book is only the first step in the relationship. After you've finished it, the book enters on its real career. It stand there as a badge, a blackmailer, a monument, a scar. It's both a flaw in the room, like a crack in the plaster, and a decoration. The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.
- in "About books; recoiling, rereading, retelling", The New York Times, February 22, 1987”
“A good book is never exhausted; we are never exhausted by a good book.”
Source: A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney
“A good book is never finished—-it goes on whispering to you from the wall.”
“A good book is no good with a bad cover”
“A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.”
“A good book is the only friend who can speak to you in silence, leaving you enriched, not alone.”
Source: The Heartbeat of Love: Celebrating the Extraordinary Journey of Mothers: Celebrate the Heart of Every Family: A Journey Through the Beauty of Motherhood
“A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.”
Source: Areopagitica
“A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, and as such it must surely be a necessary commodity.”
Source: The Bookshop
“A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.”
“A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.”
“A good book is the very essence of a good man. His virtues survive in it, while the foibles and faults of his actual life are forgotten. All the goodly company of the excellent and great sit around my table, or look down on me from yonder shelves, waiting patiently to answer my questions and enrich me with their wisdom. A precious book is a foretaste of immortality.”
“A good book isn't written, it's rewritten.”
Source: The Silver Inkwell
“A good book keeps you hooked to the end. A great book allows the characters and the story to be memorable and forever lasting in your heart.”
“A good book makes my child smile; a moment reading together makes my life happy”
Source: Big Dreams for Toddlers: A Story About Imagination and Believing in Yourself
“A good book raises the morals of anyone; our minds enjoy good things.”
“A good book should leave you....slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.”
“A good book should make you laugh, cry or pee your pants. The best do all three!”
“A good book was like a fondly remembered lover. You could think back and say, yes I enjoyed it, it was satisfying, and even, if only fleetingly, it may have touched your soul.. You could recall the good bits and overlook the faults, and even when it was cast aside, you could think of it with affection.”
Source: The day before you came
“A good book was like a fondly remembered lover. You could think back and say, yes I enjoyed it, it was satisfying, and even, if only fleetingly, it may have touched your soul.. You could recall the good bits and overlook the faults, and even when it was cast aside, you could think of it with affection."
The Day Before You Came. Chapter 36. Alistair Sutton”
Source: The day before you came
“A good book, when we return to it, will always have something new to say. It's not the same book, and we're not the same reader”
Source: I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
“A good book will give you answers to questions you didn't know you had. A great book will give you questions to answers you thought you knew.”
Source: Give the Dark My Love
“A good book will pull you in from the beginning and take you on a journey you'll never forget.”
“A good book written for children can be read by adults”
“A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.”
“A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.”
Source: Night Watch
“A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves, but reaching out into the world and making a difference.”
“A good boss asks what part she could have played in the problem. And then she asks herself what she can do better next time.”
Source: The Clique #11: Boys R Us
“A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could.”
“A good brain ain't diddley, if you don't have the facts.”
“A good brand and a good ad delight the audience with increased curiosity and wows them with creativity and a great ad experience. It never interrupts them so that it can selfishly talk about itself.”
Source: The Art of Running a Successful Wedding Services Business: The Missing Puzzle Piece You’re Looking For
“A good bricklayer can lay his last brick of the day, point up, wash up, turn his back on his day’s work, and every single one of the joints between the bricks will be exactly 15mm. Why? Because he’s done it so many times, that’s why. It’s repetitive.
It’s probably the same for a good hairdresser, a mechanic, a musician, a prostitute and I’m sure Masai Warriors hunting lions in the heart of the Masai Mara.”
Source: Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe
“A good browser, apps, good camera, and fast networking in your smartphone is just expected today.”
“A good bus rider likes to take the bus, looking out the window, talking to others on the way. The trip on the bus is fun; it is not just about getting there. A good painter tries to think about what she is feeling inside her imagination, her thoughts. It is not just about painting what something looks like. A good science student likes thinking about ideas, tries to find out how things work. It is not just about learning one tiny piece of the universe.”
Source: Voyage to the Sun: A Children's Version of the Tao te Ching
“A good business adds value not only to individual people, but also to systems and networks of people. A good business has a multiplicative value effect.”
“A good business person knows how to develop boundaries that will help them minimize distractions and maximize their potential.”
“A good businessman is hard to bruise and quick to heal.”
Source: American Steel
“A good businessman knows how to make a profit. An engineer makes sure it runs well. We need more leaders who are task oriented.”
“A good businessman must have nose for business the same way a journalist has nose for news.”
“A good businessman must have nose for business the same way a journalist has nose for news. In places where people see a lot of obstacles, I see a lot of opportunities. A good businessman sees where others don’t see.”
“A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.”
“A good businessman sees where others don't see.”
“A good businessman sees where others don’t see. What I see, you may not see. You cannot see because that is the secret of the business… the entire world is a big market waiting for anybody who knows the rules of the game.”