T Quotes
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“The book works better if I know everything I can about the ending. Not just what happens, but how it happens and what the language is; not just the last sentence, but enough of the sentences surrounding that last sentence to know what the tone of voice is. I imagined it as something almost musical. Then you are writing toward something; you know the sound of your voice at the end of the story. That's how you want to sound in those final sentences: the degree that it is uplifting or not, the degree that it is melancholic or not.”
“The book you don't read won't help.”
“The book's always better than the movie.”
Source: Last Sacrifice: A Vampire Academy Novel
“The book, as it stands, seems to me to be one of the most frightful muddles I have ever read, with scarcely a sound proposition in it beginning with page 45 [Hayek provided historical background up to page 45; after that came his theoretical model], and yet it remains a book of some interest, which is likely to leave its mark on the mind of the reader. It is an extraordinary example of how, starting with a mistake, a remorseless logician can end up in bedlam.”
Source: The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: The general theory and after: pt. 1, Preparation
“The book, called the Bible, is filled with passages equally horrible, unjust and atrocious. This is the book to be read in schools in order to make our children loving, kind and gentle! This is the book they wish to be recognized in our Constitution as the source of all authority and justice!”
“The book, I think, like the map before it, like the clock, created or help create a revolution in the human mind in the way our habits of mind and ultimately the way we use our brains.”
“The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.”
Source: The Portable Hawthorne
“The book, like the bicycle, is a perfect form.”
“The book, Max on Life, is really kind of a second chance to answer these questions.”
“The book, that stubbornly unelectric artifact of pure typography, possesses resources conducive to the flourishing of the soul. A thoughtful reading of the printed text orients one to a world of order, meaning, and the possibility of knowing truth.”
“The book, the idea of a book or the image of a book, is a symbol of learning, of transmitting knowledge.. I make my own books to find my way through the old stories.”
“The Book, this Holy Book, on every line,
Mark'd with the seal of high divinity,
On every leaf bedew'd with drops of love
Divine, and with the eternal heraldry
And signature of God Almighty stamp'd
From first to last; this ray of sacred light,
This lamp, from off the everlasting throne,
Mercy took down, and in the night of time
Stood, casting on the dark her gracious bow;
And evermore beseeching men With tears
And earnest sighs, to read, believe and live.”
“The book-keeping of benefits is simple: it is all expenditure; if any one returns it, that is clear gain; if he does not return it, it is not lost, I gave it for the sake of giving.”
“The book-worm wraps himself up in his web of verbal generalities, and sees only the glimmering shadows of things reflected from the minds of others.”
Source: Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things
“The book. Calming object. Held in the hand.”
“The book. The book...think about a book. What a perfect invention. The best and most important ever.”
Source: If i Knew, Don't You Think I'd Tell You: Selected Journals of Jann Arden
“The book[ The Thorn and The Blossom] is a love story about two people, Brendan and Evelyn, who meet in a small town in Cornwall where Evelyn has gone on vacation and Brendan is working in his father's bookstore. The story is told from both perspectives, Brendan's and Evelyn's.”
“The bookends of success are starting and finishing. Decisions help us start; discipline helps us finish.”
“The Booker 2011 is of no more interest to me than the world heavyweight championship, which I'm not going to win either. It's irrelevant.”
“The Booker Prize is a big, popular prize for big, popular books, and that's the way it should be.”
“The Booker thing was a catalyst for me in a bizarre way. It’s perceived as an accolade to be published as a ‘literary’ writer, but, actually, it’s pompous and it’s fake. Literary fiction is often nothing more than a genre in itself. I’d always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and women in their 20s, as substitutes for experience.”
“The Booker triumph of Graham Swift's moving, effortlessly profound Last Orders is a vindication of the quiet, much-misunderstood path this fine writer chose to take after the brilliance of Waterland more than ten years ago.”
“The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads assails.”
Source: The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials
“The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.”
“The bookis a distant relative of the truth, and the film is a distant relative of the book.”
“The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!”
Source: Greatest Mystery Novels of Wilkie Collins
“The books [and games] that give us the most pleasure combine uncertainty and satisfaction, tension and release.”
“The books a mother reads with her child are bridges between imagination and understanding”
Source: Hope Helps Me Grow: A Story for Kids Ages 3–6 About Staying Positive and Believing in Tomorrow
“The books all say that barracuda rarely eat people, but very few barracuda can read.”
Source: Dave Barry Is Not Making This Up
“The books and magazines streamed in. He could buy them all, they piled up around him and even while he read, the number of those still to be read disturbed him. … they stood in rows, weighing down his life like a possession which he did not succeed in subordinating to his personality.”
“The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too.”
“The books are always there, just the way you wrote them. The plays often don`t turn out the way you wanted them to because in the theater, you`re always involved with collaborators and they don`t always see the work the way you do.”
“The books are balanced in heaven, not here.”
“The Books are our best friends that provide us right path in deep darkness.”
“The books are recordings; that's what they have to be, recordings of the writing. They have to be happening to me.”
“The books are the books, and a lot of the stuff is some version of your id or your ego.”
“The books are to remind us what asses and fool we are. They're Caeser's praetorian guard, whispering as the parade roars down the avenue, "Remember, Caeser, thou art mortal." Most of us can't rush around, talking to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven't time, money or that many friends. The things you're looking for, Montag, are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine per cent of them is in a book. Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.”
Source: Fahrenheit 451
“The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.”
Source: Fahrenheit 451
“The books are your teacher, after and before school.”
Source: The Life Of One Kid
“The books brought brilliance to my life, and they brought an understanding: Life is a story. Everything that has happened and will happen to me is all part of the story of this enchanted place - all the dreams and visions and understandings that come to me in my dungeon cell. The books helped me see the truth is not in the touch of the stone but in what the stone tells you.”
Source: The Enchanted
“The books could be completely worthless, and things we don't even read now could be considered the most important books.”
“The books from which [children] learn must reflect movement and change and all of the infinite possibilities of minds at liberty.”
“The books housed in one's first adult bookshelf are the geological bed of who we wish to become”
Source: The Secret of Lost Things
“The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, and so are you.”
“The books I haven't written are better than the books other people have.”
“The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I’ve read so often that I’ve internalized them in some really essential way: they are more inside me now than out.”
“The books I made, most of those books were made in the '80s or early '90s. I was reacting emotionally at that time; it wasn't an intellectual thing. I didn't make those things for public presentation; those were for my friends. So I wasn't doing this to be an advocate for what I'm talking about right about now. But I'm realizing I was working properly as an artist, or whatever you want to call it, as somebody that naturally was inquisitive.”
“The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.”
“The books I read I do enjoy, very much; otherwise I wouldn't read them. Most of them are for review, for the New York Review of Books, and substantial.”
“The books I typically find most profitable for leading worship aren't daily devotionals that bring God down to my level, but theology books that stretch my understanding of God. (ch. 8)”
Source: Worship Matters: Leading Others to Encounter the Greatness of God