Best 27 quotes in «good book quotes» category

Looking for a good book to read and a great teacher to listen to? Here is a good book and here is a great teacher: Other cultures! To read this book and to listen to this teacher, all you need is to travel!

People who love reading get an instantly warm feeling in their bellies when they hear others describe getting comfortable with a good book.

Scream As Loud As You Want

Stupor, insanity, and curling up with a good book.” Bright finished his coffee and slipped out of bed. “And I was wondering last night how I would fill my time today. Let me get dressed and have a spot of breakfast first.

Natalie was bored in her marriage. At first she could hardly admit it to herself. After all, they were a perfect match: similar backgrounds, same religion, similar professions (she was a school psychologist, he was a psychology professor). Didn't all the research suggest that the more you have in common, the more likely you are to succeed as a couple? Yet, those feelings of boredom were definitely surfacing. David wasn't as exciting as he used to be. He was so busy with all of his professorial assignments. Plus, he's head of the department. Where were all those easy fun days they used to have?

You could never get everything in a book. Good books are always about everything.

A good book is like an unreachable itch. You just can't leave it alone.

...this is a book about texts as well as their authors, it is not a textbook so much as a context book and a pretext book, concerned with settings and motives as well as the works themselves. Its success will be measured by the readers who pick up Plato’s Republic, Hobbes’s Leviathan, Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, and find themselves engrossed rather than baffled—and even when they are baffled, are happy to go on reading, interrogating, and arguing with their authors for themselves.

A good book isn't written, it's rewritten.

A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.

A good book is the plectrum with which our else silent lyres are struck.

A sure sign of a good book is that you like it more the older you get.

Is there anything better than pussy? Yeah, a really good book.

Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored

For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.

There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.

The road to ignorance is paved with good editions. Only the illiterate can afford to buy good books now.

They defy gravity, as good books should.

The Good Book - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined.

A Bible not read is like a bulb not lighted. Only insane people will love to work in the darkness with Kings' bulbs which are not switched on! ... and so goes the one who has the King James' but does not search into it!

What makes a good book and what makes a good movie are totally different things.

Do you remember? Do you remember the world before the dark? Do you remember the world with mothers and fathers and stillness that did not feel like death?

After reading a good book, something must change in you! If nothing changed, then you can be sure that you haven't read the book with your soul!

Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God." Aristotle

A particularly good book has a way of opening new spaces in one's mind. It even invited you to come back later and rummage through what you'd learn.

I won't stay in with married men any more said the wise girl they're too agreeable, it's a little too much like curling up with the good book. You mean a good book Oh, dear, did I say the good book sighed the witch.

What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.