Best 19526 quotes in «book quotes» category

To put a city in a book, to put the world on one sheet of paper -- maps are the most condensed humanized spaces of all...They make the landscape fit indoors, make us masters of sights we can't see and spaces we can't cover.

Tornare a Derry. Perché avevamo promesso, mi ha detto, ed è vero. Abbiamo promesso. Tutto noi. Da ragazzi. Nel ruscello che attraversa i Barren, tenendoci per mano in circolo, dopo che ci eravamo tagliati i palmi con un pezzo di vetro. Sembravamo un gruppo di ragazzini che giocano ai fratelli di sangue, solo che si faceva sul serio.

To set their sufferings alongside the sufferings of another people was to compare them (which hell was worse?), demoting Sarajevo's martyrdom to a mere instance.

To Savor The Scene, A Book, or A Friend.

To some, you are just a face in the crowd. To the one, you are the star of the show.

Tout le monde a des choses à dire sur les femmes, les hommes, les flics, les assassins. Nous généralisons à partir de notre propre expérience, de ce qui nous arrange, de ce que l'on peut comprendre avec les maigres moyens de nos réseaux neuronaux et suivant la perspective de notre vision. C'est une facilité qui permet de penser rapidement, de juger et de se positionner. Cela n'a pas de valeur en soi, ce sont des signaux, des petits drapeaux que chacun agite. Et tout le monde défend la vérité de ses avantages, de son sexe, de sa fortune.

Trial and error open the portal to perfection.

Turning a manuscript into a book is easy; getting the manuscript ready to become a book is hard.

Ultimately, the universe doesn't care about us. Time doesn't care about us. That's why we have to care about each other.

Up to a point, the weight and seriousness of such photographs survive better in a book, where one can look privately, linger over the pictures, without talking. Still, at some moment the book will be closed. The strong emotion will become a transient one.

Un libro leído a medias es una aventura amorosa incompleta.

Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books speak of books: it is as if they spoke among themselves. In the light of this reflection, the library seemed all the more disturbing to me. It was then the place of a long, centuries -old murmuring, an imperceptible dialogue between one parchment and another, a living thing, a receptacle of powers not to be ruled by a human mind, a treasure of secrets emanated by many minds, surviving the death of those who had produced them or had been their conveyors.

Usiangalie nyuma kujutia vitu ulivyovifanya, angalia nyuma kujifunza kutokana na makosa uliyofanya.

Use your little grey cells mon ami" (Hercule Poirot in 'The Mysterious Affair At Styles')

Usually, I set one foot in a library and I feel my own internal volume lower. A library is a physical equivalent of a sigh. It's the silence, sure, but it's also the certainty of all those books, the way they stand side by side with their still, calm conviction. It's the reassurance of knowledge in the face of confusion.

Victory must be real. It must be earned. That means it must be rare and difficult, against steep odds, and defeat must be the other.

Vi sa aldri museum med mindre det var noen utenforstående til stede. Nå er det bare jeg som kan si muleum og skjønne hva det betyr og hvorfor det er et bra ord, men sjarmen med det er borte, eller i hvert fall sterkt redusert, på samme måte som gleden ved mye av det man har delt med andre blir redusert når disse andre faller ned i fly. Jeg kan ikke bruke muleum lenger fordi de jeg brukte det sammen med er borte. Så enkelt er det. Hver eneste dag gjør og sier mennesker ting som forsvinner når de selv forsvinner.

Walk with me now into this very bright night, and revere with me in silence what must be God-given and what is surely God-taken.

Un giorno il mio padre-vampiro acquisito mi prese da parte, mise un braccio attorno alle mie spalle e disse: «In te è fin troppo evidente il fascino della tenebra, figlio mio. Attiri gli esseri viventi come la luce attira le falene, ma sta’ attento. Ciò che provoca desiderio, provoca anche invidia. Potresti trovarti a dover gestire situazioni spiacevoli più spesso di quanto tu voglia. E non dimenticare mai che non è l’attenzione sulla nostra diversità che desideriamo conquistare.» "Domiziano

Un livre est un peu de silence entre les mains du lecteur. Celui qui écrit calme. Celui qui le lit ne rompt pas le silence.

Untuk bisa membaca banyak buku diperlukan dua hal dimana uang dan waktu tidak termasuk diantaranya. Dua hal tersebut adalah gairah dan kerendahan hati bahwa kita banyak tak tahu.

Use the powerful tool of thought and develop your mindset to believing and knowing you can change anything to your favour; yes, you have God`s Word so fashion your thought according to God`s Word.

Violence always leads to pain" Trendal Malian- Ishtaria: Prince of Blades

Vision involves more than just seeing or being shown.

Você descobre tudo que precisa saber sobre uma pessoa com a resposta desta pergunta: qual é o seu livro preferido?

Walking into a bookshop is a depressing thing. It’s not the pretentious twats, browsing books as part of their desirable lifestyle. It’s not the scrubby members of staff serving at the counter: the pseudo-hippies and fucking misfits. It’s not the stink of coffee wafting out from somewhere in the building, a concession to the cult of the coffee bean. No, it’s the books. I could ignore the other shit, decide that maybe it didn’t matter too much, that when consumerism meets culture, the result is always going to attract wankers and everything that goes with them. But the books, no, they’re what make your stomach sink and that feeling of dark syrup on the brain descend. Look around you, look at the shelves upon shelves of books – for years, the vessels of all knowledge. We’re part of the new world now, but books persist. Cheap biographies, pulp fiction; glossy covers hiding inadequate sentiments. Walk in and you’re surrounded by this shit – to every side a reminder that we don’t want stimulation anymore, we want sedation. Fight your way through the celebrity memoirs, pornographic cook books, and cheap thrills that satisfy most and you get to the second wave of vomit-inducing product: offerings for the inspired and arty. Matte poetry books, classics, the finest culture can provide packaged and wedged into trendy coverings, kidding you that you’re buying a fashion accessory, not a book. But hey, if you can stomach a trip further into the shop, you hit on the meatier stuff – history, science, economics – provided they can stick ‘pop.’ in front of it, they’ll stock it. Pop. psychology, pop. art, pop. life. It’s the new world – we don’t want serious anymore, we want nuggets of almost-useful information. Books are the past, they’re on the out. Information is digital now; bookshops, they’re somewhere between gallery and museum.

Wat is er aanlokkender, geheimzinniger, duivelser dan een verboden boek?

We are all children of one God and the only thing that separates us is our ego

We are often unaware of the gradual decline and the erosion in our lives but not unaware of the gnawing feeling it brings.

We all fight for money, some for power, but most of all for love. But me, I fight to become a champion.

We are advised to meditate on things that are true, lovely, noble, gracious and bring good report. These should form the basis of our thought pattern.

We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.

We are all characters in the book of life.

We are all the same and we are all different. What great friends we will be.

We are improved by reading books not by owning them.

We biblioholics have different priorities. We've got all our clothes in our suitcase in two minutes flat, and then we spend three hours and fifty-eight minutes deciding which books to bring.

We cannot help those who do not desire it.

We each contribute our own book to the great library of humanity.

We have preserved the book, and the book has preserved us.

We can find the answers will seek in books.

We cannot find peace when the mind rages war against the heart, when we fight with our thoughts the pull of our love.

Weddings are friendship deal breakers if the friendship is weak. There are too many favors, too many tasks, too much required devotion and Aqua Net for imposters like me. I tried to make eye contact with Francine, to give her a knowing good-bye smile like a ghost of a loved one in a movie. It was no usue, I decided to cut my final pink wire. There would be no more yearly "happy birthdays" and certainly no more bonding with the girl in the duct tape dress. That ship had sailed.

We encounter great souls, who lived in historical times, in ancient books.

We kissed and pressed up against each other, and I said to her “Ya know, my first kiss I ever had with anyone, it was with a boy, in the back of a school bus at night.” Lotty stopped kissing me for a second. “That’s disgusting,” she said. “What? It’s not like we had much choice in where we did it. Kinda had to sneak around in those days. Get it in when and where we could.” “No, I mean the fact that your first kiss was with a boy.” “What’s wrong with that?” “Boys are gross.

Welcome to Book-a-holic Anonymous. Hi, I'm Jazz and I am addicted to the written word. I love the smell of the blackest ink sliding across texture paper. My eyes squint against the loss of time within the pages of story. I don't think there's a cure for my compulsion to lose myself within life and times of those characters bound between the covers.

We may not stay quick, If we are weak or sage, but a lot can squeak As we start to age.

We live in a world where there is such a clear definition of what a girl should be that it takes almost no effort at all to completely hate ourselves.

Well old man, I guess freedom's a continuum.

We need only two persons in our life - just you and me; and I think we can make a good story together.

Were men and women ever really just friends?