Book Quotes - Page 35

• By God ye shall be called to account for your doings!

  Elijah Muhammad

  Holy, Accounts, Doings

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• If you're following the news, you know that the major religions differ in their interpretation of the holy books. For example, one way to interpret God's will is that you should love your neighbor. An alternate reading of the holy books might lead you to rig a donkey cart with small mortar rockets and aim it at a hotel full of infidels. In summary, po-tay-to, poh-tah-to. Religions are very flexible.

  Scott Adams

  Love You, Reading, Religion

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• Suppose a nation in some distant region should take the Bible for their only law book, and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited. What a Utopia! What a paradise this region would be.

  John Adams

  Religious, Law, Would Be

  John Adams (2004). “The Portable John Adams”, p.3, Penguin

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• All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet - if one wants to extract the full flavor of their content.

  Henry Miller

  Funny, Reading, Done

  Henry Miller (2007). “Black Spring”, p.48, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• A book is a part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a star. It obeys its own rhythms, its own laws, whether it be a novel, a play, or a diary. The deep, hidden rhythm of life is always there - that of the pulse, the heart beat.

  Henry Miller

  Horse, Stars, Reading

  Henry Miller (1961). “The Cosmological Eye”, p.273, New Directions Publishing

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• What havoc has been made of books through every century of the Christian era? Where are fifty gospels, condemned as spurious by the bull of Pope Gelasius? Where are the forty wagon-loads of Hebrew manuscripts burned in France, by order of another pope, because suspected of heresy? Remember the 'index expurgatorius', the inquisition, the stake, the axe, the halter and the guillotine.

  John Adams

  Christian, Order, Religion

  John Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.479

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• From David learn to give thanks for everything. Every furrow in the book of Psalms is sown with the seeds of thanksgiving.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Gratitude, Giving, Thanks

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• Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself.

  Richard Cecil

  Character, Men, Originality

  Richard Cecil, Josiah PRATT (the Elder.) (1854). “Remains of the Rev. Richard Cecil ... With a view of his character, by the Rev. Josiah Pratt ... To which is prefixed a memoir of his life signed: J. Cecil . Tenth edition”, p.53

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• I really didn't realize the librarians were, you know, such a dangerous group. They are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man. I wouldn't mess with them. You know, they've had their budgets cut. They're paid nothing. Books are falling apart. The libraries are just like the ass end of everything, right?

  Michael Moore

  Fall, Cutting, Men

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• I dont like any of them, because they don't read the books. In Kiss Me Deadly my story is better than his story. Anthony Quinn played in The Lond Wait and he didn't read the book either.

  Mickey Spillane

  Kissing, Waiting, Stories

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• Our great mistake in education is ... the worship of book-learning-the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of cultivating the mind. ... We ought to follow exactly the opposite course with children-to give them a wholesome variety of mental food, and endeavour to cultivate their tastes, rather than to fill their minds with dry facts.

  John Lubbock

  Education, Memories, Children

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• Books seem to me to be pestilent things, and infect all that trade in them...with something very perverse and brutal. Printers, binders, sellers, and others that make a trade and gain out of them have universally so odd a turn and corruption of mind that they have a way of dealing peculiar to themselves, and not conformed to the good of society and that general fairness which cements mankind.

  John Locke

  Reading, Mind, Peculiar

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• The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is dissatisfied with them. A young writer must cross many psychological barriers to acquire confidence in his capacity to produce good work-especially his first full-length book-and he cannot do this by staring at a piece of blank paper, searching for the perfect sentence.

  Paul Johnson

  Writing, Perfect, Lasts

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• By speech first, but far more by writing, man has been able to put something of himself beyond death. In tradition and in books an integral part of the individual persists, for it can influence the minds and actions of other people in different places and at different times: a row of black marks on a page can move a man to tears, though the bones of him that wrote it are long ago crumbled to dust.

  Julian Huxley

  Moving, Writing, Men

  "The Individual in the Animal Kingdom" by Julian Huxley (1912) as quoted in Connie Barlow "From Gaia to Selfish Genes: Selected Writings in the Life Sciences", 1991.

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• Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing.

  Henry Miller

  Writing, Thinking, Want

  Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

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• Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book.

  Mickey Spillane

  Writing, Literature, Pages

  "Writers on writing". Book by Jon Winokur, 1986.

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• Of all my Russian books, the defense contains and diffuses the greatest 'warmth' which may seem odd seeing how supremely abstract Chess is supposed to be

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Defense, May, Chess

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1990). “The Defense: A Novel”, Vintage

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• In life, as in Chess, ones own Pawns block ones way. A mans very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help him to win, more often checkmate him

  Charles Buxton

  Children, Block, Winning

  Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1873). “Notes of Thought”, p.277

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• This Book had to be written by one of three people: good men, bad men or God. It couldn't have been written by good men because they said it was inspired by the revelation of God. Good men don't lie and deceive. It couldn't have been written by bad men because bad men would not write something that would condemn themselves. It leaves only one conclusion. It was given by divine inspiration of God.

  John Wesley

  Bible, Lying, Inspiration

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• I believe that the Bible is to be understood and received in the plain and obvious meaning of its passages; for I cannot persuade myself that a book intended for the instruction and conversion of the whole world should cover its true meaning in any such mystery and doubt that none but critics and philosophers can discover it.

  Daniel Webster

  Bible, Believe, Doubt

  Daniel Webster, Dartmouth College (1974). “The papers of Daniel Webster: Correspondence”

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• Anything too stupid to be said is sung.

  Voltaire

  Stupid, Humorous, Writing

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I cannot help leaving my books behind me whenever God calls me hence; but in every other respect, my own hands will be my executors.

  John Wesley

  Hands, Generosity, Leaving

  John Wesley (1831). “The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.”, p.254

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• To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.

  John Locke

  Men, Giving, Morality

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• Let no one think or maintain that a person can search too far or be too well studied in either the book of God's word or the book of God's works.

  Francis Bacon

  Thinking, Study, Wells

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• For a long time all I wanted for Christmas were books about outdoor survival. I was convinced that the woods were calling me. I camped a lot, I took classes. At 18, I told myself if I don't live in the woods by myself by the time I'm 25, I have failed.

  Chris Evans

  Christmas, Class, Long

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