Famous Book Quotes - Page 2

• Revelation: a famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Bible, Book, Done

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.200, University of Georgia Press

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• It was Rachel Carson's famous book 'Silent Spring' that got me involved with the environment. I read it in The New Yorker, in installments. Up to then, I'd thought the main job to do is help the meek inherit the Earth. And I still, that's a job that's got to be done. But I realized if we didn't do something soon, what the meek would inherit would be a pretty poisonous place to live.

  Pete Seeger

  Jobs, Spring, Book

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• I think it's the source material. 27 Dresses was a famous book, and Devil Wears Prada was also a wonderful book, so it's coming out of the novelists who are really creating these wonderful female characters that we want to see on the big screen.

  Jerry Bruckheimer

  Book, Character, Thinking

  "Confessions of a Shopaholic". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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