This Is A Book Quotes

REGARDING THE MARCHING BAND: How much more interesting it would be to see a creeping band.

Demetri Martin

Interesting, Would Be, Band

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Like a lot of people, I’ve always enjoyed commenting on strangers’ outfits. Unlike a lot of people, I now had a new megaphone to do it with. And, let me tell you, commenting on people’s hilarious clothing choices through a megaphone makes it so much better.

Demetri Martin

People, Choices, Stranger

Demetri Martin (2011). “This Is A Book”, p.23, Penguin UK

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It is illegal to yell “fire” in a crowded theater. If there is a fire, please yell something else instead, like “Flames!” or “Smoke maker!” or “Bad hot!

Demetri Martin

Fire, Flames, Hot

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Socrates became a trendsetter. Other philosophers, including Plato and Aristotle and Gus, quickly followed suit, dropping their last names too. And, for centuries after that there would be countless imitators including oltaire, Michelangelo, and, much later, Cher.

Demetri Martin

Plato, Names, Suits

Demetri Martin (2011). “This Is a Book”, p.37, Hachette UK

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THING TO TRY: If you are asked to describe a suspect to a police sketch artist, describe in precise detail, the features of the police sketch artist. This is one of the rare instances where two people can do one self-portrait.

Demetri Martin

Artist, Self, Two

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Mark Twain

Funny, Life, Friendship

Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.28, St. Martin's Press

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A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it.

Edward P. Morgan

Inspirational, Book, Reading

Edward P. Morgan (1963). “Clearing the air”, Washington, D.C.

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Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.

Charles William Eliot

Friendship, Happiness, Teacher

"The Durable Satisfactions of Life (The Happy Life)". Book by Charles William Eliot (p. 37), 1910.

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If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

Haruki Murakami

Inspirational, Book, Reading

FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Dec 08, 2014

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There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Joseph Brodsky

Education, Reading, Book

"The Balancing Act: Mastering the Competing Demands of Leadership". Book by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Al Switzler and Ron McMillan, 1996.

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Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.

Jeremy Collier

Book, Support, Solitude

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Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.

Charles William Eliot

Book, Reading, Library

Charles William Eliot (1926). “Charles W. Eliot: the man and his beliefs”

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That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Funny, Book, Reading

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Love of books is the best of all.

Jackie Kennedy

Reading, Book, Literacy

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There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

Jackie Kennedy

Powerful, Children, Book

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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Edmund Burke

Reading, Book, Thinking

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A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

Salman Rushdie

Book, Reading, Writing

Salman Rushdie (1990). “In good faith”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

Groucho Marx

Funny, Friendship, Education

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

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Seán Manchester is, unsurprisingly, very well read in both classical and more recent sources on vampires and vampirism, and cites them with great authority while taking the reader through a brief tour of vampire lore and mythology. This is a book I'd recommend to anybody with an interest in the author or vampires. The parts which deal with vampires are obviously based on years of substantial research and personal experience.

Joe McNally

Book, Years, Vampire

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This is a book about Heaven. I know it now. It floats among us like a cloud and is the realest thing we know and the least to be captured, the least to be possessed by anybody for himself. It is like a grain of mustard seed, which you cannot see among the crumbs of earth where it lies. It is like the reflection of the trees on the water.

Wendell Berry

Lying, Book, Reflection

Wendell Berry (2000). “Jayber Crow: A Novel”, Counterpoint LLC

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this is a book about something

C. S. Lewis

Book

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This is a book for every fiddler who has realized halfway through playing an ancient Scottish air that the Ramones "I Wanna Be Sedated" is what folk music is really all about, and gone straight into it.

Neil Gaiman

Book, Air, Gone

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The Golden Compass is one of the best fantasy / adventure stories that I have read. This is a book no one should miss.

Terry Brooks

Book, Adventure, Missing

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Nicole Baart has written a novel that satisfies on every level. Sleeping In Eden is a compelling mystery, a tragic love story, a perceptive consideration of the callous whim of circumstance and, perhaps most important, a beautiful piece of prose. I guarantee this is a book that will haunt you long after you've turned the last page.

William Kent Krueger

Beautiful, Book, Sleep

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Interference is a terrific page-turner, but it's also a haunting, powerful look at the way families and friendships entangle us all. Berry is a sharp-eyed, engaging writer, and she deftly captures the terrors, ruptures and intimacies of one seemingly ordinary neighborhood, always finding a precarious beauty in her characters' lives. This is a book that is terrifying, startling, and very hard to put down.

Rebecca Godfrey

Powerful, Book, Character

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