Quotes with book-collector

Quotes 401 till 420 of 496.

  • Emily Dickinson There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it appears; but a court as of angels, a public not to be bribed, not to be entreated, and not to be overawed, decides upon every man's title to fame.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Jiddu Krishnamurti There is no need to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.
    Jiddu Krishnamurti
    Indian theosophist (1895 - 1986)
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  • Oscar Wilde There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
    The picture of Dorian Gray
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Mortimer Caplan There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist - the taxidermist leaves the hide.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Carolina Herrera There isn't a book that has changed me, but I have favourites such as 'Pride and Prejudice' which I often re-read.
    Carolina Herrera
    Venezuelan fashion designer (1939 - )
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  • Bob Woodward There may yet be another Watergate book. I have thought a book about the aftermath of Watergate and its impact could be done, perhaps by me or someone else.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Barbara Kruger There's a moment of recognition. It's that white-light kind of stuff that just "works." I love that. And you know it when it happens, whether it's a movie, music, a building, a book.
    Barbara Kruger
    American artist (1945 - )
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  • Bryan Burrough There's always a slight tension when you sell a book to Hollywood, especially a nonfiction book. The author wants his story told intact; the nonfiction author wants it told accurately.
    Bryan Burrough
    American author and correspondent (1961 - )
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  • Carson Mccullers There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
    Carson Mccullers
    American novelist and poet (1917 - 1967)
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  • W. H. Auden There's only one good test of pornography. Get twelve normal men to read the book, and then ask them, ''Did you get an erection?'' If the answer is ''Yes'' from a majority of the twelve, then the book is pornographic.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Moses Hadas This book fills a much-needed gap.
    Moses Hadas
    American teacher, translator and classical scholar (1900 - 1966)
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  • Dorothy Parker This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller This book is written with the conviction that there are no 'good' or 'bad' people, no matter how offensive or eccentric to society they may seem... You and I didn't design people. God designed people. What I am trying to do is to discover why God included humans in Universe.
    Critical Path (1981)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Arthur Golden This character's entirely invented, and the woman that I interviewed wouldn't recognize herself, or really anything about herself, in this book, which she hasn't read, because she doesn't read English.
    Arthur Golden
    American writer (1956 - )
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  • Alfred Hitchcock This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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  • Barbara Bush Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, 'We would like to publish your book.' I said, 'Well, I don't have a book,' and they said well it's a well known fact that you have kept diaries.
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Bayard Taylor Till the sun grows cold,
    And the stars are old,
    And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold.
    Bedouin Song
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Auguste Rodin To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.
    Auguste Rodin
    French sculptor (1840 - 1917)
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