Quotes with book-friends

Quotes 221 till 240 of 1030.

  • Carl Hiaasen Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing is so original.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Madonna Everyone probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I'd rather read a book.
    Madonna
    American musician, singer and actress (1958 - )
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  • Bobby Heenan Everyone should have cancer one time - then you'd know that other things aren't important. The guy that gives you the finger at the stoplight don't mean nothing anymore. You come home and something's cold, or you didn't get something in the mail. Big deal. You want to get up every day and see your family and your friends.
    Bobby Heenan
    American professional wrestler (1944 - 2017)
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  • Caroline Winberg Everyone tells me I have a funny accent. It's because I copy people. I learned English at school but have best friends who are French, Australian, English and American; a very weird mix.
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  • Brendan Gleeson Everyone's waiting for the seventh book, and looking at each other saying, 'Oh, I wonder will I be in the running?
    Brendan Gleeson
    Irish actor and film director (1955 - )
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  • Stephane Mallarme Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.
    Stephane Mallarme
    French poet (1842 - 1898)
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  • Richard Bach Everything in this book may be wrong. [The Savior's Manual]
    Richard Bach
    American author (1936 - )
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  • Thomas à Kempis Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • John F. Kennedy Failure has no friends.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Caitlin Moran Feminism means something - legislation, cultural change - but 'Girl Power' meant nothing more than being friends with your friends.
    Caitlin Moran
    English journalist, author, and broadcaster (1975 - )
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  • John W. Foster Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?
    John W. Foster
    American diplomat and military (1836 - 1917)
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  • Baltasar Gracian Few are the friends of a man's self, most those of his circumstances.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Brooks Robinson Fifty years from now I'll be just three inches of type in a record book.
    Brooks Robinson
    American professional baseball player (1937 - )
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  • Igor Stravinsky Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has to the book I am reading.
    Igor Stravinsky
    Russian composer (1882 - 1971)
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  • Anne Rice First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.
    Anne Rice
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Andrei Sakharov For me, the moral difficulties lie in the continual pressure brought to bear on my friends and immediate family, pressure which is not directed against me personally but which at the same time is all around me.
    Andrei Sakharov
    Russian nuclear physicist, dissident and activist (1921 - 1989)
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  • Beth Ditto For my group of friends is Lady Gaga eye-opening? No. She's a less dangerous version of what was so cool about pop culture in the '80s. Back then it was so gay and so punk in so many ways.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Fanny Burney For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.
    Fanny Burney
    English author (1752 - 1840)
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  • William Shakespeare For precious friends hid in death's dateless night.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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