Quotes with book-friends

Quotes 661 till 680 of 1030.

  • Bert McCracken Put your arm around the buddy next to you. And if you don't have any friends, I'll be your best friend in the whole world.
    Bert McCracken
    American singer (1982 - )
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  • George Eliot Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Billy Beane Quite frankly, I can't get enough of soccer. I tell my jingoistic friends in the United States there's a reason why it is the world's No. 1 sport. The rest of the planet can't be wrong.
    Billy Beane
    American baseball player (1962 - )
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  • Bernard Malamud Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • Angela Carter Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Ian McEwan Reading groups, readings, breakdowns of book sales all tell the same story: when women stop reading, the novel will be dead.
    Ian McEwan
    English novelist and screenwriter (1948 - )
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  • Ralph Novak Reading this book is like waiting for the first shoe to drop.
    Ralph Novak
     
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  • Ben Okri Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it.
    Ben Okri
    Nigerian poet and novelist (1959 - )
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  • Richard Dawkins Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • H. Jackson Brown Jr Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
    H. Jackson Brown Jr
    American author (1940 - 2021)
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  • Publilius Syrus Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Bernard Law Montgomery Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war, is: 'Do not march on Moscow'... [Rule 2] is: 'Do not go fighting with your land armies in China.
    Source: Speech in House of Lords, 30 May 1962
    Bernard Law Montgomery
    British general (1887 - 1976)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Selfactivity, which is the best effect of any book.
    Source: Sartor Resartus
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Ben Parr Sharing with just your friends doesn't protect your privacy. I know the people at Facebook will disagree and argue that users can control what is shared with whom. But this is simply an illusion that makes us feel better about all the sharing we have done and are about to do.
    Ben Parr
    American journalist, author, venture capitalist (1985 - )
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  • Bob Dylan She opened up a book of poems and handed it to me written by an Italian poet from the 13th century and every one of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal pouring off of every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Carol Shields She wanted a book to take her places she couldn't get to herself.
    Source: The Marriage Plot (2011) 42
    Carol Shields
    American-born Canadian novelist (1935 - 2003)
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  • Philip Roth Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Barbara Boxer Since 1980, we've used reconciliation 22 times, and out of those times, Republicans used it 16 times. So, earth to my Republican friends, you can have your option but you cannot change these facts. They're in the Congressional Record.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • John Donne Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls. For, thus friends absent speak.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Michael Ondaatje Sleep is a prison for a boy who has friends to meet.
    Source: The Cat's Table (2011) 25
    Michael Ondaatje
    Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer (1943 - )
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