Quotes with book-friends

Quotes 761 till 780 of 1030.

  • Samuel Johnson The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Jean Cocteau The Louver is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • John Henry Newman The love of Our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
    John Henry Newman
    English theologian (1801 - 1890)
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  • Samuel Johnson The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principle subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last throws away the book, which he has too diligently studied.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Anita Diamant The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and had 2 or 3 ministers and book groups from a couple of churches.
    Anita Diamant
    American author (1951 - )
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  • Anatole Broyard The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable.
    Anatole Broyard
    American writer, literary critic, and editor (0 - 1990)
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  • Shirley Maclaine The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
    Shirley Maclaine
    American actress, singer and author (1934 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The most foolish kind of a book is a kind of leaky boat on the sea of wisdom; some of the wisdom will get in anyhow.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Caroline Wozniacki The most important thing is friends, family, and the people around you. That's what really makes you happy.
    Caroline Wozniacki
    Danish tennis player (1990 - )
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  • Ben E. King The movie is actually from a book by Stephen King called The Body. When they were gonna put it to a motion picture, they found the story was a bit too strong for the title The Body, based on a young kid's movie. It would be too heavy.
    Ben E. King
    American soul and R&B singer (1938 - 2015)
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  • Bruce Springsteen The name 'Boss' started with people that worked for me... It was not meant like Boss, capital B, it was meant like 'Boss, where's my dough this week?' And it was sort of just a term among friends. I never really liked it.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Bradley A. Smith The next time you download a book on Kindle, buy a Michael Moore screed at Barnes & Noble, or order up a political movie from video on demand, remember that it is the Supreme Court's decision in 'Citizens United' that guarantees you the right to do so.
    Bradley A. Smith
    American law professor (1958 - )
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  • A. A. Milne The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written. It has emptied more churches than all the counter-attractions of cinema, motor-bicycle and golf course.
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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  • Francis Lockier The one book necessary to be understood by a divine, is the Bible; any others are to be read, chiefly, in order to understand that.
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  • Brenda Ueland The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny.
    Brenda Ueland
    American journalist, editor, and teacher
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • W. H. Auden The only way to spend New Year's Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Anthony Burgess The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.
    Anthony Burgess
    British writer, criticus (1917 - 1993)
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