Quotes with book-friends

Quotes 161 till 180 of 1030.

  • Mignon McLaughlin Bored with your present enemies? Make new ones! Tell two of your women friends that they look alike.
    The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
    Mignon McLaughlin
    American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
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  • Bob Geldof But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I've several friends just haven't made it by taking Prozac.
    Bob Geldof
    Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist (1951 - )
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  • Bonnie Hunt But I'm thrilled to be employed, and to work with all my friends and people that I admire. You're just lucky to work - that's the bottom line.
    Bonnie Hunt
    American actress, comedian, director and producer (1961 - )
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations; for a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • James Russell Lowell But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Anthony Doerr But then of course you reach a point where you have to say, I've got to figure out how this book's going to end. Otherwise, you're going to write yourself into so many dead-ends.
    Anthony Doerr
    American author (1973 - )
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  • Bjorn Lomborg But this is an occupational hazard of being a scientist. You say this is the best information I have and then you realize that not everyone is going to read the footnotes or the whole book, so people are going to get the wrong impression.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Anne Tyler But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Walt Whitman Camerado! This is no book; who touches this touches a man.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Richard Bach Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
    Richard Bach
    American author (1936 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Jacques Delille Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
    Jacques Delille
    French author (1738 - 1813)
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  • Calvin Coolidge Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard-you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them!
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Bruce Schneier Chaos is hard to create, even on the Internet. Here's an example. Go to Amazon.com. Buy a book without using SSL. Watch the total lack of chaos.
    Biancuzzi, Federico (2005)
    Bruce Schneier
    American cryptographer, computer security professional and writer (1963 - )
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  • Elbert Hubbard Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • A. E. van Vogt Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.
    A. E. van Vogt
    Canadian-born science fiction author (1912 - 2000)
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  • Mark Twain Classic. A book which people praise and don't read.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Publilius Syrus Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Alan Bennett Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
    Alan Bennett
    British playwright, screenwriter, actor and author (1934 - )
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