I’ve got 11 fly rods and a lot of unread books.

There are people who want their kids to read books about gays and lesbians. Therefore, we have an obligation to have those books. We select those books the same way we select all others — based on their literary merit.

I learned every good consultant must have a book.

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read

I admit that books were voted in and out, and that the Bible was finally formed in accordance with a vote

The pioneers of Texas brought their Bibles and their Sacred Harp books, … It’s a wonderful part of our folk heritage that’s been revived.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

‘Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem to be confidences or sides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profound thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until...

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

It’s very beautifully done. Everything that, to me, is the most important and most moving in the books is on the stage.

[Cheney’s standing has suffered mainly because Libby emerges as such a liability. Fitzgerald threw the book at him not for anything he said to reporters but for what he said to the FBI and the grand jury. The indictments suggest that the aide whose aim was to spin the war might have tried to spin...

By focusing on this subgenre of rare books, we are developing best standards and models for digitizing other kinds of rare books.

There’s nothing to match curling up with a good book when there’s a repair job to be done around the house.

I haven’t found that term in a medical book yet. It’s human tissue. It’s his. No kidding.

A great book-group book is more than just a great book. For (this list), we sought out 25 titles that encourage engagement, discussion and debate – though we certainly hope there’s no significant bloodshed.

I have no idea what’s in the book. I handled it last year and I’ve gone forward from that.

If we don’t do this, the books that will get written will be wrong, like the books that have been written so far. I am innocent of all of these charges and I will fight for that for a long time.

If we had stuck with that cover concept for the remaining books in the series, I think it would have failed. But we were quick to respond, and it’s been successful.

Well, now that he’s finished one building, he’ll [Le Corbusier] go write four books about it.

No books, I’ll vote for you!

The world’s a book, writ by the eternal art – Of the great author printed in man’s heart, ‘Tis falsely printed, though divinely penned, And all the errata will appear at the end

It’s like the next Harry Potter book. You’ll have to wait for it and be grateful.

What you must remember about hardcover books is that they are like tattoos. Once you get one, it’s never really going to go away.

By burning Luther’s books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men’s minds of him

Our goal is to collect as many donated books as possible for a designated delivery before Christmas. Our goal is 20,000 books, from picture books to adult relaxation.

I have always been fascinated with dreams. Even as a kid, I had a book by Edgar Cayce, and even bought a dream dictionary.

Surely you do not disbelieve the prophecies, because you had a hand in bringing them about yourself? You don’t really suppose, do you, that all your adventures and escapes were managed by mere luck, just for your sole benefit? You are a very fine per

It’s an opportunity to create something over time that would potentially make a big difference to books, literacy, and reading.

Social networks, search engines and things yet invented are critical as we bring millions of movies, books and musical recordings online.

Other projects talk about snippets. We don’t talk about snippets. We talk about books.

We want to use television in a way that will provide a different understanding of the value of books and authors and hopefully ignite general interest in reading more.

A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.

Raney … Describes more people I know than any book I’ve read.

Marxist-Leninism per se was really a latter development: not until 1968 that we really considered the Red Book required reading.

More people play video games than watch movies, read books, listen to music and watch TV combined. We’re doing everything we can to have the industry come of age.

Books are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.

Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil

Books are a finer world within the world.

Scholarships are imperative for today’s students in higher education. A $1,000 scholarship pays for tuition and books for one student for one semester.

It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude

Because of the Olympics, we decided the books had to have something to do with competition, teamwork and sportsmanship.

The tree-hugging Tolkien freaks, once they get around to seeing the movie and reading the books, tend to go on to read other things that he did. In 1936 he gave a British Academy lecture called Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics, which is still one of the most fabulous things that’s been written.

Isn’t it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?

Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother’s.

While there aren’t any laws on the books that would require a developer to conduct such a survey, it’s certainly something they would be willing to entertain when the approval process is final.

We’re looking at books, movies and TV shows that have strong characters from the past that we can take and build upon.

I thought, Wow!, … Here’s a historical revelation that will cause the history books to be rewritten. No one’s ever heard of a U.S. nuclear test in the Sudan in 1962.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Real poverty is lack of books