[My] deep religiosity… found an abrupt ending at the age of twelve, through the reading of popular scientific books.

The sooner we can line up company A against company B and have some modicum of evidence the books have been prepared in a similar fashion, the better off the market is going to be....

I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassettes, with pens and paper, just in case I get the urge to sit down somewhere, and oh,...

Next, in importance to books are their titles.

I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I’ve read has taught me something.

Changing the standards on the books is not the same as changing the meals themselves.

If, for $30, you can get 50 images in a book that is bound for you where you don’t have to buy an album I think there’s a lot of opportunity there. The market is...

The Compleat Angler is acknowledged to be one of the world’s books. Only the trouble is that the world doesn’t read its books, it borrows a detective story instead.

All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

Rumsfeld is violating the law, … It’s been sitting on the books for over a year. They were opposed to it. It was insulting to them. I’m sorry that’s how they felt.

Our daughter wanted to talk about some of the topics that the books brought up, such as menstruation and breast development. She recognized on her own that her body was changing before her friends’, and...

No books, I’ll vote for you!

These guys can look at our books just as we can look at their books.

I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me.

We need to sell 10 books a day from every machine to make them profitable. Vending machines aren’t going to outshine traditional bookshops.

To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.

Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators.

From the German verb tinzelle- literally, “to book a turkey into 1,200 theaters and make one’s money before word of mouth hits.”

It is. I mean people probably know it better than me if you have read the books. I mean, I had not read the third book, by the time I came to do it.

When I explained the premise of the book — that it wasn’t going to be a quickie kiss-and-tell but a serious work where I use his life in baseball to tell a larger story …...

Mariano tried to go in on him, which is the book: try and tie him up inside. But he got us again.

When I stopped her she fought. I followed CBP procedure by the book,

A man is known by the books he reads.

Real poverty is lack of books

The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child...

I thought nobody in his right mind was going to publish a book for kids by me — not if they’ve read my adult fiction,

The market for unabridged, full-length books only started taking off over the last few years. And we think Hemingway will be especially popular for audio downloads.

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

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

He’s very in depth, on the dark side. He’s interested in structure and how things work. After reading his books you can’t just be a tourist in those places, only seeing the sunny side.

If we’re going to object to depicting magic in books, then we are going to have to reject C.S. Lewis. We’re going to have to get rid of … … A lot of classic children’s...

I do not hesitate to read all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable — any real insight or broad human sentiment.

I like the books because the heroines don’t do what others want them to, they do what they want.

All of my books are about researching. I do all the research and I give it to a writer who can put it in the written word better than I could.

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time

The Internet has changed the independent-bookstore business, … People can go online and look for books. A lot of book people do still like to come in and browse. They get excited about a new...

Twenty years ago, Christian radio stations barely existed. Wal-Mart didn’t offer religious books, and now they represent about a third of their sales. Every travel agent is looking for a new niche, and (faith-based travel)...

I learned every good consultant must have a book.

We knew that French bibliophiles would be horrified to see their books falling into a trough like candy or soda. So we installed a mechanical arm that grabs the book and delivers it safely.

Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman ”other” or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no longer a shameful mark of secondary status but a positively...

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

Photograph books are very expensive to print, and I don’t think a commercial publisher was willing to take it on. But for us, it was interesting because it combined photographs with the essay.

We’ve been underdogs most of the season. We had books ranking us 15th (in the Big East), saying we had the worst backcourt in the nation, and look what we did. If they select us,...

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.

[Given the fate of the last two books, it is not hard to see why #9 was deemed just as dangerous. It is] The Global Resurgence of Democracy … A useful compilation popularizing the work...

You need to have both schools on the books at the same time.

What’s a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.

Love goes toward love, as schoolboys from their books;But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.

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

Books are humanity in print.