Book Quotes

You cannot open a book without learning something.

In the whole of the New Testament there is not one joke, that fact alone would invalidate any book.

A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.

The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but rather in the reader's head.

My ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.

The Internet is disrupting every media industry...people can complain about that, but complaining is not a strategy. And Amazon is not happening to book selling, the future is happening to book selling.

Our vision for Kindle is every book ever printed in any language, all available in less than sixty seconds.

The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create.

I think the definition of a book is changing.

I totally believe we should be living in a time of abundance, like Peter Diamandis' book. If you really think about the things that you need to make yourself happy - housing, security, opportunities for your kids - anthropologists have been identifying these things. It's not that hard for us to provide those things.

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.

It is with the book of history, and not with isolated pages, that the United States will ever wish to be identified.

The whole book of history reveals mankind's never-ending quest for peace, and mankind's God-given capacity to build.

Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book, as long as that document does not offend our own ideas of decency. That should be the only censorship.

Don't join the book burners. Don't think you are going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it.

Keep moving, for it may well be that the greatest song has not yet been sung, the greatest book has not been written, the highest mountain has not been climbed.

There is an invisible book of life that faithfully records our vigilance or our neglect.

Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind.

It was great fun writing a book.... It built an impalpable crystal sphere around one of interests and ideas. In a sense one felt like a goldfish in a bowl; but in this case the goldfish made his own bowl. This came along everywhere with me. It never got knocked about in travelling, and there was never a moment when agreeable occupation was lacking. Either the glass had to be polished, or the structure extended or contracted, or the walls required strengthening.