Book Quotes

In motorsports we work in the grey areas a lot. You're trying to find where the holes are in the rule book.

An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books.

It's a little bit like my inability to read a guide book before I go anywhere. I can read it after I've been there and by the same logic I refuse to accept any technical stunts from anybody. I refused to learn more than I knew and I confess I missed a great deal.

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.

I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.

Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

Who learns most from a good book is the author.

There's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Qur'an, there's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Bible, there's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Bhaghavad Gita, or of the Book of Mormon, or of the other sacred texts of many of those religions.

I think the players, I put in the book for example that we should go back to wood rackets, probably they laughed at me, I'm a dinosaur, but I think that you see these great players, have even more variety and you see more strategy, there'd be more subtlety.

I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.

In my book, I was trying to get into my own soul.

She can't even chew gum and walk in a straight line, let alone write a book.

When my father would yell at me, I told myself someday I'd use it in a book.

I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements.

I have to finish this book tour of almost 30 cities.

I've learned a lot of tricks from working with a lot of great producers over the years, and I think I should write a book about it!

For years, I've pushed the idea of a column compilation book mainly because it would be easy - I could just staple 'em all together. But publishers have been resistent, feeling the material dates.

I'm certainly not very book smart, but I started traveling at 16, and it has enriched me in ways I could never begin to explain.

Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basically has the same sensibility as me.

A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.

The third biggest comic people in America want to make a comic book out of me. It's unbelievable.

After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting because it was neither journalistic nor historical, but it emphasized writing style, and afterwards I was asked to write my first book.

I was a big comic book fan from 13 on.

I don't plan to write another science book, but I don't plan not to. I do enjoy writing histories, and taking subjects that are generally dull and trying to make them interesting.

A large wildlife book, start to finish, could take one to two years, but then I would expect to get several good (nature) magazine features off the back of this, plus of course a lot of stock.

When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.