“ And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 1.3K
“ You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters. ”
- Saint Bernard- Copy
- 3.8K
“ You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me. ”
- Anatole France- Copy
- 3.2K
“ I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don't know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying - please let me live until I am finished. ”
- Haruki Murakami- Copy
- 1.7K
“ You, O Books, are the golden vessels of the temple, the arms of the clerical militia with which the missiles of the most wicked are destroyed; fruitful olives, vines of Engaddi, fig-trees knowing no sterility; burning lamps to be ever held in the hand. ”
- Richard De Bury- Copy
- 1.3K
“ When I think of the Supreme Being as inactive neither creating nor preserving nor destroying-I call Him Brahman or Purusha, the Impersonal God. When I think of Him as active-creating, preserving, destroying-I call Him Shakti or Maya or Prakriti, the Personal God… ”
- Al Ghazali- Copy
- 3.3K
“ 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 knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how… ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
- 2K
“ Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees. ”
- Marcel Proust- Copy
- 2.6K
“ There's a big difference between wanting to work and having to work. And I had to learn that the hard way. Now money is very important to me, because I ain't got it. ”
- James Caan- Copy
- 300
“ The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone. ”
- Laura Bush- Copy
- 2.9K
“ I spend a lot of time preparing. I think a lot about what I want to do. I have prep books, little notebooks in which I write everything down before a sitting. Otherwise I would forget my ideas. ”
- Helmut Newton- Copy
- 1.5K
“ I want to be able to live without a crowded calendar. I want to be able to read a book without feeling guilty, or go to a concert when I like. ”
- Golda Meir- Copy
- 140
“ I never knew how soothing trees are - many trees and patches of open sunlight, and tree presences; it is almost like having another being. ”
- D. H. Lawrence- Copy
- 805
“ You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one. ”
- Aristotle- Copy
- 2.8K
“ People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf. ”
- Henry Rollins- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't. ”
- Julian Barnes- Copy
- 715
“ With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me. ”
- Madeleine L’Engle- Copy
- 1.1K
“ I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds. ”
- Ville Valo- Copy
- 3.6K
“ The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are, — / Never read a book that is not a year old./ Never read any but the famed books./ Never read any but what you like. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 737
“ There are a couple of fairly interesting soundtrack situations that we can't yet announce, because we're still in negotiation. And beyond that, we'll start looking at other artists. ”
- Harry Shearer- Copy
- 1.7K
“ What this book demands from a reader is a willingness to accept that the best writer in America could write almost nothing but record reviews. ”
- Lester Bangs- Copy
- 4K
“ I have no trouble publishing in Soviet astrophysical journals, but my work is unacceptable to the American astrophysical journals. ”
- Hannes Alfven- Copy
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