Bedtime Books Quotes

#1. It always puzzled him, when he was a child, that a woman who wrote books for a living should be so bad at telling bedtime stories.

J.M. Coetzee

#2. A glassy calm replaced the storm surrounding their boat.
The distant thunder struck a note, white-hot and remote.
An invisible magnet seemed to steer their course.
The island pulled them in with its dreamy force.

J.Z. Bingham

#3. For most people bedtime was early, although Cicero admitted to writing speeches or books and reading papers at night (there was a Latin word for it, lucubrare - to work by lamplight).

Anthony Everitt

#4. I wish you luck,' she said, kissing him on the cheek. He still had the most beautiful eyes of any boy she'd ever seen. But now her heart beat so much faster for someone else.

Cornelia Funke

#5. I don't train for sports. I've never trained for sports. I train for life, and sport is just a part of that. So when I start training, that's lifestyle training and that's why I go through so many things, whether it's yoga, kickboxing, wrestling or swimming.

Ray Lewis

#6. His whole life he tried to make things better for poor children, but his real calling was being a father. It was a talent with him. As soon as our girls could sit up, he was wheeling them to the library and taking out books to read them bedtime stories.

Anita Diamant

#7. One of the maddening ironies of writing books is that it leaves so little time for reading others'. My bedside is piled with books, but it's duty reading: books for book research, books for review. The ones I pine for are off on a shelf downstairs.

Mary Roach

#8. The process of gathering spiritual light is the quest of a lifetime.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#9. How the hell am I supposed to respect someone who sold herself to the highest bidder?" he growled with tight control, and she gasped, stung. "I have no respect for you, Theresa, not even as the potential mother of my child, because, quite frankly, you can't even do that right.

Natasha Anders

#10. You see? That's the point. It's all a big guess. They hope, they pray, they cook and garden and get a better job to pay the mortgage and read dirty books to keep bedtime interesting, but they don't know. There are no guarantees. Sometimes you just stop loving someone. You just stop.

Tania Kindersley

#11. We went to buy you two flowers, but neither of us thought j just one bouquet would do it.

Jamie McGuire

#12. In my opinion, trying to guess what readers want is the wrong approach. You have to tell your story as best you can and as true to yourself as possible. You have to be honest and fair and vulnerable and foolish and brave, and not care what anyone thinks of it.

Jeannette Walls

#13. Only five books tonight, Mommy," she says.
No, Olivia, just one."
How about four?"
Two."
Three."
Oh, all right, three. But that's it!

Ian Falconer

#14. That settles it, no more books about vampire before bedtime.

Amanda Ashley

#15. Life on earth matters not because it's the only life we have, but precisely because it isn't - it's the beginning of a life that will continue without end.

Randy Alcorn

#16. Toilet paper unrolled and slithered
then wrapped around my tummy.
That paper tried to roll me up
into an Egyptian mummy.

Melinda K. Trotter

#17. Always be natural. Putting on airs will make a giggle out of you. Be yourself and if you don't know something say so.

Twiggy

#18. Nothing. Absolutely nothing. No furniture, no light fittings, no carpet, no bodies. Not a single body. Nothing but the million ducks, the three million ducklings and a window.

Nicky Singer

#19. An inferior child with bad genes is no use to the country.

Marie Lu

#20. I don't want to force my mind to love someone else or adjust with someone whom I
never can give my true love. #Life Of Love - Film

Santonu Kumar Dhar

#21. Young writers should read books past bedtime and write things down in notebooks when they are supposed to be doing something else.

Daniel Handler

#22. If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can leap, caper, utter prophecies, and scratch ourselves in public. We can play with Big Ideas because the garish motley of our pulp origins make us seem harmless.

Bruce Sterling

#23. So much is yet to come. Soon will be blankets and pillows, and books by the bed to make the stuff of dreams. And then tomorrows.

Jim McCann

#24. Everyone knows that if you've got a brother, you're going to fight.

Liam Gallagher

#25. I was 7, and I remember being given a part in a play and thinking, This is exciting.

Alan Rickman