Top 100 Book By Quotes
#1. We take it for granted we know the whole story - We judge a book by its cover and read what we want between selected lines.
Axl Rose
#2. All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
Ernest Hemingway,
#3. If you judge me negatively, as you would a book by it's cover, you'd be surprised by what you see written on the pages inside
Rick Ferreira
#4. You can't judge a book by its cover, can you?
Cao Cao
#5. Don't judge a book by its cover. Judge it by its publisher.
Ljupka Cvetanova
#6. Never judge a book by it's cover or who you're going to love by your lover.
Steven Tyler
#7. Many times I have learned that, you never judge a book by its cover. Like people, it is the inside that counts.
Shannon Hale
#8. I coauthored my first nonfiction book by the time I was 25. I have been involved in nonfiction documentaries, newspapers, TV and internet since that time.
Julian Assange
#9. They think they know the book by its cover, but the book knows what it is. Now he knew better; if the book never opens up and comes out, it can be warped to fit the image others see.
... No, a book wasn't invulnerable to the appearance of its cover, not by any means.
Ken Kesey
#10. An idea is a gift, a finished project is turning that gift into a book by making yourself write even when you don't want to. There is no such thing as a block of time to write. You have to carve time from a busy day. Elaine L. Orr
Elaine Orr
#11. Never judge someone
By the way he looks
Or a book by the way it's covered;
For inside those tattered pages,
There's a lot to be discovered
Stephen Cosgrove
#12. Judge a book by the way you feel after you read the last page.
B.B. Free
#13. They found her with a nearly empty snifter of brandy on the nightstand, a book by her favorite novelist turned to the last page, and a smile on her face.
Dean Koontz
#14. It may be true that you can't judge a book by its cover," Daisy G. had told Blister just last summer. "But the cover tells you something about the book and don't ever pretend it doesn't.
Susan Richards Shreve
#15. We can't keep thinking of gay people as being ostracised; we can't keep thinking of Muslim people as being ostracised because of the fundamentalism that occurs in Islam. Muslim people have to do something about speaking up about it. We can't judge a book by its cover.
Elton John
#16. Writers sometimes ruin a book by adding a lighthearted mood at the wrong moment.
Gayle Lynds
#17. People interested in museums as real educational environments, parents interested in their children's education, and people seeking to find themselves in a positive way could all benefit from reading this book. by Associate Dean Engineering, Michigan State University
Ronald Rosenberg
#19. I had already drafted the manuscript that would become my first book by the time I graduated from college, but I had no idea what to do with it.
Eula Biss
#20. Never judge a book by it's cover, the cover is great but the words are even greater.
Ms. Venom
#21. Never judge a book by it's cover.
Anonymous
#22. If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?
E.A. Bucchianeri
#23. I don't go anywhere without a book by James Joyce called 'Finnegan's Wake.'
Johnny Depp
#24. They eviscerated the book by making it an action movie for young people aged 15 to 25, and it seems that The Hobbit will be the same kind of film.
Christopher Tolkien
#25. Honest to God, Bill, the way things are going, all I can think of is that I'm a character in a book by somebody who wants to write about somebody who suffers all the time.
Kurt Vonnegut
#26. I have a deal with HBO to develop television, and I am also developing a movie called 'The Abstinence Teacher,' which is based on a book by Tom Perrotta.
Lisa Cholodenko
#27. I have been reading a delightful, though perhaps rather bitchy new book by Fr. Stephenson about Walsingham and Fr. H.P. There is a vignette of H.P. instructing the Sunday school children on what to do when confronted with an unbaptized person dying in a railway carriage.
Hazel Holt
#28. I would be ashamed to admit to the Indians that, where I come from, the women do not feel themselves capable of raising children until they read the instructions written in a book by a strange man.
Jean Liedloff
#29. never judge a book by its cover,whats in it is a way of life.
Maceo Mays
#30. When it came to monsters, she'd known the very best.' ... this is a proper quote from the book by the way, the beginning and end one isn't.
Shehanne Moore
#31. They say you can't judge a book by its cover. I've learned that you can't judge a man by the one before him, either.
Adriana Locke
#32. Never judge a book by its cover, especially when the book is a person, was the lesson.
Mary Higgins Clark
#33. I definitely have a spiritual outlook. I don't usually read self-help books, but I read a great book by a guy called Wayne Dyer, The Power of Intention, which I loved. I'm not a religious guy, in fact I'm probably agnostic but I thought what this writer had to say was really powerful.
Chris Pine
#34. When you're reading, you're not where you are; you're in the book. By the same token, I can write anywhere.
Diana Gabaldon
#35. If you want a convincing account of just how deep the shift in our new axial age is and must be, look no further than this brilliant book by Charles Eisenstein, one of the deepest integrative thinkers active today.
Michel Bauwens
#37. If somebody says to you the quote"don't judge the book by its cover", then better first close your eyes for a moment and try not to judge anybody at all. Even much better if you don't have to believe in 100% with that quote.
Toba Beta
#38. I don't know David Cameron very well. I like him. I think you can judge a book by its cover - whoever said you can't is wrong - that's the whole point of nature giving us intuition, instinct and so on. I think the cover is pretty good.
Zac Goldsmith
#39. I feel like you can't judge a book by its cover, that's always been the story of my life. I can walk into any restaurant and people would be floored to learn that I know what I do about wine, let alone that I ran one of the best wine programs in the world.
Andre Hueston Mack
#40. Doom is nigh. I am in acute distress, desperately trying to coax sleep, opening my eyes every few seconds to check their faded gleam, and imagining paradise as a place where a sleepless neighbor reads an endless book by the light of an eternal candle.
Vladimir Nabokov
#41. It is quite too common a practice, both in readers and the more superficial class of critics, to judge a book by what it is not, a matter much easier to determine than what it is.
James Russell Lowell
#42. The easiest and full of fun way to teach your children alphabet!!. Introducing "The Grocery Cart Spree Writing ABCs" story book by Doris Hankamer.
Doris Birdwell Hankamer
#43. I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.
Lance Bass
#44. I'm trying to convey to my audience that you really can't judge a book by its cover, and there's more to the universe than you can see with your eyes.
Adam Lambert
#45. I just bought two balls which remind me for the Dr.House ball. The ball which he used to play, however I bought one book by Stephen King translated on Bulgarian language it's called Finder Keepers!
Deyth Banger
#46. We sometimes reveal how ignorant or bored we were when we read a book by giving it 5-stars.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#47. When I was twelve, the passage from silent film to the talkies had an impact on me-I still watch silent films. I don't think that there is any such thing as an old film; you don't say, 'I read an old book by Flaubert,' or 'I saw an old play by Moliere.'
Alain Resnais
#48. If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly turn up very high on the list.
Laura Miller
#49. RE: Lake George from a book by Lord. That's all I know.
There is something so perfect about the mountains and the lake and the trees ... sometimes I want to tear it all to pieces
Georgia O'Keeffe
#50. If you can change the fate of a character you read out of a book by adding new words to his story, then maybe you can change everything about it: who goes out, who comes in, how it ends, who's happy, and who's unhappy afterwards.
Cornelia Funke
#51. A true friend knows when to give advice and when to just listen.
"stuff I think about" book by Sondra Faye
Sondra Faye
#52. Right now she is reading Virginia Woolf, all of Virginia Woolf, book by book-She is fascinated by the idea of a woman like that, a woman of such brilliance, such strangeness, such immeasurable sorrow; a woman who had genius but still filled her pocket with a stone and waded out into a river.
Michael Cunningham
#53. In 1976, I read a book by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss and knew immediately that I, too, could write a historical romance. It took me a year to complete the manuscript. I was a forty-year-old Scarborough housewife who knew no one in publishing.
Virginia Henley
#54. Good designers can take the complex and make it profoundly simple. Great designers will also stir your soul and bewitch you with the beauty of their design - Quote by Aziz Musa (Quote found in book by Jock Busuttil)
Jock Busuttil
#55. The referee said it was not acceptable, but the Press considered they could not refuse to publish a book by a professor of the university.
John Edensor Littlewood
#57. I have always loved reading. Ever since I was a young girl I had a book by my bed and would get lost in the world of make believe.
Lauren Conrad
#58. If literature truly possesses a mysterious power, I think perhaps it is precisely this: that one can read a book by a writer of a different time, a different country, a different race, a different language, and a different culture and there encounter a sensation that is one's very own.
Yu Hua
#59. Never judge a book by the cover, you may miss out on what could be your favorite book
Sharon Watkins
#60. Going out late at night and laying in the dewy field and reading a Kurt Vonnegut book by moonlight.
John Green
#62. Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings - as some savage tribes determine the power of muskets by their recoil; that being considered best which fairly prostrates the purchaser.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#64. You cannot judge a book by its contents.
Jon Stewart
#65. Reincarnation do you know this word??
No?
Check out the book "Don't touch this book" by Jan Van Helsing and you will find the answer!
Deyth Banger
#66. I read 'The Crystal Cave' book by Mary Stewart, and I thought it was a really, really interesting part of the legend, in which Merlin could enter into the cave with these crystals and see reflections of the future in them and learn how to use that and harness those powers for himself.
Colin Morgan
#67. Because a book is a little empathy machine. It puts you inside somebody else's head. You see out of the world through somebody else's eyes. It's very hard to hate people of a certain kind when you've just read a book by one of those people.
Neil Gaiman
#68. People still judge a book by its cover, Avery. And your story? It's beautiful. You're beautiful. But I'm nothing but a ripped out page, graffiti where some should never be. Don't taint your story with me.
J.M. Darhower
#69. President Clinton signed a $10 million deal to write a book by 2003. Isn't that amazing? Yes, and get this, not only that, President Bush signed a $10 million deal to read a book by 2003.
Conan O'Brien
#70. Don't judge a book by its cover. Mom is always saying that, but most of the time, I think that's exactly what people are asking us to do: Please. Judge me by my cover. Judge me by exactly what I've worked so hard to show you.
Aaron Hartzler
#71. I want people to read good work. If I see someone reading a book by Lorrie Moore or Jennifer Egan, I'm psyched. If I see them reading X Latin American Writer Who Sucks, I'm not psyched. But in terms of news, I do think that's important.
Daniel Alarcon
#72. On a book by Henry James: Once you put it down, you simply can't pick it up.
Mark Twain
#73. I don't usually read self-help books, but I read a great book by a guy called Wayne Dyer: 'The Power of Intention,' which I loved.
Chris Pine
#74. I've been looking at oil paintings from oriental artists lately, and the one artist who's inspired me right now is a man named Hokusai and I've had his book by my bed looking at how he interprets landscapes - mountains and water and flowers and birds.
Renee O'Connor
#75. Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force.
Gustave Flaubert
#77. You can't judge a book by its cover," he said. "No," said Watts. "But you can tell how much it's gonna cost!
David Bischoff
#78. Sometimes I wish the public were equally aware of the men of our race in the cultural fields. You, for instance, have you ever bought a book by a Negro writer?
Langston Hughes
#80. I've always been a big fan of beauty. Sure, you can't judge a book by its cover but who wants to have sex with a book?
Stephen Colbert
#81. I confess to wincing every so often at a poorly chosen word, a mangled sentence, an expression of emotion that seems indulgent or overly practiced. I have the urge to cut the book by fifty pages or so, possessed as I am with a keener appreciation for brevity.
Barack Obama
#82. Magda was reading a book by a Trappist, in a better mood, and I was sitting on the edge of the bed, fingering my useless map.
Junot Diaz
#83. You can't judge a book by it's cover but you can sure sell a bunch of books if you have a good one.
Jayce O'Neal
#84. I think you and I ought to publish our letters (they'd be a jolly good book by the way) under the title of lamentations, as we are always jawing about our sorrows.
C.S. Lewis
#85. You can't judge a book by its steel-toed combat boots.
Lauren Oliver
#86. They were like English teachers who took the fun out of a perfectly good book by breaking it down into themes and sentence structures
Tawni O'Dell
#87. In this Postscript I distinguish references back to the revised text of this book by placing these in italics thus (262), from references to the works of other authors under discussion, which are thus (p. 162). account
E.P. Thompson
#88. Prize not thyself by what thou hast, but by what thou art; he that values a jewel by her golden frame, or a book by her silver clasps, or a man by his vast estate, errs; if thou art not worth more than the world can make thee, thy Redeemer had a bad pennyworth, or thou an uncurious Redeemer.
Francis Quarles
#89. I was very much influenced by a great book by the scholar Neil Richards called Intellectual Privacy, that [Louis] Brandeis changed his mind on the proper balance between dignity and free speech.
Jeffrey Rosen
#90. Never judge a book by its cover, its contents may have the inspiration one needed for progression
L. Neal
#91. You can't judge an album by a single song; it's like judging a book by only reading a single chapter.
Trevor Rabin
#92. The original theme of 'Beauty and the Beast' is don't judge a book by its cover. Love what's inside.
Jay Ryan
#93. I've often said the reader knows every bit as much about Thorne as I do. When I created him for 'Sleepyhead,' I was determined he should be a character who would develop, book by book, change and grow as we all do, and who - crucially - would be unpredictable.
Mark Billingham
#94. Never Judge a Book by its Cover". This quote doesn't apply to books only, but also to people, places and everything else.
Edwin Rolfe And Lester Fuller
#95. My reaction to your news is delighted astonishment that Lanark has been judged more popular than a book by Ian Rankin, and only regret that this wonderful honour had no money attached to it!
Christopher Brookmyre
#96. The Best moment in the TV, is when it come the break when the film stops and comes the advertises from which the program survives. This moment is the best..., WHY?
Because you can read a book, by turning of the sound of your TV!
Deyth Banger
#97. Instead of giving it [war] a rest I continued pursuing more research, talking to more people on the subject as if I was to please this aftermath of the book by knowledge that was more historical and psychological than literary and aesthetical.
Sasa Stanisic
#98. When I can't sleep, I read a book by Steve Allen.
Oscar Levant
#99. Never judge a book by its cover like never judge or underestimate a person on the outside." -
Kate
Kate
#100. When I was in the Army, I read a book by Adlai Stevenson. He said law was as noble as saving a person's life. So at one point, I felt that way too.
William Sanderson
