Book Joy Word Quotes

#1. The fire of purpose easily melts the icicles of obstacles.

Alan Cohen

#2. I don't think my films are going to get rid of racism or prejudice. I think the best thing my films can do is provoke discussion.

Spike Lee

#3. One should not pray if that prayer is vanity.

Idries Shah

#4. Watch the fools! Watch them carefully! Learn their paths so that you can learn how to avoid them!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#5. We are all gardeners, planting seeds of intention and watering them with attention in every moment of every day.

Cristen Rodgers

#6. Why are you so stuck up?' she asked, truculently.
'I'm just made that way.'
'You ought to fight it.'
'I can't see why.

Anthony Powell

#7. The great thing about books was the solidity of the written word. You might change and your reading might change as a result, but the book remained whatever it had always been. A good book was surprising the first time through, less so the second.

Karen Joy Fowler

#8. Hijack Leader: [cradling wrist where Eli has severed his hand] What are you standing around for? Kiss him!
Hijacker: What'd he say?
Eli: He's in shock. I think he meant Kill Him.

Book Of Eli Movie

#9. Good can be a stifling word, a word that makes you hesitate and stare at a blank page and second-guess yourself and throw stuff in the trash. What's important is to get your hands moving and let the images come. Whether it's good or bad is beside the point. Make art.

Austin Kleon

#10. No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.

Samuel Butler

#11. I think most defense attorneys honestly believe the principle that says, 'Better 10 guilty go free than even one possibly innocent person be convicted.'

Alan Dershowitz

#12. Ideally, I would create a book so interdependent and self-sustaining in its parts, so wondrously connected word by word and paragraph by paragraph, so charged with the joy of language, that it would actually float three or four inches above any table where you try to set it down.

Peter Straub