Book Reports Quotes

#1. When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books.

Mahatma Gandhi

#2. As a general rule, I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer.

Abraham Lincoln

#3. When I was a young girl, I'd love giving book reports.

Patti Smith

#4. When you save book reports, art projects and put them in a scrapbook, it shows a kid you care and you are taking an interest in their lives.

Nancy O'Dell

#5. I would have always been the captain. But now you're in charge.

David Levithan

#6. I've always been a sci-fi/fantasy guy. My book reports in school, whenever you didn't have to do it on Shakespeare, I did it on, like, Piers Anthony and Raymond Feist.

Jonathan Hickman

#7. My fifth grade teacher Mr. Straussberger noticed I was having trouble with some of my book reports, but he knew I loved to draw. He gave me extra credit if I did a drawing from the book that I was reading.

Tony DiTerlizzi

#8. Sometimes I think: if they want to walk around armed and build fences and let a church tell them what to do, let them wallow in it. They can build their own town of closed thinking, and live there, and find out later what a shitty place it really is.

Erika Johansen

#9. You must not only have competitiveness but ability, regardless of the circumstance you face, to never quit

Abby Wambach

#10. I didn't write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for myself.

Cynthia Voigt

#11. When you buy a jacket, it's important the pockets are big enough for a paperback!

Daniel Pennac

#12. Most books, after all, are ephemeral; their specifics, several years later, inspire about as much interest as daily battle reports from the Hundred Years' War.

Stephen Jay Gould

#13. Ruexner chuckled and put away his knife. Gisela kept her eyes on Valten. Even though her bottom lip trembled, she still looked like the bravest woman he had ever seen.

Melanie Dickerson

#14. At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.

Laura Linney

#15. Men can be attracted but not forced to the faith. You may drive people to baptism, (but) you won't move them one step further in religion.

Alcuin

#16. That's the easy thing about falling: there is only one choice after that.

Lauren Oliver

#17. You don't get anything worth getting by pretending to know things you don't know.

Sam Harris

#18. As many as six out of ten American adults have never read a book of any kind, and the bulletins from the nation's educational frontiers read like the casualty reports from a lost war.

Lewis H. Lapham

#19. To be a good researcher is to be a good detective, and I enjoy ferreting out tidbits of information. For a diary book like 'A Coal Miner's Bride,' newspapers come in handy for small everyday details such as weather reports.

Susan Campbell Bartoletti

#20. 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.

Ahmet Zappa

#21. He still looked so sad. Not a sign of the laughter that once used to be as much a part of his face as his black eyes. The smile he gave her now was only a sad shadow of it.

Cornelia Funke

#22. Perhaps that was his way of punishing himself. Masochism. People torture themselves more terribly than anyone else could.

Damon Suede