Book Reports Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

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

Laura Linney

#6. 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

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

Patti Smith

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

Damon Suede

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

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

Sam Harris

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

Lauren Oliver

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

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

Daniel Pennac

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

Abby Wambach

#19. 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

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

David Levithan

#21. 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

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

Mahatma Gandhi