Captivating Book Quotes

#1. Scarcity is a captivating book, overflowing with new ideas, fantastic stories, and simple suggestions that just might change the way you live.

Steven Levitt

#2. [Why] should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book? Its morals are pure, its examples captivating and noble. The reverence for the Sacred Book that is thus early impressed lasts long; and probably if not impressed in infancy, never takes firm hold of the mind.

Fisher Ames

#3. 'Nip/Tuck' did make me very comfortable in my own skin, no pun intended. I had to be stripped down a lot, and you're kind of in front of the whole world, and it teaches you to accept yourself and be comfortable with yourself real quickly.

Kelly Carlson

#4. Whether he loved her or not didn't change how she felt about him. She loved him independent and regardless of whether he loved her.

Sarah Beth Durst

#5. The world is chiefly a mental fact. From mind it receives the forms of time and space, the principle of casuality[sic], color, warmth, and beauty. Were there no mind, there would be no world.

John Lancaster Spalding

#6. I'm a novelist: I spend a great part of my day pretending to myself that I'm in a different world, being a different person, faced with decisions I pretend I haven't created.

Nick Harkaway

#7. Sometimes GOD places walls NOT to hold us back, but to test our determination

Samer Chidiac

#8. Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.

Yahoo Serious

#9. It is what we give up, not what we lay up, that adds to our lasting store.

Hosea Ballou

#10. The only thing I want to say is, I know I'm not Einstein, but I'm not the queen of the imbeciles either.

Vanessa Paradis

#11. To be presented, Babs for Bim bushi? Of courts and with enticers. Up, girls, and at him! Alone? Alone what? I mean, our strifestirrer, does she do fleurty winkies with herself. Pussy is never alone, (...)

James Joyce

#12. When a liar became too skilled at deception, he could lose the ability to discern the truth, and could himself be more easily deceived.

Dean Koontz

#13. In rich and captivating prose, Jessica DuLong kindly invites the rest of us on the journey of her lifetime: from a dot-com job to the fabled waters of the Hudson River, where she became a fireboat engineer. This is an unusual and fascinating book.

Jon Meacham