Dog Book Quotes

#1. I am stretching out this volume, since those German dogs estimate the value of books by their cubic contents.

Karl Marx

#2. Stan is a rescue Chihuahua mix. He was the role model for Bob, the dog in 'Ivan.' The drawings in the book look precisely like Stan.

K.A. Applegate

#3. It's good.' She chirps the last bit as if that were all to say about a book: It's good or it's bad. I liked it or I didn't. No discussions of the writing, the themes, the nuances, the structure. Just good or bad. Like a hot dog.

Gillian Flynn

#4. I also wouldn't mind if he tried out a little bit of what I'd read in chapter ten of the half-naked man book, especially the page I'd dog-eared.

Donna Augustine

#5. I've decided life is too fragile to finish a book I dislike just because it cost $16.95 and everyone else loved it. Or eat a fried egg with a broken yolk (which I hate) when the dog would leap over the St. Louis Arch for it.

Erma Bombeck

#6. Isn't it wonderful how dogs can win friends and influence people without ever reading a book.

Charles E. McKenzie

#7. I spend my nights just sitting and reading a book and drinking my tea and walking my dog. That's about as exciting as my life gets.

Peter Dinklage

#8. My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.

Thomas Hood

#9. Now I know why I don't bother with yoga - it's too hard, that's why. When I did "dog pose" I thought I'd never be able to get up again. I'll just have a lie down and relax with an uplifting book for a few minutes.

Anonymous

#10. A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.

Charles Lamb

#11. I feel it in my bones that if I had a kid, I would not either continue to write or have written the book I have done. So it's just me and the dog. I've always gotten along better with animals than I have with children, anyway.

Sonya Hartnett

#12. These dreams are almost like reentering a part in a book that was dog-eared, continuing right where I left off the last time I awoke.

E.J. Mellow

#13. No matter our size or shape, everyone deserves a safe place in this world." ~ from BIG SMALL DOG, a children's story about overcoming bullying and adversity, and discovering unity and friendship.

Suzanne V. Marshall

#14. The dog always dies. Go to the library and pick out a book with an award sticker and a dog on the cover. Trust me, that dog is going down.

Gordon Korman

#15. ...the sixth [eligible lady] perished miserably after returning to me one of my most cherished books with the leaves dog-eared and the binding cracked. For I hold with the greatest philosophers that she who maltreats a book will never make a good wife.

Roswell Field

#16. I got a dog-training book. It says Grendel needs mental stimulation, so I tried to train him, but I think he must be retarded.

Ilona Andrews

#17. Since I was trying so hard to make books lead my life, I didn't want to read them and then just put them back on the shelf and say, "good book," as if I was patting a good dog. I wanted books to change me, and I wanted to write books that would change others.

Jack Gantos

#18. No book of mine is complete without a dog.

Peter Temple

#19. A true critic, in the perusal of a book, is like a dog at a feast, whose thoughts and stomach are wholly set upon what the guests fling away, and consequently is apt to snarl most when there are the fewest bones.

Jonathan Swift

#20. A dog is not a thing. A thing is replaceable. A dog is not. A thing is disposable. A dog is not. A thing doesn't have a heart. A dog's heart is bigger than any "thing" you can ever own.

Elizabeth Parker

#21. The Dog was a different matter. She was new, or so old that any book that told of her was long since dust. The creature in the fog thought the latter.

Garth Nix

#22. Do you fall in love often?
Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with friends, with complete strangers, with nothing at all.

Jeanette Winterson

#23. Court TV. I can't stop watching it. I am absolutely obsessed! If I'm not reading a book or spending time with my husband, my friends or my dog, I am watching Court TV.

Debra Messing

#24. Each dog barks in its own yard.

Rudyard Kipling

#25. While observing some people with their dogs, it is often a question of who is training whom. It is not uncommon to see an owner with their arms extended, holding on for dear life, while their dog runs wild. Unfortunately, I was becoming one of those owners.

Elizabeth Parker

#26. If Jenny were a book, she would be a paperback just out of the box - no dog ears, no waterlogging, no creases in her spine.

Gabrielle Zevin

#27. The way an old dog finds his way back over miles and miles to his home when somebody trues to shove him off on a farm someplace, that is how I find my way back to the library. It's my place, even more than my place is.

Chris Lynch

#28. On the steps leading to a door
was a scrub brush that was blue.
I snatched it quick and ran for home
because it was just the thing to chew.

Melinda K. Trotter

#29. After all it was for one justice which is short..., but the journey up to this justice was very long.
(Red 2008 Film)

Deyth Banger

#30. Certain people are not going to connect with a book about the effect a dog has on a family. But every one of us has parents and has either said goodbye to those parents or knows that someday they will.

John Grogan

#31. Millie ran back and forth, first jumping on Diego, then Henry, then Diego. "Arff!" she said, which means "let's help" in the way dogs talk.

Tracy Aiello

#32. There's no reason to keep a piece of furniture in your house that is so sacred and rare that you can't put your feet up on it and a dog can't jump up on it. Likewise, a book that sits on a shelf like a piece of porcelain, only to be admired, never to be read again, is a dead book.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#33. Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

Groucho Marx

#34. Giving the cat a name, like marriage, is not an easy thing. Soon I experienced the selection of name for a baby, a dog, a book, a warship, a sports team, even the king, the pope or a hurricane is just child's play compared to the selection of the cat's name.

Cleveland Amory

#35. As a very small boy, my passion was nature, and I had pets - cats, a dog and a bunny rabbit - and I wrote a very small book called 'My Pets,' filled with their photographs and a discussion about my pets and how much I loved them ... That was my first book.

Tony Buzan

#36. Alexandra Horowitz's book Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know should be required reading for anyone adopting a rescue dog or buying a dog from a breeder.

Peter Zheutlin

#37. The best thing you can do when you're not feeling funny is go out and get more stimuli from the world, get out and walk around, read a book, go talk to some birds or a dog and replenish the well, as it were.

Rob Delaney

#38. When just a kid, moved back to Canada and looking for a taste of England, I'd picked up a book of my Gram's, a dog-eared romance from the 'sixties about English hospital 'sisters' trying to get it on with the doctors, and thought it very shocking behaviour for nuns.

Roberta Pearce

#39. If it's just brushstrokes wrestling around, it isn't much of a picture book, is it? There still has to be a picture. And maybe it needs to be a picture of a dog named Daisy or a little girl riding a bike. So I have to be careful before I get too carried away in the manner itself.

Chris Raschka

#40. And also, of course, there is the ultimate, all-important question: does it have a dog in it? (This book, by the way, does indeed have a dog in it, and this fact would very much excite a human but unfortunately does nothing for you.)

Matt Haig

#41. Having a dog or cat will open your heart. Reading a book will open your mind. Having both a pet & a book...absolute heaven.

Mark Rubinstein

#42. One day I gave Clifford a bath. And I combed his hair and took hom to the dog show. I'd like to say Clifford won first prize ... but he didn't. I don't care. You can keep all your small dogs. You can keep all your black, white, brown, and spotted dogs. I'll keep Clifford ... Wouldn't you?

Norman Bridwell

#43. She's an amazing dog and really inspired everything that's in this book.

Gloria Estefan

#44. The dog show emphasizes bloodline, appearance, and comportment, but money and breeding are never far from anyone's mind.

Karen Joy Fowler

#45. Whoever declared that love at first sight doesn't exist has never witnessed the purity of a puppy or looked deep into a puppy's eyes. If they did, their lives would change considerably.

Elizabeth Parker

#46. I usually plan to read a book for a half-hour before bed, but then I end up staying awake until 3 A.M. to finish it. Fortunately, my dog doesn't mind when I keep the bedside lamp on.

Amanda Hocking

#47. I asked her, 'Did you like Sadie?'
Juliet put down the book she was reading. 'I liked her the way you like a hurt dog,' she said.
'What do you mean?' I asked her.
'You feel sorry for it, and you want to help it, but you're not sure it won't bite you when you're not looking,' Juliet said.

Michael Thomas Ford

#48. You can't have too much dog in a book.

Gail Honeyman

#49. Dakota's gaze met her luggage, which was strewn, panties and all, across the sidewalk with more than one dog sniffing the contents. Now that has to go in a book.

Catherine Bybee

#50. People love dogs. This is, I hope, the least surprising sentence you will read in this book. I myself have had long discussions with my dog friends, and by that I mean my friends who are dogs.

Bill Nye

#51. I always loved strange stories like the Dr. Seuss stuff. 'Go, Dog. Go!' was one of my favorite stories - it still is. It's just such a bizarre yet true book. And I did well reading and writing as a kid throughout school. I think early on that's what made me realize what an advantage that is.

Jon Scieszka

#52. You just knew you were in great hands with somebody so talented, so bright and with such depth. We both [with Ellen Page] loved the script and the book [Into the Forest], which I read after I read the script, and highlighted it and dog-eared it to craziness.

Evan Rachel Wood

#53. Just give me a comfortable couch, a dog, a good book, and a woman. Then if you can get the dog to go somewhere and read the book, I might have a little fun.

Groucho Marx

#54. An ex-libris is to the book what a collar is to the dog

Edward Gordon Craig

#55. You don't believe in writing in books?" "Of course not. Nor do I dog-ear the pages, crack book spines, underline passages, or otherwise mistreat government property.

Elizabeth Camden