One Must Always Be Careful Of Books Quotes

#1. One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.

Cassandra Clare

#2. One must always be careful of books,

Cassandra Clare

#3. How careful she always was with books: they had been her companions, her entertainment, and her only window to the outside world.

Lisa Kleypas

#4. I suspect people are suckers for a prick. I suspect folks just naturally go belly-up for a snob. Folks figure if a guy acts like he's King Tut and everybody else is donkey shit, he must be an aristocrat.

Katherine Dunn

#5. Franz Kafka is an idea person. His books begin and end in ideas. Ideas have always been important to me in my writing. To the point that I have to be careful that they don't take over.

Alan Lightman

#6. I believe in the curative powers of love as the English believe in tea or Catholics believe in the Miracle of Lourdes.

Joyce Johnson

#7. I recalled the voice I had heard; again I questioned whence it came, as vainly as before: it seemed in me not in the external world. I asked, was it a mere nervous impression a delusion? I could not conceive or believe: it was more like an inspiration.

Charlotte Bronte

#8. I will forever be thankful to the Malawians and international community, and my professional army and army general, who said: 'No, we will follow the constitution.' That's why I'm here.

Joyce Banda

#9. The night seems more temporary than the day, especially to lovers, and it also seems more uncertain. In this way it sums up our lives, which are uncertain and temporary. We forget about that in the day. In the day we go on for ever.

Jeanette Winterson

#10. But if she was going to live in a damn jungle, she preferred it be a damn jungle in Georgia, she always said, and never saw any reason to elaborate on that.

Rick Bragg

#11. The restaurants close here in Salzburg. They don't really have a nightlife in the winter time.

Cecilia Bartoli

#12. The trick was to let everyone think that I couldn't feel at all. The trick was to make everyone believe that I was only what they made of me.

Melody Manful

#13. Actors are accustomed to doing exactly what the director or writer requests us to do, and rarely get involved in that part of the process.

Catherine McCormack

#14. It sounds so weird, but I'm totally pro-aging. If you look at the film industry, it's so funny how it's so much more accepted that actors begin their prime in their forties or fifties, and for women it's so different. I think it's time to change that. Aging is a beautiful thing.

Michiel Huisman

#15. Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.

Henry David Thoreau

#16. Yes! I'm me! I am careful and logical and I look up things I don't understand! When I hear people use the wrong words, I get edgy! I am good with cheese. I read books fast! I think! And I always have a piece of string! That's the kind of person I am!

Terry Pratchett

#17. Human language is local and changeable, and is therefore incapable of being used as the means of unchangeable and universal information.

Thomas Paine