Top 25 Quotes About Books Better Than Movies
#1. I would like to think of my 'ignorance' less as a personal failing and more as a massive cultural trend, an example of doubling, of psychic numbing, that characterizes the end of the millennium. If we can't act on knowledge, then we can't survive without ignorance.
Ruth Ozeki
#2. A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
Lucretius
#3. He who lives only unto himself withers and dies, while he who forgets himself in the service of others grows and blossoms.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#4. When I was little, I always wanted to grow up to be like Jessalyn Kincaid and Vanessa Severo. They showed me how much joy performing can give you.
Katherine McNamara
#5. Books are almost always better than the movies made from them, because there are things books do well and things movies do well, but usually those things don't overlap: the same with comics and animation.
Bill Watterson
#6. Sorrow may be a good thing for a woman's heart, but it is a poor cosmetic for her face.
Austin O'Malley
#7. Any thing is interesting if you can communicate it. There are no unimportant subjects for the enlivened mind.
Kris Saknussemm
#8. I was a semiotics major at Brown, and there's this idea that stories are better, books are better, and movies are better if they cocked you off your axis and you were completely disoriented and you'd really have to rethink everything. Nobody has that experience, actually.
Ira Glass
#9. Perhaps all this modern ferment of what's known as 'social conscience' or 'civic responsibility' isn't a result of the sense of duty, but of the old, old craving for beauty.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
#10. do more of what makes you happy
Me
#12. Don Jaime relied on this to conserve what he defined as serenity: peace of mind and soul, the only fragment of wisdom to which human imperfection could aspire. His whole life lay before him, smooth, broad, and definitive, as untroubled by uncertainty as a river flowing to the sea.
Arturo Perez-Reverte
#13. The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, Oh, the book is better.
Paulo Coelho
#14. Radio did not kill books and television did not kill radio or movies - what television did kill was cinema newsreel. TV does it much better because it can deliver it instantly. Who wants last week's news?
Douglas Adams
#15. I should have gone back to my book on Alpha Males and their instincts: how a dominant leader, when it has subjugated its subordinate mate to the point of rebellion, will turn back to the ploys it used for its initial sexual courtship.
Anonymous
#16. Lila:Humprey,Im feeling so cross right now!
Hump:why?
Lila:cauze I was disappointed with the movie,the book is much better,now they destroyed my expectation to the book
Hump:A good advice,some books are meant to be watch,some are not He smiled
Lia Veron
#17. Reading can almost be viewed as empathy training. Movies have better action scenes, sure. But books are uniquely suited to showing you the inside of another person's head. That is the root of empathy. That's the first step to understanding you're not alone in the world.
Patrick Rothfuss
#18. Books are better than movies because you design the set the way you want it to look.
Trent Reznor
#19. Books are like movies of the mind and it's better to leave Kinsey where she is.
Sue Grafton
#20. I guess I became an actress because I didn't want to be myself.
Jean Arthur
#21. The red sun pulled itself from sleep and glared upon the world that it must still serve, though itself of more than pensionable age.
George R R Martin
#22. Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.
Groucho Marx
#23. Prayer is about steeping in the Spirit of a God so loving that He totally changes you.
Jared Brock
#24. I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day when I'm alone and don't have to be performing.
Jim Carrey
#25. Once he heard that books are always better than movies, but he now knew that movies are better than the real life.
Davor Banovic
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