Quotes About Coffee Table Books

#1. I got these big coffee table books about Chinese opera from the local library, and I loved looking through them. I loved studying the intricate costumes and figuring out how to 'cartoonify' them.

Gene Luen Yang

#2. I am not by any stretch of the imagination a tidy person, and the piles of unread books on the coffee table and by my bed have a plaintive, pleading quality to me - 'Read me, please!'

Linda Grant

#3. Few people read coffee-table photo books, and indeed they are not intended to be read. I find the text in these books is often surprisingly good, perhaps because the author
or more importantly, the editor
feels no need to pander.

Tyler Cowen

#4. Sergey Brin has said to me, like, 10 times now, 'Why do you bother doing books? Why don't you just put all this stuff on the Internet?' It's because 10 years from now, my book will still be sitting on someone's coffee table or in a waiting room.

Rick Smolan

#5. It is more honorable to repair a wrong than to persist in it.

Thomas Jefferson

#6. I was incredibly depressed and I found myself avoiding doing interviews where my [20-something daughters] could hear me - or leaving books on the coffee table they could see.

John H Richardson

#7. I see you've managed to inspire a truly frightening degree of loyalty in those you command," she observed. "I watched you do it for seven years," he replied. "Looks like I finally got the hang of it.

Kirsten Beyer

#8. understood that from this moment, the stepping-stones

Jean Sasson

#9. Then he died; but he had neither burial nor tomb, for so fiery was his spirit that as it sped his body fell to ash, and was borne away like smoke; and his likeness has never again appeared in Arda,

J.R.R. Tolkien

#10. As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#11. If I'm writing and a chapter isn't coming, I just move ahead.

James Patterson

#12. Gifts that are most appreciated are often associated with the country, or even better, the specific location you are from. These kinds of gifts may include coffee table picture books of your city or national parks, or mugs, t-shirts, paperweights, and so on that display your company or school logo.

Matthew B. Christensen

#13. And if I drink oblivion of a day, / So shorten I the stature of my soul.

George Meredith

#14. The station put us on staff at $35 a week ... and I mean every week.

Roy Rogers

#15. He trailed off as he saw the books. Piles and stacks of them beside the sofa, another stack on the coffee table, a sea of them on her dining table.
Jesus Christ, Dane, you need treatment.

Nora Roberts

#16. Reality is what I see, not what you see.

Woodrow Wilson

#17. What are you?" Lady Marsden asked, not bothering to hide her surprise. Obviously the lady was not accustomed to being caught snooping, let alone shut down twice.
"I have no idea,

Kady Cross