The Book The Things They Carried Famous Quotes & Sayings
List of top 40 famous quotes and sayings about the book the things they carried to read and share with friends on your Facebook, Twitter, blogs.
Top 40 Quotes About The Book The Things They Carried
#1. I worked hard at memorizing lists of facts and figures, and carried with me a book of facts. - Author: Charles Van Doren

#2. It's quite simple, they poisoned it with smoke, chemicals and pollution from factories and cars, and power stations. Silly humans knew what they were doing, but carried on poisoning the planet anyway. - Author: Richard J. Ward

#3. We don't have a Giant Aliens "R" Us or we'd be there. - Author: Missy Lyons

#4. He gave an impression of coiled power, a contained violence that if released, would explode with terrifying intensity. - Author: Ilona Andrews

#5. Growing up, my two favorite books were Woody Allen's 'Side Effects' and Phyllis Diller's 'Housekeeping Hints.' I carried that Phyllis Diller book with me everywhere when I was in fifth or sixth grade. Eventually, it just fell apart. - Author: Jill Davis

#6. She and I can continue to make a difference. - Author: Susan Q. Knittle-Hunter

#7. I don't believe that the course of anyone's lifetime has ever been as unerring as that of the rising and setting sun, but I know many lives that have been just as inspiring. - Author: Richelle E. Goodrich

#8. Bastien's gaze dropped to Terri's behind as he followed her out of the office. He was beginning to understand Lucern's fascination with Kate's behind. Not that he found Kate's rear end fascinating, but Terri's? Well, that was another matter. - Author: Lynsay Sands

#9. A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. - Author: Jessica Brockmole

#10. Her interest in these people was more than a business interest. She carried them all in her mind as if they were characters in a book or a play. When - Author: Willa Cather

#11. Few artists can afford artistic temperament. - Author: Mason Cooley

#12. What on earth have you packed in here? Bricks?" asked Mo as he carried Meggie's book-box out of the house.
You're the one who says books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them," said Meggie. - Author: Cornelia Funke

#13. If they know you're a nibbler, they're going to wait and look for that. Hitters have to be more aggressive if you're more aggressive. - Author: Brad Lidge

#14. When I and the other young artists were working in comics, our work carried with it a particularly American slant. After all, we were Americans drawing and writing about things that touched us. As it turned out, the early work was, you might say, a comic book version of Jazz. - Author: Joe Simon

#15. I wanted to know if she fucked the way she seemed to live - full of passion and fierce energy. - Author: Nina Levine

#16. There are some things you never forget. The runes of the Book are more than illustrations. They become part of you. Part of your skin. Being a Shadowhunter never leaves you. It's a gift that's carried in your blood, and you can no more change it than you can change your blood type. - Author: Cassandra Clare

#17. When I'm playing with circular saws, I'm offline (though often listening to podcasts) and when I sit in the cabin to read or write, it's wonderful to be offline for a few hours at a time. - Author: Ethan Zuckerman

#18. Book-reading is of small value unless the truths which pass before the mind are grasped, appropriated, and carried out to their practical issues. - Author: Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#19. Any chick who carried around a bird of prey with a little helmet was cool in my book. Oh, man, I really hoped she didn't intend to kill us all. - Author: Kresley Cole

#20. I was carried away, swept along by the mighty stream of words pouring from the hundreds of pages. To me it was the ultimate book: once you had read it, neither your own life nor the world you lived in would ever look the same. - Author: Dai Sijie

#21. Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilisation may be carried triumphantly forward. - Author: Winston Churchill

#22. I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them
with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself. - Author: Eudora Welty

#23. The book smelled dusty and old but also carried a sweet tang, a hint of something inviting. She opened to the first page and started to read, pronouncing the words in a reverent whisper. - Author: Shannon Hale

#24. Being a writer, I'd never judged a book by its cover, but I suppose that the way a book carried itself gave you a bit of an insight on what was on the inside. - Author: Lindsay Patton

#25. I held it over my heart. Mrs. Worth smiled. That's where a book should be carried. - Author: Joan Bauer

#26. 'The Things They Carried' is labeled right inside the book as a work of fiction, but I did set out when I wrote the book to make it feel real ... I use my own name, and I dedicated the book to characters in the book to give it the form of a war memoir. - Author: Tim O'Brien

#27. The opening chapter was the book's unique selling point, the singular idea that had carried Darcy through last November, and Coleman had just come up with it off the top of his head. - Author: Scott Westerfeld

#28. Every game is an opportunity to measure yourself against your own potential. - Author: Bud Wilkinson

#29. Tim O'Brien's book about Vietnam, 'The Things They Carried', has won every award, is studied in college and is considered to be definitive. But it's fiction. - Author: Dave Eggers

#30. He had something in him, how he walked, how he carried himself with that carelessness, he wasn't my type entirely, if I ever had a type of guy before him. - Author: Sela Ordaz

#31. For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded. - Author: James M. Barrie

#32. Typical Type A behavior. I was obsessed with time management. I didn't like people waiting for me. Worse, I hated waiting for others, but since I always arrived ridiculously early, I spent a lot of time waiting; hence, I always carried a book with me. - Author: T.B. Markinson

#33. I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary. - Author: Barbara Kruger

#34. What's good is that my music is different from everyone else's. It's got the soul element, like Duffy, but it's not very retro. It's a contemporary, pop, fresh sound. That's what makes it different. - Author: Pixie Lott

#35. I promised Ian's wife, Julia, that I would video record Ian if I could and email the recording to her later." Lachlan drew in an audible breath, and she couldn't tell whether he was amused or worried. "You know Ian's wife? - Author: Terry Spear

#36. 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. - Author: Chris Raschka

#37. Our favorites are few; since only what rises from the heart reaches it, being caught and carried on the tongues of men wheresoever love and letters journey. - Author: Amos Bronson Alcott

#38. Paul, we are going to kill you. That is cool, then I will go to Christ. Ok Paul, we are going to let you live. That is great, then I can witness Christ. Ok, then we will torture you. That is fine, then I will receive a reward in Heaven one day. - Author: Tony Evans

#39. I possessed only a book, which I carried in my small backpack. Suddenly, while I was walking, the book began to burn. Dawn was breaking and almost no cars passed. While throwing the charred backpack in an irrigation ditch I felt my back sting as though I had wings. - Author: Roberto Bolano

#40. She always carried a book, though, in case she needed to read a few pages to avoid unwanted conversation. - Author: Charles Frazier

Famous Authors
- E. M. Bounds Quotes (45)
- Eric Lindros Quotes (11)
- Jennifer Daskal Quotes (2)
- Keke Palmer Quotes (100)
- MORIARTY Quotes (2)
- Patrick Monahan Quotes (2)
- R. Tripp Evans Quotes (1)
- Ronald Gan Quotes (1)
- Scout Niblett Quotes (5)
- Ulrich Beck Quotes (30)
Popular Topics
- Quotes On Humility Before God (27)
- Best Memphis May Fire Song Quotes (9)
- Developmental Service Worker Quotes (12)
- Ever Have One Of Those Days Quotes (30)
- Famous Bill Raftery Quotes (14)
- Foucault Power And Knowledge Quotes (18)
- Grey's Anatomy Season 8 Episode 20 Quotes (11)
- Happy Birthday Ninang Quotes (8)
- Dealmaker's Quotes (17)
- Disordering Quotes (7)