Recorded Books Quotes

#1. There are worries that seem to me sustained by the love of worry. For example, that people are reading from screens, or listening to recorded books. Why scold the impulse to enjoy language and narrative in whatever form it takes?

Marilynne Robinson

#2. A legacy is not what is recorded in history books or repeated in song, but what is woven into the souls of those who remain.
(from The General's Legacy)

Adrian G. Hilder

#3. The important papers the Founders left us were the most significant writings in recorded history after the Holy Books, a magic trek for peace and guidance in times of trouble, a forgotten and often ignored dimension of the Nation founding.

George Sorbane

#4. [T]he effects of general change [in literature] are most tellingly recorded not in alteration of the best products, but in the transformation of the most ordinary workaday books; for when potboilers adopt the new style, then the revolution is complete.

Stephen Jay Gould

#5. As far back as I can remember, I had an interest in fashion. I used to go to sleepaway camp, and they'd provide a list of things that you had to bring, and I always wanted to be a bit more creative than the list allowed. Like, if they required chinos, I wanted to hand-paint them.

Marc Jacobs

#6. If you are a carrier of a particular set of genes, your probability of committing a violent crime goes up by eight hundred and eighty-two percent.

David Eagleman

#7. New York is the place where they bind books and write blurbs and arrange the publicity and print the galleys ... But Chicago is the place where the book is lived out before it is bound and the song is sung before it is recorded.

Nelson Algren

#8. He had a love of books, for in books was recorded the knowledge of all those who had gone before him.

John Connolly

#9. In 1994, the average person spent $79 on books as compared to $56 on recorded music.

Richard L. Brandt

#10. God is simply a magnificent state of the mind, where the finite turns infinite.

Abhijit Naskar

#11. A lot of truths about the living world are recorded in bad books; they are just badly written about.

Joseph Roth

#12. Good books are the real recorded source of good thoughts all times & every where !!

M K Gandhi

#13. Lieutenant Trotta wasn't experienced enough to know that uncouth peasant boys with noble hearts exist in real life and that a lot of truths about the living world are recorded in bad books; they are just badly written.

Joseph Roth

#14. It's weird sometimes to have people not see me or see what I do.

Esperanza Spalding

#15. I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth has yet to be recorded.

Gottfried Leibniz

#16. Jesse believed stories were the collective memories of the world, recorded in books so that each of us could know who we were before we became who we are.

Shaun David Hutchinson

#17. The Hebrew Bible is the supreme example of that rarest of phenomena, a national literature of self-criticism. Other ancient civilisations recorded their victories. The Israelites recorded their failures. It is what the Mosaic and prophetic books are about.

Jonathan Sacks

#18. With base? with baseness? bastardy? base, base?

William Shakespeare

#19. The reflections and histories of men and women throughout the world are contained in books ... America's greatness is not only recorded in books, but it is also dependent upon each and every citizen being able to utilize public libraries.

Terence Cooke

#20. Where there's bluster, thinks Luisa, there's duplicity

David Mitchell

#21. Killing time takes practice.

Karen Elizabeth Gordon

#22. I believe that Jesus realized his oneness with God and he showed, what he attempted to do was show the way to all of us, how to realize our own onenes with God also, so he's a precursor.

Eckhart Tolle