Top 100 Some Books Quotes
#1. Withdrawn into the peace of this desert, along with some books, few but wise, I live in conversation with the deceased, and listen to the dead with my eyes
Francisco De Quevedo
#2. The expression Jake saw on all the faces, oldest to youngest, was the same: pure joy. Not just that, he thought, and remembered a phrase his English teacher had used about how some books make us feel: the ecstasy of perfect recognition.
Stephen King
#3. It's time that Islam should be redefined by the world based upon, the goodness of all the peace-loving Muslims, instead of the theoretical teachings of some books, be it Quran or the Hadith.
Abhijit Naskar
#4. I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.
Kurt Vonnegut
#5. Some books are lies frae end to end,
And some great lies were never penn'd ...
Robert Burns
#6. I write entertainment. There are some books you read but don't inhale. There are books that will change your life.
Michael Robotham
#7. Some books mirror reality while others are entirely fantasy. My favorite are those that manage to weave both into a world.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#8. Ray Bradbury's definition of a book is at the end, when he points out that we should not judge our books by their covers, and that some books exist between covers that are perfectly people-shaped.) - Neil
Ray Bradbury
#9. Remember some books are meant to be tasted, some books are meant to be chewed and, finally, some books are meant to be swallowed whole.
Robin S. Sharma
#10. Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society which has not yet taken place.
Doris Lessing
#12. Some books claiming to be exhaustive are only exhausting to read.
A.W. Tozer
#14. I want to write some books. Books that have nothing to do with music, just some fiction type of books for a whole different audience of people.
Jhene Aiko
#15. On a practical level, poetry isn't something anybody has really made a great living at. I might sell some books and, once in a while, someone might pay to hear me read.
Viggo Mortensen
#16. Some books had shiny pages that showed paintings of landscapes unlike anything Matty had ever seen, or of people costumed in odd ways, or of battles, and there were many quiet painted scenes of a woman holding a newborn child.
Lois Lowry
#17. There is no such thing as a bad book, I just like some books more than others ...
Chris Geiger
#18. He set down his chili dog, and after a pondering moment of silence, he replied with words of wisdom I'd never forget: "Fuck women. Fuck school. Fuck money. Go write some books, get a good agent, lift weights, get tattoos, and never do a film with Keanu Reeves.
Jon Konrath
#19. There are some books and characters so pleasant, or rather which contain so much that is pleasant, that criticism is perplexed or silent. The hounds are perpetually at fault among the sweet-scented herbs and flowers that grow at the base of Etna.
John Frederick Boyes
#20. I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you're older.
Lauren Groff
#21. Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one's own castle.
Franz Kafka
#22. It often requires more courage to read some books than it does to fight a battle.
Sutton E. Griggs
#23. Some books make us dream, others bring us face to face with reality, but what matters most to the author is the honesty with which a book is written.
Paulo Coelho
#24. My mother says that some books are good no matter when you read them, and some are good at a particular moment; they come into your life at just the right time.
Julie Schumacher
#25. Some books makes me want to go adventuring, others make me feel that they have saved me the trouble.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#26. I would like to read some books: I don't have time; I would like to continue working on my autobiography.
Gunther Schuller
#27. We should not judge our books by their covers, and that some books exist between covers that are perfectly people-shaped.)
Ray Bradbury
#28. There are some books in which every poem is a facet of the same thing. So the book is like a piece of music. And there are books of poems that I love so much that I carry them around with me.
Joan Larkin
#29. Some books are so special that you never forget where you were the first time you read them.
Natalie Lloyd
#31. Books opened up a whole new world to me. Through them I discovered new ideas, traveled to new places, and met new people. Books helped me learn to understand other people and they taught me a lot about myself. ... Some books you never forget. Some characters become your friends for life.
Judy Blume
#32. Supposing you've got an acute appendicitis. You've got to be operated on tonight. Would you like to have a surgeon who's read some books of anatomy and knows how to do that operation - or would you prefer to have a surgeon who refused to read all books about anatomy and relied on his own instinct?
David Ogilvy
#33. Some books we read, tho' few there are that hit the happy point where wisdom joins with wit.
Benjamin Franklin
#34. I think we could jam a bit more in our coffins than we do. I'm going to have some books, some I haven't finished or haven't read, some feathers and nice bits and pieces, the odd note. Just on the journey for the next bit.
Joanna Lumley
#35. That by listening to some music, by reading some books, by looking at paintings, and most important by hanging out with one another - by collaborating with one another and creating your own network - you can achieve something that is much better than what is out there.
David Amram
#36. When I took these things from the house:
some tapes, some books, my winter clothes,
I did not know that these would become the
things I own.
Jacqueline Woodson
#37. Some books I've kept because the binding is beautiful - I'm unlikely ever to read my grandmother's copy of 'The Life of Lord Nelson.' I'm addicted to secondhand bookshops.
Hari Kunzru
#38. In the summer or fall of 1974, I read some books about factory farming, and decided that I wanted no part of it.
Matthew Scully
#39. I definitely have favorite books by favorite poets, but poets' books also vary. I could like some books, but not like another book.
Victoria Chang
#40. I do have some books, but in all the distance flights I've made I've never opened the books. I've been too busy.
Steve Fossett
#41. All religions are born from individual experiences of divine awakening, not from some books.
Abhijit Naskar
#42. I have personally seen statements that were longer than some books I have read.
Wendell H. Ford
#43. Some books against Deism fell into my hands ... it happened that they wrought an effect on me quite contrary to what was intended by them; for the arguments of the Deists, which were quote to be refuted, appeared to me much stronger than the refutations; in short, I soon became a thorough Deist.
Benjamin Franklin
#44. With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.
Lope De Vega
#46. Some books don't answer the inside, I read one comic called Ms.Marvel!
Under Marvel can be understand that this person is powerful and can handle a lot of stuff, but reality this wasn't a powerful one or one strong. This guy was a guy who just called the Avengers like Iron Man for help!
Deyth Banger
#47. Some books were little stairways, different levels of the self telling the same stories at progressively higher levels of the ladder.
Tantra Bensko
#48. It's black women as perpetual sidekick. We need to hear from more women's voices. And it would be nice to see some books geared toward us.
Cheryl Lynn
#49. There are some books that LIVE," she mused. "They are young with us, and they grow old with us.
Virginia Woolf
#50. It may be suggested by some books that it is not a sin to kill an animal, but it is written in our own hearts - more clearly than in any book - that we should take pity on animals in the same way as we do on humans.
Leo Tolstoy
#51. Some books claim I have already clocked up a century of Grands Prix, but let me put the record straight. Australia will be my 100th start, and I aim to mark the milestone with a cracking performance. It could even be celebrated with a victory.
Damon Hill
#52. I cannot imagine not reading. Some books, of course, are like lovers; you go to bed with them once and fall asleep immediately ... But other books become house guests. THey take up residence in the rooms of the mond and never leave.
Joe Bennett
#53. I've always felt that no one understands why some books of non-fiction endure and some don't, because there's not much understanding among many non-fiction writers that the narrative is terribly important.
Robert Caro
#54. I'm kind of surprised that so many of those other books were almost exactly like mine. They even follow the form. There were some books that even copied the stamp. It shows so little imagination.
Don Novello
#56. I just think some books are instructions on why women are dirt or hardly exist at all except as accessories or are inherently evil and empty.
Rebecca Solnit
#57. Some books that I've read on the Kindle, I've been like, 'I want that on my shelf.' Because it says, 'I'm the kind of person who has read this.' The kind of books that says, 'I'm serious and intellectual and historical and race-conscious.'
Jennifer Lee
#58. Some books must be sipped slowly like a strong bourbon. Most books must be devoured more than once because as you age you distill more.
Brandi L. Bates
#59. Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
Louisa May Alcott
#60. I like to play football, read some books, study.
Andrew Luck
#61. There's no such thing as 'no market'. Some books are just niche orientated that's all.
Jo Linsdell
#62. Making books is hard work. Some books are, of course, more demanding than others.
David Macaulay
#63. Some books accrete things to themselves like a magnet. The writer risks sterility by subjecting the mysterious power of imagination to the devices of mere comprehension.
John Clellon Holmes
#64. Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales. But there's no happily ever after. You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books.
Ellen Hopkins
#65. Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#66. You don't need a lot of money to live a full life
all you need is a fertile mind, some books and a good attitude. Books are free at the library, but a fertile mind takes practice.
Robyn Carr
#67. But it rained all the time, fog covered the fields, and by then he was reading Tolstoy. There were some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things. A Confession was a book like that.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#68. I know nothing about her. Just some books, and some stories she tried to tell me, and things I didn't understand, and I remember big red soft hands and that smell. I never knew who she really was. I mean, she must have been nine too, once.
Terry Pratchett
#69. Some books you read. Some books you enjoy. But some books just swallow you up, heart and soul.
Joanne Harris
#70. I read books when I was a kid, lots of books. Books always seemed like magic to me. They took you to the most amazing places. When I got older, I realized I couldn't find books that took me to all the places I wanted to go. To go to those places, I had to write some books myself.
Pat Murphy
#71. 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
#72. In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own.
Edgar Allan Poe
#73. Just as some books are so beautiful and intriguing that you never want to put them down, forever eager of what lies beyond the scope of a single page, so you never cease to intrigue me, leaving me in constant yearning of all that resides within you.
Katie Douglas
#74. Whether a religion is of peace or violence should be defined by the actions of its people, not by some books.
Abhijit Naskar
#75. The art of reading is the art of adopting the pace the author has set. Some books are fast and some are slow, but no book can be understood if it is taken at the wrong speed.
Mark Van Doren
#76. I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up.
Jackson Browne
#77. Some books you read and savor. Some, you carry close to your heart.
S.R. McKade
#78. Some books sold because they are (said to be) great. Some are (said to be) great because they sold.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#79. Some books are so beautiful and intriguing that you never want to put them down, forever leaving you in anticipation to read the next page.
Some people are the same way.
Katie Douglas
#80. At the same time, I think books create a sort of network in the reader's mind, with one book reinforcing another. Some books form relationships. Other books stand in opposition. No two writers or readers have the same pattern of interaction.
Margaret Mahy
#81. Take some books and read; that's an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.
Louisa May Alcott
#82. But all I could think of was taking some books to read in jail. I held everybody up, choosing which ones to take.
John Clellon Holmes
#83. This boulder seemed like a curious volume, regularly paged, with a few extracts from older works. Bacon tells us that "some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." Of the last honour I think the boulder fully worthy.
Archibald Geikie
#84. There is a magic in some books That sucks a man into connections With the spirits hard to touch That join him to his kind.
Roger Waters
#85. I like to deal with EVERY aspect of our condition, and that means terror and humor in equal mix. Some books have more room for humor than others.
Dean Koontz
#86. Don't get me started on the term literary fiction. I think the idea is that there are some books who know how to order from a wine list and some who don't. I like wine, but I prefer the company of beer drinkers any day.
Keir Graff
#87. We are never allowed to forget that some books are badly written; we should remember that sometimes they're badly read, too.
Nick Hornby
#88. A reader of mine is a deluxe reader, not because I'm so great but because in order to get to me you have to take a path through literature, not through some books bought out of curiosity at the bookstore. A reader of mine has to have read other things.
Cesar Aira
#89. And when I was young, did I ever tell you, I always wanted to get inside
a book and never come out again? I loved reading so much I wanted
to be a part of it, and there were some books I could have stayed in
for ever.
Peter Ackroyd
#90. The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France!
Antonia Fraser
#91. Some books should be tasted,
Some devoured,
But only a few
Should be chewed and digested
Thoroughly
Cornelia Funke
#92. Some books are serials, not to be mistaken for anything else. 'The Two Towers,' for example, ought never to be read in isolation.
Edward M. Lerner
#93. Some books find us at just the right time in our lives and those books change our lives forever. I hope this is that kind of book for you.
Matthew Kelly
#94. Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
W. H. Auden
#95. Nick chided a censor, who wished some books gone, and suggested she scan Fahrenheit 451. For the book-budget cutters, Old Claus had no plan, cause if they could read, they just read Ayn Rand.
David Davis
#96. I recognized my work for what it was
as unimportant a drug as cigarettes to get one through the weeks and years. If we are extinguished by death, as I still try to believe, what point is there in leaving some books behind any more than bottles, clothes, or cheap jewellry?
Graham Greene
#97. I re-read a lot of books that I like a lot. There are some books that I try to reread every couple of years. A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life.
Alan Lightman
#99. I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody under 40,' or 'Nobody under 25.' With my books, it always has been, and continues to be, spread right across the board, and I think the operative term is 'reader.'
Margaret Atwood
#100. I read some books that were the right books for me. I read them and I didn't even notice turning the pages anymore. I thought, "That's what I want to do with my life."
Markus Zusak
