books

"All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of Books."

"The Kindle is the most successful electronic book-reading tablet so far, but that’s not saying much; Silicon Valley is littered with the corpses of e-book reader projects."

"N.B. this book and pensées not important and the temptation to mistake them for Creation must be resisted."

"He seems to think that posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded."

"We have an obligation to read aloud to our children. To read them things they enjoy. To read to them stories we are already tired of. To do the voices, to make it interesting, and not to stop reading …"

"An array of puns, asides and jokes makes the book more bulky and somewhat anecdotal, but also entertaining to read."

"Ooh, look at me, I’m Dave, I’m writing a book! With all my thoughts in it. La la la!"

"I do not think that the time is right to talk about democracy in its absolute concept. Arab societies marginalized their modern thinkers and scholars for the elders who stopped their time before fourt…"

"If you truly love film, I think the healthiest thing to do is not read books on the subject. I prefer the glossy film magazines with their big colour photos and gossip columns, or the National Enquire…"

"Some people have called the book the "bible of software engineering". I would agree with that in one respect: that is, everybody quotes it, some people read it, and a few people go by it."

"Norman Mailer and Günter Grass at The New York Public Library interviewed by"

"I'm the last leaf on the New Deal tree, and I think perhaps I've clung here too long already."

"…Young people – especially young men – it’s not that they hate reading, it’s that they hate boredom. So my thing was: I need to write a story that is interesting, that is gripping, that can connect to…"

"God does not give us ready money. He issues promissory notes, and then pays them when faith presents them at the throne. Each one of us has a check-book."

"He denied that the Bible was inspired by God down to the last letter. When we read the Bible, he said, we must continually bear in mind the period it was written in. A ‘critical’ reading, such as the …"

"I will be satisfied if my epitaph shall be written thus: "Here lies one who never rose to any eminence, who only courted the low ambition to have it said that he striven to ameliorate the condition of…"

"Most of us would rather risk catastrophe than read the directions."

"Marine navigation blends both science and art. A good navigator constantly thinks strategically, operationally, and tactically. He plans each voyage carefully. As it proceeds, he gathers navigational …"

"I see now that when we met, my writing, like hers, left its old path and started to circle and search. To me, of course, she was not only herself — she was America and American literature in person. I…"

"Liber peristephanon - Latin text."