books

"I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue."

"Why is commitment the kryptonite of men, super and otherwise? The trouble is that, deep down, most of us men believe we have a great deal in common with superheroes. This is the secret truth of all ma…"

"Management is not people, it is an activity like walking, reading, swimming or running. People who perform management can be designated as managers members of management, or executive leaders."

"Men of learning are those who have read the contents of books. Thinkers, geniuses, and those who have enlightened the world and furthered the race of men, are those who have made direct use of the boo…"

"'...I wonder if you remember the story mummy read us the evening Sebastian first got drunk - I mean the bad evening. "Father Brown" said something like "I caught him" "with an unseen hook and and invi…"

"We can see good economic policies in the context of a consistent analysis of the economy."

"The number of books is infinite."

"As with any classic novel, each subsequent reading teaches me a bit more about myself, about the greater world, and about the nature of life and mystery; because at each reading, I approach the texts …"

"More than half of all our biblical commentaries between 650 and 850 were written by Irishmen."

"What you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's happening"

"Language always pre-exists us: it is always already 'in place', waiting to assign us our places within it."

"Books may preach when the author cannot, when the author may not, when the author dares not, yes, and which is more, when the author is not."

"Literature, like memory, selects only the vivid patches."

"It is not easy to remain motivated in the face of widespread apathy and self-indulgence."

"“The rich non-Muslims travel to Gulf and different Muslim countries. If these Muslim countries have data of these people attacking or spreading venom against Muslims, they should arrest them under the…"

"There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag — an…"

"What so impressed me on that first reading was the self-containedness of Tolkien's world. I suppose there are a few novelists who have created worlds that are uniquely their own -- Faulkner, for examp…"

"LACON book downloadable from Google Books"

"You can't get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."

"I came away from the two science surveys superficially acquainted with what was already a rather old-fashioned version of contemporary natural science. Relativity and quantum mechanics were mentioned.…"