books

"Biographies and handwritten manuscripts from the Abel Prize website"

"The Senator from South Carolina has read many books of chivalry, and believes himself a chivalrous knight, with sentiments of honor and courage. Of course he has chosen a mistress to whom he has made …"

"Charles A. Beard, The Online Books Page, University of Pennsylvania"

"Like writing, reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life. When we look in fiction for what is missing in life, we are saying, with no need to say it or even to know it, that life as it i…"

"At the best of times his face was unreadable. Now his face was a book written in a language long forgotten, in an alphabet unimagined. Silas wrapped the shadows around him like a blanket, and stared a…"

"Your waistline may be spreading but you can't blame it on the expansion of the universe."

"Current concern with reading and spelling reform steers away from visual to auditory stress."

"Jazzing Up Hazlitt" by James Fenton, The New York Review of Books"

"In the bookshops in the Muslim areas of our cities—for instance in the bookshops around the Jama Masjid in Delhi— the collections of fatwas fill shelves after shelves. They are put together with great…"

"Tulsi Books is the publisher of Radhanath Swami's books."

"In reading the economics journals and talking with newly-minted PhDs, it is as if Keynesian economics never existed."

"I have come to believe that large print, thick and heavy paper, and wide margins and oversize leading is indicative of the expected intelligence of the reader. … Compare children's books and books on …"

"Dear Brethern! Let us remove hatred and jealousy from our hearts.... The doors of penance of your return to the fold of your former real faith are wide open to let you in. Shed the burden put on your …"

"The interpretation reflects my deepest respect for the major composition of the musical literature."

"Books by Fulton J. Sheen"

"If you only ever read one book in your life I highly recommend... keeping your f***ing mouth shut."

"Poetry must be read to be poetry. It may be that one reader is all that I deserve. If this is so, I want that reader to be you."

"I suppose you burned the library—barbarians always do."

"A university teaches. What does it teach? It must obviously teach all the languages in which the great literatures which have been preserved were written — Hebrew, Arabic, Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, Fren…"

"I write worstsellers. I guess most of my readers are themselves writers. Myself, for example."