books

"The young man destined for an ecclesiastical career was placed within walls carefully designed to keep out all currents of new thought; his studies, his reading, his professors, his associates, all we…"

"I get upset about what is taken as great literature and what is cute and exotic."

"The eleven volumes of this book are to be burned after they are read. There are some people in this book who are still alive and this book may anger them, so make sure the book is burned. Tsunetomo sa…"

"You never read about the real pain. It lives where no word can travel."

"Annotated bibliography for John von Neumann from the Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues"

"Ralph Currier Davis at prabook.com"

"Want to get on the front page of the paper? I have to make some vicious attack. I won't do that. I’m running an issue-oriented campaign."

"Not to know the end of the tale filled me with a sense of emptiness, loss. I hungered for the sharp, frightening, breathtaking, almost painful excitement that the story had given me, and I vowed that …"

"Gregory David Roberts: "She was so unfussy. I think the thing about Madonna is that she's tremendously intelligent. She's fiercely intelligent; she's very sharp, very funny, very witty, very quick and…"

"The Muslim Brotherhood is a global movement whose members cooperate with each other throughout the world, based on the same religious worldview - the spread of Islam, until it rules the world."

"I am haunted by the human chimpanzees I saw . . . I don't believe they are our fault. . . . But to see white chimpanzees is dreadful; if they were black, one would not feel it so much. . . ."

"I would close every recruiting station, disband the Army and disarm the Air Force. I would abolish the whole dreadful equipment of war and say to the world: “Do your worst”."

"Ferlinghetti's Bookstore in San Francisco, City Lights"

"I hate to spread rumours: but what else can one do with them?"

"Prior to 1952, when M. Ventris first published his decipherment of the 'Linear B' tablets from Crete and Greece, showing that they were Greek, everyone assumed that Hebrew was recorded in writing befo…"

"The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most."

"In spite of the many valuable books available today, the state of Prokofiev scholarship cannot be considered adequate: suffice it to say that the detailed catalogue of his works has not been updated s…"

"The Web is the new book though, innit?"

"writers without books, poets without verses, painters without pictures p198"

"I’m a big reader, so I read scripts like a book, and if it affects me the same way that my favourite books do, I know that’s the project I want to do."