books

"Low-end disruption occurs when the rate at which products improve exceeds the rate at which customers can adopt the new performance."

"Krishnamurti pages from "The Quest" website"

"Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wants to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time."

"I was struck in reading Karl Marx's new work by the extent to which he fetches his materials from England. It is a remarkable book, as the Koran of the new socialists."

"Whenever any thought or idea or moral imperative is transferred from one society to another an important question is whether that which is transferred is freely sought by the recipient or is, to one d…"

"…I have discovered that plays are easier to write than novels if the writer has a certain verbal facility, a certain capacity for the colloquial, an ear for the secret cadences of the spoken word. A p…"

"He was certainly one of that company who tried to raise descriptions of matches from mere reporting to literature."

"started quoting St Francis within minutes of becoming elected, and scarcely an hour had gone by before she was sounding like the book of Revelations read out over a railway station public address syst…"

"Master books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read."

"To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry."

"I have always read that the world, both land and water, was spherical, as the authority and researches of Ptolemy and all the others who have written on this subject demonstrate and prove, as do the e…"

"Reading the Bible will help you get to know the word, but it's when you put it down and live your life that you get to know the author."

"What is already woven cannot be undone. It will not make the trees grow again for you to bring the building down on our heads."

"I may be biased, but I think I have the best readers ever."

"When I first set my sights on becoming a writer at age eleven or so, I wanted to be a fantasy and science fiction writer. That was my preferred reading material and that's what I thought I was going t…"

"To draw up in advance an exact and detailed plan is to deprive our minds of the pleasures of the encounter and the novelty that comes from executing the work. It is to make the execution insipid for u…"

"It has been suggested, I think by the hon. Member for East Aberdeenshire that the most constructive suggestion he could make was to urge an early General Election and a return of a Tory Government in …"

"there is a clear correlation between the illegal immigrants who are flooding into Europe and the spread of terrorism."

"I've been haunting bookshops and hiding behind display signs of TV chefs as I spy on the short fiction section and see if anyone's tempted by my sweet bait. I've also been counting how many copies of …"

"Steal a loaf of bread and they hang you, steal a land and they'll make you king."