501 Quotes by Book

I don’t want people to think that they can attain realization simply by listening to others or by reading books. They must practice what they read and hear.

If people don’t want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them? -Yogi Berra, The Yogi Book, to baseball commissioner Bud Selig about lagging baseball attendance Ninety percent of the game is half mental.

To get to where you want to be in the next 5 years, you are either reading the right books or you’re not.

I suspect there are two kinds of novelists. Those who have a point of view and have something to say and then write a novel in order to say that thing, and those of us who write the book in order to find out what we think about that thing.

Because we grew up surrounded by big dramatic story arcs in books and movies, we think our lives are supposed to be filled with huge ups and downs. So people pretend there is drama where there is none.

Books are cool, but knowledge without mileage doesn’t mean anything to me.

He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends.

When I was crossing into Gaza, I was asked at the checkpost whether I was carrying any weapons. I replied: Oh yes, my prayer books.

Anyone who can only think of one way to spell a word obviously lacks imagination.