477 Quotes About Books-and-reading

It's a huge deal. We now have the instruction book of our closest relative.

Books cannot always please, however good;/ Minds are not ever craving for their food.

A good novel tells us the truth about it's hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

When you count all the obscure monographic books, there have been many. I probably have most of them in my library.

General histories-there have been a few that have served as pioneering books.

I certainly didn't have a three-book plan or a 10-year plan when I worked on the first book.

You are at the wheel of your car, waiting at a traffic light, you take the book out of the bag, rip off the transparent wrapping, start reading the first lines. A storm of honking breaks over you....

People don't want to trade ... They don't even want to hear ideas. They just want to know their books are hedged. If an event -- God forbid -- happened, the market could swing pretty hard. But this uncertainty doesn't create more activity; it (depresses) activity because no one wants to do anything. Things kind of grind to a virtual halt.

The defendants cooked the books by simply keeping them open beyond the end of a fiscal quarter for however long it took to meet the analysts earning estimates,