477 Quotes About Books-and-reading

Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept

We released the fourth book at midnight and we also had a slumber party for the kids and parents at our stores. We could be doing something along those lines for the new Harry Potter book release.

It's a picture book. No story. Just photographs of a little boy growing up with a cheetah. We had to concoct a story. Actually, I stole part of the idea of the trek from a movie that I got fired off of many years ago, 'A Far Off Place,' where a boy takes a travel trip with a little Bushman guy.

We suspect that the Taliban has a hundred useable tanks, which isn't that many. On the books they probably have 600, but most of those are inoperative.

Children 10 and under are invited to dress as a story book character to win a cash prize. This year we have four local school librarians to be the judges. I am anxious to see what the big character will be this year.

I think knowing that the image will go down in the history books is the greatest prize.

All the wins are great, but I'd rather be on the right side of that book. Pete Tilman won a New England championship, and I don't consider myself the greatest wrestler in Sharon history because I don't have a New England title to back that up.

The book on Pratt is he's a solid, steady defenseman. He can move the puck. He's got pretty good mobility. He's a veteran defenseman.

The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.