71 Quotes About Covers

Books. They are lined up on shelves or stacked on a table. There they are wrapped up in their jackets, lines of neat print on nicely bound pages. They look like such orderly, static things. Then you, the reader come along. You open the book jacket, and it can be like opening the gates to an unknown city, or opening the lid of a treasure chest. You read the first word and you're off on a journey of exploration and discovery.

There is much to discover that's not on the back cover!

If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?

I knew when I got into self-publishing I would have to compete with other authors' words. I did not, however, know that I was going to have to compete with so many sculpted abs!

Judging books by their covers is seriously underrated, and any book nerd who claims never to have done it is probably lying.

For a journalist who covers the Muslim world, we have responsibilities to be familiar with that culture and to know how to respond to that.

That was the standard. So it's hilariously loud. I'd rather listen to a loud record than a quiet one. And it covers up when you mess up, too.

Potential is great. But when you can throw it down there on the (Daily Racing) Form and you can read it, it's impressive. He's won seven (actually six) in a row and a million dollars. That about covers everything.

ALDERMAN, n. An ingenious criminal who covers his secret thieving with a pretence of open marauding.