44 Quotes About Good-book

If you put enough sheep together you have a herd- a force to be reckoned with.

You could never get everything in a book. Good books are always about everything.

I wanted to stop peeing but couldn't, of course. Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.

People who love reading get an instantly warm feeling in their bellies when they hear others describe getting comfortable with a good book.

A well-read man will yawn with boredom when one speaks to him of a new "good book," as he imagines a sort of composite of all the good books he has read, whereas a good book is something special, unforeseeable, made up not of the sum of all previous masterpieces but of something which the most thorough assimilation of every one of them would not enable him to discover, since it exists not in their sum but beyond it.

Stupor, insanity, and curling up with a good book.” Bright finished his coffee and slipped out of bed. “And I was wondering last night how I would fill my time today. Let me get dressed and have a spot of breakfast first.

Quand la poisse vous étreint dans le ventre de votre mère, elle ne vous lâche plus.

...this is a book about texts as well as their authors, it is not a textbook so much as a context book and a pretext book, concerned with settings and motives as well as the works themselves. Its success will be measured by the readers who pick up Plato’s Republic, Hobbes’s Leviathan, Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, and find themselves engrossed rather than baffled—and even when they are baffled, are happy to go on reading, interrogating, and arguing with their authors for themselves.

A good book has no ending