#book

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#bus #conclusions #dime #draw #people

I've always thought if we don't want to enforce laws on the books, we should remove them from the books. But when you have laws, you breed contempt if you don't enforce them. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#books #breed #contempt #enforce #i

A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic. ↗

— Roy Blount, Jr.

#another #book #down #getting #gin

Strange to the world, he wore a bashful look, The fields his study, Nature was his book. ↗

— Robert Bloomfield

#book #fields #his #look #nature

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

#book #books #divine #great #how

What has always surprised me when I walk into a bookstore is the number of books that you can find that are written with certainty. The authors tell some story as though it's true, but they don't have any evidence that it is true! ↗

— David Eagleman

#any #authors #books #bookstore #certainty

At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was overwhelming. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#classes #encountered #i #instruction #john

There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

#acted #books #now #time #world

This hand is not very active always, because it was in this hand that I carried my books. My carrying hand was always my strongest. Now I think my other hand has developed more muscles from signing all those autographs. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#always #autographs #because #books #carried

The creative process; I enjoy thinking up the stories and situations for my books. ↗

— Judy Blume

#creative #creative process #enjoy #i #process