The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.
Walt Whitman

The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
Walt Whitman

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.
Anne Frank

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
Emily Dickinson

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.
Emily Dickinson

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
Saint Augustine

This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two.
George Burns

'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.
Lord Byron

There is no need to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.
Stephen Hawking

A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.
Oswald Chambers

There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself.
Dwight L. Moody

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
Charles Darwin

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence.
Bill Maher

As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book.
Andy Rooney

I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears.
Chuck Palahniuk