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I just want the fans of the book to be happy. I don't necessarily care about anyone else.
Kristen Stewart

Happy, Care, Else

I want to write a book which is the history of comedy.
John Cleese

History, Write, Comedy

The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?
David Attenborough

Happy, May, Able

Yeah, because I think it's more important just to inspire people to wake up one day and pick up a book and start feeling it out for themselves.
Maynard James Keenan

Important, Feeling, Start

Because I stopped dieting already six months ago, and I think it's important to bring out a book like this and you are there a year later and say look, I'm still like this.
Karl Lagerfeld

Important, Year, Bring

No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
Ezra Pound

Deep, Until, Seen

A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.
John Milton

Good, Spirit, Precious

All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book.
David Livingstone

Jesus, Christ, Divine

I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate.
Elton John

Love, Work, Religion

The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can't think of one single book that changed my life in any way.
Charles Kuralt

Life, Single, Baseball

I like reading Ball Tongue lyrics and all that stuff. And they published a book, and I wouldn't give my lyrics, and it's all wrong in the book, and I giggle. It's funny.
Jonathan Davis

Funny, Give, Wrong

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy.
Edward P. Morgan

Fear, Mind, Thought

If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Famous, Words, Made

In bed at night, I could be reading some book, and I'll come across a sentence that's totally unrelated to some scene I did years ago. But I'll play the scene back in my mind and think, I did that wrong - I should've opened the door more slowly.
Liam Neeson

Mind, Night, Play

My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969.
Camille Paglia

Women, History, Political

Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.
Sally Schneider

Work, Personal, Chef

I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

History, Black, Process

When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be able to spend a day reading a book, the realization dawns that perhaps the situation has become a little more stressful than you would like.
Julian Assange

Forward, Become, Able

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?
Cesar Chavez

Education, Best, Real

A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.
Rupert Brooke

Good, Bad, Long

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
Amos Bronson Alcott

Good, Profit, Delight

Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the index.
Julie Burchill

Index, Arts, Whenever

I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down.
Tim Vine

History, Down, Put

This book was company for me - I wrote these things when I was in hotels, far from where I normally live. I never intended to publish it.
Catherine Deneuve

Live, Far, Company

When a woman gets dressed up to go out at night, she wants to give 50% away, and hold the rest back. If you're an open book, there's no allure.
Alexander McQueen

Woman, Night, Give

Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.
Quentin Crisp

Nothing, Person, Social

Sense of smell, of course, is only one of those dog qualities that can't be replicated or improved upon. I've been researching dogs in warfare for my book about 'Rin Tin Tin,' and I've read many accounts of their heroics: carrying messages through battle, alerting troops to enemy planes, and even parachuting behind enemy lines.
Susan Orlean

Enemy, Battle, Through

I wonder what book signings will be like when most of the books we read are electronic. Will authors sign something else? A flyer, perhaps? A special kind of card devised for the purpose?
Susan Orlean

Special, Else, Purpose

Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose.
Joseph Brodsky

Life, Game, Win

I think the book struck me in a few ways that I thought very interesting to pick it as my first martial arts film. It has a very strong female character and it was very abundant in classic Chinese textures.
Ang Lee

Strong, Character, Thought

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