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But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)

The underlying message of redemption in James Frey's memoir still resonates with me and I know it resonates with millions of other people who have read this book and will continue to read this book. (Quote by - Oprah Winfrey)

So now they will probably be getting out the books, looking at a Conservative government coming in and seeing how the department fits with the platform objectives of the incoming party. They would have had briefing books in order and they'll be tailoring them now. (Quote by - Kathy Brock)

My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water. (Quote by - Mark Twain)

There's now an avalanche of poker books coming out. We have a reputation for putting out the very best books and we have no competitors in that respect. We're not putting out trivial books. These are like textbooks. (Quote by - Mason Malmuth)

As far back as I remember, long before I could write, I had played at making stories. But not until I was seven or more, did I begin to pray every night, "O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!". (Quote by - Ellen Glasgow)

Some books leave us free and some books make us free. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Amazon Pages and Amazon Upgrade leverage Amazon's existing 'Search Inside the Book' technology to give customers unusual flexibility in how they buy and read books, .. In collaboration with our publishing partners, we're working hard to make the world's books instantly accessible anytime and anywhere. (Quote by - Jeffrey Bezos)

The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book -- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice. (Quote by - Mark Twain)

I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed -- and one of them hadn't even been colored in yet. (Quote by - John Dawkins)

Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a goode booke, kills reason it selfe. (Quote by - John Milton)

Freud wrote a book on the essence of humor, but he didn't know what he was talking about. Max Eastman wrote a book, The Enjoyment of Laughter, that was a much better book, but nobody bothered to read it. (Quote by - John Gould)

Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; A book's a book, although there's nothing' in 't. (Quote by - Lord Byron)

President Clinton signed a $10 million deal to write a book by 2003. Isn't that amazing? Yes, and get this, not only that, President Bush signed a $10 million deal to read a book by 2003. (Quote by - Conan O'Brien)

I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred. (Quote by - Ernest Hemingway)

Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever. (Quote by - Bible)

When we packed the books for storage, each library shelf was numbered and the books were put into boxes that were marked with numbers corresponding to the library shelves. Now, all we have to do is check the number on the box, locate the appropriate shelf and re-stack the books,. (Quote by - Sharon Moore)

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives. (Quote by - Amy Lowell)

Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)

If we finished our work, the teacher would say, 'Now don't read ahead.' But sometimes I hid the book I was reading behind my geography book and did read ahead. You can hide a lot behind a geography book. (Quote by - Beverly Cleary)

He himself has said you can follow the patterns and real events in his life by reading his books, which doesn't mean you can figure out his life by reading his books. Simply that the events in his life are the starting points for the books that he writes. But that's just the beginning. (Quote by - James Atlas)

The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring. (Quote by - Warren Chappell)

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. (Quote by - Harper Lee)

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the communion with superior minds.. In the best books, authors talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books. (Quote by - William Ellery Channing)

This book in particular helps them see that they can do anything. If you have a book you can do anything or go anywhere, including the moon. (Quote by - Mary Harvey)

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