72 Book Quotes

I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those arts by which a big book is made.

This book is an agglomeration of lean-tos and annexes and there is no knowing how big the next addition will be, or where it will be put. At any point, I can call the book finished or unfinished.

But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library. I was just browsing through the section of math books and I found this one book, which was all about one particular problem -- Fermat's Last Theorem.

Jane Monheit is skyrocketing up the jazz charts. By next year, we won't be able to get her. (comment from Allison Stockel, artistic director of the Ridgefield [Connecticut] Playhouse)

Who is booking this crap? The Rock against Billy Gunn; The Rock against Gangrel. Next week, they'll be having The Rock laying the Smackdown on the Brooklyn Brawler, for Christ's sake.

Who is booking this crap? The Rock against Billy Gunn; The Rock against Gangrel. Next week, they'll be having The Rock laying the Smackdown on the Brooklyn Brawler, for Christ's sake.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out. We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Charles Moore in his Introduction to George Washington's Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour in Company and Conversation (1926), edited by Charles Moore, xi-xv.

Ts'ui Pe must have said once: I am withdrawing to write a book. And another time: I am withdrawing to construct a labyrinth. Every one imagined two works; to no one did it occur that the book and the maze were one and the same thing.

From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.

The End of Faith (2004), page 225[2]

The End of Faith (2004), page 25[2]

The End of Faith (2004), page 16[2]

The End of Faith (2004), page 14[2]

Letter to a Christian Nation (2006), page 23[8]

The End of Faith (2004), pages 22-23[2]

The End of Faith (2004), page 17[2]

Letter to a Christian Nation (2006), page xii[8]

The End of Faith is one of those books that deserves to replace the Gideon Bible in every hotel room in the land.

'Devotees of multiculturalism and political correctness who do not see how damaging to the fabric of American civilization it is to allow Ellison to choose his own book need only imagine a racist elected to Congress. Would they allow him to choose Hitler's' Mein Kampf,' the Nazis' bible, for his oath? And if not, why not?'

Allen, Steve. Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion, and Morality (1990). ISBN 0879756381.

Allen, Steve. More Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion, & Morality (1993). ISBN 0879757361.

Jefferson, Thomas. Notes on the State of Virginia (1787), London: Stockdale. This was Jefferson's only book.

Frank Crane, Four Minute Essays, Volume V (New York: Wm. H. Wise & Co., Inc., 1919).

Dr. Frank Crane, Everyday Wisdom, (New York: Wm. H. Wise & Co., Copyright, 1927, Dr. Frank Crane).

Whilst the misguided Follower climbs with Pain, Mountains of Whimsies, heapt in his own Brain, Stumbling from Thought to Thought, falls headlong down Into Doubt's boundless Sea, where like to drown, Books bear him up a-while, and make him try To swim with Bladders of Philosophy.

Swallows and Amazons (Chapter 1), 1930

Swallowdale (Chapter 8), 1931

Winter Holiday (Chapter 3), 1933

We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea (Title page), 1937

The Picts and the Martyrs (Chapter 2), 1943

Great Northern? (Chapter 9), 1947

The cruelest thing anyone can do to Portnoy's Complaint is to read it twice.

The simplest comment on my book came from my ballet teacher. She said, 'I wish you hadn't made every line funny. It's so depressing.'

This book is brilliant beyond belief, it is probably a work of genius, and will, I'll wager, attain classic stature.

Choke (novel)

Diary (novel)

As quoted in Seeds of Peace : A Catalogue of Quotations (1986) by Jeanne Larson, Madge Micheels-Cyrus, p. 244

A Selection from Italian Prose Writers: with a double translation: for the use of students of the Italian language on the Hamiltonian system. London, Hunt and Clark, 1828 online from Google Books

Rizal, Jose (1891, Ghent) El Filibusterismo (The Reign of Greed). English translation by Charles Derbyshire published 1912, Philippine Education Co., Manila.Etext available at Project Gutenberg

Rizal, Jose (1887, Berlin) Noli Me Tangere (The Social Cancer). English translation by Charles Derbyshire published 1912, Philippine Education Co., Manila.Etext available at Project Gutenberg

Zaide, Gregorio (2003), Jose Rizal: Life, Works and Writings of a Genius, Writer, Scientist and National Hero. National Bookstore, Manila. ISBN 9710805207

Book II, ch. 16

The Dark Tower series

The Problems of Philosophy (1912)

See Moby-Dick

Mansfield Park (1814)

Northanger Abbey (1817)

Timequake

Book I, ch. 7

The Jungle

The Molecular Tactics of a Crystal (1894)