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Making books is hard work. Some books are, of course, more demanding than others.


David Macaulay

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Of course I loved books more than people.
DIANE SETTERFIELD Books are often far more than just books.
ROXANE GAY Songs are more powerful than books.
ELVIS COSTELLO Books are more valluable than clothes & jewellery because, inside the books you get mountains of clo...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) They lard their lean books with the fat of others work.
SIR RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON They lard their lean books with the fat of others work.
RICHARD BURTON Some books are to be tasted; others swallowed; and some to be chewed and digested.
FRANCIS BACON I work hard, I work very hard. All the books at least 30 revisions.
HA JIN Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is...
SIR FRANCIS BACON Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT More than 40,000 books were sold in 24 hours; it's a tremendous amount of books.
CAROLYN BROWN I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books...
MATTHEW VAUGHN Books gnaw at me from around the edges of my life, demanding more time and attention. I am always le...
PAMELA PAUL Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
FRANCIS BACON Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
FRANCIS BACON, SR. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
FRANCIS BACON Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
FRANCIS BACON SR. Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators.
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT Books have led some to learning and others to madness
FRANCESCO PETRARCH Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
FRANCESCO PETRARCA There are still some people out there who believe comic books are nothing more than, well, comic boo...
JOHN RIDLEY The to-read pile is more than just a physical stack of books: it's a tower of ambitions failed, hope...
SAM JORDISON Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.
ANNIE BARROWS Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.
MARY ANN SHAFFER I don't think there is really a favorite, I'm very fond of film making as a whole and as a m...
PETER CUSHING I do, I’m afraid, understand books far more readily than I understand people. Books are so easy to...
KATHERINE RUNDELL People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read mor...
G.K. CHESTERTON People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.
MARK TWAIN Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.
STEPHEN FRY The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
VOLTAIRE Fahrenheit 451 is one of those books that is about how amazing books are and how amazing the people ...
JOSH LIEB People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It take...
NEIL GAIMAN The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become ...
ANN BRASHARES Some looks are heavier than the thickest books because they carry the saddest stories of life!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN The Big Book of Easy Suppers
CHRONICLE BOOKS Murder Alfresco: A Sunny McCoskey Napa Valley Mystery
CHRONICLE BOOKS Highballs High Heels: A Girl's Guide to the Art of Cocktails
CHRONICLE BOOKS The Beatles Anthology
CHRONICLE BOOKS Even thought you can't see it, my son, things are changing. Things ALWAYS change, given enough time ...
EXO BOOKS Gangland: How the FBI Broke the Mob
POCKET BOOKS The Journey is the Destination
CHRONICLE BOOKS It's natural to fear death, as a conscious, thinking being - it's the literal end of you. I'm not ev...
EXO BOOKS In this moment, everything is sacred.
ARIEL BOOKS Sadly, history shows us that people literally scrambled their children's brains with heavy exposure ...
EXO BOOKS Reading books affords you the priceless opportunity to enjoy information others labored hard to disc...
SUNDAY ADELAJA I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books?
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE What my wife desires--and what you should have guessed, had you paid attention--is bookcases. And bo...
CYNTHIA HAND One of the maddening ironies of writing books is that it leaves so little time for reading others...
MARY ROACH The technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them - the 'physical book,' a new...
ART SPIEGELMAN For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason ...
AMY LOWELL For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason w...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason w...
AMY LOWELL Bill Ponder has helped me a lot by bringing books and others are going to donate books, too. The cas...
FRANCES GRIGSBY Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum oc...
BERNARD CORNWELL The cost of higher education is a concern everywhere and of course books are a big piece of that.
YVONNE HUBBARD Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to yo...
JULIAN BARNES Learn more than others. Work more than others. Succeed more than others. Give more than others.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason w...
AMY LOWELL For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason w...
GENE FOWLER How could we love books more than money? This is the state of book lovers.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity...
A. EDWARD NEWTON Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU When you realize that your history books and your science books and your literature books are not th...
DIANE RAVITCH Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON I have written, probably, more books for children than any other writer, from story-books to plays, ...
ENID BLYTON Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to yo...
JULIAN BARNES Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired produces such an ecstasy that the bu...
A.E. NEWTON Lots of kids, including my son, have trouble making the leap from reading words or a few sentences i...
RHEA PERLMAN This program will help users discover more books, publishers sell more books and authors to ultimate...
ADAM SMITH And nobody ever picked up on it, and, of course, they wouldn't, So maybe these books do serve some p...
ROBERT HUNTER Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and...
CHINA MIéVILLE Some books are a revelation. They come along at just the right time for just the right reasons. They...
JUDITH TARR We're all animals, high school is animals, but some of us are more animal than others. Like in 'Anim...
NED VIZZINI There's more to life than books, you know. But not much more.
MORRISSEY The fourth graders raised more than $3,500 that was earmarked to purchase books for the Bay-Waveland...
JANET CALLISON One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.
GROUCHO MARX One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.
GEORGE W. BUSH For books are more than books, they are the life
The very heart and core of ages past,
The...
AMY LOWELL I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.
NEIL GAIMAN I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Sections in the bookstore

- Books You Haven't Read
- Books You Needn't Read
- B...
ITALO CALVINO Everyone is dispensable but some are more dispensable than others.
MILES ANTHONY SMITH Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
W. H. AUDEN Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
W.H. AUDEN Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
JOSEPH BRODSKY There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
RAY BRADBURY Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as dem...
DAVID WALLIAMS We buy them (books) as our budget allows. But eighth grade has four trade books (individual-title bo...
ALICE MOORE I truly believe that if you have more friends than books, you have too many friends. Or not enough b...
ZOë MARRIOTT Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmas...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmas...
JOHN LUBBOCK To some of them it had just been work, ... But some got caught up in the romance of creating comic b...
MICHAEL CHABON Some books makes me want to go adventuring, others feel that they have saved me the trouble
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT It is far better to love books & don't accumulate any degree, than to accumulate mountains of degree...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Books are slow, books are quiet. The Internet is fast and loud.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Oddly, the meanings of books are defined for me much more by their beginnings and middles than they ...
LEV GROSSMAN Some people are more terrorist than others.
JOHN KEEGAN It's much more entertaining to live books than to write them.
JEAN WEBSTER

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THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And th...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Death cometh soon or late; And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds For the ashes of his ...
THOMAS B. MACAULAY This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he is profoun...
THOMAS B. MACAULAY In yon strait path a thousand May well be stopped by three
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something that shall for a few days supersede the last fas...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Every schoolboy knows who imprisoned Montezuma, and who strangled Atahualpa.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life-blood of real civilization
GEORGE MACAULAY TREVELYAN Boswell is the first of biographers
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY And even the ranks of Tuscany / Could scarce forbear to cheer.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY A single breaker may recede; but the tide is coming in
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth readin...
GEORGE MACAULAY TREVELYAN Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people oug...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suff...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Then none was for a party;
Then all were for the state;
Then the great man helped the poor...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Pour, varlet, pour the water
The water steaming hot!
A spoonful for each man of us
An...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Then out spake brave Horatius,
The Captain of the Gate:
To every man upon this earth
...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds
For the ashes of his fathers
A...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Enlarged sympathy with children was one of the chief contributions made by the Victorian English to ...
GEORGE MACAULAY TREVELYAN No parent/home/child/teacher/school has an all-round 100 percent wholeness. We all have limitations ...
SUSAN SCHAEFFER MACAULAY From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics, compounded of misanthropy and voluptuous...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY My biggest objection to Marxism has been the presumption that industry should exist at all. I think ...
DAVID DAVID KATZMAN I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've stil...
LARRY DAVID The area where I grew up in Birmingham was very diverse - I was aware of my race but not overly awar...
DAVID HAREWOOD Birmingham people are the salt of the earth, and I've carried that with me all around the world....
DAVID HAREWOOD In the last couple of years I've been facing down a lot of the demons of the past and trying to ...
DAVID COVERDALE George W. Bush: a person who is the ultimate outcome of the American condition. Someone promoted abo...
DAVID LANGE