#boo

'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read. ↗

— Mark Twain

#classic #people #praise #read #which

You can never step into the same book twice, because you are different each time you read it. ↗

— John Barton

#book #different #each #into #never

So we want an Islamic state where Islamic law is not just in the books but enforced, and enforced with determination. There is no space and no room for democratic consultation. The Shariah is set and fixed, so why do we need to discuss it anymore? Just implement it! ↗

— Abu Bakar Bashir

#books #consultation #democratic #determination #discuss

Creamy and leggy, with long azure hair and the eyes of a silent-movie star, she moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx. ↗

— Laini Taylor

#book-quote #beauty

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#company #counselor #counselors #garden #multitude

Lord of the Rings was something I always wanted to do. I read the book when I was about 25, and I was always hoping if it was ever made into a feature film that I would be involved in some way. And then I finally got it, and I was over the moon. It was fantastic news. ↗

— Sean Bean

#always #book #ever #fantastic #feature

I think that my love of cooking grew out of my love of reading about cooking. When I was a kid, we had a bookcase in the kitchen filled with cookbooks. I would eat all my meals reading about meals I could have been having. ↗

— Samantha Bee

#been #cookbooks #cooking #could #eat

There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#companions #employ #everybody #intelligent #schoolmasters

You know, it's about getting out there and having a good time. Not about worrying - all these young books for women are like I'm 29 with a closet full of Prada shoes and I can't get a date. Come on. ↗

— Aisha Tyler

#books #closet #come #date #full

I just write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading myself, a book that is both scholarly and recreates the experience of people at that time. ↗

— Antony Beevor

#both #enjoy #enjoy reading #experience #i