#boo

The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

#contain #facts #full #idea #single

After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, I'd think, how awful. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#awful #book #convent #disgusted #felt

A boo is a lot louder than a cheer. If you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you hear is the booing. ↗

— Lance Armstrong

#booing #cheer #cheering #hear #lot

I'm not a comic book guy at all. ↗

— Darren Aronofsky

#comic #comic book #guy #i

Maybe you don't work for seven months a year, but you'll work again. It may be a piece of garbage, so you wear hip boots. ↗

— Armand Assante

#boots #garbage #hip #may #maybe

A lot of these kids I think are more content just to be on Facebook and the computer than they are to actually go out. They just really want to get a picture to post to their buddies, and that's about it. ↗

— Dave Attell

#actually #buddies #computer #content #facebook

Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues? ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#generation #had #how #lack #libraries

If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling. I don't want to open up my cornflakes and find that they're full of pebbles... You need to respect the reader enough not to call it something it isn't. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#call #cover #dragons #enough #ethical

Each book has been different and has been challenging in its own way to write. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

#book #challenging #different #each #own

How could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books? ↗

— John James Audubon

#books #could #dozen #enough #how