#book

Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture. ↗

— Tadao Ando

#books #buildings #design #europe #full

The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#books #few #few people #good #know

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#books #few #few people #good #know

I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction. ↗

— Mae West

#mae-west #reading #dreams

I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that. ↗

— Floyd Abrams

#books #enough #had #i #just

I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years that my book deals with, I think we are in better shape now than we would have been if all of those cases had not come down. ↗

— Floyd Abrams

#been #better #book #cases #come

I try to do that in this book without preaching - to try to do as you just said that you really have to defend the First Amendment rights of everybody. ↗

— Floyd Abrams

#amendment rights #book #defend #everybody #first

I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at. ↗

— Kate Adie

#book #i #left #period #specifically

I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#articles #concerning #flood #grateful #i

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

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