#book

You know, I don't only play for the record books. ↗

— Roger Federer

#i #know #only #play #record

A great book is like great evil. ↗

— Callimachus

#evil #great #great book #great evil #like

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#classic #finished #never #say #saying

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. ↗

— Mark Twain

#books #conscience #friends #good #good friends

We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order. ↗

— Asa Gray

#beliefs #books #considerations #different #down

The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out. ↗

— Iris Chang

#books #changing #comfort #coming #experiments

I was not allowed to take notes but my friend and I memorised those two and a half pages. Most people talked to me because of the warning. They knew this book was not going to be the official line. ↗

— Jung Chang

#because #book #friend #going #half

I would love mainland Chinese to read my book. There is a Chinese translation which I worked on myself, published in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Many copies have gone into China but it is still banned. ↗

— Jung Chang

#book #china #chinese #copies #gone

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#books #chiefly #enjoy #give #great

It's always tense when you move a character from a book to the screen. Always tense. ↗

— Lee Child

#book #character #move #screen #tense