Top 1200 Book Learning Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

A picture book is a story told in two languages - word and image. And the illustration is the front door of the book.

Your regular teachers will get mad at you. If you keep asking something again and again, they will get tired of saying the same thing. A book will not do that. A book always will be there for you. In whatever you want, the book will be there.

We do not have to prove the Book of Mormon is true. The book is its own proof.

Putting ideas into a book means I can help even more people by getting the book into everyone's hands.

Learning ballroom dancing is great for your brain. But it only works for three to six months. After that, you've got all the benefit you can get, and so you have to move on to yoga, and then Tai Chi, and then bridge, always keeping on the steep part of the learning curve.

All the marketing and advertising sells the book as what it is and hopes that the book will be displayed so that your readers can find it.

Book after book, I get hooked, every time the writer talks to me like a friend.

If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.

The book that I shall make people read is the book of the heart, which holds the key to the mystery of life

Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death.

The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.

Everybody thinks that an important book has to be a big, long book.

The authors of book reviews would consider themselves dishonored were they to mention, as they should, the subject of the book.

If it's a good work of adaptation, the book should remain a book and the film should remain a film, and you should not necessarily read the book to see the film. If you do need that, then that means that it's a failure. That is what I think.

I like to pretend that each book is my first one and last one, because it takes a tremendous amount of energy to do a book.

You try to find the internal life, but a lot of it is creating it through physical behavior and figuring out the voice when you create as much of a past as you would in a naturalistic piece. But it's fun, because it's like you're learning something, learning some kind of physical skill.

I've always been a big fan of beauty. Sure, you can't judge a book by its cover but who wants to have sex with a book?

I still try to make the "next" book my "best" book. I want to grip and move you in unexpected ways.

When I was a kid my primary goal in life was to find a book that was alive. Not alive in the human sense, but like a thing that would send me to a place not otherwise accessible on Earth. This book should have hidden words encrypted beneath the printed ones, so that if I worked hard enough and discovered the code I would somehow end up inside the book, or the book would take on a body and consume me, revealing a secret set of rooms behind the wall in my bedroom, for instance, inside which anything could be.

No one ever knows if a book is good until they read the book.

I picked up this book called Blue Mountain, supposed to be a really good book on the Civil War.

Yoga is not only learning to stand on your head but also learning to stand on your feet.

There's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me.

Sometimes if a script is based on a book, that's what you should do: represent the book.

A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.

There isn't an aspect of book creation I don't enjoy, and there has always been a book in my life to dream about or work on.

I have this book club, and we don't read one book; we offer up a few suggestions and create a library over time.

Learning is not automatic. You do not automatically know how to read because you turn five. Most of us are sensitive to the fact that we still have something to learn at every step of the way. Learning is not automatic. It comes with seeking and searching, with reading and watching, with thinking, praying, and listening.

Of the book of books most wondrous is the tender book of love.

It's important to realize that the series actually grows with the reader. "March: Book One" is a great introduction for kids as young as eight or nine years old. But then they grow with the reader. Book Two is bigger, Book Three is even bigger. And they grow more violent and more confrontational.

Learning to live ought to mean learning to die - to acknowledge, to accept, an absolute mortality - without positive outcome,or resurrection, or redemption, for oneself or for anyone else. That has been the old philosophical injunction since Plato: to be a philosopher is to learn how to die.

I enjoyed reading and learning at school, and at university I enjoyed extending my reading and learning. Once I left Cambridge, I went to Yale as a fellow. I spent two years there. After that, George Gale made me literary editor of 'The Spectator.

Book dedication To myself, without whose inspired and tireless efforts this book would not have been possible.

I enjoyed reading and learning at school, and at university I enjoyed extending my reading and learning. Once I left Cambridge, I went to Yale as a fellow. I spent two years there. After that, George Gale made me literary editor of 'The Spectator.'

Besides my strokes improving, I've gotten a lot more comfortable with the game. The travel's not so tough any more, I'm learning my way around the circuit. I'm learning to cope and I'm having fun. That's the key -- the tennis is fun and I'm really enjoying it.

... The Book is more important than your plans for it. You have to go with what works for The Book - if your ideas appear hollow or forced when they are put on paper, chop them, erase them, pulverise them and start again. Don't whine when things are not going your way, because they are going the right way for The Book, which is more important. The show must go on, and so must The Book.

The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.

It's true that I have spoken about doing a book before, but then everyone you speak to is planning to write a book.

I'm very much a people-pleaser, and with a book out, I had to learn that you can't please everybody with your book.

A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.

After I had my son I looked everywhere for a book that might serve as some kind of mirror. I bought so many silly books. Now I see what the problem was: I wanted a book about time-about mortality. I can't think of a writer who is at once so experimentally daring and so rigorously uncompromising as Sarah Manguso. Ongoingness is an incredibly elegant, wise book, and I loved it.

I used to comfort myself with the idea of a book with serrated, detachable pages, so that you could read the thing the way it came and then shuffle the pages, like a giant deck of cards, and read the book in an entirely different order. It would be a different book, wouldn't it? It would be one of infinite books.

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

A book that furnishes no quotations, is me judice, no book, — it is a plaything.

Let us answer a book of ink with a book of flesh and blood.

I was a book-y child. I was much more book-y than dark.

I like the idea of standalone novels. I always found with series of books, it's something that publishers love obviously because they can make a lot of money and they build an audience from book to book, but I don't like that as a writer. I prefer the idea of just telling a story, completing it within your book, and moving on and not forcing a child to read eight of them.

The Bible, of course, is not a theology book. It is certainly not a philosophy book. So we have to derive the meaning of terms from the context in use.

Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer.

The only book worth writing is the book that threatens to kill you.

If you do not like anything in a particular book, then sit and discuss it. Banning a book is not a solution. We have to tackle it ideologically.

The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.

With the crime novels, it's delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. It's like having a fictitious family.

Supervised learning works so well when you have the right data set, but ultimately unsupervised learning is going to be a really important component in building really intelligent systems - if you look at how humans learn, it's almost entirely unsupervised.

I'm a book girl--I love all the stories the world has to offer. No matter the book, I will taste it and drink it down.

Write your own book instead of reading someone else's book about success

With a book, there's no volume to turn up. You're very naked with a book.

With the crime novels, its delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. Its like having a fictitious family.

Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and it’s a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost in a book. But a book can also be where one finds oneself; and when a reader is grasped and held by a book, reading does not feel like an escape from life so much as it feels like an urgent, crucial dimension of life itself.

There is nothing wrong with a writer who has a distinct style in book after book, but I am not interested in repeating myself.