Top 1200 Book Of Revelation Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I remember the first time I held my book, my first book in my hands. I cannot tell you how it moved me.

The Christian marginality of women has its roots in the patriarchal beginnings of the church and in the androcentrism of Christian revelation.

The ideal of man is to be a revelation himself, clearly to recognize himself as a manifestation of God.

A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.

The Bible contains the revelation of the will of God. It contains the history of the creation of the world, and of mankind.

A beginning idea for a book might be: a boy emerges from a hole in the ground. He enters a house. The book will take place in the first ten minutes following his arrival.

The book of nature is the book of fate. She turns the gigantic pages, leaf after leaf never returning one.

The Bible is a revelation of the mind and will of God to men. Therein we may learn, what God is.

For me, every translation is a new book, with the translator inevitably broadening the meaning of the original book in any translation.

When I write a book, I write a book for myself; the reaction is up to the reader. It's not my business whether people like or dislike it.

I think of a book and a play, or a book and a movie, as two separate things - I don't think of it as my novel having a new life.

I began to feel that if religion was either an illusion or a revelation, it was simpler to accept it as an illusion.

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

As far as I'm concerned, I'm a writer who's writing books, and therefore, I don't want to die. You'd miss the end of the book, wouldn't you? You can't die with an unfinished book.

I like reading Ball Tongue lyrics and all that stuff. And they published a book, and I wouldn't give my lyrics, and it's all wrong in the book, and I giggle. It's funny.

I wanted the light to be the revelation. It has to do with what we value. I want people to treasure light.

Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.

A mom reads you like a book, and wherever she goes, people read you like a glowing book review.

I cheat on my books a lot, which is not a good thing because it's good to stick with one book and get to the end of it, but I'm a book philanderer.

Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws.

My work looks like a comic book in form, but it's not a typical comic book in content. I write autobiographical stuff.

I was lucky in getting my first book published; my first book was 'Bunnicula,' which I wrote with my late wife Debbie, for the fun of it.

I am very bad at remembering the books I've read and so recently I had a wonderful experience. I decided I wanted to teach Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye. I hadn't read it in twenty-five years. I was surprised to find how much I drew from that book. Stole from that book, learned from that book about writing. I had forgotten and there it was. Morrison has called that text faulted. I cannot see how.

She closed the book and put her cheek against it. There was still an odor of a library on it, of dust, leather, binding glue, and old paper, one book carrying the smell of hundreds.

Don't be afraid to fail. I fail every day. I failed thousands of times writing The Book Thief, and that book now means everything to me. I had many doubts and fears about that book, but some of what I feel are the best ideas in it came to me when I was working away for apparently no result. Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through.

When I think of my best days as husband, I find I was doing what Regi said in this book. What Radical Husbands Do is a practical book I can safely give any man who is struggling in his marriage.

I don't write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me.

God's glory is the created brightness that surrounds God’s revelation of himself.

All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.

As far as I'm concerned, I'm a writer who's writing books, and therefore, I don't want to die. You'd miss the end of the book wouldn't you? You can't die with an unfinished book.

I re-read The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter. It's a book every one should read, particularly Americans, as the USA is her primary focus. Her book demonstrates that white is not universal, that white is not neutral, that it has a history, which she eloquently delineates. It's not often you finish a book understanding how the world operates better than before you read it.

Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation

What sells a book sells a book, same in traditional or self-publishing . You gotta shake your tail feathers.

Book ideas are like planes, lined up to approach the runway. Some never leave the gate, but others move quickly to the front of the line. It was like that with The Four Purposes. Honestly, I cannot remember the moment I had the idea for the book; perhaps because it emerged like a green shoot emerging from the soil of my subconscious. But it seemed important enough to begin the flow of words that eventually shaped themselves into this new book.

Christ teaches by the Spirit of wisdom in the heart, opening the understanding to the Spirit of revelation in the word.

The greatest thing about writing a book is that at first it's all inchoate, but the more you work on it, the more the book teaches you its internal rules.

My first book of poems was published privately in 1949. That was my mother. The book was '25 Poems.' It cost 200 dollars.

I predict that this will be the greatest book ever and it will sell more than any other book in history

I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'

If you read, your book is kind of your friend, because it's like the book is telling you its story and you're being the listener.

The curse of comic book adaptations, when I was younger, was that the director or producer would go, "Don't worry about it, it's just a comic book."

You have to surrender to a book. If you do, when something in it seems to be going askew, you are wounded. The more you have surrendered to a book, the more jarring its errors appear.

Creation is a book proclaiming the Creator. It is a book of beauty that our intellect reads, but through the passageways of our five senses.

Any alphabet book for children where 'P is for Patti' Smith and 'X is for the women whose names we don't know' is something I can recommend, especially when the book is as well written, representationa lly diverse and vividly illustrated as this one.

I don't know if I've ever derived such an immediate sense of calm and well-being from any book as I did from 'Right Ho, Jeeves.' It was like I was Pac-Man and the book was a power-up.

In a badly designed book, the letters mill and stand like starving horses in a field. In a book designed by rote, they sit like stale bread and mutton on the page. In a well-made book, where designer, compositor and printer have all done their jobs, no matter how many thousands of lines and pages, the letters are alive. They dance in their seats. Sometimes they rise and dance in the margins and aisles.

I think every book is a reaction to everything you're written before, and most immediately to the book you wrote just before.

I'd much rather have a book that a few people love intensely than a book that a lot of people like okay.

I really strive to bring something new to each book. I don't want to write the same book over and over again.

...every study of the gods, of everyone's gods, is a revelation of vengeance towards the innocent.

To be honest, I wrote so many drafts of this book [ The Nightingale ] and changed the characters so many times; the real surprise is that I finished the book at all.

Is the prestige conferred by the Man Booker prize for the book or me? I would prefer it on the book and for me to be treated ordinarily.

When me and my sister were toddlers, it was 'The Jungle Book' literally every day. If it was lunchtime, it was 'Jungle Book' time.

For most people, what is so painful about reading is that you read something and you don't have anybody to share it with. In part what the book club opens up is that people can read a book and then have someone else to talk about it with. Then they see that a book can lead to the pleasure of conversation, that the solitary act of reading can actually be a part of the path to communion and community.

The funniest book I've ever had read to me is 'I, Partridge.' It's a brilliantly written book, but it's the greatest audiobook there has ever been.

'Catcher In The Rye' was my favorite book, honestly. I read it when I was thirteen, and the book was a bit of a family heirloom because it was passed down from my grandfather to my father to my older brother and then to me.

My only goal is to be the best actress I can be. You have to give it everything. All I have as an actress is the revelation of my soul.

I see the world as voices, as colors, as it were. From book to book, I change, the subjects change, but the narrative thread remains the same.

Evil deeds are the fruit of an evil heart. They are not an aberration from our true self but a revelation of it.

I was a massive Tolkien fan. 'The Hobbit' was... my favorite book as a little girl, and the Silvan Elves were my favorite characters in the book.