Top 258 Chapters Quotes & Sayings

Rennie didn't quite dare to answer back, but she looked a whole book and a couple of extra chapters.

Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?

If you can stand to wait 24 hours before you decide the fate of what you have written - either good or bad - you're more likely to see that invisible thing that is invisible for the first few days in any new writing. We just can't know what all is in a sentence until there are several sentences to follow it. Pages of writing need more pages in order to be known, chapters need more chapters.

Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

The best chapters in our economic history are those that embrace the many, not the few.

Life is like a book. There are good chapters, and there are bad chapters. But when you get to a bad chapter, you don’t stop reading the book! If you do… then you never get to find out what happens next!

For 'Chapters', I decided to let go of my insecurities, found myself some talented R&B producers, and worked with them.

Some people like to read so many [Bible] chapters every day. I would not dissuade them from the practice, but I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses all day than rinse my hand in several chapters. Oh, to be bathed in a text of Scripture, and to let it be sucked up in your very soul, till it saturates your heart!

I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses [of the Bible] all day than rinse my hand in several chapters.

I suppose the short chapters and differing narrative points of view are quite "cinematic" devices, which came very naturally to me.

In a crime novel, if you are going to have a big revelation in chapter 30, you have to plant the information in chapters three and 11.

We have many dreams and many different chapters in life and I think life is about chapters. For me, from the time I was pretty young, I always thought that if I was lucky enough to achieve my dreams and if I had financial security, at a certain point in my life I wanted to give back. I wanted, just corny as it sounds, to try and make the world a better place.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

All the movies that I make in some ways have to be the story of my life. There are different chapters in my life.

I love creating individual short stories within chapters, but I want to get better at building consistent narratives from start to finish.

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

To see the faces and hear the voices of victims of the Holocaust - one of the darkest chapters in history - was an experience I will never forget.

I do a lot of revising. Certain chapters six or seven times. Occasionally you can hit it right the first time. More often, you don't.

This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open.

Albums are chapters. They're part of a story.

I know a girl made of memories and phrases, lives her whole life in chapters and phases.

When a colleague of mine had a notable New York Times book, I said, turn one of the chapters in the collection into a pitch for a novel and sell it to your publisher.

There are something like 300 anti-genocide chapters on college campuses around the country. It's bigger than the anti-apartheid movement. There are something like 500 high school chapters devoted to stopping the genocide in Darfur. Evangelicals have joined it. Jewish groups have joined it.

For me, the favourite chapters have always been the last chapters in the books. I knew exactly how each book would end - and how the first chapter of the following book would begin. I knew I wanted to leave the readers with answers - and a bunch of new questions!

Lots of kids, including my son, have trouble making the leap from reading words or a few sentences in picture books to chapter books. Chapters are often long... 10 pages can seem like a lifetime to a young reader. Then reading becomes laborious and serious. That's why some of the chapters in my books are very short.

Titles are important; I have them before I have books that belong to them. I have last chapters in my mind before I see first chapters, too. I usually begin with endings, with a sense of aftermath, of dust settling, of epilogue.

I've always been taught that life is a series of chapters, and it's all about moving forward and not carrying around baggage.

If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.

My life's a book; I've got a bunch of different chapters.

I know what I want to achieve in each book and the major points, but I don't plan right down to the chapters. I think that the characters write themselves in some degree.

I posted chapters online and let people give feedback, and I was surprised at how much of that feedback I actually used for the book.I posted chapters online and let people give feedback, and I was surprised at how much of that feedback I actually used for the book. It was a different process for me, but I liked it.

I don't think it would be very difficult for me to open the chapters of my life because there isn't much there.

God tests and proves us by the common occurrences of life. It is the little things which reveal the chapters of the heart.

Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

...how odd to think of one's life not as chapters in a book but as complete volumes, separate and distinct.

I think it's extremely important to think of your company as a series of chapters.

Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won't have a title until much later.

No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done.

I've read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of 'You Can't Go Home Again' and 'Look Homeward, Angel.'

National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.

As a competitor, I want to continue to keep turning the chapters and keep challenging myself.

I wanted to make sure the last chapters of my life were full, and painting, it turns out, has helped occupy not only space but opened my mind.

Life is like a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself.

There is no devil in the first two chapters of the Bible and no devil in the last two chapters. Thank God for a book that disposes of the devil!

London opens to you like a novel itself. [...] It is divided into chapters, the chapters into scenes, the scenes into sentences; it opens to you like a series of rooms, door, passsage, door. Mayfair to Piccadilly to Soho to the Strand.

If you stop to think about it, you’ll have to admit that all the stories in the world consist essentially of twenty-six letters. The letters are always the same, only the arrangement varies. From letters words are formed, from words sentences, from sentences chapters, and from chapters stories.

Critics who do the weekly recap, I find that kind of absurd. That's like reviewing chapters in a novel.

Perhaps it’s time, I muse, to close those chapters and remember the enduring lesson of my entrapment: that relationships, not accomplishments, are what’s important in life.

I chart a little first-list of names, rough synopsis of chapters, and so on. But one daren't overplan; so many things are generated by the sheer act of writing.

Life doesn't happen in chapters - at least, not regular ones.

As I get ready to buy a new computer, I'm stunned at all the many micro drafts, of different chapters and scenes and whatnot, that litter the hard drive.

In the initial season of a show, you're figuring out your character and their life and their background and you're putting together all the chapters of the book.

We can write the new chapters in a visual language whose prose and poetry will need no translation.

Google is fascinating, and the book isn't finished. I'm creating, living, building, and writing those chapters.

...there were certain chapters when I stopped writing, saw the domestic situation I was in and thought, "I don't want to face this world, let's get back to the hellish one I'm imagining.

We have the Annunciation, the Conception, the Birth and the Adoration, as described in the first and second chapters of Luke's gospel; and as we have historical assurance that the chapters in Matthew's gospel which contain the miraculous birth are an after addition not in the earliest manuscripts, it seems probable that these two poetical chapters in Luke may also be unhistorical, and borrowed from the Egyptian accounts of the miraculous births of their kings.

I have made it a practice for several years to read the Bible through in the course of every year. I usually devote to this reading the first hour after I rise every morning. As, including the Apocrypha, it contains about fourteen hundred chapters, and as I meet with occasional interruptions, when this reading is for single days, and sometimes for weeks, or even months, suspended, my rule is to read five chapters every morning, which leaves an allowance of about one-forth of the time for such interruptions.

The first two chapters of any first draft generally need to be cut.

Lord Grantham: ‘My dear fellow. We all have chapters we would rather keep unpublished.

I did teach elementary school for quite a while, and so I didn't have to reach too far back for the titles and authors that populate the early chapters 'of The Borrower.'