Top 1200 Paradise Lost Book 2 Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Perhaps no other book has been denounced so vigorously by those who have never read it as has the Book of Mormon.

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

There's more than one way to get to the goal that you want to get to, but once you compromise your own principles, then you're lost. You're really lost.

I always travel with one book. I'll read it and then leave it for someone else, and take another book.

Insofar as there is an anxiety of influence for a biographer, it may be that each new book is undertaken in reaction to the previous book.

He was lost out there. He was the lost Mohegan.

The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies.

You're not lost, Kaylee. You can't ever be lost, because I'll always know where you are. And if I'm not there with you, I'm on my way, and nothing standing between us will be standing for very long.

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

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

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

I've worked with some people and they turn, they become that image on TV and they're lost in it, lost in who they are. It scares me. I want to stay me, preserve my soul.

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

One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.

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

Why not write a book which is as sophisticated as a book for an adult, but is about the concerns that teenagers actually have?

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

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

And in the end, I lost him. I did it on purpose, the way Garance lost Baptiste in the crowd. I needed to be alone, I felt. I wanted to be going on alone to my future.

When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature.

How strange that some people cannot believe in both the Book of Nature and the Book of God.

No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves.

We seem to have lost. We have not lost. To refuse to fight would have been to lose; to fight is to win. We have kept faith with the past, and handed on a tradition to the future.

Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family; a book of condensed thought and striking anecdote, of sound maxims and truthful apothegms. It will impress on your own mind a thousand valuable suggestions, and teach your children a thousand lessons of truth and duty. Such a book is a casket of jewels for your housebold.

Lost really has two disparate meanings. Losing things is about the familiar falling away, getting lost is about the unfamiliar appearing.

I'm a 'Lost' guy, I love 'Lost.

Sometimes literary critics review the book they wanted you to write, not the book you wrote, and that's very irksome.

Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book.

I think you can't repeat beats. If you're doing something in one book, you can't do the exact same thing in another book.

I have lost everything, Han thought. Then he corrected himself. Every time I think I’ve lost everything, I find there’s still something else to lose.

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.

I personally can't think of anything less sacrosanct than a bad book or even a mediocre book.

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

Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.

To have the translator be a figure in the book's presentation seems like a big thing, especially for a book that's really popular.

The public has lost faith in the ability of Social Security and Medicare to provide for old age. They've lost faith in the banking system and in conventional medical insurance.

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

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

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.

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

The important thing is that man is lost in time, in the moment that immediately precedes him - which only attests, by reflection, to the fact that he is lost in the moment that follows

Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days... What you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it.

Gertrude Stein did us the most harm when she said, 'You're all a lost generation.' That got around to certain people and we all said, 'Whee! We're lost.

All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book before the membrane of the last one has had time to close behind you? You leave the previous book with ideas and themes -- characters even -- caught in the fibers of your clothes, and when you open the new book, they are still with you.

Comic book characters are characters who wear costumes. They're not necessarily different than other characters. The trend I think that you're seeing are comic book movies, at least the ones that Marvel makes, don't have comic book stories. They have dramatic human stories.

I had written a book. For various reasons, the publishing industry had decided that my book was going to be 'important.' The novel had taken me 12-and-a-half years to write, and after being with the book for so long, I had no real perspective on the merits or demerits of what I had written. I hoped it was good, but feared that it wasn't.

The book tour is a strange institution. You are wheeled about to explain your book and even to justify it.

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

I think any woman who has lost a child and certainly lost more than one child, there's going to be a part of them that they keep closed off forever.

When a goat likes a book, the whole book is gone, and the meaning has to go find an author again.

I got lost one time for a couple hours. It was pretty bad. I got lost in a creek, and I couldn't find my way back. The cops even had to come.

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

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'm always frustrated when somebody makes a movie out of a book and they leave the book behind, or the heart of it.

You are all a lost generation," Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go home. Ours was the generation that stayed up all night.

I'm a 'Lost' guy, I love 'Lost.'

I know that I have a lot of friends who are envious of me. But if there is something to be gained, obviously something else has to be lost, right? Lately I miss the things I’ve lost.

Not only had he lost the only girl he'd ever loved, he'd lost her in duplicate, like some heartbroken but highly efficient civil servant.

No one should ever finish a book they're not enjoying, no matter how popular or well reviewed the book is.

The middle path makes me wary. . . . But in the middle of my life, I am coming to see the middle path as a walk with wisdom where conversations of complexity can be found, that the middle path is the path of movement. . . . In the right and left worlds, the stories are largely set. . . . We become missionaries for a position . . . practitioners of the missionary position. Variety is lost. Diversity is lost. Creativity is lost in our inability to make love with the world.