Top 1200 Power Of Now Book Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

A novel should be a book of questions, not a book of answers.

I'd love to write a book called 'How to Raise a Virgin.' Seriously, I think a book about that would sell.

I've always been a chameleon from book to book, like a director who does different films in the best possible way.

To every man who struggles with his own soul in mystery, a book that is a book flowers once, and seeds, and is gone.

No book, no matter how good, has a chance of reaching a large audience unless the publisher SEES the book's value.

It's such a unique story. Book of Joshua in the Bible wasn't always my favorite book, by the way. Only some ago did I realize that this book covers a seven-year period in the history of ancient Israel in which they literally went undefeated.They did have one setback, but outside of that, they defeated over 30 kings. They recaptured the Promised Land. They did what their ancestors said they could not.

The first comic I can remember ever reading was a 'Fantastic Four' issue that my dad bought out of the drugstore once. The thing that struck me about it was that the ending wasn't an ending. It was essentially a cliffhanger. It was the first time I had ever read anything like that, where you read a book, but the book isn't the book.

I don't know where I got the idea for 'The Great Thumbprint Drawing Book'; I just told my brain to think of a book, and it did.

JK Rowling created seven Horcruxes. She put a part of her soul in every book and now her books will live forever

It gives me a very keen satisfaction that, after listening to my blather all those years, former students are now seeing that I wrote a book, that I did have it in me.

Al-Qur'an is not a book of Science, ‘S-C-I-E-N-C-E’ but a book of Signs ‘S-I-G-N-S

A classic is the term given to any book which comes to represent the whole universe, a book on a par with ancient talismans.

Bonkers doesn't go by the book-he doesn't even know there is a book.

I think Hemingway's [book] titles should be awarded first prize in any contest. Each of them is a poem, and their mysterious power over readers contributes to Hemingway's success. His titles have a life of their own, and they have enriched the American vocabulary.

On holidays, I spent time alone at home watching a movie, reading a book, and contemplating. Now that I think about it, if I hadn't had that time, I probably wouldn't have been able to do acting.

A book is a journey: It's a thing you agree to go on with somebody, and I think every reader's experience of a book is going to be different.

I see my work as a continuum, moving from book to book.

It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.

We think of politics in terms of power and who has the power. Politics is the end to which that power is put.

We have adopted the convenient theory that the Bible is a Book to be explained, whereas first and foremost it is a Book to be believed (and after that to be obeyed.)

You are only as good as your last book, and so there has to be a book.

I'm very much afraid I didn't mean anything but nonsense. Still, you know, words mean more than we mean to express when we use them; so a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than the writer means. So, whatever good meanings are in the book, I'm glad to accept as the meaning of the book.

Every filmmaker knows that when you make a book into a movie, the first thing you have to do is kill the book, unfortunately. You've got to recreate it.

I hadn't had a book in my hands for four months, and the mere idea of a book where I could see words printed one after another, lines, pages, leaves, a book in which I could pursue new, different, fresh thoughts to divert me, could take them into my brain, had something both intoxicating and stupefying about it.

No book that is written for an external purpose is going to be a passionately felt book for the writer or the reader. I don't see the point in doing that.

In my case, I made the decision early on that I was going to be very open about the book and claim upfront that each of the stories was based on my life experience. I think my reasoning goes back to what I was saying earlier, about wanting the book to be "more than a book," that I wanted the reader to feel a little unsettled about what they were reading: there's a core of factual truth here.

If you don't write the book, the book ain't gonna get written.

A book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf - at any rate it is safer from criticism.

I really don't know but I would quote for a book from JACQUELINE WILSON which is a very interesting book of her childhood.

The kind of power I want is the power to persuade. But I do not want the power to tell other people what to do.

'Fault' became the book everybody and their mother had to read, and 'Paper Towns' is one that's beloved, but it's a bit of a smaller book.

When I pick up a book that's, you know, wreathed in laurels, I expect a lot, and that doesn't give the book its best chance to shine.

Every book is a children's book if the kid can read!

In seventh grade...I found a place on the [library]shelf where my book would be if I ever wrote a book, which I doubted.

The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, "Oh, the book is better."

I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

Don't judge a book by its cover 'til you've read the book.

When I have a book I enjoy, I'm partly in the book. I'm not just observing it.

The biogeographic evidence for evolution is now so powerful that I have never seen a creationist book, article, or lecture that has tried to refute it. Creationists simply pretend that the evidence doesn't exist.

I always feel that the book I'm working on is my last book.

The prosperity of a book lies in the minds of readers. Public knowledge and public taste fluctuate; and there come times when works which were once capable of instructing and delighting thousands lose their power, and works, before neglected, emerge into renown.

To discuss a Martin Amis book, you must first discuss the orchestrated release of a Martin Amis book. In London, which rightly prides itself on the vibrancy of its literary cottage industry, Amis is the Steve Jobs of book promoters, and his product rollouts are as carefully managed as anything Apple dreams up.

Hillary Clinton has finished writing her book where she says her marriage couldn't be stronger, and Bill just finished his book titled 'Chicks I Nailed While Hillary was Writing Her Book.'

I may discuss contemporary cinema, how to shop at a mall without losing energy, how to use the power of mind to increase career and academic success, the Zen of sports, reincarnation, karma, sex, the experience of "suchness" or a new book by Stephen King.

What art can paint or gild any object in after life with the glow which nature gives to the first baubles of childhood? St. Peter's cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed.

I really knew how to speak - from my female voice, that "different voice" that Carol Gilligan so presciently described many years ago in her groundbreaking book. Because if we try to speak in a voice that isn't ours, we lose our power.

There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.

I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.

Meditation gives you personal power. You will notice that people will treat you differently as you progress because they can feel that power. Use that power wisely. If you search your heart, I think you will.

Often the grind of book promotion wearies you of your own book - though at the same time this frees you from its clutches.

You create your future with the power of your intention. Intention is simply the conscious act of determining your future now. Health, harmony in relationships, happiness, money, creativity, and love will come to you in the future, based on your intentions now. Intend every day and create your future life.

I look at every book as a self-help book.

I found a book in my elementary school library when I was ten called 'All about You' which was a book on the human body. I was hooked.

How long a book tends to illustrate depends on the book. The Awful Aunty took me 10 days.

Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power; but they will never look to anything but power for their relief.

Book depository is nothing new; there've been outlets selling books internationally via mail order for many decades - the only change is that it's now easier to find and use such services.

If you're going to buy a real book, a paper book, there better be a good reason. Perhaps scarcity is one of those reasons.

BlogHer is an incredibly important conference because it really taps into the power of women. It gives women an ability to do what they do - take care of the home, go to work - and, at the same time, spread their power through the power of the digital world.

I wrote a book, and I just love it when people come up to me and say, 'I read your book and loved it.'

I have a Guinness Book of World Records entry as the most-watched person on television; now I have a new entry as the only man who has a crab named after him.