Dandapani Books Quotes

Books give a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything. ~ Plato

As a child, I wanted only two things - to be left alone to read my library books, and to get away from my provincial hometown and go to London to be a writer. And I always knew that when I got there, I wanted to make loads of money. ~ Julie Burchill

Books, purchasable at low cost, permit us to interrogate the past with high accuracy; to tap the wisdom of our species; to understand the point of view of others, and not just those in power; to contemplate
with the best teachers
the insights, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, drawn from the entire planet and from all of our history. They allow people long dead to talk inside our heads. Books can accompany us everywhere. Books are patient where we are slow to understand, allow us to go over the hard parts as many times as we wish, and are never critical of our lapses. Books are key to understanding the world and participating in a democratic society. ~ Carl Sagan

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read ~ Thomas Babington Macaulay

Why does everyone think a girl who prefers books to people must be in want of a life?
J ~ Lauren Morrill

I never wanted to be famous and the only part I like is that it means people are reading my books and listening to me on TV and radio. ~ Ann Coulter

How in hell did those bombers get up there every single second of our lives! Why doesn't someone want to talk about it! We've started and won two atomic wars since 2022! Is it because we're having so much fun at home we've forgotten the world? Is it because we're so rich and the rest of the world's so poor and we just don't care if they are? I've heard rumors; the world is starving, but we're well fed. Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much? I've heard the rumors about hate too, once in a long while, over the years. Do you know why? I don't, that's sure! Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damn insane mistakes! ~ Ray Bradbury

I had no idea I'd end up writing four books when I completed 'Mortal Engines.' I didn't even think it would find a publisher. ~ Philip Reeve

I grew up in a small town in India, but through books I knew the world. ~ Mira Nair

I imagine that no art has ever been learned from books. fly-fishing is no exception. ~ G. E. M. Skues

My personal history would not be disappointing to readers, but it is my own affair which I want to keep to myself. I am in fact in no way more important than is the typesetter for my books, the man who works the mill; no more important than the man who binds my books and the woman who wraps them and the scrubwoman who cleans up the office. ~ B. Traven

Can there be enough books to answer all your questions? ~ Jack White

What books didn't influence me? If only someone would ask that! I've been waiting for years to answer it. Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand, I will say, had absolutely no influence on me except to cause hours of incredulous boredom. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin

Remember The Poem ... ~ R.M. Engelhardt

Every reader has found charms by which to secure possession of a page that, by magic, becomes as if never read before, fresh and immaculate. ~ Alberto Manguel

Good books teach you about others;
great books teach you about yourself. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

But what did it mean to find me, a slave, dreaming about those books? ~ Ta-Nehisi Coates

An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterward, when we arrive atthe precise sense of the author. I think nothing is of any value in books, excepting the transcendental and extraordinary. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I discovered books and read forever ~ John Adams

Books are like treasure to me
Bre ~ Bre

Books in towering stacks lean against the fireplace and on small end tables, and crowd the bookshelves so tightly I fear the entire structure will burst in an explosion of paper and dust. They're the large books too, great archaic things that look so old, so fragile, that I worry I might disintegrate them just by breathing too hard. ~ Sara Raasch

I think that's not a question that one can answer accurately. I read a whole range of books, quite a lot of history at the time, and still do read a lot. I read very widely. ~ John Hume

With books at least, the best experiences are not when you find what you were looking for, but when something quite different finds you, takes you by surprise, shifts your tastes to new territory. ~ Tim Parks

Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves. ~ Lloyd Alexander

He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all ~ William Osler

I ran the Iditarod twice. I finished once. I came in 42nd or 43rd place out of 70 plus teams the first time, and I scratched 80 miles from Nome the second time. You can read about my experience in the race in my books 'Woodsong' and 'Winterdance.' ~ Gary Paulsen

Fine buildings, fine pictures and books and everything that is beautiful are certainly signs of civilization. But an even better sign is a fine man who is unselfish and works with others for the good of all. To work together is better than to work singly, and to work together for the common good is best of all. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru

When a woman enters my house, a tunnel of books welcomes her, a carnival of heroes bounces from every corner, and I lead her straight through the welcoming applause of writers and mice. ~ Rawi Hage

Each of them is a book through which other books dream. (referring to Nodier's SMARRA and TRILBY) ~ John Clute

Angela Carter's fiction blew me away and really instilled a passion for writing, bolstered by Vladimir Nabokov. But in general, I can't point to any one thing. I just always loved books and writing. ~ Jeff VanderMeer

I should tell you that many people think that authors just cut and paste from real life into books. It doesn't work quite that way. ~ Paul Fleischman

A great book is one, which really don't finish when it finishes. ~ Aman Jassal

We all act as independent learners in charge of designing our autodidactic curricula. Reading the books written by the prophetic genius of history including the literary masterpieces and philosophical treatises awakens the mind. Reading can act as a gateway drug leading to writing and expansion of a personal state of conscious awareness. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster

I read more books for research purposes, whether it's a fictionalized biography of Johannes Gutenberg or a stack of urban fantasies. ~ Jim C. Hines

We are indebted to the Book of books (Bible) for our national ideals and institution. Their preservation rests in adhering to it's precepts. ~ Herbert Hoover

Speaking of, Kellan texted me yesterday, while I was in Annar: So. Today, I didn't see you at school. In class. In History, even.

I'd been amazed to discover that apparently my cell phone coverage included Annar.

Lyons, Heather (2012-08-25). A Matter of Fate (Fate Series Book 1) (p. 118). Cerulean Books. Kindle Edition. ~ Heather Lyons

"Librarians and teachers saved me and my mind. Huck showed me it wasn't only me, but Tom is who I wished I was."
- April (does feral sometimes) Gavey ~ April (does Feral Sometimes) Gavey