„I've always said that Watership Down is not a book for children. I say: it's a book, and anyone who wants to read it can read it.“
— Richard Adams English novelist best known as the author of Watership Down 1920 - 2016
„Often the boy was overwhelmed by an uncontrollable yearning to write down in books everything he saw, despite what anyone said—two hundred books as thick as the Book of Sermons, whole Bibles, whole chests full of books.“
Heimsljós (World Light) (1940), Book One: The Revelation of the Deity
Halldór Laxness1
1902 - 1998Citações relacionadas
„It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a whole book — what everyone else does not say in a whole book.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche, livro Twilight of the Idols
Things the Germans Lack, 51
Twilight of the Idols (1888)
„College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.“
— John Cage American avant-garde composer 1912 - 1992
Fonte: M: Writings '67-'72
„When mauma saw my raw eyes, she said, “Ain’t nobody can write down in a book what you worth.“
— Sue Monk Kidd Novelist 1948
Fonte: The Invention of Wings
„To me, the Bible is a book. Important, no doubt, but a book.“
— José Saramago Portuguese writer and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature 1922 - 2010
Interview to the newspaper "O Globo", 2009.
„The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of morals, and a book of religion, of especial revelation from God.“
— Daniel Webster Leading American senator and statesman. January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852. Served as the Secretary of State for three… 1782 - 1852
Fonte: On the Completion of the Bunker Hill Monument (1843), p. 102
„The English Bible,—a book which if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.“
— Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay British historian and Whig politician 1800 - 1859
On John Dryden (1828)
„It is not simply a theological treatise, a code of laws, a religious homily, but the Bible — the book — while the only book for the soul, the best book for the mind.“
— Herrick Johnson American clergyman 1832 - 1913
Fonte: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 29.
„A book,
a book full
of human touches,
of shirts,
a book
without loneliness, with men
and tools,
a book
is victory.“
— Pablo Neruda Chilean poet 1904 - 1973
Fonte: Odes to Common Things
„The best data we have are exactly what I would have predicted, had I nothing to go on but the five books of Moses, the Psalms, the Bible as a whole.“
— Arno Allan Penzias American physicist 1933
New York Times, March 12, 1978, as cited in Bergman 1994, 183.
„All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time.“
— John Ruskin English writer and art critic 1819 - 1900
Fonte: Sesame and Lilies
„The whole book is my own, and every sentiment and sentence in it.“
— Davy Crockett American politician 1786 - 1836
Preface (1 February 1834)
Contexto: I don't know of any thing in my book to be criticised on by honourable men. Is it on my spelling? — that's not my trade. Is it on my grammar? — I hadn't time to learn it, and make no pretensions to it. Is it on the order and arrangement of my book? — I never wrote one before, and never read very many; and, of course, know mighty little about that. Will it be on the authorship of the book? — this I claim, and I hang on to it, like a wax plaster. The whole book is my own, and every sentiment and sentence in it. I would not be such a fool, or knave either, as to deny that I have had it hastily run over by a friend or so, and that some little alterations have been made in the spelling and grammar; and I am not so sure that it is not the worse of even that, for I despise this way of spelling contrary to nature. And as for grammar, it's pretty much a thing of nothing at last, after all the fuss that's made about it. In some places, I wouldn't suffer either the spelling, or grammar, or any thing else to be touch'd; and therefore it will be found in my own way.
But if any body complains that I have had it looked over, I can only say to him, her, or them — as the case may he — that while critics were learning grammar, and learning to spell, I, and "Doctor Jackson, L. L. D." were fighting in the wars; and if our hooks, and messages, and proclamations, and cabinet writings, and so forth, and so on, should need a little looking over, and a little correcting of the spelling and the grammar to make them fit for use, its just nobody's business. Big men have more important matters to attend to than crossing their ts—, and dotting their is—, and such like small things.
„This lesson is the principal object of the whole Book of Job“
— Maimónides, livro The Guide for the Perplexed
Fonte: Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190), Part III, Ch.23
Contexto: As there is a difference between works of nature and productions of human handicraft, so there is a difference between God's rule, providence, and intention in reference to all natural forces, and our rule, providence, and intention in reference to things which are the objects of our rule, providence, and intention. This lesson is the principal object of the whole Book of Job; it lays down this principle of faith, and recommends us to derive a proof from nature, that we should not fall into the error of imagining His knowledge to be similar to ours, or His intention, providence, and rule similar to ours. When we know this, we shall find everything that may befall us easy to bear; mishap will create no doubts in our hearts concerning God, whether He knows our affairs or not, whether He provides for us or abandons us. On the contrary, our fate will increase our love of God; as is said in the end of this prophecy: "Therefore I abhor myself and repent concerning the dust and ashes" (xlii. 6); and as our Sages say: "The pious do everything out of love, and rejoice in their own afflictions." If you pay to my words the attention which this treatise demands, and examine all that is said in the Book of Job, all will be clear to you, and you will find that I have grasped and taken hold of the whole subject; nothing has been left unnoticed, except such portions as are only introduced because of the context and the whole plan of the allegory. I have explained this method several times in the course of this treatise.
„The Book of History is the Bible of Irony.“
— George Saintsbury British literary critic 1845 - 1933
George Saintsbury: The Memorial Volume (London: Methuen, 1946) p. 120.
„My chest of books divide amongst my friends.“
— John Keats English Romantic poet 1795 - 1821
Keats' last poem which doubled as his last will and testament
„A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another.“
— Rebecca Solnit, livro The Faraway Nearby
Fonte: The Faraway Nearby
