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"Eaten any good books lately?"
-- Q, to Worf (Deja-Q)
"There are things that I refuse to deal with except through my music... because I don't trust humanity that much, and I don't know if I trust me that much. But I trust the songs."
-- Tori Amos (CD Booklet)
"People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases."
-- Mark Twain
"Never judge a book by its movie."
-- J.W. Eagan
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
-- Mark Twain
A GUI is to a command-line as a TV is to a book.
-- Scott Hess
"Any synopsis of a good book is a stupid synopsis."
-- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Why serial commas are important: "I dedicate this book to my parents, Ayn Rand and God."
"A book should serve as an axe to the ice inside us."
-- Franz Kafka
Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.
-- John LeCarre
Stay away from needle drugs. Richard Nixon is the only dope worth shooting.
-- Abbie Hoffman ("Steal this Book")
"Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all."
-- Henry David Thoreau
Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by somebody I do not know.
-- John Keats
"Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends."
-- S. Weir Mitchell
I had a deprived childhood, you see. I had lots of other kids to play with and my parents bought me outdoor toys and refused to ill-treat me, so it never occurred to me to seek solitary consolation with a good book.
-- Terry Pratchett
"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
-- Groucho Marx
If I heeded all the advice I've had over the years, I'ld have written 18 books about Rincewind.
-- Terry Pratchett (alt.fan.pratchett)
"Even the AI hated [my book]?"
"The AI loved it. That's when we knew for sure that people were going to hate it."
-- Dan Simmons (Hyperion)