Early 2000s, we get Enron, which tells us the books are dirty. And what is our repeated response? We just keep pulling the threads out of the regulatory fabric.
Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.
And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.
I write in a noisy, distracting world so the books can be read there.
Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.
I wanted to give an honest insight into a consuming Tour. It's turned out pretty interesting because there aren't many books out there documenting someone's failure.
A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it.
My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
I mean, I wasn't stupid. I knew we'd make money and sell a lot of Dune books.
Electronic books are junk.
Emerson's fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books he gave to the world.
You can imprison but you can't enslave a man who argues with his books.
One of the lines from my books is about having respect for different minds, and if I had to have an epitaph at this point in my life, that would be it.
New York has been the subject of thousands of books. Every immigrant group has had its saga as has every epoch and social class.
When I was a teenager I was a total romantic escapist. My world was books.
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
I've written a number of books that have to do with the evolution of humans, human intelligence, human emotions.
Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images.
