Page Quotes

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire. (George Sand)
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
As long as my face is on page one, I don't care what they say about me on page seventeen. View quote
Mick Jagger
I always turn to the sports section first. The sports section records people's accomplishments; the front page nothing but man's failures. View quote
Earl Warren
For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain [and] the noise of battle. [It] has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty. View quote
John Cheever
A page of history is worth a pound of logic. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history. View quote
William Hazlitt
I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted. View quote
Jack Kerouac
I've been killing characters my entire career, maybe I'm just a bloody minded bastard, I don't know, [but] when my characters are in danger, I want you to be afraid to turn the page (and to do that) you need to show right from the beginning that you're playing for keeps. View quote
George R. R. Martin
Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book. View quote
Mickey Spillane
In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum. (Michel de Montaigne)
Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page. View quote
Terry Pratchett
I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right. View quote
Billy Graham
Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one more page. View quote
Sidney Sheldon
When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web... Now even my cat has its own page. View quote
Bill Clinton
One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music. View quote
Stephen Sondheim
Memory is like a dog that lies down where it pleases. (Page 1) View quote
Cees Nooteboom
Ho, pretty page, with the dimpled chin That never has known the barbers shear, All your wish is woman to win, This is the way that boys begin. Wait till you come to Forty Year. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done. View quote
Steven Wright
Writing the last page of the first draft is the most enjoyable moment in writing. It's one of the most enjoyable moments in life, period. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page, where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin. (Richard Brinsley Sheridan)
A book is like a man clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun. View quote
John Steinbeck
Children of the future AgeReading this indignant page,Know that in a former timeLove sweet Love was thought a crime. View quote
William Blake
When the modern scholar cites from a classic text, the quotation seems to burn a hole in his own drab page. View quote
George Steiner
Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network. View quote
Tim Berners-Lee