Chapter Quotes - page 2

There is no exercise of the intellect which is not, in the final analysis, useless. A philosophical doctrine begins as a plausible description of the universe; with the passage of the years it becomes a mere chapter - if not a paragraph or a name - in the history of philosophy. (Jorge Luis Borges)
All their life in this world and all their adventures had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before. View quote
C. S. Lewis
I thought I could never write a proper book; I'd never done it before. But I thought I could write a sequence. Then I had a chapter. The next thing I knew I was turning acting down. View quote
Tana French
I further value this gift as it gave me an opportunity to accept this distinguished honor in a country so devoted to this cause and whose history marks a wonderful chapter in world development. View quote
Frank B. Kellogg
I gotta be honest with you... I hate numbers. I hate chapter numbers. I hate them. View quote
Garth Stein
Stories took twists and turns down fairy-tale paths or down very human everyday ones. You think you're at the end of the book, and it's only the end of a chapter. View quote
Deb Caletti
If I'm writing and a chapter isn't coming, I just move ahead. View quote
James Patterson
And that's how I start myself. I usually go back a couple of pages, maybe to the beginning of the chapter, and I start reading. And as I'm reading, I'm tweaking - putting in a different word, changing the syntax, putting that clause over there, you know that sort of thing. View quote
Jean M. Auel
The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of it and sent it out and only one publisher recognized it. View quote
Jim Harrison
The beginning of a book is always the hardest part for me. I'm a Chapter 3 kind of writer, which means I naturally start at Chapter 3. View quote
Kami Garcia
Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest. (Karin Slaughter)
It is never quite safe to think we have done with life. When we imagine we have finished our story fate has a trick of turning the page and showing us yet another chapter. View quote
Lucy Maud Montgomery
He will be beginning a brand new chapter in the Michael Jackson legend. View quote
LaToya Jackson
In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places I thought were funny - an experience I've never had in America! View quote
Poppy Z. Brite
It's very inconvenient because every time I finish, let's say, a chapter of a book, I think I'm going to ring Richard and then realize: Oh, Christ, I've buried him. I buried him last year. View quote
Peter O'Toole
Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along. View quote
Harry Stack Sullivan
It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so. I admire you, beloved, for the trap you've set. It's like a final chapter no one reads because the plot is over. View quote
Frank O'Hara
I was writing a chapter of Beautiful Evidence on the subject of the sculptural pedestal, which led to my thinking about what's up on the pedestal - the great leader. View quote
Edward R. Tufte
I am reaching a point in my life where the basketball chapter in my life is slowly closing from a competition standpoint. View quote
Alonzo Mourning
Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose. View quote
Beverley Nichols
When faced with a challenge, happy families, like happy people, just add a new chapter to their life story that shows them overcoming the hardship. This skill is particularly important for children, whose identity tends to get locked in during adolescence. (Bruce Feiler)
When I was elected, I was the youngest member of the Tennessee congressional delegation; now, I'm one of the oldest. In fact, I have members of my staff who weren't even born when I took office. That tells me it's time for a new chapter. View quote
Bart Gordon
I don't take relationships too seriously, but everyone else seems to. And when you get your heart broken, it's like the end of the world. And I look at it as that was one moment in your life, one chapter. That person helped you grow and figure out what kind of person you want to be with in the future. View quote
Colbie Caillat
In the last few years, losing my father, going through a divorce and not getting some jobs I really wanted, is making me a much more interesting person, I think. This all really does feel like a rebirth, a new chapter. View quote
John Stamos
Time to open up a new chapter in life, and to explore a larger centre. View quote
Lillian Russell