Thứ Sáu, 3 tháng 4, 2015

12:14 - No comments

Books Quotes 1

So many books, So little time.
A book is a set of written, printed, illustrated, or blank sheets, made of ink, paper, parchment, or other materials, usually fastened together to hinge at one side. A single sheet within a book is called a leaf, and each side of a leaf is called a page. A book produced in electronic format is known as an electronic book (e-book).

Books may also refer to works of literature, or a main division of such a work. In library and information science, a book is called a monograph, to distinguish it from serial periodicals such as magazines, journals or newspapers. The body of all written works including books is literature. In novels and sometimes other types of books (for example, biographies), a book may be divided into several large sections, also called books (Book 1, Book 2, Book 3, and so on). A lover of books is usually referred to as a bibliophile or, more informally, a bookworm — an avid reader of books.

A shop where books are bought and sold is a bookshop or bookstore. Books can also be borrowed from libraries. Google has estimated that as of 2010, approximately 130,000,000 unique titles had been published.Book, Published work of literature or scholarship; the term has been defined by UNESCO for statistical purposes as a “non-periodical printed publication of at least 49 pages excluding covers,” but no strict definition
satisfactorily covers the variety of publications so identified.

The papyrus roll of ancient Egypt is more nearly the direct ancestor of the modern book than is the clay tablet of the ancient Sumerians, Babylonians, Assyrians, and Hittites; examples of both date from about 3000 bc.

  • A room without books is like a body without a soul. ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. ― Jane Austen
  • Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.― Mark Twain
  • I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. ― Jorge Luis Borges
  • I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. ― Groucho Marx
  • Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them. ― Lemony Snicket
  • Classic' - a book which people praise and don't read. ― Mark Twain
  • The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. ― Oscar Wilde
  • Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back. ― John Green
  • There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. ― Joseph Brodsky
  • So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.  ― Roald Dahl
  • Think before you speak. Read before you think. ― Fran Lebowitz
  • Never judge a book by its movie.   ― J.W. Eagan
  • If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. ― Marcus Tullius
  • Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying. ― Humphrey Carpenter
  • Books are the mirrors of the soul. ― Virginia Woolf

0 nhận xét:

Đăng nhận xét

Đăng ký: Đăng Nhận xét (Atom)