The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is a wholly remarkable book. Perhaps the most remarkable, certainly the most successful book, ever to come out of the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy 2005 starring Martin Freeman & Sam Rockwell & Mos Def & Zooey Deschanel & Bill Nighy & Warwick Davis & Anna Chanccellor & John Malkovich & Kelly Macdonald et al, director Garth Jennings, commentary
I’ve never read ... a book. Red Dwarf s1e2: Future Echoes, Lister to Rimmer, BBC 1988
Do you know what the worst book ever written ever was? Football: It’s a Funny Old Game by Kevin Keegan. Red Dwarf s1e5: Confidence and Paranoia, Holly
I can’t work in a bookshop for the rest of my life. Star Trek s5e23: Voyager: 11:59, Janeway
They that start by burning books will end by burning men. Heinrich Heine
The Nazis boasted to the world they were book burners. Over 40,000 books had been collected by the Berlin SA. Hans Litten vs. Adolf Hitler: To Stop a Tyrant, BBC 2011
Riis publishes his pictures in a book called How the Other Half Lives. It would sell more than twenty-eight million copies worldwide. America: The Story of the US e7: Cities, History 2010
Section 215 of the Patriot Act says that Federal authorities can go to a librarian or bookshop owner and demand to know what a patron has read. Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!
It’s the Lindisfarne Gospels. Books were rare. Neil Oliver, Sacred Wonders of Britain III, BBC 2014
This is Liber Regalis, the Book of the King ... Here history, art and religion collide. Dr Janina Ramirez, Illuminations: The Private Lives of Medieval Kings 1/3, BBC 2012
Philosophae Naturalis Principia Mathematica ... One such first edition was recently sold at auction for £2,000,000. Tristram Hunt, Great Britons: Isaac Newton, BBC 2002
I shall become best friends with the cleverest man in England. That renowned brainbox Dr Samuel Johnson has asked me to be patron of his new book and I intend to accept. Blackadder III: Ink & Incapability, Prince to Blackadder, BBC 1987
It’s the most pointless book since How to Learn French was translated into French. ibid. Blackadder to Prince
It’s taken me seven years and it’s perfect – Edmund: A Butler’s Tale. A giant rollercoaster of a novel in four hundred sizzling chapters. A searing indictment of domestic servitude in the eighteenth century with some hot gypsies thrown in. My magnum opus, Baldrick. ibid. Blackadder
So you’re asking where the big papery thing tied up with string belonging to the batey fellow in the black coat who just left is? ibid. Baldrick to Blackadder
We must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the criticisms. Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. For the Bill of Rights is the guardian of our security as well as our liberty. John F Kennedy, Saturday Review October 1960
Eaten any good books lately? The Young Ones: Demolition ***** rat to rat, BBC 1982
The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books. Theodore Roosevelt
The Translation Movement ... Bringing a book to the Khalif for him to add to his library could be extremely lucrative ... He repaid him its weight in gold. Jim Al-Khalili, Science & Islam series, BBC 2009
With Arabic trade came Arabic books. ibid.
The coming of the book changed everything. James Burke, Connections s1e4: Faith in Numbers, BBC 1978
The new books standardised spelling. ibid.
Maya scribes writing on tree-bark paper created great libraries of books, sacred texts and codices. But this literary heritage was finally destroyed by the Spanish conquistadors. The Mayan Apocalypse 2012, More4 2012
And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh. Ecclesiastes 12:12
And when I looked, behold, an hand was sent unto me; and, lo, a roll of a book was therein;
And he spread it before me; and it was written within and without: and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe. Ezekiel 2:9&10
And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals.
And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof?
And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon.
And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals.
And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof?
And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon.
And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.
And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne.
And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints. Revelation 5:1-8
There was a purge which consisted of a secret blue book which was circulated to Chief Constables by the Home Secretary, and it contained pages of densely packed titles of books that should be banned as obscene in this country ... 1954 when more than a 167,000 books and magazines were banned and sent to be burned in the furnaces of Scotland Yard. Alan Travis, journalist & writer on censorship
When you publish a book, you do so in part to end the silence. All censorship is silence. I would never, as an author, feel right requiring a young person whose family would object to the book to read it. Just as I would never force that person to read it, I would ask those folks to not force others not to read it. To me, that is just good manners. Stephen Chbosky
I think it may not be a coincidence that the rise of printing and book publication and literacy and the phenomenon of best sellers all preceded the humanitarian reforms of the Enlightenment. Steven Pinker
I read that book Fat is a Feminist Issue, got a bit desperate halfway through and ate it. Jo Brand
No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it. Karl Popper
Books – what’s the good of them anyway? The History of Mr Polly by H G Wells 1949 starring John Mills & Betty Ann Davies & Megs Jenkins & Finlay Currie & Gladys Henson & Diana Churchill & Shelagh Fraser & Edward Chapman & Dandy Nichols & Sally Ann Howers & Juliet Mills et al, director Anthony Pelissier
About your brother’s book – does he actually know any children? Shadowlands ***** 1993 starring Anthony Hopkins & Debra Winger & Edward Hardwicke & Joseph Mazzello & John Wood & Michael Denison et al, director Richard Attenborough, master at table
Euclids Elements: After the Holy Bible the most widely circulated book in history. Horizon: A Mathematical Problem, BBC 1984
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? Henry Ward Beecher
A boss is like a teacher – and I am like the cool teacher. The Office US s3e16, Business School, NBC 2006
You cannot learn from books. ibid. Michael’s lecture