Nothing is as dangerous for the state as those who would govern kingdoms with maxims found in books. — Cardinal Richelieu Copy Share Image
There was no answer, no solution, no sop, no deliverance. What, then, did I do? I read faster. — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading. — Alice James Copy Share Image
“Have you never picked up a book you've read before, and found it speaks to you in a new way?” — Django Wexler Copy Share Image
BIBLIOBLISS. Transported into states of transcendent pleasure while immersed in reading a favorite book. — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance. — Confucius Copy Share Image
People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
Though not all reading children grow up to be writers, I take it that most creative writers must in their day have… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Before entering the seminary, I had not encountered the life-changing potential of reading as a source of meaning, as a way of… — James Carroll Copy Share Image
Comic books are what novels used to be - an accessible, vernacular form with mass appeal - and if the highbrows are… — Charles McGrath Copy Share Image
The Kindle is the most successful electronic book-reading tablet so far, but that's not saying much; Silicon Valley is littered with the… — David Pogue Copy Share Image
This is beautiful indeed; the colored people have given this to the head of the government, and that government once sanctioned laws… — Sojourner Truth Copy Share Image
Read. Read every chance you get. Read to keep growing. Read history. Read poetry. Read for pure enjoyment. Read a book called… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“We haven't remained idle, twiddling our thumbs while you were off having a good time. Through books Cathy and I have lived… — V.C. Andrews Copy Share Image
My dad was in the Swedish armed forces, he was always reading up on different weapons from the Americans and Soviets. When… — Dolph Lundgren Copy Share Image
I was always furious because you couldn't take out more than three books in one day. You would go home with your… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
The real risks for any artist are taken in pushing the work to the limits of what is possible, in the attempt… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of reading, reading which is contemplation - even a kind of vision & reading for information. For the… — Mary Butts Copy Share Image
Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and it’s a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost… — Rebecca Mead Copy Share Image
Research shows us that children who are read to from a very early age are more likely to begin reading themselves at… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
“Choosing which book isn't difficult. The choice is typically the last one I brought home. I acquire books constantly and place them… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
Avid readers are enchanted by meaning, which is available chiefly in books. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
After all, I believe it is the style of thought entirely, and the style of expression, which makes the difference in books. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
I have an intimate relationship with books. After all, I take them with me into the bathtub-not an invitation I offer lightly. — Gina Barreca Copy Share Image
A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower discovered on the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I can't wait to do the normal things. Like just doing your own groceries. Looking for your own tomatoes. I just can't… — Celine Dion Copy Share Image
When we got around to books, I was finally set, as our minister would say, on solid ground. I gorged on books.… — Lorene Cary Copy Share Image
There is always room and occasion enough for a true book on any subject; as there is room for more light the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Books only spoil the originality of genius. Very well for those who can't think for themselves - But when one has made… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
Dirac politely refused Robert's [Robert Oppenheimer] two proffered books: reading books, the Cambridge theoretician announced gravely, "interfered with thought." — Luis Walter Alvarez Copy Share Image
“in the book i'm reading (The Principal) the main chareter best friend has to go to a differnt school. I can picture… — jerry spinelli Copy Share Image
One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of close attention; and the world therefore swarms with writers whose… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Today I'd like to sit and read Forget I have a job I need Ignore the things I have to do And… — Andrew Guzaldo Copy Share Image
I read books all the time, I'm always reading. I'm not like somebody that reads really fast or a lot or anything,… — Christopher Owens Copy Share Image
Reading ... changes you. You aren't the same person after you've read a particular book as you were before, and you will… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
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