I read daft history books. Sometimes the books I read are a bit crackers or strange. — Mark E. Smith Copy Share Image
“Every act of becoming conscious (it says here in this book) is an unnatural act” — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“Your time is your time. Be awake to it. It's hard work to be wisely alive.” — Carew Papritz Copy Share Image
It is written in the Jewish law book, the Talmud, that only the Jew is human, that Gentiles are only animals. — Julius Streicher Copy Share Image
Lectures were once useful; but now when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Confucianism is all about tempering your instincts with intellectual discipline, with book learning. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This book is written in a barren period of loss with an attempt to move forward towards substance.” — Phindiwe Nkosi Copy Share Image
“I know books, and I know how to string words together—it doesn’t mean I know how to speak about the things that… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
I will have an endless invisible night and read all those books and understand all until I am a liquid chromium cascade… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to write a book. And it turned out that it was more about finding a story that I felt… — Hank Green Copy Share Image
I am senting many books for endorsement purposes, which enables me to stay relevant in my own field, and I have people… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Because we grew up surrounded by big dramatic story arcs in books and movies, we think our lives are supposed to be… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
My grandfather bought me my first Marvel comic book when I was six years old, and since then, it has been an… — Stefan Kapicic Copy Share Image
Life is like a book, you'll never know what chapter two is all about because all you keep doing is re-reading chapter… — Chee Vai Tang Copy Share Image
Plasticene and self-expression will not solve the problems of education. Nor will technology and vocational guidance; nor the classics and the Hundred… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
We need Goddess consciousness to reveal earth's holiness. Divine feminine imagery opens up the notion that the earth is the body of… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“Don't let the covers fool you. Books, like lives, are wiggling, evolving, living things. They're not bound by pages or authors or… — Kelly G. Wilson Copy Share Image
I believe that half the trouble in the world comes from people asking 'What have I achieved?' rather than 'What have I… — Walter Farley Copy Share Image
“A writer has to strain to make the reader recover the process in the words 'human being'; we talk about 'a being'… — Robert Kegan Copy Share Image
About 120 million of us place the big bang 2,500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer. If our… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
As for [Amiri] Baraka, he and I have disagreements. I mean, he becomes a demagogue when there's an audience. He's a nice… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
I have on my bookshelf a series of books with opposite titles: 'The Alpha Strategy' and the 'Omega Strategy'; 'Asia Rising' and… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
Unlike most readers in Antiquity who read their books aloud, we have developed the convention of reading silently. This lets us read… — Jaroslav Pelikan Copy Share Image
The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm sure my first nine years have had a powerful influence on the kind of books I write. — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
“Lifelong readers continue to read, finding in books the means to enjoy life or endure it” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The most important thing to do when writing a book is to finish it.” — Suzanna Reeves Copy Share Image
“My library isn't very extensive but every book in it is a friend.” — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
There is one "right answer" to any question, and it is in the book to be read. — Joseph Barrell Copy Share Image
Reading is looked at like it's corny or lame, but you'd be surprised what you can find in a book. — Jaylen Brown Copy Share Image
A book, while it is being written, has an intense life of its own which you share. — Margaret Bourke-White Copy Share Image
All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“I just wrote a book. But don't go and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finished.” — Lawrence Welk Copy Share Image
The paper landed on the table, but the news was stapled to his chest. A tattoo. — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
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