Give the child good books, then let it alone! Don't plough and harrow its brain, or stretch it on Procrustes-beds of standardization,… — Laura E. Richards Copy Share Image
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
I daily disconnect and read a good book or listen to a good sermon or call a friend or my mom and… — Kim Alexis Copy Share Image
“Books... I can’t live without books. To me, a book is better than any movie. All I need is a good book,… — Belle Aurora Copy Share Image
“I had decided to become a bookseller because I loved good books. I assumed there must be many others who shared a… — Stuart Brent Copy Share Image
“Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All Oprah needs is a good book. My only request when she's building any house is, 'Could I please have a TV… — Gayle King Copy Share Image
“In a sense, we can tell a lot about anyone by looking at what books, if any, he reads, at what books… — James V. Schall Copy Share Image
“A good book laces invisible fingers into the shape of a winter armchair or a hammock in the sun. I'm not talking… — Brenda Walker Copy Share Image
“Listen to me you piece of shit, if you ever give the press information about me, my parents or even breathe a… — Nina D'Angelo Copy Share Image
“Pat, if there's anything you recall about your first visit with Monsignor Frank Kief, I sincerely hope it's this: there is no… — Kerry Casey Copy Share Image
“And yet she didn't want to kill herself. She loved the world too much, and people. She loved taking long walks in… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
In marriage we have a duty to God, our spuses, the world, and future generations. But we are sinners. A husband and… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
“Have you ever sailed across an ocean...on a sailboat, surrounded by sea with no land in sight, without even the possibility of… — Raymond Reddington (fictional), The Blacklist Copy Share Image
I remember going over proofs of this book - my first book - back in 2001, in a bar in Toronto called… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
“For many have but one resource to sustain them in their misery, and that is to think, “Circumstances have been against me,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“For paradise in the world to come is uncertain, but there is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven we inhabit… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“I’m afraid you’re going to have a rather boring couple of weeks, Mr. Smith. If I were you, I’d buy a couple… — Mina Carter Copy Share Image
A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“Somewhere on the bottom of the Pacific is a copy of The Forsyte Saga I heaved overboard one afternoon. I very quickly… — MacDonald Harris Copy Share Image
“A good book slowly grabs you by the soul without your knowledge. By the time you’re in tears and laughing at the… — Tom Williams Copy Share Image
I would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it,the more it begins to come together… — Rabbi Harold Kushner Copy Share Image
There's a great feeling of relief when finishing a good book, but also a sadness. You get to know the characters so… — D Michael Hardy Copy Share Image
“Good programming, like good books, asks a little more of the viewer. But no executive today will risk having the viewer bored… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
There are only three things which make life worth living: to be writing a tolerably good book, to be in a dinner… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“It was Owen Meany who taught me that any good book is always in motion—from the general to the specific, from the… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.” — John Milton Copy Share Image
“IT is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single reader in proximity to a good bookstore, must be in want of a… — Sherri Erwin Copy Share Image
A good book or movie or screenplay should be emotionally satisfying. When they're done, you want people to breathe a deep sigh… — Frank Peretti Copy Share Image
I wasn't inspired so much by a person as by reading many good books. I loved to write and I wondered if… — Peg Kehret Copy Share Image
“A good book should leave you... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it. Reading is borrowing!” — William Styron Copy Share Image
“Love is not a formality or an obligation to fullfill to be in good books, but a sheer appreciation without expectations” — Bhavna Khemlani Copy Share Image
A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, and… — Penelope Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Of course anyone who loves books buys more of them than she or he can hope to read in a lifetime. A… — Boilerplate Rino Copy Share Image
If we could follow the slogan that says,"Turn off the TV and open a good book" we would do something of substance… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Good books tell the truth, even when they're about things that never have been and never will be. They're truthful in a… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
I blurbed a nice book, not at all like my book 'The Big Oyster,' called 'The Essential Oyster.' I blurbed a pretty… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
“A mysterious object, a good book. It did that to you; made it almost painful turning the last page. Then it clung… — Cara Rosalie Olsen Copy Share Image
Doubtless, reading good books benefited me during the months and years of writing, yet I remained skeptical of any tight correlation to… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
