Whenever I pick up a book I think, "Tell me something I…

“If you can’t successfully do something, don’t think you can tell others how it should be done”

— Ray Dalio

Half the time I pick up a book, that's what I'm trying to get.

— Donald Miller

“Information is Key to Opportunities, So Pick Up a Book!”

— Brenda Johnson Padgitt

Whenever I was encouraged by my elders to pick up a book, I was often told, 'Read so as to know the world.' And…

— Hisham Matar

In Africa, when you pick up a book worth reading, out of the deadly consignments which good ships are always being made to carry…

— Isak Dinesen

“By the time you are old enough to pick up a book like this one, you have learned it: the world is not your…

— Susan Neiman

“But you're kind of like a great book…you know, you pick up a book at the bookstore because it has a beautiful cover…but it's…

— Miranda Kenneally

“The idea of the book that matters most," Kiki said. "Because i think it's like impossible to pick such a book. When you read…

— Ann Hood

It's going to be labor-intensive and time-consuming, but you need to take all the books down and put them on the floor. Take them…

— Marie Kondo

Everybody can't be Lil Wayne. Some of us have to pick up a book.

— Tyrann Mathieu

Sometimes when I pick up a book off the shelf, when I'm buying a new book to read, I'll look at all of them…

— Jennifer Carpenter

You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

— Anonymous

When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that…

— Ahmet Zappa

If you're going to pick a book and you want to base a system of government around it, why not 'Harry Potter?'

— Lewis Black

When I pick up a book that's, you know, wreathed in laurels, I expect a lot, and that doesn't give the book its best…

— Jennifer Egan