What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
With the history of us, a book wouldn't necessarily be the best thing. — Keisha Buchanan Copy Share Image
If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books. — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
Beware of the man of one book. [Lat., Home unius libri, or, cave ab homine unius libri.] — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
I love 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X.' That was like the only black book we read in high school. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“She hasn't had a book to read lately and that feeling of story rushes through her like a swoon.” — Helen Humphreys Copy Share Image
My high school did not offer courses in philosophy, so the books that initially stimulated philosophical reflection in me were novels by… — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
To Fred, those years seemed to pass like quickly skimming a book and then finding the ending wasn't what he expected. He… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“lives. And some old witch in Bath had a book that you could never stop reading! You just had to wander around… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
When I was in law school, there was a used book store nearby. I picked up a Harlequin romance and read it.… — Karen Robards Copy Share Image
Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved. — Carlos Drummond de Andrade Copy Share Image
Books make great gifts because... [they don't] come in any particular size, so you don't have to be embarrassed if you bought… — Valerie Bertinelli Copy Share Image
“Pro captu lectoris, habent sua fata libelli": "According to the capacity of the reader,books have their destinies." ” — Terentianus Maurus Copy Share Image
How ignorant we are! How ignorant everyone is! We can cut across only a small area of the appallingly expanding fields of… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
It considers not only how we relate to others, but how we relate to our ideas of others so that a completely… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
We've been shooting the last two weeks with a lot of vampires. I don't want to give away too much, but if… — Peter Facinelli Copy Share Image
My hapless peers with their lofty dreams--how I envy and despise them! I'm with the others, the even more hapless, who have… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
And if our book consumption remains as low as it has been, at least let us admit that it is because reading… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Johnny Ramone's autobiography is a no holds barred, straight-forward book written in a no-nonsense style that is Johnny personified. His story is… — Tommy Ramone Copy Share Image
Most of my books are set in the American Midwest, where I have always lived. Midwesterners are lovely, down-to-earth people. The luxury… — Leigh Michaels Copy Share Image
You were firing questions at me today, trying to get inside my head. You asked if I believed in God. I told… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image