You can't develop character by reading books. You develop it from conflict. — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
“Men do everything that men do, from waging war to reading books, for one purpose only: to get laid.” — David Burr Gerrard Copy Share Image
“Book means fly in the sky,cross the desert, without wing without water.” — jahangir khosravi shakib Copy Share Image
“There is no other escape like a book. Reading expands your mind and opens your world to a myriad of possibilities.” — Fran Veal Copy Share Image
“Dinner-parties bore us because our imagination is absent, and reading interests us because it is keeping us company.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
My father was an angry and impatient teacher and flung the reading book at my head. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Reading books everyone died, none became any wise. One who reads the word of Love, only becomes wise. — Kabir Copy Share Image
The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Maxims and aphorisms, let us remember that wisdom is the true salt of literature, and the books that are most nourishing are… — John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn Copy Share Image
“That's good,' she said, 'you go on like that, reading books. I'll make you a list myself of the books you ought… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“What are blue-stockings?' asked Tommy. Naturally you don't know,' replied the other. 'If you did, you would sympathize more with Bluebeard. They… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I never read Ford Madox Ford's "The Good Soldier." I've been reading books that I should have read years ago and did… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
“She read novels. One book after another, sometimes at the rate of one a day, for a solid year. An acceptable form… — Wendy Wax Copy Share Image
When you're younger and you see something that really speaks to you, it's indelible in a way that's not the same as… — Nina Jacobson Copy Share Image
Reading a story should be a fabulous, wonderful thing. The most important thing that parents can do for kids is to read… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I'm 40 years old, and I still love watching Bugs Bunny slap the bull on the nose. I still watch those cartoons,… — Jeff Smith Copy Share Image
“You're not going to see any former suitors in Forest Crest, are you?" An impish twinkle appeared in her eyes. "No, Mr.… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“That Tolkien also included in Roverandom words such as paraphernalia, and phosphorescent, primordial, and rigmarole, is refreshing in these later days when… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
That by listening to some music, by reading some books, by looking at paintings, and most important by hanging out with one… — David Amram Copy Share Image
“I guess you can call me "old fashioned". I prefer the book with the pages that you can actually turn. Sure, I… — Felicia Johnson Copy Share Image
Everybody has that outlet in life when they're going through different stuff. They like to do different stuff whether it's reading books… — Derrick Favors Copy Share Image
“Life for Alex is colorless and meaningless. She’s not interested in reading books, food just doesn’t taste good, work is a haze… — Alexia Praks Copy Share Image
“I entered Princeton University as a graduate student in 1959, when the Department of Mathematics was housed in the old Fine Hall.… — Phillip A. Griffiths Copy Share Image
What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“I find novels compose my mind. Do you read novels too? - Reverend Finch's wife” — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“It plumps up your thinker and fills up your heart. And where you end up is not where you start.” — Brynne Barnes Copy Share Image
“A singing goat is like reading books, I love goats and dinosaurs."-Albert Einstein” — Andrew Clements Copy Share Image
“Commit yourself to the serious reading of books, and your life will be enlightened.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Reading good books gives a few lessons, stable minds, inner intellects, a lesson of life, and a way ahead to fly.” — Abid Hussain Copy Share Image
“I was always reading books when I should have been doing math and the rest of it.” — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
A book can change the world... Every book a child reads creates new neurons in that child's brain. — Jackie French Copy Share Image
I finished all the math books by third grade and most of the reading books. So I was considered disruptive. — Tyrone Hayes Copy Share Image
I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism. — Liam Neeson Copy Share Image
“I have learned through dreams more wisdom, than by reading hundreds of books.” — sir kristian goldmund aumann Copy Share Image
If you want to have a creative culture, you can't get it by reading books. You get it by example. — Barbara Corcoran Copy Share Image
“Reading is the life-saving water for our minds. Drink pure words as much as you need and remain alive!” — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
“Get someone-anyone-to read books to you. Having books read to you at any age is the supremo ultimato of living.” — Carew Papritz Copy Share Image
I've been changed watching films or reading books or hearing music, and that helps you to live your life. — Juliette Binoche Copy Share Image
While writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image