Book Quotes

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(Whispered to a novice while standing in front of the convent library) Oh! I would have been sorry to have read all those books...If I… — Therese of Lisieux
If you buy a book on golf instruction buy the thinnest book you can find. The thinner the book, chances are the easier and more… — Chi Chi Rodriguez
There is even - as with no other game - a fascinating detective literature, a wry commentary on the human comedy, implicit in the book… — Alistair Cooke
One of these days I'm going to write a book on drops. That ought to sell. The shot's become more popular than putting. — Jimmy Demaret
The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world. — Benjamin Rush
The Bible, when not read in schools, is seldom read in any subsequent period of life...The Bible...should be read in our schools in preference to… — Benjamin Rush
I was taught to read by my grandmother. Central to her method was a tale of unnatural love called 'The Duck and the Kangaroo'. Then,… — Gore Vidal
In doing your best serving others for free, a lot of eyebrows will raise and sneers will curve many a - faces. But in the… — Mother Teresa
Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not know. I admire… — John Keats
A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks backcloths, inn-signs, cheap… — Arthur Rimbaud
It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book… — William Butler Yeats
New Rule: If an Evangelical tries to use Halloween to pimp Jesus to kids, they get to egg his house. On Halloween, the president of… — Bill Maher
Within the book and volume of thy brain... — William Shakespeare
We buy books, we go to gyms, we expend a lot of brain power on trying to hold back time, when we should be celebrating… — Paulo Coelho
The Long Goodbye' is one book I like to read over and over again, and it was an enormous inspiration for 'All The Wrong Questions'. — Daniel Handler
It was a book to kill time for those who liked it better dead. — Rose Macaulay
Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often. — Barack Obama
As a child, I loved to read books. The library was a window to the world, a pathway to worlds and people far from my… — Ed Bradley
As a child, I felt that books were holy objects, to be caressed, rapturously sniffed, and devotedly provided for. I gave my life to them.… — Maurice Sendak

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