Book Quote by Holbrook Jackson Download Open image “Great books conserve time.” — Holbrook Jackson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Great book Inspirational Writing
If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this. — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Books are slow. They require time; they are written slowly, published slowly, and read slowly. — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
Books are not about passing the time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
I try not to recommend too many books, frankly, because I think there's a certain synchronicity that happens when people discover books. — James Redfield Copy Share Image
“Books don’t take time away from us,” she said. “They give it back. In this age of abstraction, of multitasking, of speed for speed’s… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
I think a good book is a good book forever. I don't think they get less good because times change. — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
Great books give you a feeling that you miss all day, until you finally get to crawl back inside those pages again. — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
Books are never out of humour; never envious or jealous, they answer all questions with readiness; ... they teach us how to live and… — Holbrook Jackson Copy Share Image
Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it. — Holbrook Jackson Copy Share Image
A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with "a sort… — Holbrook Jackson Copy Share Image
We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this. — Holbrook Jackson Copy Share Image
The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich. — Holbrook Jackson Copy Share Image
The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can… — Holbrook Jackson Copy Share Image
Your readiest desire is your path to joy... even if it destroys you. — Holbrook Jackson Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
