Books Quote by john j geddes Download Open image ““You don’t read to exercise the mind but to take voyages”” — john j geddes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Escape Imagination Psychology Reading Travel
“With me, travelling is frankly a vice. The temptation to indulge in it is one which I find almost as hard to resist as the temptation to read promiscuously, omnivorously and without purpose. From time to time, it is true, I make a desperate resolution to mend my ways. I sketch out programmes of useful, serious reading; I try to… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share
“There is not, perhaps, a more painful exercise of the mind than that of treading, with weary and impatient pace, the entire round of thought, and arriving at the same conclusion for ever; then setting out again with increased speed and diminished strength, and again returning to the very same spot - of sending all our faculties on a voyage… — Anonymous Copy Share
“The mind is a wonderful thing. You start off on one journey but it decides to take you somewhere completely different. The path of… — David Alejandro Fearnhead Copy Share Image
“Yet this book is to prove that no matter how you travel, how 'successful' your tour, or foreshortened, you always learn something and learn… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“But as long as the task is both onerous and repetitive, I discovered, the mind is not only free to wander to more imaginative… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“For a long time I was continually putting off the next step in my exploration because I felt I ought to know more, knew… — Marion Milner Copy Share Image
“The great difference between voyages rests not in ships, but in the people you meet on them.” — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
“After all, life is a voyage, and you cannot start out this voyage all over once more. You need to be in shape for… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
...who can say where a voyage starts - not the the actual passage but the dream of a journey and its urge to find… — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
“This is the strange life of books that you enter along as a writer, mapping an unknown territory that arises as you travel. If… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“reading is like an aeroplane it allows you to travell all over with just a book in your hand” — Annakay Gordon Copy Share Image
“I’m a man of stone - and my hands are not soft enough to brush away, each stray wisp of hair” — john j geddes Copy Share Image
“In the baby’s room The city lights are Milky In the curtains… Breath Gentle as rain, Sleep Quiet as snowflakes” — john j geddes Copy Share Image
“I will not exorcise you—I’d miss your fragrance, the soft tread of your step on the stair” — john j geddes Copy Share Image
“I am your stone of necessity calling up spirits from rain puddles—your Magus of words” — john j geddes Copy Share Image
“your moods and colors are my climate, not the changing face of the sky” — john j geddes 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
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker 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
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb 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
