Activity Quote by Michael Bassey Johnson

Books are health food for your brain and dessert for your soul. Books are one of the few proven sources of mental exercise known…

— Pat Williams

“One habit: choosing a book and starting each day with a dedicated time of reading and gazing, becoming an apprentice to a mind I…

— Frances Mayes

“The best books inspire you to be better and get up and do something!”

— Storytime Corner

Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what…

— Joseph Addison

“The best books act like a powerful drug--they take you out of your own head into experiences, emotions and settings a million miles away.”

— Anonymous-9

IMPORTANT Book reading is a solitary and sedentary pursuit, and those who do are cautioned that a book should be used as an integral…

— Garrison Keillor

The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.

— Thomas Carlyle

“Reading a book is an intellectual exercise, which stimulates thought, questions,”

— Noam Chomsky

“A books should teach us to enjoy life, or to endure it.”

— Samuel Johnson

“A hobby affords us a marvelous opportunity to awaken our natural talents.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

“Books are the safest and greatest mind-altering substances in the world. But be safe; don't read and drive.”

— H.E. Fairbanks

“I read novels to indulge in a concentrated and directed inner activity that parallels -- and thereby tunes up, accentuates -- my own inner…

— Sven Birkerts