Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.

- Coolio

Best Quotes about Books - reading

I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

Secondat, Charles de

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

Hugo, Victor

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.

Rohn, Jim

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.

Terry, Helen

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, The medicines of the soul.

Hood, Paxton

This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

Hubbard, Elbert

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Books succeed, and lives fail.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

After all, the world is not a stage -- not to me: nor a theatre: nor a show-house of any sort. And art, especially novels, are not little theatres where the reader sits aloft and watches... and sighs, commiserates, condones and smiles. That's what you want a book to be: because it leaves you so safe and superior, with your two-dollar ticket to the show. And that's what my books are not and never will be. Whoever reads me will be in the thick of the scrimmage, and if he doesn't like it -- if he wants a safe seat in the audience -- let him read someone else.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Books in a large university library system: 2, 000,000. Books in an average large city library: 1 0,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30, 000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20, 000.

Horowitz, Lois

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When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.

Geneen, Harold S.

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All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

Voltaire

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My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water.

Twain, Mark

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The newest books are those that never grow old.

Jackson, George Holbrook

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My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.

Hood, Thomas

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For a good book has this quality, that it is not merely a petrifaction of its author, but that once it has been tossed behind, like Deucalion's little stone, it acquires a separate and vivid life of its own.

Lejeune, Caroline

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Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

Marcel, Anthony

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A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.

Murray, William

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In any situation, ask yourself: What strengths do I possess that can contribute towards accomplishing something in this situation? Then follow through.

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We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an exceedingly difficult secret language that only skilled professional readers and story-tellers could interpret. Then people like you would have to go to public halls and pay good prices to hear the professionals decode and read the books aloud for you. This plan would have the advantage of scaring off all amateur authors, retired politicians, country doctors and I-Married-a-Midget writers who would not have the patience to learn the secret language.

Davies, Robertson

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Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.

Kempis, Thomas

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If a book comes from the heart it will contrive to reach other hearts. All art and author craft are of small account to that.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Books had instant replay long before televised sports.

Williams, Bert

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It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent the thoughts and life of Europe do not constitute an American literature. Before such can exist, an original idea must animate this nation and fresh currents of life must call into life fresh thoughts along the shore.

Fuller, Margaret

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Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.

Chambers, Oswald

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Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.

Trollope, Anthony

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Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.

Wycherley, William

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Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

Penn, William

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My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.

Gibbon, Edward

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I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

Bevan, Aneurin

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A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

Auden, W. H.

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The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.

Proverb, American

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I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

Phelps, William Lyon

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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with all the finest men of past centuries.

Descartes, Rene

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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.

Rostand, Jean

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Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading! Take them out of this book, for instance, --you might as well take the book along with them; --one cold external winter would reign in every page of it; restore them to the writer; --he steps forth like a bridegroom, --bids All-hail; brings in variety, and forbids the appetite to fail.

Sterne, Laurence

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Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.

Rostand, Jean

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No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor is any pleasure so lasting.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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To read too many books is harmful.

Zedong, Mao

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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

Forster, Edward M.

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A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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What is the most precious, the most exciting smell awaiting you in the house when you return to it after a dozen years or so? The smell of roses, you think? No, moldering books.

Sinyavsky, Andre

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I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.

Coolio

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The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.

Brookner, Anita

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Books are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger, without bread or money. If you approach them, they are not asleep; if you seek them, they do not hide; if you blunder, they do not scold; if you are ignorant, they do not laugh at you.

Bury, Richard De

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I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

Thackeray, William M.

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I am a part of everything that I have read.

Kieran, John