Motivational Quotes

Books - reading

You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can define your purpose and use techniques which will assure that you have met it and gotten what you need.

- Kump, Peter

Best Quotes about Books - reading

A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razor strap. A thin book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.

Twain, Mark

The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Marcel, Anthony

The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.

Byron, Lord

Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man nothing else that he builds ever lasts monuments fall; nations perish; civilization grow old and die out; new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on. Still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts, of the hearts of men centuries dead.

Day, Clarence

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason: they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. Those works, therefore, are the most valuable, that set our thinking faculties in the fullest operation. understand them.

Clarendon

A library is thought in cold storage.

Samuel, Herbert

We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.

Edwards, Tryon

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From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

Marx, Groucho

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A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.

Maclennan, Hugh

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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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Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.

Rochman, Hazel

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There is no robber worse than a bad book.

Proverb, Italian

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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

France, Anatole

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Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.

Mallarme, Stephane

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This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.

Parker, Dorothy

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Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Locke, John

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Read, read, read. Read everything-- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window.

Faulkner, William

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Read good, big important things.

Noonan, Peggy

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People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.

Twain, Mark

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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 I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery.

Rosenbach, A. S. W.

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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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When the book comes out it may hurt you -- but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you about yourself as much as I can face about myself.

Baldwin, James

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Secondat, Charles de

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A great book should leave you with many experiences and slightly exhausted at the end. You should live several lives while reading it.

Styron, William

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Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.

Jackson, Holbrook

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The mere brute pleasure of reading --the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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I feel like I'm drowning. Every night, I'm carrying home loads of things to read but I'm too exhausted. I keep clipping things and Xeroxing them and planning to read them eventually, but I just end up throwing it all away and feeling guilty.

Levine, Ghita

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I am a part of everything that I have read.

Kieran, John

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Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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Kump, Peter

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A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Fuller, Margaret

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The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

Wolfe, Thomas

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There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.

Mencken, H. L.

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A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. And the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost always a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices.

Mann, Horace

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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 divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.

Ruskin, John

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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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In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room. Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book.

Burgess, Anthony

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Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Books had instant replay long before televised sports.

Williams, Bert

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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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The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Beware of the person of one book.

Aquinas, St. Thomas