E Books Quotes

I love to both give and receive very old books.

I love book signings: kids waiting in line for you to scribble on their new books, haha!

Between 2 and 5 I'm reading in to find out what's been going on while I've been asleep.

I read a lot of science books - I love cosmology, quantum theory, particle physics. So my idea of a great read would probably put you directly into a coma.

The Bible isn't a choose your own adventure book where everyone can just make up their own meaning.

Hugh Laurie (playing Mr. Palmer) felt the line 'Don't palm all your abuses [of language upon me]' was possibly too rude. 'It's in the book, ' I said. He didn't hit me.

I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed reading accident. I hit a book mark and flew across the room.

Henry did not want to be fixed, was somehow convinced that the fix would be a lie, something that would lessen him.

The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity.

Reading after a certain (time) diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Any book which is at all important should be re-read immediately.

A gunslinger knows pride, that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff.

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

I found it hard to think of leaving my books. They had been my elevators out of the midden, and to whom could I entrust such close friends?

What we find in books is like the fire in our hearths. We fetch it from our neighbors, we kindle it at home, we communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

A little library, growing larger every year, is an honourable part of a man's history. It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life.

I hate books they teach us only to talk about what we do not know.

Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the family in general, soon procured herself a book.

Dictionaries are like watches. The worst is better than none at all and even the best cannot be expected to run quite true.

The delight of opening a new pursuit or a new course of reading imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

Read the best books first, otherwise you’ll find you do not have time. - Henry David Thoreau

With a book he was regardless of time...

And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. I would not change it.

The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, "Oh, the book is better.

Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no cant in it no excess of explanation and it is full of suggestions the raw material of possible poems and histories.

Should it matter what genre it is if the book is good?

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

Never read a book that is not a year old.

He loved books, those undemanding but faithful friends.

Some books are to be tasted others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested.

Some books are so familiar, reading them is like being home again.

Camerado this is no book. Who touches this touches a man.

A lexicographer a writer of dictionaries a harmless drudge.

If a book is well written, I always find it too short.

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.

Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.

...Fritz Leiber, the great fantasist and science fiction writer...called books 'the scholar's mistress'...the one who made no demands and always took him in...

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

She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain

A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn." (1872)

[Public] libraries should be open to all—except the c

Books! tis a dull and endless strife:Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

...I will not allow books to prove any thing.""But how shall we prove any thing?""We never shall.

Papa thought that any book worth reading twice was worth owning. So instead of buying desserts, we bought books.

We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.

So I do not pray. I accept the means at my disposal for working out my destiny. It seems to me that I have been given a mind and will power for that very purpose.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.