E Books Quotes

The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own—the place where we live—and the vibration enables us to find fresh starting points within ourselves.

The clean book bill will be one of the most immoral measures ever adopted. It will throw American art back into the junk heap.

Stop telling such outlandish tales. Stop turning minnows into whales.

There are books which take rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative.

If I save my insight, I don’t attend to weakness of eyesight.

Art has no influence upon action. It annihilates the desire to act. It is superbly sterile. The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

All good things are powerful stimulants to life, even a good book written against life.

Below Les Avants there was a chalet where the pension was wonderful and we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.

And please return it. You may think this a strange request, but I find that although my friends are poor arithmeticians, they are nearly all of them good bookkeepers.

A man who looks like Frodo just spent $150 on erotica books and asked for my phone number. I considered giving him yours just to spite you.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and rightfully on the shelves of every cottage.

′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.

One can’t prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person.

Each book holds an experience and an adven

I hate books they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

As long as ignorance and misery exist in the world, books like the one you are about to read are, perhaps, not entirely useless

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences b

Oh let me live my own! and die so too! ("To live and die is all I have to do:") Maintain a poet's dignity and ease, And see what friends, and read what books I please.

Do you love tragedies and everything that breaks the heart?

...and he glanced at the backs of the books, with an awakened curiosity that went below the binding. No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

All that is necessary for a student is access to a library.

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

And 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.

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

I'm pretty sure my addiction to reading has just reached a whole new level.

... a book indeed sometimes debauched me from my work....

My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

This book belongs to the most rare of men. Perhaps not one of them is yet alive. First the day after tomorrow must come for me. Some men are born posthumously.

I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.

I am a machine condemned to devour books.

Lectio, quae placuit, decies repetita placebit.(What we read with pleasure we can read many times with pleasure.)

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

A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is...like a life without pictures.

There is no other enjoyment like reading

And what is the use of a book, " thought Alice, "without pictures or conversation?

What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb.American novels, answered Lord Henry.

A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the

[I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short.

Of all things, I liked books best.

Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted ...but to weigh and consider.

Next o'er his books his eyes began to roll, In pleasing memory of all he stole.

Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.

Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...

It's a truth universally acknowledged...

The things of the world fell by the wayside . . . but literature was eternal.

With slouch and swing around the ringWe trod the Fools’ Parade!We did not care: we knew we wereThe Devils’ Own Brigade:And shaven head and feet of leadMake a merry masquerade.

Ultimately, nobody can get more out of things, including books, than he already knows.