Reading Books Quotes - Page 5

• Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

  Harper Lee

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Powerful

  Harper Lee (2014). “To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Life, Book, Reading

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• It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Wisdom, Book, Reading

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  He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.

  John Milton

  Book, Reading, Library

  Areopagitica (1644)

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• The new illiteracy is about more than not knowing how to read the book or the word; it is about not knowing how to read the world.

  Henry Giroux

  Book, Reading, Knowing

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• Pity the man who has a favorite restaurant, but not a favorite author. He's picked out a favorite place to feed his body, but he doesn't have a favorite place to feed his mind!

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Reading, Men

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 10, 2013

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• I want you to be afraid to turn the page (and to do that) you need to show right from the beginning that you're playing for keeps.

  George R. R. Martin

  Reading, Writing, Novelists

  "Interview with George R.R. Martin at Comicon". GeeksOn podcast (Episode 54), www.geekson.com. August 4, 2006.

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• Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

  Neil Gaiman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Cancer

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.7, A&C Black

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  A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Positive, Single, Wise

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1873, Delphi Classics

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• Let books be your dining table, / And you shall be full of delights. / Let them be your mattress,/And you shall sleep restful nights

  Ephrem the Syrian

  Inspirational, Book, Reading

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• I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Book, Reading, Novelists

  "Jamaica Kincaid on writing and 'outlaw American' culture". Interview with Nathan Rostron, www.usatoday.com. March 7, 2013.

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• There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Education, Reading, Book

  "The Balancing Act: Mastering the Competing Demands of Leadership". Book by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Al Switzler and Ron McMillan, 1996.

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• The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Girl, Book, Reading

  "What’s So Scary About Smart Girls?" by Nicholas Kristof, www.nytimes.com. May 10, 2014.

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• That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Funny, Book, Reading

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• Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Reading, Book, Giving

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• O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reader

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1992). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.200, University of Missouri Press

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

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Inspirational, Motivational, Money

  Desiderius Erasmus' letter to Jacob Batt, April 12, 1500.

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• Reading books about enlightenment does not make you enlightened at all. You have to meditate yourself.

  Frederick Lenz

  Book, Reading, Buddhism

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• Books, gentlemen, are a species of men, and introduced to them you circulate in the "very best society" that this world can furnish, without the intolerable infliction of "dressing" to go into it. In your shabbiest coat and cosiest slippers you may socially chat even with the fastidious Earl of Chesterfield, and lounging under a tree enjoy the divinest intimacy with my late lord of Verulam.

  Herman Melville

  Reading, Book, Men

  Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.4516, Delphi Classics

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• The end of reading is not more books but more life.

  Holbrook Jackson

  Reading, Book, Literacy

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• A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.

  Neil Gaiman

  Inspirational, Dream, Book

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• ... the subjective viewpoint is the only one to use regarding a library. Your true library is a collection of the books you want.You may have deplorably poor taste or bad judgment. Never mind. Correct those traits before you exchange your books.

  Carolyn Wells

  Book, Reading, Mind

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• I had a friend who was the King's surgeon in England. One day I asked him what makes a great surgeon. He replied, "What distinguishes a great surgeon is his knowledge. He knows more than other surgeons. During an operation he finds something which he wasn't expecting, recognizes it and knows what to do about it." It's the same thing with advertising people. The good ones know more. How do you get to know more? By reading books about advertising. By picking the brains of people who know more than you do. From the Magic Lanterns. And from experience.

  David Ogilvy

  Kings, Book, Reading

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• I've been changed watching films or reading books or hearing music, and that helps you to live your life.

  Juliette Binoche

  Book, Reading, Live Your Life

  "Interview: Juliette Binoche" by Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. March 28, 2005.

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• It's tricky turning a book into a movie. Sometimes people love the book so much that no adaptation lives up to what they imagined. You can avoid that disappointment by never, ever reading books.

  Craig Ferguson

  Disappointment, Book, Reading

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