I asked of the limitless sunshineHow to shine with the dawn's glowing light;No answer came back from the sunshine, But my soul heard a whisper, "Burn bright!
Just because you start attempting to do right, doesn’t mean people will let you forget about what you’ve done wrong…Be encouraged
The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present.
We become the books we read.
In the grave the chambers of souls are like the womb of a woman: For like as a woman that travails make haste to escape the necessity of the travail: even so do these places haste to deliver those thi...
Sometimes I forget myself in a book. And when i have to stop reading it takes me a minute to remember where I am. Or who I am.
I'm the first to admit that I don't write right. Now, relax and enjoy the show! The sideshow, that is.
On gray days, when it's snowing or raining, I think you should be able to call up a judge and take an oath that you'll just read a good book all day, and he'd allow you to stay home.
I guess you can call me "old fashioned". I prefer the book with the pages that you can actually turn. Sure, I may have to lick the tip of my fingers so that the pages don't stick together when I'm enr...
Teams that spend a lot of time learning the tricks of the trade will probably never really learn the trade.
I write to get ideas out of my head
Think not of the fragility of life, but of the power of books, when mere words have the ability to change our lives simply by being next to each other.
A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn." (1872)
What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
Only that 'holy' book which teaches you to love all beings - animals or human things - read. Another one, idiots do, You let go, God speed.
Someone needs to buy a radio station, then play nothing but audio books, with a different genre of book played at set times. That way we can always have something new to read, no matter where we are.
Sometimes the things in our heads are far worse than anything they could put in books or on film!!
Reading is one of the most common habit among the most successful people.
If you want to be a good actor or director, firstly see life, secondly see films and thirdly read books!
Dear Literary World, Sorry for breaking down your door...I'll pay for that!!! Since I'm here and planning to stay a while, let me tell you some stories!!