You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
She felt something similar, but worse in a way, about hundreds and hundreds of books she’d read, novels, biographies, occasional books, about music and art—she could remember nothing about them at all...
The delight of opening a new pursuit or a new course of reading imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
I read used books because fingerprint-smudged and dog-eared pages are heavier on the eye. Because every book can belong to many lives. Books should be kept in public places and step out with passersby...
One life to read!
People tend to find books when they are ready for them.
You could say we run a dating service. If you make a request, we can hook you up with some books that will take you on a date you will never forget.
A person who does not read cannot think. He may have good mental processes, but he has nothing to think about. You can feel for people or natural phenomena and react to them, but they are not ideas. Y...
The definition of a good story is one that remains with you long after you've turned that last page.
Perspective was my secret weapon, and books gave me plenty of ammunition.
My friend says she's smart. She reads a book to fall asleep.
If you want your son or daughter to be positive. Like to enjoy life and so on and so on - focus on the positive, nature, birds, quite and fast waterfalls... If you want to be negative which will mean...
I think the child I was until 12 was so much more interesting than the teenager I became. As a teenager, you get wrapped up in your friends and sexual stuff, and the imaginative life you had, it just...
Learning new things exercises the brain in such a titillating way.
You MUST know You to do YOU!
A book is a collected thoughts and lessons in one place, a quote is a lesson which is learnt.
People are like books. Eventually, the focus shifts from the cover to the story that cannot be read in one sitting.
Never worry about a book corrupting a child. Worry if your children are not getting ideas from books.
The finest music in the room is that which streams out to the ear of the spirit in many an exquisite strain from the little shelf of books on the opposite wall. Every volume there is an instrument whi...
I always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)