Reading Books Quotes - Page 14

• Reading will give you lasting pleasure.

  Laura Bush

  Book, Reading, Giving

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• Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best.

  Robertson Davies

  Book, Reading, People

  Robertson Davies (1997). “The Merry Heart: Reflections on Reading, Writing, and the World of Books”, Viking Press

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• I like reading Ball Tongue lyrics and all that stuff. And they published a book, and I wouldn't give my lyrics, and it's all wrong in the book, and I giggle. It's funny.

  Jonathan Davis

  Book, Reading, Giving

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• I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Life, Book, Thinking

  Harold S Kushner (2011). “When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough: The Search For a Life That Matters”, p.174, Pan Macmillan

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• i really like reading books

  Dale Carnegie

  Book, Reading

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• Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

  Mortimer Adler

  Inspirational, Life, Reading

  "How To Read A Book". Book by Mortimer J. Adler, 1940.

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• We know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity lies-in the minds of those closest to the work. It's been there in front of our noses all along while we've been running around chasing robots and reading books on how to become Japanese-or at least manage like them.

  Jack Welch

  Running, Business, Lying

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• The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.

  Theodore Parker

  Education, Reading, Book

  "The Gigantic Book of Teachers' Wisdom" y Erin Gruwell and Frank McCourt, (p. 496), 2007.

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• I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Book, Reading, Men

  Speech in New York City, November 19, 1905.

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• In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Real, Book, Reading

  1941 Language in Action.

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• The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

  Joseph Joubert

  Book, Reading, Statistics

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• A book that is shut is but a block.

  Thomas Fuller

  Funny, Block, Book

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• I always wrote. I wrote from when I was 12. That was therapeutic for me in those days. I wrote things to get them out of feeling them, and onto paper. So writing in a way saved me, kept me company. I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know.

  Carrie Fisher

  Falling In Love, Reading, Book

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. September 13, 2011.

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• I am pretty antisocial and have difficulty communicating with other human beings. I know that if I were in Philly I'd still mostly be hanging out in my apartment reading books and playing with synthesizers. That said, I grew up in Philly, went to college in Philly, lived in Philly afterwards for a while - almost every formative experience in my life has happened in Philly. Whether I like it or not, Philly is all over everything I do for the rest of my life.

  Ben Daniels

  Reading, Book, College

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You may not remember too well.

  Charles Van Doren

  Book, Reading, Years

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• The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man.

  Clarence Day

  Book, Reading, Men

  Clarence Day (1920). “The story of the Yale University Press told by a friend”

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• Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.

  William Styron

  Book, Reading, Forever

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• I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five.

  Akhmad Kadyrov

  Family, Religious, Age

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• In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

  Oscar Wilde

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (2008). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.570, Oxford University Press

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• Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Funny, Book

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• When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.

  John Berger

  Wall, Book, Reading

  John Berger (2011). “Keeping a Rendezvous”, p.15, Vintage

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• Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Book, Reading

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.150, Harvard University Press

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• Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Happiness, Attitude, Book

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.155

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• I was always a slow reader, from the very beginning. I remember in first grade our teacher divided us into groups, and I was definitely in the slow group. She didn't call it that, but everybody in the class knew. But I still loved reading. Being a slow reader affected my grades in school, but it didn't affect my love for reading. I still loved going to the library, and I still loved reading books.

  Gene Luen Yang

  Teacher, Reading, Book

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• I'm an anxious person in general, but something about being pregnant and awaiting the release of my first book, The Monsters Of Templeton, made me into an insane anxious person. I didn't sleep at night. I ended up sleeping all day. In a strange way I felt like the world was going to end. I found myself so deeply depressed at times that I started to read about happiness, and that took me into books about idealism and utopianism. Reading books about people who tried to build utopian societies of different kinds gave me a kind of lift.

  Lauren Groff

  Book, Reading, Sleep

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