Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen. —Ambrose Bierce More about this quote Tags: boredom Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. —Groucho Marx More about this quote Tags: reading books choices television Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. —Groucho Marx More about this quote Tags: books Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Woe be to him that reads but one book. —George Herbert More about this quote Tags: books Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Tags: books Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy. —Frank Zappa More about this quote Tags: books Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand. —Ezra Pound More about this quote Tags: books Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. —Ernest Hemingway More about this quote Tags: books Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. —Edith Sitwell More about this quote Tags: silence books music hobbies Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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... —Dwight D. Eisenhower More about this quote Tags: books Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force. —Dorothy Parker More about this quote Tags: books Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development. —Dorothy L. Sayers More about this quote Tags: books Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nothing can do what a book can do. Lifts you out of your life... to a whole new world, whole new perspective. A book is like a dream you're borrowing from a friend. —Dave Kellett More about this quote Tags: books Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead. —Dame Rose Macaulay More about this quote Tags: books Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A room without books is like a body without a soul. —Cicero More about this quote Tags: learning knowledge soul books Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email