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
There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love. —Christopher Morley More about this quote Tags: books Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers. —Charles W. Eliot More about this quote Tags: friends wisdom books teachers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage. —Charles De Secondat More about this quote Tags: reading peace books Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. —Charles Caleb Colton More about this quote Tags: books Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books. —Bell Hooks More about this quote Tags: learning books transformation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Wear the old coat and buy the new book. —Austin Phelps More about this quote Tags: books Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I'll have a long beard by the time I read them. —Arnold Lobel More about this quote Tags: books Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email