Books
Quotes - My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't
have any excuse to be stupid
“I
just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed reading accident. I hit a book
mark and flew across the room.”
―
Steven Wright
“Most
of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for
us.”
―
Alain de Botton
“If
you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall
open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set
them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so
that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at
any rate, be your acquaintances.”
―
Winston S. Churchill
“Writing
and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand
our sense of life: they feed the soul. When writers make us shake our heads
with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh
about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at
dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead
of being squashed by it over and over again. It's like singing on a boat during
a terrible storm at sea. You can't stop the raging storm, but singing can
change the hearts and spirits of the people who are together on that ship.”
―
Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
“Of
all things, I liked books best.”
―
Nikola Tesla
“Reading
is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.”
―
Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
“All
morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping
through the cracks of another. Do you know the feeling when you start reading a
new book before the membrane of the last one has had time to close behind you?
You leave the previous book with ideas and themes -- characters even -- caught
in the fibers of your clothes, and when you open the new book, they are still
with you.”
―
Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
“It
wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in
school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life
without being like everybody else.”
―
John Waters
“Read
not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find
talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted,
others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some
books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and
some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.”
―
Francis Bacon, The Essays
“My
behavior is nonetheless, deplorable. Unfortunately, I'm quite prone to such
bouts of deplorability--take for instance, my fondness for reading books at the
dinner table.”
―
Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire
“A
library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you
may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you
feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question
answered. Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are
people - people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of
a book."
[Letters
of Note; Troy (MI, USA) Public Library, 1971]”
―
E.B. White
“I
wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the
human race - that rarely do I even simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how
the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so
damning and brilliant...I AM HAUNTED BY HUMANS.”
―
Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
“Honestly,
I hate when in books, the guys changes the girl's life. Like, no. The girl
needs to change her own life.”
―
Sasha Alsberg a
“Only
the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the
sea it floats upon is dark black ink.”
―
Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
“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
“My
grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any
excuse to be stupid.”
―
Joan Bauer, Rules of the Road
“Nice
things don’t happen in storybooks,” Taryn says. “Or when they do happen,
something bad happens next. Because otherwise the story would be boring, and no
one would read it.”
―
Holly Black, The Cruel Prince
“No
two persons ever read the same book.”
―
Edmund Wilson
“Being
rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own; it's the
freedom to buy any book you want without looking at the price and wondering if
you can afford it.”
―
John Waters, Role Models
