Franz Kafka Quotes, Believe Quotes, Book Quotes

I believe that we should read only those books that bite and sting us. If a book we are reading does not rouse us with a blow to the head, then why read it?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Believe Quotes , Book Quotes

Life is our dictionary.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Book Quotes , Life Is Quotes

When the wind is blowing and the sleet or rain is driving against the dark windows, I love to sit by the fire, thinking of what I have read in books of voyage and travel.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Rain Quotes , Book Quotes

Books are good but they are only maps. Reading a book by direction of a man I read that so many inches of rain fell during the year. Then he told me to take the book and squeeze it between my hands. I did so and not a drop of water came from it. It was the idea only that the book conveyed. So we can get good from books, from the temple, from the church, from anything, so long as it leads us onward and upward.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Rain Quotes , Book Quotes

I can see he's not in your good books,' said the messenger. 'No, and if he were I would burn my library.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Book Quotes , Library Quotes

if a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

You need to change yourself. The moment that you change yourself it is a gigantic step. And this is what I do. The book is much more important than the writer.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Book Quotes , Important Quotes

I didn't follow the whole 'X-Men' story because it got too complicated. I'd pick up a comic book and have no idea what was going on.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aaron Stanford Quotes , Book Quotes , Men Quotes

This is much more than your typical thriller. Tim Johnston has written a book that makes Gone Girl seem gimmicky . . . Johnston is an excellent writer. You want to set this one down so you can take a breath, and keep reading--all at the same time.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Cheuse Quotes , Girl Quotes , Book Quotes

This rough magic I here abjure and when I have required some heavenly music, which even now I do, to work mine end upon their senses that this airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, bury it certain fathoms in the earth, and deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Book Quotes , Magic Quotes

It is with a good book as it is with good company.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

Books are key to understanding the world and participating in a democratic society.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Book Quotes , Keys Quotes

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Book Quotes

O heaven! that one might read the book of fate, and see the revolution of the times.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Book Quotes , Future Quotes

When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , War Quotes , Book Quotes

A colleague once described political theorists as people who were obsessed with two dozen books; after half a century of grappling with Mill's essay On Liberty, or Hobbes's Leviathan, I have sometimes thought two dozen might be a little on the high side.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Ryan Quotes , Book Quotes , Two Quotes

I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from The Savior of the world is communicated to us through this Book.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Bible Quotes , Book Quotes

In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Book Quotes

... I have read in your face, as plain as if it was a book, that but for some trouble and sorrow we should never know half the good there is about us.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Book Quotes

We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Work Quotes , Book Quotes