Book Quotes - page 7

You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child. (Dr. Seuss)
Philosophy is written in this grand book, which stands continually open before our eyes (I say the 'Universe'), but can not be understood without first learning to comprehend the language and know the characters as it is written. It is written in mathematical language, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometric figures, without which it is impossible to humanly understand a word; without these one is wandering in a dark labyrinth. View quote
Galileo Galilei
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. View quote
Oscar Wilde
LORD ILLINGWORTH. The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. MRS ALLONBY. It ends with Revelations. View quote
Oscar Wilde
I shall curse you with book and bell and candle. View quote
Thomas Malory
Of all the needs a book has, the chief need is that it be readable. View quote
Anthony Trollope
What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation. View quote
Malcolm Gladwell
Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. View quote
Don Marquis
Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications. View quote
Fran Lebowitz
One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world. View quote
Malala Yousafzai
Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style. (R. L. Stine)
There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it. View quote
Bertrand Russell
This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two. View quote
George Burns
Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book. View quote
Charles Kingsley
The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book. View quote
Northrop Frye
The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
Chaos is hard to create, even on the Internet. Here's an example. Go to Amazon.com. Buy a book without using SSL. Watch the total lack of chaos. View quote
Bruce Schneier
A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins. View quote
Charles Lamb
I like you and your book, ingenious Hone In whose capacious all-embracing leaves The very marrow of tradition 's shown And all that history, much that fiction weaves. View quote
Charles Lamb
What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations? View quote
Lewis Carroll
A book is like a man clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun. (John Steinbeck)
When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep. View quote
William Butler Yeats
There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. View quote
Ray Bradbury
Sometimes I read a book with pleasure, and detest the author. View quote
Jonathan Swift
People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book. View quote
Malcolm X