28 quotes found
“Deep layers of context are missed when cursorily reading for quantity at the expense of comprehension - only the vapid are impressed by those who try to squeeze as many books as possible into each ...”
“She's not stumbling, she's not lost. She's simply romancing her inner animal and falling in love with the wild part of her soul.”
“Let books be your dining table, / And you shall be full of delights. / Let them be your mattress,/And you shall sleep restful nights”
“To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training...”
“Books are a staircase to unknown worlds.”
“What are we after when we open one of those books? What is it that makes a classic a classic? ... in old-fashioned terms, the answer is that it wll elevate your spirit. And that's why I can't take ...”
“The reading of great books awaken and brightens the light of my soul.”
“I look at her face, so content, so happy. Even more beautiful all flushed with passion and think of how lucky a man I really am.”
“Experience-taking changes us by allowing us to merge our own lives with those of the characters we read about. It doesnt happen all the time. It only occurs when people are able, in a sense, to for...”
“Good books makes good life.Great books makes great life.”
“The more books you read, the less topics you have in common with most of the people, thats the price you pay for reading.”
“Beware the man of a single book.”
“Evil and I are old adversaries. When we compete I hate to lose," Manny Bettencourt from Murder in the Pinelands”
“Mostly, all book-told gods are as little as the little men who wrote them idiots into existence.”
“If your holy book makes you hate, you're reading the wrong shit, mate.”
“Acardi! We should have killed him on the spot and you wouldn't let me! You didn't even listen.""Fine," I said, glaring at him. "Next time you want to commit murder, give me a call. You dagger them,...”
“Reading a book is one mind playing with another.”
“From books all I seek is to give myself pleasure by an honourable pastime: or if I do study, I seek only that branch of learning which deals with knowing myself and which teaches me how to live and...”
“All right," she said. "Give me the books that are kind to me, and to hell with the men who don't give a damn about me.”
“Life with books makes my world complete.”
