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"Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with."
Quote by -Samuel Johnson
"Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book."
Quote by -Charles Lamb
I got my iPad, and I'm trying to buy books on that, but I kind of like a book. At the end of my life, when I'm old, I want to have all these shelves full of books. So I'm just gonna do the book thing.
Quote by -Luke Bryan
As long as we’ve got somewhere to sleep, a bowl of cereal, and a coloring book we’ll be fine.
Quote by -Louis Tomlinson
"Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all."
Quote by -Samuel Johnson
"Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music."
Quote by -Charles Darwin
"A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors."
Quote by -Charles Baudelaire
"I held it close to my face and smelled the ink. I have always loved the smell of ink in a new book."
Quote by -Chaim Potok
"It is strange how ideas can float about and be ignored until they are put into a book. A book can be a weapon..."
Quote by -Chaim Potok
"There is no rule book, no right or wrong; you just have to make it up and do the very best you can to care for your family."
Quote by -Kate Middleton
"This book was company for me - I wrote these things when I was in hotels, far from where I normally live. I never intended to publish it."
Quote by -Catherine Deneuve
"All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time."
Quote by -John Ruskin
"You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement."
Quote by -John Ruskin
"How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"
Quote by -John Ruskin
"What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?"
Quote by -John Ruskin
"Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil."
Quote by -Carl Sagan
"If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read."
Quote by -Carl Sagan
"Computers allow us to squeeze the most out of everything, whether it's Google looking up things, so I guess that tends to make us a little lazy about reading books and doing things the hard way to understand how those things work."
Quote by -Buzz Aldrin
"Their house had real hardcover books in it, and you often saw them lying open on the sofa, the words still warm from being read."
Quote by -David Sedaris
“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”
Quote by -Arthur Conan Doyle
“You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.”
Quote by -Arthur Conan Doyle
“It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.”
Quote by -Arthur Conan Doyle
She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.
Quote by -Zora Neale Hurston
There was this book that Judi Dench wrote that said there was a moment where, before an actor can be this or be that, the actor must simply be. I thought that to have absolute presence was to absorb everything that’s thrown at you.
Quote by -Zoe Saldana
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
Quote by -Walter Bagehot
The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.
Quote by -Walter Bagehot
You could tell a lot about a man by the books he keeps - his tastes, his interest, his habits.
Quote by -Walter Benjamin
Books, too, begin like the week – with a day of rest in memory of their creation. The preface is their Sunday.
Quote by -Walter Benjamin
The book borrower...proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures...as by his failure to read these books.
Quote by -Walter Benjamin
The book borrower… proves himself to be an in venerate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures… as by his failure to read these books.
Quote by -Walter Benjamin
A book is like a quarrel. One word leads to another, and may erupt in blood or print, irrevocably.
Quote by -Will Durant
Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
Quote by -William Faulkner
A book is a dead man, a sort of mummy, embowelled and embalmed, but that once had flesh, and motion, and a boundless variety of determinations and actions.
Quote by -William Godwin
The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.
Quote by -William Gerald Golding