Book Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It’s just a cycle.”
– Mike Tyson

“Every book is a children‘s book if the kid can read!”
– Mitch Hedberg

“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
– Mortimer Jerome Adler

“What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore it knows it’s not fooling a soul.”
– Neil Gaiman

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
– Oscar Wilde

“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.”
– Oscar Wilde

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
– Oscar Wilde

“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.”
– Oscar Wilde

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
– Oscar Wilde

“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.”
– Oscar Wilde

“The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.”
– Pablo Neruda

“You get a little moody sometimes but I think that’s because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.”
– Pat Conroy

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
– Philip Pullman

“We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence.
– Philip Pullman

“I don’t go by the rule book… I lead from the heart, not the head.”
– Princess Diana

“Every burned book enlightens the world.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college. People should educate themselves – you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I’d written a thousand stories.”
– Ray Bradbury

“In a way, it’s nice to know that there are Greek gods out there, because you have somebody to blame when things go wrong. For instance, when you’re walking away from a bus that’s just been attacked by monster hags and blown up by lightning, and it’s raining on top of everything else, most people might think that’s just really bad luck; when you’re a half-blood, you understand that some divine force is really trying to mess up your day.”
– Rick Riordan

“So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.”
– Roald Dahl

“The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.”
– Robert Frost

“Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.”
– Ronald Reagan

“The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.”
– Saint Augustine

“A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.”
– Salman Rushdie

“The greatest part of a writer‘s time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.”
– Samuel Johnson

“A man will turn over half a library to make one book.”
– Samuel Johnson

“Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.”
– Samuel Johnson

“Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.”
– Stéphane Mallarmé

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn’t carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
– Stephen King

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