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"I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn."
Quote by -Robert Frost
"A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man."
Quote by -Carl Sandburg
"You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends."
Quote by -William Butler Yeats
"Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation."
Quote by -William Butler Yeats
"Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men and women"
Quote by -Franklin D. Roosevelt
"If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free"
Quote by -Franklin D. Roosevelt
"A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never."
Quote by -Henry Ward Beecher
"I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know."
Quote by -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?"
Quote by -Simone Weil
"Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books nobody reads."
Quote by -George Bernard Shaw
"Turn off your radio. Put away your daily paper. Read one review of events a week and spend some time reading good books. They tell too of days of striving and of strife. They are of other centuries and also of our own. They make us realize that all times are perilous, that men live in a dangerous world, in peril constantly of losing or maiming soul and body. We get some sense of perspective reading such books. Renewed courage and faith and even joy to live."
Quote by -Dorothy Day
"Why, after all, should readers never be harrowed? Surely there is enough happiness in life without having to go to books for it."
Quote by -Dorothy Parker
"I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in."
Quote by -Dustin Hoffman
"All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world."
Quote by -E. B. White
"When I get hold of a book I particularly admire, I am so enthusiastic that I loan it to someone who never brings it back."
Quote by -Edgar Watson Howe
"Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them."
Quote by -Charles Colton
"Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy."
Quote by -Charles Colton
"He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are."
Quote by -Charles Colton
"Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self."
Quote by -Franz Kafka
"A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity." [Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922]"
Quote by -Franz Kafka
"It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive."
Quote by -James A. Baldwin
"One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures."
Quote by -George W. Bush
"Obviously, we've only seen parts of things. And the book itself doesn't come out until the end of the month, but we'll review everything that there is to look at."
Quote by -Bud Selig
"Through the media of films, books, music and the behavior of elders, young minds are excited and aroused into indulgences."
Quote by -Sathya Baba
"Whatever books you may read, you cannot realize the Divine merely by intellectual effort. One must put it into practice. That sense of oneness can only be promoted by the practice of love and not by any other means."
Quote by -Sathya Baba
"Good books are as friends, willing to give to us if we are willing to make a little effort."
Quote by -Gordon B. Hinckley
"I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book."
Quote by -Groucho Marx
"[At a minimum, this will hit consumers' pocketbooksâââ‰â¬Âand perhaps their confidence. Before Katrina, Goldstein estimated that consumers' annual fuel bills this year would average about $250 more for gasoline and $400 more for home heating oil and natural gas than in 2004. Now he reckons those amounts will go up 30 percent to 75 percent. Costlier energy could adversely affect consumer spending, corporate profits and inflationâââ‰â¬Âor all three.] We could be reaching a tipping point on consumer psychology, especially when people get their home heating bills, ... Those will be big."
Quote by -Mark Zandi
"All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since."
Quote by -Ernest Hemingway
"If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so, you can let the boys yip and the noise will have that pleasant sound coyotes make on a very cold night when they are out in the snow and you are in your own cabin that you have built or paid for with your work."
Quote by -Ernest Hemingway
"All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened."
Quote by -Ernest Hemingway
"I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred."
Quote by -Ernest Hemingway
"Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined?"
Quote by -Italo Calvino
"Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be."
Quote by -Italo Calvino