Be able to recognize when you're reading or hearing material biased to your own side. Marilyn vos Savant |
Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep, for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter. Paxton Hood |
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. Mark Twain |
Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act.Margaret Mahy |
Between 2 and 5 I'm reading in to find out what's been going on while I've been asleep.Bob Edwards |
Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity. George Steiner |
Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world. Walter Pater |
Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome. William Ewart Gladstone |
Books are embalmed minds. Bovee |
Books are immortal sons deifying their sires. Plato |
Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time. E.P. Whipple
|
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. Henry Ward Beecher |
|
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind. James Russell Lowell |
|