Quotes:We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the
books of law.
View quotes by Lyndon JohnsonObviously there will be a sense of achievement... I suppose there will be some benefits to not writing Harry Potter
books any more. So it is about fifty-fifty really
View quotes by J K RowlingWhat literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the
booksView quotes by A S ByattEvery reader knows about the feeling that characters in
books seem more real than real people.
View quotes by Cornelia FunkeBooks are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger, without bread or money. If you approach them, they are not asleep; if you seek them, they do not hide; if you blunder, they do not scold; if you are ignorant, they do not laugh at you.
View quotes by Elizabeth Barrett BrowningBetween the covers of the
books that no-one had ever read again, in the old parchments damaged by dampness, a livid flower had prospered, and in the air that had been the purest and brightest in the house an unbearable smell of rotten memories floated.
View quotes by Gabriel MarquezBooks are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
View quotes by Joseph AddisonWho knows for what we live, struggle and die?... Wise men write many
books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
View quotes by Alan PatonAll of the
books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
View quotes by Carl SaganIt wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my
books, but they could understand $30,000.
View quotes by William FaulknerIf a secret history of
books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
View quotes by William Makepeace ThackerayAssociate with the noblest people you can find; read the best
books; live with the mighty. But learn to be happy alone. Rely upon your own energies, and so do not wait for, or depend on other people.
View quotes by Thomas DavidsonBe patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like
books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything.
View quotes by Rainer Maria RilkeBecause they commonly make use of treasure found in
books, as of other treasure belonging to the dead and hidden underground; for they dispose of both with great secrecy, defacing the shape and image of the one as much as of the other.
View quotes by William DavenantSome
books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
View quotes by W H AudenA book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the
books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.
View quotes by Umberto EcoUnless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history
books, a distant memory of an offshore island, lost in the mists of time like Camelot, remembered kindly for its noble past.
View quotes by Margaret ThatcherIt is a good thing to read
books, and need not be a bad thing to write them, but in any case, it is a pious thing to collect them.
View quotes by Frederick Locker-LampsonHugh Grant and I both laugh and cringe at the same things, worship the same
books, eat the same food, hate central heating and sleep with the window open. I thought these things were vital, but being two peas in a pod ended up not being enough.
View quotes by Liz HurleyMy father said, 'There are times to sit, or stand and be counted,'
When good people die, just laws are forsaken, banned
books smolder,
There comes a time when our steed must be armored and mounted;
The balance of good and evil rests on our collective shoulders.
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