Quotes and sayings about tag  books

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A book is a gift you can open again and again.

Garrison Keillor

I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.

Gary Paulsen

If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books. The book needs you.

Gary Paulsen

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.

Gaston Bachelard

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.

George Bernard Shaw

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.

George Carlin

I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.

George Gissing

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

George Orwell

He'll be down with the books. My old septon used to say books are dead men talking. Dead men should keep quiet is what I say. No one wants to hear a dead man's yabber.

George R.R. Martin

... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.

George R.R. Martin

I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read.

George R.R. Martin

Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity

George Steiner

One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.

George W. Bush

A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.

Geraldine Brooks

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