Quotes and sayings about tag  #reading

Quotes and sayings about tag  reading

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Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

James Russell Lowell

As long as you have any floor space at all, you have room for books! Just make two stacks of books the same height, place them three or four feet apart, lay a board across them, and repeat. Viola! Bookshelves!

Jan Karon

If a book is well written, I always find it too short.

Jane Austen

A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

Jane Austen

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

Jane Austen

Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.

Jane Smiley

Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.

Jasper Fforde

I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.

Jean-Paul Sartre

In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.

Jeanette Winterson

Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.

Jeanette Winterson

If you love books enough, books will love you back.

Jo Walton

Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.

Jodi Picoult

I read my eyes out and can't read half enough...the more one reads the more one sees we have to read.

John Adams

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.

John Berger

If your library is not "unsafe," it probably isn't doing its job.

John Berry

He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

John Green

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.

John Green

I guess there are never enough books.

John Steinbeck

What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.

John Updike

You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book.

John Waters

It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.

John Waters

Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

John Wesley

Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.

Jorge Luis Borges

Entrei numa livraria. Pus-me a contar os livros que há para ler e os anos que terei de vida. Não chegam! Não duro nem para metade da livraria! Deve haver certamente outras maneiras de uma pessoa se salvar, senão… estou perdido.

José de Almada Negreiros

Reading is probably another way of being in a place.

José Saramago

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Joseph Brodsky

Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.

Joseph Campbell

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

Joseph Joubert

I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself.

Karen Marie Moning

Books were a safe place, a world apart from my own. No matter what had happened that day, that year, there was always a story in which someone overcame their darkest hour. I wasn't alone.

Kiera Cass

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