Ruth > Ruth's Quotes

“A guy can love a million women. But a man, a man loves one woman a million ways.”
― Gregg Hurwitz, Orphan X

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
― Walter Cronkite

“A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.”
― Andrew Carnegie

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

“Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style.”
― R.L. Stine

“Having fun isn't hard when you've got a library card.”
― Marc Brown

“How you do anything is how you do everything”
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, Orphan X

“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“You show me a member of Congress who’s part of the appropriations process and I’ll show you a wife, child, or brother-in-law with a company that benefits from federal dollars.”
― Jack Carr, The Terminal List

“The only thing you absolutely have to know is the location of the library.”
― Albert Einstein

“LIKE ANY GOOD MINNESOTAN, Lucas rarely missed the TV weather before going to bed.”
― John Sandford, Hidden Prey

“The library belongs to everyone. The library, Janet used to say, is one of only a few places in the world that one doesn't need to believe anything or buy anything to come inside.”
― Sally Hepworth, The Good Sister

“THE EXCHANGE KEPT LUCAS warm all the way out to the car. He’d jump off a high building before he betrayed Weather, but a little extracurricular flirtation kept the blood circulating; not that all of it went to the brain.”
― John Sandford, Silken Prey

“I often say that we should only be judged on two things: if we’re kind, and if we read books.”
― Paige Shelton, The Cracked Spine

“God bless the Reference Librarians”
― James Lee Burke

“Any person who wants to govern the world is by definition the wrong person to do it.”
― Greg Iles, The Footprints of God

“What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“I like work. it fascinates me. I can sit and stare at it for hours”
― jerome k jerome

“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, Pride and Prejudice

“When all else fails, give up and go to the library.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
― Jerome K. Jerome

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“How can you get rid of a book? That’s like throwing away knowledge.”
― Freida McFadden, The Devil Wears Scrubs

“The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.”
― Joseph Joubert

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
― Stephen King

“Money can't buy happiness, BUT it can buy books (which is basically the same thing).”
― Shaun Bythell, Confessions of a Bookseller

“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.”
― Jeanette Winterson

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”
― Stephen King