Big Books of Spring

Brenda > Brenda's Quotes

Showing 1-30 of 38
« previous 1
sort by

    like
  • #1
    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
    tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books
    35689 likes

    • like
  • #2
    Christian Bauman
    “Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape -- I didn't read to learn, I was reading to read.”
    ― Christian Bauman
    tags: learn, read, reading
    1871 likes

    • like
  • #3
    Tom Clancy
    “The only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to read”
    ― Tom Clancy
    tags: read
    1448 likes

    • like
  • #4
    Terry Pratchett
    “A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
    tags: bookshop, bookstore, discworld, read, reading
    1495 likes

    • like
  • #5
    Jay Kristoff
    “You've got the look of a girl who's no stranger to the page. I can tell. You've got words in your soul.”
    ― Jay Kristoff, Nevernight
    tags: book, bookworm, girl, read, reading, soul, words
    454 likes

    • like
  • #6
    John Adams
    “Let us tenderly and kindly cherish therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write .”
    ― John Adams, The works of John Adams,: Second President of the United States
    tags: cherish, knowledge, read, think
    293 likes

    • like
  • #7
    Virginia Woolf
    “Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read and what I haven't read.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts
    tags: books, read, reading
    259 likes

    • like
  • #8
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Kaz reached into his coat pocket. "Here," he said and handed Jesper a slender book with an elaborate cover.

    "Are we going to read to each other?"

    "Just flip it open to the back."

    Jesper opened the book and peered at the last page, puzzled. "So?"

    "Hold it up so we don't have to look at your ugly face."

    "My face has character. Besides - oh!"

    "An excellent read, isn't it?"

    "Who knew I had a taste for literature?”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
    tags: bardugo, book, comedy, funny, humour, jesper, kaz-brekker, leigh-bardugo, read, six-of-crows
    225 likes

    • like
  • #9
    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy
    41053 likes

    • like
  • #10
    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: books, reading
    27753 likes

    • like
  • #11
    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea
    27921 likes

    • like
  • #12
    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, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: books, power-of-words, reading
    26921 likes

    • like
  • #13
    Albert Einstein
    “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, children, fairy-tales
    25182 likes

    • like
  • #14
    Dr. Seuss
    “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
    ― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!
    23674 likes

    • like
  • #15
    J.D. Salinger
    “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing
    22084 likes

    • like
  • #16
    Toni Morrison
    “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
    ― Toni Morrison
    tags: books, writing
    20760 likes

    • like
  • #17
    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, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: books, library, reading
    20749 likes

    • like
  • #18
    Oscar Wilde
    “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: books, morality, reading
    20252 likes

    • like
  • #19
    Mark Twain
    “′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, classic, reading
    18878 likes

    • like
  • #20
    C.S. Lewis
    “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: age, fairytales, growing-up
    18182 likes

    • like
  • #21
    Stephen King
    “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
    tags: books, magic, reading
    17590 likes

    • like
  • #22
    John Green
    “Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
    ― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
    tags: books, reading
    16470 likes

    • like
  • #23
    Cassandra Clare
    “Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
    tags: books, literature, philosphy, poetry, reading
    15862 likes

    • like
  • #24
    Charles William Eliot
    “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
    ― Charles W. Eliot
    tags: books, friends, reading, teachers
    13927 likes

    • like
  • #25
    C.S. Lewis
    “A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, children-s-books, reading
    13396 likes

    • like
  • #26
    Ray Bradbury
    “You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: culture, reading
    11752 likes

    • like
  • #27
    George R.R. Martin
    “Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
    ― George R. R. Martin
    tags: books, reading
    9858 likes

    • like
  • #28
    Lemony Snicket
    “Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
    ― Lemony Snicket
    tags: humor-wicked-reading
    9726 likes

    • like
  • #29
    Voltaire
    “Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
    ― Voltaire
    9010 likes

    • like
  • #30
    Francis Bacon
    “Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
    ― Sir Francis Bacon
    tags: books, reading
    8665 likes



Rss
« previous 1
All Quotes



Tags From Brenda’s Quotes

read
readers
reading
reading-books
learn
bookshop
bookstore
discworld
book
bookworm
girl
soul
words
cherish
knowledge
think
books
bardugo
comedy
funny
humour
jesper
kaz-brekker
leigh-bardugo
six-of-crows
aliteracy
attributed-no-source
literacy
inspirational
tea
power-of-words
children
fairy-tales
authors
literature
writing
library
morality
classic
age
fairytales
growing-up
magic
philosphy
poetry
friends
teachers
children-s-books
culture
humor-wicked-reading