Quotes - Dileep (Bangalore, 19, India) Showing 1-30 of 89

#1

“Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.”
― Holbrook Jackson

tags: books, procrastination, reading

#2

“I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.”
― Bill Gates

tags: reading

217 likes

#3

“Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.”
― Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf

tags: book, books, booksmart, reading

298 likes

#4

“If you love books enough, books will love you back.”
― Jo Walton, Among Others

tags: books, love, reading

223 likes

#5

“Libraries raised me.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: books, libraries, library, reading

250 likes

#6

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

135494 likes

#7

“Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.”
― James Russell Lowell

tags: books, reading

211 likes

#8

“Let's be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.”
― Lena Dunham

tags: humor, reading

466 likes

#9

“Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.”
― Samuel Butler, The Note Books Of Samuel Butler

tags: books, freedom, literature, reading, words

182 likes

#10

“Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
― Ruth Rendell, A Judgement in Stone

tags: books, escapism, life, reading

247 likes

#11

“I have never been able to resist a book about books.”
― Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

tags: book, books, reading

146 likes

#12

“Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: books, reading

136 likes

#13

“Once you read something, you can't erase it from your brain.”
― Lisa McMann, Wake

tags: reading

115 likes

#14

“Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.”
― E.M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel

tags: criticism, exaggeration, long-book, overpraising, praise, reading, reading-books, reviewing

265 likes

#15

“The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.”
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

tags: books, literature, living, reading, words

488 likes

#16

“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, Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife

tags: education, lifelong-learning, reading

342 likes

#17

“Books, I found, had the power to make time
stand still, retreat or fly into the future.”
― Jim Bishop

tags: reading

99 likes

#18

“Books didn’t make me wallow in darkness, darkness made me wallow in books.”
― Jackson Pearce

tags: books, inspirational, reading, teens

97 likes

#19

“That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.”
― Anthony Trollope

tags: book-lovers, reading

560 likes

#20

“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

257 likes

#21

“Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

tags: reading

289 likes

#22

“Reading a book is like having the ability to dip a straw into the author’s soul and sip and slurp without lowering the water table of wisdom. ”
― Jarod Kintz, The Days of Yay are Here! Wake Me Up When They're Over.

116 likes

#23

“For me to see is to read. It has always been that way.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

tags: reading

167 likes

#24

“I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Lion's Mane

tags: memory, reading, trivia

481 likes

#25

“Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read."

[As quoted in Literary Censorship in England (in Current Opinion, Vol. 55, No. 5, November 1913)]”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: books, censorship, reading

182 likes

#26

“A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle...”
― Vladimir Nabokov

tags: literature, nabokov, quote, reader, reading

222 likes

#27

“When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.”
― Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper

267 likes

#28