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Booked Quotes (page 121)

If we could follow the slogan that says,"Turn off the TV and open a good book" we would do something of substance for a future generation. Gordon B. Hinckley
Herman Melville quote: "For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet..."
For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books. Herman Melville
Wilkie Collins quote: "The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion..."
The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill! Wilkie Collins
This must be what an addict feels like, I think, trying to fight the pull of one last, quick read. My fingers itch toward the binding, and finally, with a sigh of regret, I just grab the book and open it, hungrily reading the story. Jodi Picoult
Probably all of us, writers and readers alike, set out into exile, or at least into a certain kind of exile, when we leave childhood behind...The immigrant, the nomad, the traveler, the sleepwalker all exist, but not the exile, since every writer becomes an exile simply by venturing into literature, and every reader becomes an exile simply by opening a book. Roberto Bolano
Do you understand now why books are hated and feared? Because they reveal the pores on the face of life. The comfortable people want only the faces of the full moon, wax, faces without pores, hairless, expressionless. Ray Bradbury
David Herbert Lawrence quote: "One sheds ones sickness in books- repeats and presents again..."
One sheds ones sickness in books- repeats and presents again ones emotions, to be master of them. David Herbert Lawrence
So Mo began filling the silence with words. He lured them out of the pages as if they had only been waiting for his voice, words long and short, words sharp and soft, cooing, purring words. They danced through the room, painting stained glass pictures, tickling the skin. Even when Meggie nodded off she could still hear them, although Mo had closed the book long ago. Words that explained the world to her, its dark side and its light side, words that built a wall to keep out bad dreams. And not... Cornelia Funke
When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...]. Simone de Beauvoir
George W. Bush quote: "One of the great things about books is sometimes there are..."
One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures. George W. Bush
Diane Duane quote: "Reading one book is like eating one potato chip."
Reading one book is like eating one potato chip. Diane Duane
We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become. Ursula K. Le Guin
Sydney Smith quote: "No furniture is so charming as books."
No furniture is so charming as books. Sydney Smith
Dan Quayle quote: "Someday I intend to read all those books I've written."
Someday I intend to read all those books I've written. Dan Quayle
A little muzhik was working on the railroad, mumbling in his beard. And the candle by which she had read the book that was filled with fears, with deceptions, with anguish, and with evil, flared up with greater brightness than she had ever known, revealing to her all that before was in darkness, then flickered, grew faint, and went out forever. Leo Tolstoy

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