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Booked Quotes (page 179)

Sweet moonlight, shining full and clear, Why do you light my torture here? How often have you seen me toil, Burning last drops of midnight oil. On books and papers as I read, My friend, your mournful light you shed. If only I could flee this den And walk the mountain-tops again, Through moonlit meadows make my way, In mountain caves with spirits play - Released from learning's musty cell, Your healing dew would make me well! Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinions. John Ruskin
Brad Paisley quote: "Tomorrow, is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a..."
Tomorrow, is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one. Brad Paisley
The keys to life are running and reading. When you're running, there's a little person that talks to you and says, "Oh I'm tired. My lung's about to pop. I'm so hurt. There's no way I can possibly continue." You want to quit. If you learn how to defeat that person when you're running. You will how to not quit when things get hard in your life. For reading: there have been gazillions of people that have lived before all of us. There's no new problem you could have--with your parents, with... Will Smith
I must warn you that the books I like are not necessarily the ones I think are the best. I like them for various reasons not always easy to explain. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Jose Saramago quote: "The objectivity of the narrator is a modern invention, we need..."
The objectivity of the narrator is a modern invention, we need only reflect that our Lord God didn’t want it in his book. Jose Saramago
E. M. Forster quote: "A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect..."
A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out. E. M. Forster
Cornelia Funke quote: "Didn't books say that too: that there is always price to pay..."
Didn't books say that too: that there is always price to pay for happiness? Cornelia Funke
Andre Maurois quote: "The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better..."
The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book. Andre Maurois
Some people may have thought that this book was too personal, too confessional. But what these people think about me is none of my business. Anne Lamott
Charlaine Harris quote: "I kicked off my sandals, put my ice-tinkling glass on the..."
I kicked off my sandals, put my ice-tinkling glass on the small table by my current book. Charlaine Harris
Your criticism sounds to me as if you have read too many critical books and are too smart in an artificial, destructive, and very limited way. Flannery O'Connor
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances. Jay Leno
The newspaper articles that Joe had read about the upcoming Senate investigation into comic books always cited "escapism" among the litany of injurious consequences of their reading, and dwelled on the pernicious effect, on young minds, of satisfying the desire to escape. As if there could be any more noble or necessary service in life. Michael Chabon
I dance with people I despise; amuse myself with men whose only talent lies in their feet, gain the disapprobation of people I honor and respect; return home at day break with my brain in a state which was never intended for it; and arise in the middle of the next day feeling infinitely more, in spirit and flesh like a Liliputian, than a woman with body and soul. Entry (when she was eighteen) in her Commonplace Book, 1868-1869. Kate Chopin

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