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Booked Quotes (page 201)

Every life is inexplicable, I kept telling myself. No matter how many facts are told, no matter how many details are given, the essential thing resists telling. To say that so and so was born here and went there, that he did this and did that, that he married this woman and had these children, that he lived, that he died, that he left behind these books or this battle or that bridge? none of that tells us very much. Paul Auster
Here follows the substance of what I said, written out entirely for your benefit. Pay attention to it, or you will be all abroad, when we get deeper into the story. Clear your mind of the children, or the dinner, or the new bonnet, or what not. Try if you can't forget politics, horses, prices in the city and grievances at the club. I hope you won't take this freedom on my part amiss; it's only a way I have of appealing to a gentle reader. Lord! haven't I seen you with the greatest authors in... Wilkie Collins
Let neither tear nor reproach besmirchthis declaration of the masteryof God who, with magnificent irony, granted me both the gift of books and the night. Jorge Luis Borges
By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.-this quote is actually found in Carl Sagan's book The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, where he attributes it to engineer James Oberg, who says he stole it from someone else. Richard Dawkins
Charles Dickens quote: "No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a..."
No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot. Charles Dickens
The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned by no later than the date shown; and 3) Do not interfere with the nature of causality. Terry Prachett
You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help? Mark Twain
It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful. Vincent Van Gogh
C. S. Lewis quote: "I now saw, with great dismay, that what I had been carrying..."
I now saw, with great dismay, that what I had been carrying all this time was not a bowl but a book. This ruined everything. C. S. Lewis
It is not the fault of the entrepreneurs that the consumers, the people, the common man, prefer liquor to Bibles and detective stories to serious books, and that governments prefer guns to butter. The entrepreneur does not make greater profits in selling bad things than in selling good things. His profits are the greater the better he succeeds in providing the consumers with those things they ask for most intensely. Ludwig von Mises
Writing a book is a tremendous experience. It pays off intellectually. It clarifies your thinking. It builds credibility. It is a living engine of marketing and idea spreading, working every day to deliver your message with authority. You should write one. Seth Godin Seth Godin
Frank Herbert quote: "One learns from books and example only that certain things can..."
One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things. Frank Herbert
Mary Ellen Chase quote: "There is no substitute for books in the life of a child. (1952)"
There is no substitute for books in the life of a child. (1952) Mary Ellen Chase
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who really care for books read all of them. There is no other course. Andrew Lang
John Lubbock quote: "We profit little by books we do not enjoy."
We profit little by books we do not enjoy. John Lubbock

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