Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.
Books Quotes
I don’t believe any of you have ever read Paradise Lost, and you don’t want to. That’s something that you just want to take on trust. It’s a classic… something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Only your friends steal your books.
Books still offer the most complete kind of understanding, and they last.
Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.
Books, the children of the brain.
“We are too civil to books,” wrote Emerson. “For a few Golden sentences we read 400 to 500 pages.” Still he opened every new book with anticipation. He spent his life searching for sentences. Most, of course, came from within – the original thoughts of an original thinker. But he was always ready for any […]
Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading.
Notice how often today authors will have their picture taken with their book in their left hand, the title in full view of the camera, so that the photograph may tell the story: “Look Ma! My Book!” Television commentators have books on their desks with the title toward the audience so that the audience may […]
The worm thinks it strange and foolish that man does not eat his books.
