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A few books well chosen, and well made use of will be more profitable than a great confused Alexandrian library. — Thomas Fuller

My books and other works are my legacy, and it's a great comfort to know that mine is a legacy of pleasure for other people. — Colleen McCullough

While Lyndon Johnson was not, as his two assistants knew, a reader of books, he was, they knew, a reader of men - a great reader of men. — Robert A. Caro

I am so satiated with the great number of detestable books with which we are inundated that I am reduced to punting at faro. — Voltaire

To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books. — Dan Brown

The peace of great books be for you,
Stains of pressed clover leaves on pages,
Bleach of the light of years held in leather. — Carl Sandburg

One of the great needs of Negro children is to have books about themselves and their lives that can help them be proud. — Langston Hughes

I was a Charles Schulz kind of guy. I didn't read comics books. The Warner Bros. guys were great - Chuck Jones and Friz Freleng. — Bob Peterson

I read books and talked to people. I mean that's kind of how one learns anything. There's lots of great books out there & lots of smart people. — Elon Musk

A towering theoretical achievement of exceptional elegance ... Like most great books, Sociobiology is unpedantic, lucid, and eminently accessible. — Pierre L. Van Den Berghe

Four great adventures; read, learn, write and travel. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I have great faith in the future of books - no matter what form they may take - and of science fiction. — Connie Willis

Here is a nice fact books and ebooks take a lot of time to be read, but audiobooks just for one day or 2 you finish them... this is a great fact! — Deyth Banger

I've done a number of things based on real people or true stories or based on books, and I'm a great believer that you have to be true to the script. — Clive Owen

I don't usually read self-help books, but I read a great book by a guy called Wayne Dyer: 'The Power of Intention,' which I loved. — Chris Pine

With great lawyers you have discussed lepers and crooks, you've been through all of F. Scott Fitzgerald's books. — Bob Dylan

The fear of being alone is a great obstacle to attracting the relationship that is right for you. — Charles F. Glassman

One of the great advantages of
having a library,your eminence,
is that it is full of books. — Michael Hirst

I get a glimpse of the mind of many souls from their sacred books. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It has always been a great comfort to me that I could bring a book anywhere, to any place. To any part of my life. — Anton DiSclafani

Great art is in the eye of the beholder, but great football is in the record books. — Scott Sigler

We worshipped in the temple of cutthroat competition, and so some cooked the books, because the treasure is so great. — Desmond Tutu

I discovered that the wisdom of the world, and a great deal of its folly also, is to be found in the pages of books. And — C.S. Lewis

Great is bookishness and the charm of books. — Augustine Birrell

The works of the great artists are silent books of eternal truths. — Stefan Zweig

The hearts of men are their books; events are their tutors; great actions are their eloquence. — Thomas B. Macaulay

What makes a publishing house great? The easy answer is the consistency with which it produces books of value over a lengthy period of time. — Robert Gottlieb

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you. — Harold Bloom

I generally travel with my laptop, a couple of great books, and my iPod. — Orlando Bloom

It is one of the great charms of books that they have to end. — Frank Kermode

The truly great books are the few books that are over everybody's head all of the time. — Mortimer J. Adler

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time. — Edwin Percy Whipple

I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good. — Magnus Carlsen

As great a store
Have we of books as bees of herbs or more. — Henry Vaughan

Books are great for if you want to work on the craft of writing for yourself, or, you know, to write novels or indie films, stuff like that. — Thomas Lennon

Bookshop and libraries are great celestial places to be. — Lailah Gifty Akita

One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index. — Lafcadio Hearn

Robert Pattinson reads all of the time and he refers so many great books. — Kellan Lutz

multitude of books is a great evil — Clay Shirky

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own. — Arthur Conan Doyle

One of my favourite books of all time: 'The Great Gatsby'. I just think it's so well written. — Danielle De Niese

It's a great blessing if one can lose all sense of time, all worries, if only for a short time, in a book. — Nella Last

The live without understanding the meaning of the world is more like a stroll in the great library of books without touching — Dan Brown

If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly turn up very high on the list. — Laura Miller

Students learn best not by reading the Great Books in a closed room but by opening the doors and windows of experience. — Thomas Ehrlich

Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic. — Henry James

Great work doesn't make me jealous; it makes me want to work. — Glen Hirshberg

It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages. — Ibrahim Babangida

Ereaders were a great convenience, but nothing could beat the smell of a library and old books. — Kate Evangelista

You can cover a great deal of country in books. — Andrew Lang

We encounter great souls by reading great books. — Lailah Gifty Akita

She is a great gobbler of books, but reads only trash, memorizing nothing and leaving out the longer descriptions. — Vladimir Nabokov

The reading of great books awaken and brightens the light of my soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The worst part of writing is meeting all these great new characters and having no one to talk about (the adventures you share with) them. — Claudia Bakker

I published a bunch of my older books in e-book format with Open Road, which is great and has tons of hard to find older books available there. — Rick Moody

the best of Cervantes is untranslatable, and this undeniable fact is in itself an incentive [for one and all] to learn Spanish. — Aubrey F.G. Bell

Great books are weighted and measured by their style and matter, and not the trimmings and shadings of their grammar. — Mark Twain

Reading is one of life's great pleasures; talking about books keeps their worlds alive for longer. — Kate Morton

'The Narrow Road to the Deep North' is one of the most famous books of all Japanese literature, written by the great poet Basho in 1689. — Richard Flanagan

You can cover a great deal of Countries in books. — Andrew Long

The Rough Guide to Nepal; The Great Sights of Canada; America by Car; Fodor's Guide to the Bahamas; Let's go Bhutan. — John Green

Let us read thoughtfully; this is a great secret in the right use of books. — George Gilfillan

Great land of sublimated things, thou World of Books, happy asyluum, refreshment and refuge from the world of everyday! ... — H.G.Wells

Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're full of new rewards. — Martin Amis

Books are such a great way to spend time with your children, open lines of communication with your children, and just build that strong foundation. — Victoria Osteen

Read. Read. Read. Read. Read great books. Read poetry, history, biography. Read the novels that have stood the test of time. And read closely. — David McCullough

I am a great admirer of Robert Vavra and love his beautiful photographs and books. He is a wonderful artist, a poet ... — Leni Riefenstahl

I'm not a great shopper but I do buy a lot of books. I'm the publishers' friend - I buy a hundred books a year and read four. — Alan Davies

No matter how strong you are, you cannot hold open the jaws of a great-white shark with your bare hands ... that can do your brain. — Ivan Stoikov

We spend great sum of money to buy good books, so that we can satisfy our pleasure of reading. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Yeah, right. Instead of watching TV, we'll practice our weird magical powers. Great. What's next? Zooming around on flying carpets? — Malia Ann Haberman

A great book increases my heartbeat as if I'm prey, melts my insides in anticipation of a first kiss, immerses me in its depths. — Carmen DeSousa

America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we build shopping malls. — Bill Bryson

The function of a great library is to store obscure books. — Nicholson Baker

As a youngster I was a great dreamer, reading many books of adventure and walking lonely miles with my head in the clouds. — Edmund Hillary

Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable — Oscar Wilde

Books, the books that I loved above all else to spend my time with, were the great tools for understanding one's life and the lives of other people. — Ellen Douglas

Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die. — Francois Truffaut

Candor must be a constant if you are truly committed to producing great profitability through the creation of tremendous products and services. — Clay Clark

He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books). — George Herbert

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read. — G.K. Chesterton

My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine - everybody drinks water. — Marilyn French

I've often thought that my scruples about stealing books were the only thing that stood in the way of my being a really great scholar. — Malcolm Bradbury

I would love to have written Roger Zelazny's first five books of 'Amber.' What a great idea he had about the shadings of reality! — Carol Berg

But it is impossible, I find, to tidy books without ending by sitting on the floor in the middle of a great untidiness and reading. — Elizabeth Von Arnim

One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures. — George W. Bush

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Walking along the avenues, we had one of the so-called intellectual conversations, which consist a great deal in quoting names of books and authors. — Henryk Sienkiewicz

One great book can change the perspective and understanding of a whole nation — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

It's as if the city has become a library of books in an unknown language, the houses great shelves of illegible volumes, the lamps all extinguished. — Anthony Doerr

A great library cannot be constructed; it is the growth of ages. — John Hill Burton

Books make up no small part of human happiness. — Frederick The Great

There's always pressure, a great deal of pressure, when writing, since my first books were so successful. — Nicholas Sparks

Reading great books gives insight to the mind of great souls. — Lailah Gifty Akita

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water. — Mark Twain